COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER - 'Extinction'

CSR219CD (11 April 2016)
CD in jewelcase
Barcode: 0641871744695




  A new ritual from this long running doom/drone/ambient collective, offering up modern manifestations of ancient energies, channelled into smouldering swathes of ceremonial hypnosis and explosive gouts of blood-red radiance.

Extinction is an extended ceremonial rite conducted below ground at the Wisp House (R.I.P.). A song suite of psychedelic devotionals assembled from reverb drenched industrial drones, billowing clouds of metallic throb, and churning, rhythmic bombast. Fields of ghostly incantations suspended in the ether, draped over metallic murmurs and moaning melancholia. The low end rumble of monk-like chants beneath the soft tangle of keening lamentation.

A slowly evolving sensory sacrament, tense and harrowing, punctuated by dense dramatic swells and aching, mournful mantras.

Track listing:

1. Extinction (11:27)
2. Black Bough (8:07)
3. Crystalline Shores (9:16)
4. A Wisp Of Smoke, And Salem Burns (12:36)

Reviews:

"Greatest Dark Ambient Doom Of The Year...this band’s music has levitated from an abyss unknown, and has slowly crawled out of the depths of hades with the sole purpose to haunt, confuse and mesmerize human ears with the sheer force of sound and of total aural soul-disintegration... another cornerstone in a growing discography by the band that is made of pure shadow and of complete sonic delirium – a masterfully constructed distillation of experimental doom metal, drone, noise and dark ambient... If you like shit like Sunn O))), Swans, GSY!BE, Thisquietarmy, Lustmord, Haxan Cloak, Mamiffer and Sutekh Hexen, then Common Eider, King Eider, will take you on an unforgettable voyage through the most remote corners of your mind and deep into the most hidden crevices of your soul, tunneling into you until your ego completely disintegrates." (Cvlt Nation)

"At times eerie and subterranean, but also airy and majestic, Extinction brings the listener on a journey of emotion and discovery. The drones delight and the drums impress, and the run time flies by. Holding up to repeated listens by exposing new textures each time, this album is highly recommended. While it's summer now, this one would play very well in the cold winter months, too." (4/5, Musique Machine)

"...a hypnotic, mystical tempest of sound, filled with ghostly incantations, melancholia and intense swells of drama." (Heathen Harvest)

"Drones cling to the air like the residue of ancient spiritual practices, circulating the deep echoes of long forgotten caves, channelling the ghosts of ceremonious song and arboreal woodwind drone. Out of nowhere... the band begin to thrash amidst a noise that feels viscerally present tense, shattering the insidious gloom in favour of violent and imminent peril... The album is no longer a cave painting allusion to an ancient sacrificial rite, but the waiting, thumping, bloody reality of the rite itself" (Rock-A-Rolla)

"...this release is well written an evocative enough and will be appreciated by all fans of ceremonial oriented, or pagan, music. It's particularly incisive the mastering at the threshold between defined sound and abstract mass as it underlines as the track are equally influenced by drone and black metal. It's really worth a listen." (Chain D.L.K.)

"Common Eider, King Eider son especialistas a la hora de crear atmósferas turbias y sombrías que logran decelerar el tiempo. Música inquietante, hipnótica, imprevisible, ígnea, crepuscular... “Extinction” es un verdadero tesoro. Cuatro cortes que nos describen con todo detalle sus más recónditos secretos. Tonadas ambientales que eventualmente coquetean con el ruido y la melodía, aportando un aderezo ritual impreso a fuego lento que se perpetúa durante toda la vida del disco... Toda una declaración de intenciones para un proyecto que roza la inefabilidad."(9/10, Mentenebre)