Altars of the Moon Explore Cosmic Suffering on "Supermassive Black (Hole in my Heart)" (Early Track Stream)
From time to time, members of extreme metal bands get together and create something ostensibly 'less' extreme than their respective offerings, but closer inspection always reveals a singular, buried weight that you can't get anywhere else. Such is the case with Altars of the Moon, who unite members of Uada, Chrome Waves, Lotus Thrones, and more in an atmospheric mix of post-black-metal, shoegaze, drone, and more that taps into multiple levels of pathos. Their upcoming second album The Colossus and the Widow simultaneously explores the reaches of the cosmos while also plunging deep into the human heart, and that's a paradox easily illustrated in their new single "Supermassive Black (Hole in my Heart)", which you can check out below.
...
...
Things get really spacey elsewhere on the record (Bruce Lamont shows up!) but this particular track is slow, guitar-led rock, and could perhaps be interpreted as post-punk if one sped it up about 200%. Intense, yet not focused, Altars of the Moon fills sonic space like gas in a vacuum with musing guitar lines, beefy drums, and half-snarled sentiments. Alan Cassidy of The Black Dahlia Murder takes up drum duties on this record, and uses the opportunity to get weird with it, intermingling clever and low-key timekeeping with blistering, snappy fills. Heath Rave's (Lotus Thrones) vocals are essentially another texture in the greater picture, painting a scene of dereliction and despondency.
Rave adds:
Some mornings I awake from the most beautiful of fever dreams thinking my molecules have been completely dissolved then rebuilt into a form I don’t understand from inter dimensional, faster than light space travel. I roll over in my 0 thread count sheets that warm my rotting blood bag and take the pills that return me to the lobotomy of existing on Earth. I can’t wait to sleep again.
...
The Colossus and the Widow releases November 17th through Disorder Recordings.
