Style: Dark ambient
Primary Emotions/Themes: Pain, fear of the unknown
Thoughts: Feedback, screaming, echos of some great distant horror. These are woven into the very fabric of P:R:I:S:M, the very essence from the fabric of which the album is formed and cut.
P:R:I:S:M comes from a point of pain. A realm where hopelessness is the prominent emotion and fear the primary driver of motivation. These eight tracks were written by someone who has experienced deep loss, incredible hardship, and incomprehensible suffering.
The tracks don't have any individual defining characteristics, rather they have emotions that slowly build and then are pushed into the listener. This osmosis is so natural while listening to the album that I hardly ever feel that my mood has shifted.
Regardless of where I start emotionally, I am always left with a deep impression that I have witnessed some traumatic event. My body doesn't know how to react because my mind is perceive this terrible event occurring but nothing is being witnessed. It's quite confusing yet also exhilarating at the same time.
Sutek and Funerary do this in a highly specific manner. They harness resonances that are not quite musical, yet are not quite... not. They are somewhere in between music and dissonance, in a place where only pure emotion lives. There is no real percussion, riffs, or even melodies to speak of. Only variations on soundscapes and the odd vocal interlude.
There isn't much to say about Prism on a musical level. It feels like it isn't meant to be musical, but rather primal. Like so many of the best entries into the dark ambient field, I don't remember the specifics of the album. Rather I remember the emotions that it evokes within me. That leaves a stronger impression than any riff hook ever will.
Written November 26th 2023
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