After 13 years of walking paths unseen and reaching beyond the veils that conceal, a journey is over. After 13 years of albums, rituals, creation and exploration, 13 years of collaboration and performance with the likes of Wolvhammer, Mortals, Abigail Williams, Insomnium, 1476 and Pessimist, the voice of Hvile I Kaos will fall silent, leaving behind the final testimony to an artistic expression like no other – “Lower Order Manifestations”.
8 pieces of magick, concocted with cello, guitar, bass, frame drum and vocals; 8 invocations to spirits of death, decay and destruction – one magnificent album that reconfigures the structure of black metal and classical music, shattering the walls of convention and regulation that stand guard upon their borders. With Lower Order Manifestation, composer and outlier Kakophonix has unveiled the final triumphant piece in the collected works of this challenging musical entity. Moments of terror, vistas of confusion and passages of unbearable beauty are scattered across this enthralling canvas of sound, as a voice, impossible to ignore, leads you ever on. The frenzied swarm of “Locusts” consumes you, the unstoppable drive towards unknowable goals that is “The Golden Eye, The Grindstone” will seize you in its iron grip, the abandonment to nothingness of the last echoing note of “Panic Sun” will leave you hollowed and afraid…and it all leads to the absolute conclusion of “Verity The Path” – the jewel of understanding at the end of a labyrinth of bewilderment, the completion of the circle and the closing of this book in the chronicles of Kakophonix…with more tales no doubt soon to follow.
Available now from InViMa Records, on CD with twelve page booklet and digital formats, “Lower Order Manifestations” is a work of remarkable vision with the ability to shift perspectives, to alter viewpoints and open doors. Its rewards are many, its secrets deep.
“The forces presented by these workings are those of collapse, madness, death, and decay. They have served and will continue to serve those ends to devastating effect, in real life, in real time. You have been warned”,
Kakophonix.
