One of several side-projects to emerge from the Wolvserpent camp, Aelter is the solo effort from guitarist Blake Green. Both bands explore a similar dark, majestic realm with massive, down-tuned guitar roar and bleak, minor-key melodies, but where Wolvserpent blends Green’s chugging, Melvins-esque heaviness and haunting slow-core arpeggios with violins, pounding drums and a propensity for extended hypno-dirges, Aelter almost completely dispenses with drums, filling the spaces with layered keyboards and gorgeous harmonized voices reminiscent of Beggars Banquet or 4AD releases. With Aelter’s first two albums, Dawn-Dusk and Follow You Beloved, released only on vinyl in limited quantities (the former already out of print), Crucial Blast has gathered both together for release as a double-disc set.
2XCD $13.00
11/08/2011