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Luminiferous Aether emerges from the depths of the Australian underground with a sound as raw and unrelenting as the void itself. This collection, combining two sessions from 2019 and 2020, is an exercise in pure blackened death metal primitivism—a suffocatingly lo-fi onslaught drenched in astral eeriness and ancient violence. With ties to Sluggard, this one-man project conjures the spirit of old Morbid Angel, early Bolt Thrower, Destroyer 666, and the chaotic savagery of Blasphemy, yet carves its own path through the murk.
The production is cavernous yet deliberate, striking that elusive balance between filth and ferocity. The guitar tone is a distorted wall of decayed riffing, thick with menace, while the drumming alternates between furious, near-blast tempos and hammering mid-paced assaults that drive each track forward with an unstoppable force. Vocals hover in the mix like an otherworldly incantation—dry, spectral rasps that feel as ritualistic as they do hostile. It’s a sonic relic that could have easily been unearthed from the tape-trading underground of the early ‘90s, embracing the rawness of first-wave black metal while channeling the death-laced extremity of the genre’s evolution.
More than just a tribute to the past, Luminiferous Aether revels in the kind of primitive, no-frills intensity that made black and death metal so exhilarating in their infancy. This is the sound of metal at its most feral—ugly, relentless, and undeniably powerful.
