The music found within these two records is a combination of deep space ambient and raw black metal. The album contains exceedingly long songs, with the ambient sections being significantly shorter.
The simple melodies of the ambient tracks sets the mood immediately and paints a setting found in the deepest and darkest reaches of space. It is lonely and completely devoid of any sort of sentience other than us... a single being alone in the cosmos.
The main focus of the album however are the 15 minute plus black metal songs. Each one of these tells a musical story of long lost civilizations lost to time and space. All that is left is dust and decay floating through the nether of time.
The production is raw and its rather difficult to tell what is happening during a lot of the album... honestly though I wouldn't have it any other way. This is how this music is meant to be created and listened to. There is enough going on here that digging deep into the mix is rewarded with small details that are easily missed on a casual listen.
Abyss Horizons didn't surprise me with its contents, but I am very pleased with what I found. This is going to be an album that I revisit quite often as I don't have much in the way of sci-fi/deep space themed black metal. Along side Darkspace, Battle Dagorath is among the best I've heard in this small subset of black metal.
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