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Etoile Filante play Cosmic Black Metal. Founded in 2013, "Magnum Opus Caelestis" is the band's debut full length, written and recorded a few years after their first EP "Traité sur le Monde et la Lumière" in 2014. It comes highly recommended for fans of the Cosmic Black Metal sub genre and bands such as Midnight Odyssey, Mesarthim or Mare Cognitum.

While we await the anticipated sophomore album from Trondheims MISOTHEIST, their vocalist recorded an album on his own, writing, performing and producing all the music himself(with some very special guest appearances included). Four tracks spanning 40 minutes of cleverly arranged Black Metal ranging from mid-tempo fury and raging aggression, to more epic, grandiloquent parts, all blended in an impressive way.

It's a stunning debut album and yet another amazing project from Trondheim, Norway, released under Terratur Possessions exclusively.

Cover layout by O.A.A. and Kontamination Design.

Distributed by Van Records.

Gaze into the Great Monolith and behold its horrors and glory! This is the essence of the practitioner's pursuit. Delving into the unconscious, the practitioners allow their limbs to move spontaneously by channelling the Great Monolith's sublime essence, leaving sounds that are stripped of any humanity or sense of physical awareness. It is in this state that Death. Void. Terror. endeavour to attain the purity that emanates from the Great Monolith. 

This purity may never be fully grasped or attained by any individual practitioner, resulting in it being essentially futile. Yet it is not fruitless, for the practitioner's purpose is to serve as a vessel for the Great Monolith's purity and not to attain any semblance of creative satisfaction. Practitioners must be bereft of such arrogance! As ambitious as the individual practitioner's pursuit may be, his pursuit of the purity expressed through the Great Monolith remains but that - a pursuit. 

By aiming to approximate the purity of the Great Monolith's transmissions, different approaches have been applied by individual practitioners, leading to correspondingly different visual manifestations that each serve as a separate aspect to the audial manifestations pursued by practitioners 
 

Belgian/American One Woman Black Metal.

Reprint, 1000x black ice 12" (180g) in a black poly-lined innerbag, gatefold, full-color on 350g with hotfoil stamping, all assembled in a PVC overbag.

(estratto recensione metalitalia.com)

A differenza di altri misteriosi figuri che oggi popolano le tenebre dell’underground black/death, Lalartu continua a conciliare la suddetta immagine incappucciata con un suono che, per quanto complesso, stratificato e ultraterreno, si guarda bene dallo scadere in forme onanistiche di eccentricità e sperimentazione (basti pensare alla recente prova degli Ævangelist). Musica che si è nutrita abbondantemente delle peggiori nefandezze del catalogo Iron Bonehead e Norma Evangelium Diaboli da un lato e di certi titani degli anni Novanta dall’altro, per un risultato complessivo che, sul filo di una gestualità rituale e contraddittoria, sembra volerci traghettare oltre il nostro spazio-tempo.
Così com’era stato per l’esordio “Kadingir”, anche “ITIMA” si configura quindi come un viaggio, un’opera da assimilare nelle giuste condizioni per riuscire a carpirne il linguaggio espressivo e non smarrirsi nel suo reticolo di pieni/vuoti sensoriali, con i primi dati da esplosioni di blasfemia non troppo distanti da quelle di Wrathprayer, Teitanblood o Beyond e i secondi a manifestarsi grazie a parentesi ambient dal sapore etnico e siderale. Un flusso di coscienza (trattasi di un’unica suite della durata di poco superiore ai quarantacinque minuti) che ci mostra il Nostro camminare sull’orlo dell’Abisso per poi descriverne con dovizia di particolari il tuffo in quel maelstrom ribollente e terrificante, con i riff, le ritmiche e le voci a farsi via via sempre più deformi e votati al culto di antiche divinità che creano e distruggono la vita.

- Jewelcase CD
- 4 page Booklet on 170gsm Art Paper
- Limited to 500 copies

Issued in 4-panel Digipak, without a booklet.
 

4-panel digipak with 8-page booklet