*Artist: Sinoath
*Album: Portraits Of Personal Darkness
*Year: 2020
*Genre: Progressive Dark/Doom Metal
*Country: Italy
*Format: mp3@VBR231kbps
*Size: 77MB
Tracklist:
1. Drawings on the Dust 01:52
2. Psychic Wars 03:25
3. Startershock (Phantasmagoria) 03:50
4. Cogito Ergo Doom 04:20
5. Let It Be Something 03:26
6. From the Clash of the Planets 04:47
7. On the Edge of Perceptions (Part I & II) 04:30
8. Darkest than Midnight 03:55
9. The Recurring Ghost 04:04
10. Sleepless (Apocryphal Blues) 03:20
11. U.F.D.E.M. (Jacula cover) 04:20
12. Vertigo 03:53
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Total playing time: 45:42
Extended info
re-release 2023
The Ritual Productions
Metal is not a style that lends itself to freeform improvisation. Whilst
it certainly creates space for elaborate soloing and lengthy
instrumental segments that might look like improv, as soon as these
elements are committed to record and subjected to the scholarly study of
its dedicated fanbase, a rigidity of form is often maintained for an
individual piece. It is with some curiosity then, that we approach this
semi-improvised collection of ambient, jazz, progressive rock, and heavy
metal, put together by erstwhile Italian death/doomsters Sinoath.
Originally released in 2020, СPortraits of Personal DarknessТ will see a
physical release on Hessian Firm this February. All albums are in some
sense a frozen moment in time, a snapshot of where the artistТs mind was
at for a brief period. But metal albums in particular attempt to
transcend this inconvenient truth, and make their albums look like
statements that will shine down through the ages as monuments committed
to eternity. And this is often how we as listeners approach these
albums, as rare jewels to be placed in museum cabinets and studied for
generations to come.
The fact that СPortraits of Personal DarknessТ was predominantly
recorded live and retains the aesthetic of a jamming band in a rehearsal
studio means that Sinoath are able to stare down this illusion, and
explicitly present us with a work that at least attempts to confront
with artТs inevtiable temporality. The loose threads of 70s psychedelia,
old school doom metal, understated NOWBHM riffing, and jazz grant these
seasoned death metal musicians space to explore new characters and
structures that the formalities of fully formed metal would not usually
allow. The result begins to look like a sounding board of ideas. ItТs as
if we the listener are being granted special access to the creative
process itself, an album of behind the scenes footage replete with
offcuts, fascinating tangents, and avant-garde juxtapositions.
That being said, it should be noted that СPortraits of Personal
DarknessТ retains a solid and pronounced character throughout its forty
five minute runtime. Sinoath have clearly agreed a loose structure and
shape to these pieces ahead of time, whilst still granting plenty of
space to allow them to grow organically. This is no random collection of
dead end fragments and half-baked riffs that never came off. Despite the
demo quality of the drums, the subdued guitar tone, the uncertainty
surrounding crescendo and finale, there is a ghostly, ethereal quality
that seeps through the cracks of the music, and grants this album the
look of a finished work. One can almost see the musicians making eye
contact with each other in order to link together for the next build in
dynamics, one can also hear the moments when it didnТt quite come off,
or miniscule errors in rhythmic judgement.
But all this only heightens the distorted realism of the presentation.
It gives the segments of stoner doom commonality with the dark ambient,
or the triumphant heroism of heavy metal a link to the sobriety of the
ambient segments. The result is an album that works from many different
angles. As a kind of genre hopping freeform improvisation that can be
played as background noise, or else as a study in the art of riff
creation and composition, or simply in appreciation at the site of
musicians pushing themselves in all manner of musical directions in
order to see where it takes them.
СPortraits of Personal DarknessТ offers a uniquely temporary artistic
vision with many rewarding pockets once one lets go of a metalheadТs
expectation of formality and rigid composition and treats this more like
a (real) prog or jazz album.
The Ritual Productions
Metal is not a style that lends itself to freeform improvisation. Whilst
it certainly creates space for elaborate soloing and lengthy
instrumental segments that might look like improv, as soon as these
elements are committed to record and subjected to the scholarly study of
its dedicated fanbase, a rigidity of form is often maintained for an
individual piece. It is with some curiosity then, that we approach this
semi-improvised collection of ambient, jazz, progressive rock, and heavy
metal, put together by erstwhile Italian death/doomsters Sinoath.
Originally released in 2020, СPortraits of Personal DarknessТ will see a
physical release on Hessian Firm this February. All albums are in some
sense a frozen moment in time, a snapshot of where the artistТs mind was
at for a brief period. But metal albums in particular attempt to
transcend this inconvenient truth, and make their albums look like
statements that will shine down through the ages as monuments committed
to eternity. And this is often how we as listeners approach these
albums, as rare jewels to be placed in museum cabinets and studied for
generations to come.
The fact that СPortraits of Personal DarknessТ was predominantly
recorded live and retains the aesthetic of a jamming band in a rehearsal
studio means that Sinoath are able to stare down this illusion, and
explicitly present us with a work that at least attempts to confront
with artТs inevtiable temporality. The loose threads of 70s psychedelia,
old school doom metal, understated NOWBHM riffing, and jazz grant these
seasoned death metal musicians space to explore new characters and
structures that the formalities of fully formed metal would not usually
allow. The result begins to look like a sounding board of ideas. ItТs as
if we the listener are being granted special access to the creative
process itself, an album of behind the scenes footage replete with
offcuts, fascinating tangents, and avant-garde juxtapositions.
That being said, it should be noted that СPortraits of Personal
DarknessТ retains a solid and pronounced character throughout its forty
five minute runtime. Sinoath have clearly agreed a loose structure and
shape to these pieces ahead of time, whilst still granting plenty of
space to allow them to grow organically. This is no random collection of
dead end fragments and half-baked riffs that never came off. Despite the
demo quality of the drums, the subdued guitar tone, the uncertainty
surrounding crescendo and finale, there is a ghostly, ethereal quality
that seeps through the cracks of the music, and grants this album the
look of a finished work. One can almost see the musicians making eye
contact with each other in order to link together for the next build in
dynamics, one can also hear the moments when it didnТt quite come off,
or miniscule errors in rhythmic judgement.
But all this only heightens the distorted realism of the presentation.
It gives the segments of stoner doom commonality with the dark ambient,
or the triumphant heroism of heavy metal a link to the sobriety of the
ambient segments. The result is an album that works from many different
angles. As a kind of genre hopping freeform improvisation that can be
played as background noise, or else as a study in the art of riff
creation and composition, or simply in appreciation at the site of
musicians pushing themselves in all manner of musical directions in
order to see where it takes them.
СPortraits of Personal DarknessТ offers a uniquely temporary artistic
vision with many rewarding pockets once one lets go of a metalheadТs
expectation of formality and rigid composition and treats this more like
a (real) prog or jazz album.
Technical info
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