ISIH | Metatron Omega

Favorite track: Megalosthronos

My comments on Bandcamp: When I heard the first track, I was addicted. I've meditated to this. I've written psychological horror to it. It's like a taste of a post apocalyptic world on the edge of the void, and nothing is around but desert for miles, a forever dimmed sun, and a lone cathedral with cosmic horrors awaiting inside...

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I remember the morning I discovered this masterpiece. I saw that the Cryochamber label I subscribe to on YouTube dropped a new album, and the cover itself made me curious. When I played the first track, everything stopped around me.

I’d stumbled upon an album that would bring me a dark, unsettling peace in the days to come, and it inspired a scene in my book, Open Wound. The meditations I did with my alter Vexis to this album were mind-blowing, and the foreboding, Gregorian chants whisked us away to a scene that looked just like the cathedral on the cover. It was a hidden place far off in the void in a desert, and it held secrets of the universe no one could know but the entities chanting in the first chamber. Red eyes, black robes, ancient.

This album has brought me inner peace. It’s for those afternoons when you don’t want to be around anyone and your mind is racing; you might even be depressed, but you don’t want the typical peaceful, insightful music mental health gurus wax poetical about. Pianos, sounds of nature, all of that stuff that feels too bright.

ISIH is an album that brings forth the warm sands of an apocalyptic desert, and it welcomes you to listen to the mist-like sounds resembling a light breeze blowing over the landscape. It’s peaceful, but it doesn’t bring the light with it. It welcomes a state of somberness, introspection, melancholy, quiet. Peace. A different kind of peace that doesn’t feel like it’s trying to force you to smile or believe everything will be fine.

It’s inspiring, calming, and comes from a far away pocket of the void we all sometimes need to get away to.

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To read the story behind the album, which I highly recommend if there is one, head to the official Bandcamp page here.

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