Style: dark ambient
Primary Emotions/Themes: a slow descent into the mountains and with every step my sanity is more forfeit
Thoughts: Fear. Fear of the unknown. Fear of that what we cannot understand. Fear is the great equalizer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. Fear is the mind-killer.
What is fear? What causes us to fear? These are questions that I'm not sure I have the answers to. These questions are questions I'm not sure I want the answers to. What I do know is that Phelios has managed to tap into exactly these emotions that cause fear and bring them to the surface with At the Mountains of Madness.
With a title like that this is obviously a tribute to H.P. Lovecraft's writings. In the spirit of his writings the music has little definition or form. Rather it morphs and contorts in ways that it's hard to wrap my brain around. A rhythm here, a soundscape there... all of them should be easy to follow... yet somehow they manage to elude my conscious thought. They leave fear in their wake, and I am left with a sense of unease unlike any that I have felt in a long time.
Fear. What is fear? Fear is what lies in the mountains... these mountains.
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