Experience over an hour of immersive, cryptic atmospheric black metal. This raw and intense album howls and chants, creating a swirling eddy of foggy mystery and grim incantations. It conjures shapes, forms, entities, and hallucinatory visions, emerging from its depths.
"Helcaraxë" was inspired by J.R.R.Tolkien. Based on stories of the old world of Middle-earth and the early times based on the book of "The Silmarillion" as well as great wars and mysterious places.
"The Helcaraxë or "Grinding Ice" was an icy waste between the lands of Aman and Middle-earth. Its exact nature is left unclear, but it seems to have been an area of broken and shifting pack ice covering the northernmost parts of the Great Sea."
"The Helcaraxë was first crossed by Melkor and Ungoliant after they destroyed the Two Trees. After being abandoned by the House of Fëanor in Araman, Fingolfin and his people braved this dangerous, frozen wasteland on their journey to Middle-earth. They endured great hardships and lost many including Elenwë, wife of Turgon, who perished in the crossing. This crossing of the Helcaraxë greatly diminished the original Host of Fingolfin by the time they finally arrived in Middle-earth at the first rising of the Moon. The Helcaraxë ceased to exist after the War of Wrath at the end of the First Age."
