***Following Pesanta Urfolk’s highly acclaimed vinyl release of HELL's trilogy, the label returns with a split LP uniting those doom/drone giants with one of the subgenre's best-kept secrets, AMAROK. On their half, Hell deliver three songs—"Deonte," "Oblitus," and "Dolore"—that carry all the trudging, suffocatingly crushing hallmarks of the band's work to date, offering no respite nor escape for the entranced listener. But on half, Amarok delivers a vast, side-long epic of slow-moving sorrow, dense yet spacious, forlorn yet finding release at the end of a noose. Rarely have two bands been pitted together yet complement each other so well: two paths to The End.
LP $25.75
02/04/2014