Wölflinge
Active Member
Altar of Plagues -album launch for White Tomb (Profound Lore records)
www.myspace.com/altarofplagues
Joe Rubix
http://www.myspace.com/joerubixband
The Quad. Wednesday April 8th. Admission Free.
DJs Niamh (New Noise) and Wölflinge playing wreckchords after this!
From Profound Lore:
Ireland’s most promising extreme metal band since Primordial, ALTAR OF PLAGUES, have completed work on their monstrous, atmospherically crushing debut full-length album, “White Tomb”.
Already gaining quite a reputation with their “Through The Cracks Of The Earth” demo and especially with their self-released epic “Sol” EP (and along with touring the UK with MAYHEM, in which a few testimonials would reveal that Altar Of Plagues would upstage the Norwegian legends during the tour), Altar Of Plagues have morphed their layered sound into an apocalyptic sonic maelstrom that not only upholds the band’s black metal beginnings, but takes that initial paradigm and into more-vast, epic, experimental and ambient cinematic musical terrain. Where “Sol” was an immense progression from their demo, taking the band’s bleak vision of a scenario of desolate and abandoned urban wastelands and creating and shaping their distinct style of apocalyptic virulent melodic black metal, “White Tomb” takes the sonic vision of “Sol” and expands it much further into new epic, destructive and desolate, collapsing, and unforgiving sonic realms. If black metal traditionally conjures scenes of epic nature, massive cascading waterfalls and engulfing forests, Altar Of Plagues create stark images of crumbling skyscrapers, dying and rotten urban structures, empty cracked worn down highways and desolate vast oceans.
The album’s warm edged sound and uncompromising production portray’s the band’s visceral wall-of-sound effect without falling into a typical synthetically triggered digital-sounding paradigm nor falling into a post-whatever sounding mess. Other elements such as KHANATE/BURNING WITCH-esque painful slow trudging doom also find their way into the mix as “White Tomb” also features guest vocals from Nathan Misterek of the now defunct doom gods GRAVES AT SEA, minimalistic electronica and haunting Cold Meat Industry industrial ambient, along with the towering apocalyptic vibes of OLD MAN GLOOM and old-school ISIS (“Mosquito Control/Celestial” era) layered with the instrumental textures that bands like MOGWAI and RED SPAROWES portray, “White Tomb” (mastered by Colin Marston of KRALLICE/BEHOLD… THE ARCTOPUS/DYSRHYTHMIA etc.) is a vicious and atmospheric pillage that orchestrates the collapse of Earth; a depiction of civilization (or what’s left of it) in despair attempting to re-build a world destroyed and shattered by their own hands.
Tracklisting for “White Tomb” goes as follows:
1. Earth: i) As A Womb, ii) As A Furnace
2. Through The Collapse: i) Watchers Restrained, ii) Gentian Truth
An MP3 excerpt from ‘Earth’ can be found in our MP3 section.
http://www.profoundlorerecords.com/m...arthSample.mp3
Altar Of Plagues are:
James O' Ceallaigh - guitar/vocals/keys
David Condon - Bass/vocals
Barry English - drums
Expect “White Tomb” to cascade down upon us on April 17.
