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Abyssgazer

by Aphotic

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porcelainheart- For an avant-garde-inspired album, there's a coherent structure to this that's easy to follow, highly palatable and equally enjoyable. There's a balance to the chaos where catchy melodies fit right in. FFO Dakhma, Jupiterian (Brazil), and Phobophilic. Favorite track: Cosmivore.
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Dan Curhan Engaging, dynamic, and fucking ugly - this is a doomy death metal album filled with a surprising level of emotion, organic production with tons of reverb, and plenty of songwriting atmosphere. Dramatic swings between blastbeats and melancholic plodding keep things interesting. Earworm melodies sneak their way through the rotting filth, and pained shouts (and even cleans!) complement the more monotone gutturals. This is quite good!
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1.
Endzeit I 01:14
2.
Glacial edge of eternity forever frozen still Cosmic ancient womb dead but forever glowing By a light sinisterly fading to abyssal wavelengths Stretched by eons and eons of boundless expansion Their ancestral splendor turned to everlasting solemnity Light from the earliest worlds shifted into spectral red end Secrets beyond shrouded in eternal by the spectrum of death Into spectral red end Unbridgeable chasms as old as time itself Remnants of expansion dormant since billions of years A ghostly presence lurks in the depths The witness of spectral degradation
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Cosmivore 05:57
Called from the abyss that dwells beneath the horizon of no-return They became the depths of death The gorge of galaxies gathering mass of millions of stars In bottomless pits draped in black Beasts of prey Vortexing dead end Super massive black holes Destroyers of worlds Cosmivore - death's abysm Stellarvore - dark dominion Cosmivore Swallowed be! In ecstasy of their hunger for death Ancient devouring void feasts Below the ergosphere, forlorn are those worlds of blackened doom Cascades of galaxies fall through the event horizon
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Plunged into eternal night last spawn of stars has died Collapsing in fieriest blasts exhausting nuclear unrest As their winds blow As their novae glow and then burst With the death of the last sun the age of starlight is done The universe is a cosmic boneyard strewn with remnants of dead stars Burst – an ending in fire Implode – an ending in flames Deathward... and beyond White dwarves their shrunken corpse Black holes their monstrous outcome Elemental furnace extinction Dies irae, dies illa Solvet saeclum in favilla
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Endzeit II 01:09
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Abyssgazer 06:25
Stare into the darkness Coming into existence yet doomed to be erased in the plan of cosmic death they observe silent in solemn slumber Profound cogitation of eons span Embrace the darkest of ages Sentient life forms alien islands of thought Like open eyes - the void observers In the hostile void it has been awaken the consciousness of all Godspeed the abyssgazer! Eons of cognitive cosmo Self-aware through inert matter shapes Stare into darkness The abyssgazer Millions of years pass between each thought As planets collide they've disclosed their eye Life breathes shortly in this haven in time Safe from the fiery birth of cosmo and from his icy death
7.
Horizonless 05:27
A dark force relentless grows As obscure, so unknown, inflation expands beyond boundaries and bounds inexorably opening voids All is left is projected as shadows upon the horizon Draped in darkness - so be it Endlessness manifests unknown Horizonless Galaxies and cosmic dust recede beyond light-speed and fade Singular was their seed a multiverse's what they are Pitch-black depths, domain of death So be it Chasms that light can bridge no more hide the cosmic secrets eternally Alone with their doom obscure a graveyard of worlds forlorn
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Remnants of stars dragged apart through the void Relentless pull of dark force opens cosmic gorge Monstrous black holes coalesce and merge Their flames turn pale in the cosmic col Obscurity too profound to be conceived evaporates into quantum zeroing Doom obscure - eons of gloom begun Cosmic death comes slow Doom obscure - eons of gloom begun The abysmal chapter has come Abysmal death enshrouding Low signal promulgates Abysmal void devouring Chapter of black holes’ domain Depths call depths perfecting death’s totality Depths call depths Chasms of horrifying darkness Depths call depths Eons of everlasting gloom Abyssus abyssum invocate Omnes gorgites ad abyssum
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Endzeit III 01:45
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Chasmous 06:29
In the furthest of eons unbound baryons decay and black holes evaporate as quantum radiation Blackness is sovereign Large-scale structures are no more Empty oceans of photons floating in endlessness Devoid of light Chasmous The deepest of voids Abyssal An ending in whimper Not in a blast, not in fire The ultimate death it comes in ice Facing the expiry of everything The death of the last black hole bathes the universe in dim light One last time before the completion of darkness Creation returned to primordial sludge freezing to zero absolute entropy Cosmic heat death is complete and eternal Nothing is all Permanent and unchanging at last Time becomes meaningless

about

Aphotic pursues unprecedented darkness by expanding death metal boundaries towards the creation of abysmally profound ambiences and filling them with dense layering of guitar arrangements and synthesizer exploration.

A palette of diverse suggestions, dragging inspiration from post metal and avant-garde, enhance captivating structures and riffing through the recurrence of obsessive crescendos and physically engaging explosions.

“Abyssgazer” comes as the first, bold statement of a long-brewed alchemy: an unheralded debut album meticulously crafted under the experience of audio engineer Greg Chandler from Esoteric (Priory Recording Studios, UK) and mastered by Colin Marston from Gorguts (The Thousand Caves Studio, NYC).

Courtesy of Chilean abstract painter Rodrigo Pereira, an otherworldly vision of the abyss seals this eschatological journey towards the eons to come. The album concept, enriched by multiple allegorical meanings, deals with the entropic death of the Universe according to modern quantum cosmology, resolving in the ultimate irrelevance of time.

credits

released March 24, 2023

Mix by G. Chandler at Priory Recordings Studio, Birmingham.
Master by C. Marston at The Thousand Caves Studio, New York.

All music and lyrics by N. Brambilla (aka N. Gazer).

All arrangements by N. Brambilla, L. Sala (aka L. Zeit), F. Aldegani (aka F. Abisme). Artistic and esthetic direction by the aforementioned and G. Piazza (aka K. Coil).

Waterpainted cover and inner artworks, illustrations and logo by R. Pereira Salvatierra.

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Aphotic Milan, Italy

Transcending death metal

'Abyssgazer' out on 24th March 2023
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Sentient Ruin Laboratories (US)
Nuclear Winter Records (EU)

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