ANCIENT MOON

Black metal enigmas Ancient Moon stream new album

Today, black metal enigmas Ancient Moon stream the entirety of their highly anticipated second album, Benedictus diabolica, Gloria Patri. Set for international release on September 20th via Iron Bonehead Productions, hear Ancient Moon‘s Benedictus diabolica, Gloria Patri in its entirety exclusively here:
Ancient Moon are a cross-continental entity whose membership and locale are a mystery and frequently speculated upon. Rather, they’ve let their works speak for them, with 2015’s Vvltvre debut being a staggeringly epic single-track album, followed last year by an equally epic side-long split album with Prosternatur, courtesy of Iron Bonehead.

With those lofty (and mesmerizing) precedents set, it should come as no surprise that Ancient Moon plunge deeper into the abyss and ether alike with the two-song, 38-minute Benedictus diabolica, Gloria Patri. Much like its Latin title, this second album imparts a stultifying austerity – ceremonial, even – that thoroughly entrances the listener right from the very beginning, so bewitching is their black metalled hypnotism. However, under the crushing weight of its two component tracks (18 and 21 minutes, respectively), Ancient Moon safely evade rudimentary inertia by winding each of those compositions through a wealth of harrowing, haunting territory: truly, EPIC(s) in every sense of the word. Shimmering and spectral and yet also grim and gnarling, Ancient Moon here display seemingly contradictory faces; underneath those masks lays the same free-flowing spirit, one which manages to make time stand still and simultaneously move in reverse. Indeed, under an ancient moon does a uniquely spellbinding mysticism reside…

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Ancient Moon’s Benedictus diabolica, Gloria Patri
1. Benedictus diabolica, Gloria Patri Pt1 [17:25]
2. Benedictus diabolica, Gloria Patri P2 [20:10]
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New ANCIENT MOON / PROSTERNATUR split album streaming

Today, Secretum Secretorum, the new split album between Ancient Moon and Prosternatur streams in its entirety. Two pan-international entities, both Ancient Moon and Prosternatur have but one recording each to their respective names – an album, with the former’s arriving in 2015 and the latter’s in 2016 – but Secretum Secretorum should prove to shine more blacklight on two infinitely promising, shadowy entities. The split is set for international release on June 22nd via Iron Bonehead Productions, and can be streamed in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Prosternatur

For their half, Ancient Moon deliver an 18-minute epic that builds slowly and ominously before exploding into a tensely buzzing hive of nightmarish black metal. Hypnotic yet free-flowing, somehow making time stand still and move in reverse, “Hekas Hekas Este Bebeloi!” imparts an absolutely spellbinding mysticism that could be a whole record unto itself, its movements and fluctuations subtle yet profound; this track simply demands repeat spins, and eternal thralldom. For their half, Prosternatur render three tracks that are impossibly vast for their six-minute average length. And indeed, Prosternatur are a complementary fit for Ancient Moon, in that this shadow-cloaked trio conjures their own brand of black metal mysticism. Viscously thick yet somehow emitting a near-cosmic sense of space, Prosternatur burl forth with a constantly churning density that’s expertly laced with all manner of beneath-the-surface color and shade. Their attack is doubtlessly muscular, yet similarly evokes a bewitching sensation on the right side of medieval.

Together, both Ancient Moon and Prosternatur beckon the listener to let loose the bounds of reality and step into their Secretum Secretorum… Step fully in exclusively HERE.

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Ancient Moon & Prosternatur’s Secretum Secretorum
1. Ancient Moon – Hekas Hekas Este Bebeloi!
2. Prosternatur – Ana Harrani Sa Alaktasa La Tarat
3. Prosternatur – Zi Dingir Isatum Kanpa!
4. Prosternatur – Usella Mituti

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IRON BONEHEAD to release split album between ANCIENT MOON and PROSTERNATUR

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions sets June 22nd as the international release date for Secretum Secretorum, a split album between Ancient Moon and Prosternatur, on CD and vinyl LP formats. Two pan-international entities, both Ancient Moon and Prosternatur have but one recording each to their respective names – an album, with the former’s arriving in 2015 and the latter’s in 2016 – but Secretum Secretorum should prove to shine more blacklight on two infinitely promising, shadowy entities.

Prosternatur

For their half, Ancient Moon deliver an 18-minute epic that builds slowly and ominously before exploding into a tensely buzzing hive of nightmarish black metal. Hypnotic yet free-flowing, somehow making time stand still and move in reverse, “Hekas Hekas Este Bebeloi!” imparts an absolutely spellbinding mysticism that could be a whole record unto itself, its movements and fluctuations subtle yet profound; this track simply demands repeat spins, and eternal thralldom. For their half, Prosternatur render three tracks that are impossibly vast for their six-minute average length. And indeed, Prosternatur are a complementary fit for Ancient Moon, in that this shadow-cloaked trio conjures their own brand of black metal mysticism. Viscously thick yet somehow emitting a near-cosmic sense of space, Prosternatur burl forth with a constantly churning density that’s expertly laced with all manner of beneath-the-surface color and shade. Their attack is doubtlessly muscular, yet similarly evokes a bewitching sensation on the right side of medieval.

Together, both Ancient Moon and Prosternatur beckon the listener to let loose the bounds of reality and step into their Secretum Secretorum…

In the meantime, an audio teaser for Ancient Moon’s half can be heard HERE

while an audio teaser for Prosternatur’s half can be heard HERE,

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Ancient Moon & Prosternatur’s Secretum Secretorum
1. Ancient Moon – Hekas Hekas Este Bebeloi!
2. Prosternatur – Ana Harrani Sa Alaktasa La Tarat
3. Prosternatur – Zi Dingir Isatum Kanpa!
4. Prosternatur – Usella Mituti

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