STYLE...... Dark Ambient LABEL...... Neuropa Records REL.DATE... Mar-13-2010 COUNTRY... Norway
"With
a firm rattling sound an ice plateau is splitting with its resonance resounding
in the ice cold ocean. The cold sound moves through the deep dark
waters. K100 starts its arctic journey through glacial fields of desolate
darkness. Impenetrable soundscapes of deep rumbling drones and shattering
metal plates. This distant music of ghost frequencies is an intense
experience taking you to abandoned places where time stood still, where
a lonely factory ruin stands in the middle of bare landscape with the
wind scourging the walls and whistling through its broken windows. Titles
such as "no Light", "Winters in the Making" and "Assembled from Shadow"
just say it all. The Vault of Apparition is a sonic journey through
deep cold nights with a threatening atmosphere. K100 is a project by designer Kim Solve from Trine and Kim
design studio who did design sleeves for Darkthrone, Ulver, Arcturus
and many more. Being inspired by the Nordic seasons, personal
experiences and abandoned places he created these dark ambient
tracks crawling underneath the skin with unhealthy pleasure. The
sounds are cold and bare making you shiver. Glacial sound plateaus
are moving slowly piercing the night. Deep rumbling of strings and
squeaking metallic sounds bound by drones create an uncanny atmosphere.
Some others are more industrial in approach with a machine like cadence
and scraping metal like in "Fevered and Childlike". Most tracks are quite
short, something you won't notice while they go into each other to continue
the atmosphere. Sometimes it feels like you are at the middle of this
icy world, sometimes it is like deep down beneath its icy surface. The
Vault of Apparitions is a fine ambient album to satisfy ambient lovers who
like it deep and dark.
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