Today, Purity Through Fire announces June 2nd as the international release date for Cosmic Burial‘s highly anticipated third album, Far Away From Home, on limited A5 digipack format.
Those who follow the dread deeds of Purity Through Fire should know by now that Cosmic Burial is the sole work of erstwhile Nachtig and Valosta Varjoon mainman V. V. And while those labelmates are undeniably black metal – related-yet-different sides, it must be said – over the course of Cosmic Burial‘s first two albums, 2020’s Impakt and 2021’s …to the Past, does V. V. strike upon far more distant realms of the imagination, only sparingly related to black metal. In his own words, Cosmic Burial is “ambient/atmospheric music for dreamers about space and time,” and thankfully is the course still the same for his third album, Far Away From Home.
As aptly titled as it comes, Far Away From Home is as lost-in-space as either of Cosmic Burial‘s two full-length predecessors and arguably even more gorgeously despairing. Here, V.V. continues the trend of making his massive compositions more compact. Impakt was literally massive in its 75-minute runtime while …to the Past was a comparatively brisk 45 minutes, and so it goes with the four-song/48-minute Far Away From Home. That its four component song titles are written in Morse code says everything about the album’s contents: these are plaintive distress signals from the outer reaches of the cosmos, rendered in shimmering & swirling tones of synth-led black metal. That that black metal plods forward at a largely mid-tempo gait creates a unique disconnect between energy and desolation – like being inexorably drawn to a yawning black hole, an ominous portal to those outer reaches. As always, V. V. foregoes vocals entirely, thus further severing ties to strict black metal by definition, but that simply allows that paradoxical gorgeousness to hit even deeper wells of despair. There’s just no return when you’re Far Away From Home.
Begin charting a course with the brand-new track “A .-. .-. .. …- .- .-..” here:
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Cosmic Burial’s Far Away From Home
1. A .-. .-. .. …- .- .-.. [11:57]
2. B .. .-. – …. [11:12]
3. S — .-.. .. – ..- -.. . [12:02]
4. S – .- .-. … . . -.. [11:58]
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