ADAESTUO

ADAESTUO announce brand new mini album, Purge of the Night Cloak.

Appearing like a bolt from the blue in 2016 via W.T.C., ADAESTUO’s debut EP, Tacent Semitae, was a startling and profound introduction to this otherwise-unknown band. ADAESTUO was formed as a covenant between three wandering souls at the unhallowed crossroads where the darkest elements of ambient, black metal, and spiritual praxis conjoin. Being a series of audial sigils cast by VJS and P.E.Packain and led in evocation by Hekte Zaren, with Tacent Semitae did ADAESTUO transcend the modern homogeny found among the lower caste of musical initiates. Amazingly, the pan-continental trio eclipsed that feat with a towering full-length monument titled Krew Za Krew. Released by W.T.C. in 2018, Krew Za Krew reaped widespread acclaim and positioned themselves as purveyors of a very special kind of black metal by going BLACKER.

In the cursed year of 2020 came another full-length monument from ADAESTUO bearing the title Manalan virrat, and now they return to the auspices of W.T.C. with a swift-yet-satisfying mini-album presciently titled Purge of the Night Cloak. Indeed, that title forms a sensational foundation for the seared sort of frequencies ADAESTUO are exploring here: a casting-off of the old, a revilement of the new, vulgar shapes made beautiful and vice versa. Woven together like one continuous fever dream, the four tracks comprising this 23-minute mini-album assault the listener with a near-overload of information, only to strip it bare, hauntingly and uncomfortably so, building it back up into a hydra-headed abomination from both above and below. Put into more concrete terms, here ADAESTUO fuse classics-minded mystical black metal with dark soundtrack scores, shimmering obsidian racing through the night sky before a (dark) meeting with literally-otherworldly walls of choral atmosphere. It’s something of a “blink and you’ll miss it” experience, or one too frightening(ly expansive) to open one’s eyes to…

More massive than most bands’ regular “albums,” ADAESTUO make most black metal look conservative and small with their Purge of the Night Cloak.

Tracklist
1.Act I
2.Act II
3.The Hydra
4.Act III

ADAESTUO lineup
Hekte Zaren + VJS + P.E.Packain

Notes
Captured at Dirge Forge Between MMXVI-MMXX
Merged and governed by VJS
Music by Adaestuo
Maledictions and script by Horidus
Visuals by Packain, Hekte Zaren, and Amanita Noir

MORE INFO:  
W.T.C.Prod. @ Facebook

ADAESTUO set release date for new W.T.C. mini-album, reveal first track

Today, W.T.C. Productions announces August 30th as the international release date for a brand-new mini-album from Adaestuo, Purge of the Night Cloak.

Appearing like a bolt from the blue in 2016 via W.T.C., Adaestuo‘s debut EP, Tacent Semitae, was a startling and profound introduction to this otherwise-unknown band. Adaestuo was formed as a covenant between three wandering souls at the unhallowed crossroads where the darkest elements of ambient, black metal, and spiritual praxis conjoin. Being a series of audial sigils cast by VJS and P.E.Packain and led in evocation by Hekte Zaren, with Tacent Semitae did Adaestuo transcend the modern homogeny found among the lower caste of musical initiates. Amazingly, the pan-continental trio eclipsed that feat with a towering full-length monument titled Krew Za Krew. Released by W.T.C. in 2018, Krew Za Krew reaped widespread acclaim and positioned themselves as purveyors of a very special kind of black metal by going BLACKER.

In the cursed year of 2020 came another full-length monument from Adaestuo bearing the title Manalan virrat, and now they return to the auspices of W.T.C. with a swift-yet-satisfying mini-album presciently titled Purge of the Night Cloak. Indeed, that title forms a sensational foundation for the seared sort of frequencies Adaestuo are exploring here: a casting-off of the old, a revilement of the new, vulgar shapes made beautiful and vice versa. Woven together like one continuous fever dream, the four tracks comprising this 23-minute mini-album assault the listener with a near-overload of information, only to strip it bare, hauntingly and uncomfortably so, building it back up into a hydra-headed abomination from both above and below. Put into more concrete terms, here Adaestuo fuse classics-minded mystical black metal with dark soundtrack scores, shimmering obsidian racing through the night sky before a (dark) meeting with literally-otherworldly walls of choral atmosphere. It’s something of a “blink and you’ll miss it” experience, or one too frightening(ly expansive) to open one’s eyes to…

More massive than most bands’ regular “albums,” Adaestuo make most black metal look conservative and small with their Purge of the Night Cloak.

Hear for yourself with the brand-new track “Act III” here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Adaestuo’s Purge of the Night Cloak
1. Act I [6:29]
2. Act II [3:57]
3. The Hydra [6:20]
4. Act III [6:15]

MORE INFO:

www.facebook.com/adaestuo

www.w-t-c.org

ADAESTUO set release date for W.T.C. debut album, reveal first track

Today, W.T.C. Productions sets December 11th as the international release date for Adaestuo’s highly anticipated debut album, Krew Za Krew.

Appearing like a bolt from the blue in 2016 via W.T.C., Adaestuo’s debut EP, Tacent Semitae, was a startling and profound introduction to this otherwise-unknown band. Adaestuo was formed as a covenant between three wandering souls at the unhallowed crossroads where the darkest elements of ambient, black metal, and spiritual praxis conjoin. Being a series of audial sigils cast by VJS and P.E.Packain and led in evocation by Hekte Zaren, with Tacent Semitae did Adaestuo transcend the modern homogeny found among the lower caste of musical initiates. Now, the pan-continental trio eclipse that feat with a towering full-length monument titled Krew Za Krew.

To begin to understand the spiritual immensity of Adaestuo’s Krew Za Krew, one need only look to some of the album’s English-language song titles for keys to their cosmic creations and times: among them, “Subterranean Fire,” “Shadow Pilgrimage,” “Death Transition,” and especially “Transcendental” and “Monument.” Indeed, Krew Za Krew is a transcendental monument, threaded together like a fever dream collapsing in on itself, expanding outward and downward simultaneously. Black metal is undoubtedly the foundational language here, but by no means is it the dialect. The black metal surges and swirls, grimly aware of its inherent power, heaving in its brute physicality, but often disintegrating into nightmarish ambience that’s equal parts modern classical, musique concrete, and nuclear fallout…only to be rebuilt again, back into blacker metal.

It’s this very duality that renders Krew Za Krew a work of actual artistry rather than pale lip-service paid to conservative traditions ripe for slaughter: true mavericks embark upon the path, while all others never even see the path to begin with. Which is all to say nothing of the seamless sound layering required to make flesh these disintegrations/implosions/nightmares; the sound itself is a frightening thing to behold, especially when the listener drowns within the headphone experience.

If Tacent Semitae ripped asunder the thin veil between the flesh and The Otherside, then with Krew za Krew do Adaestuo rein as monarchs within that Otherside. In this fleshly existence, this Planet Earth, these sorcerers rule supreme – behold the sinister spell of Krew Za Krew!

The first spell can be found with the new track “Shadow Pilgrimage” HERE

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Adaestuo’s Krew Za Krew
1. Red Moon
2. Transcendental
3. Monument
4. Subterranean Fire
5. Death Transition
6. Escaine
7. Shadow Pilgrimage
8. Krew Za Krew
9. Hurmeen Tahrima

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/adaestuo
www.w-t-c.org
www.facebook.com/W.T.C.Productions