The debut album from Bestia Astrum (aka Abby Helasdottir / GYDJA) is a grim exploration of Fury 161, the prison planet from the movie Alien³. An industrial ambient travelogue of the spaces in the planet's dark and rusty facility, beginning on a wind-swept shore and ending in the eternal repose of stony sleep.

More than just an alternate soundtrack to a film, "Fury 161" takes cues from the long and troubled production of Alien³, incorporating themes from earlier concepts proposed during its development hell, including the treatment created by Vincent Ward, who imagined the movie's location as a wooden planet that was home to an order of space monks.

Motifs of eremitic religiosity permeate the album, as well as themes of Yeatsian apocalypticism, abject anatomy, and the intersection between the sacred and the profane, betwixt the beautiful and the grotesque.

Full colour matt-laminate digipak with gold spot colour, accompanied by a 16-page booklet with an essay by Abby Helasdottir.

Track listing:

1. The Blood-Dimmed Tide Is Loosed (9:27)
2. And What Rough Beast, Its Hour Come Round At Last (7:59)
3. Surely Some Revelation Is At Hand (8:02)
4. A Gaze Blank And Pitiless As The Sun (8:47)
5. The Ceremony Of Innocence Is Drowned (6:44)
6. The Darkness Drops Again (10:35)
7. Twenty Centuries Of Stony Sleep (5:03)









REVIEWS:

"Field recordings, strips of metal percussion and electronics, all abundantly used along with the extensive use of reverb. Every piece is drenched in it, which helps the music's unsettling and apocalyptic character... church bells, vessels at the bottom of the ocean, all rusty and slowly scraped... Sometimes there is some creepy voice stuff, which scared the hell out of me the first time I played this. It's stuff I love very much. And, because this is not an original soundtrack, the pieces have a proper length and don't sound like promising excerpts, as many soundtrack albums do. Great stuff" (Vital Weekly).