Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Of Planetary and Stellar decimation...

Hailing from Bloomington Indiana, Kiasuth is a project of bleak soundscapes forged in the cold vastness of space and the crushing enormity of infinity. On their five song album, Divine Celestial Famine, Kiasuth summon ambient drones and dirges that are without human soul. The song titles are the only clues into Kiasuth's collective conscience on universal armageddon. The droning doom the band produces is laced with the nihilism associated with the frostiest of black metal, but retains the harshness that comes from witnessing a failing industrial society. The songs on Divine Celestial Famine are constructed from layers upon layers of buzzing and droning effects, minimal garbled and howled vocals, tortured synths, and fractured bass and guitar. The occasional percussion is a mere blip on their space-time continuum. Often there are long passages of muted and minimal sounds, but the effect levies a sense of heft and gradual building of destruction. With this release, Kiasuth are seemingly conjuring some ancient wisdom gone insane. Take Divine Celestial Famine as a whole, and let it consume you. Kiasuth have crossed the event horizon and returned as a vessel for transmitting oblivion. Their music is a product of looking beyond our earthly realm, but it is an intermediary to some manner of ancient darkness that came before us all. All hail the never ending abyss.

kiasuth.bandcamp.com