SERPENT COLUMN (US) - Aion of Strife
Digital download
https://serpentcolumn.bandcamp.com/album/aion-of-strife
“Living things die, and they do so simply because they carry the germ of death within themselves.
Ἀεί καιρὸς ἐν ἡμῖν καὶ οὐσία ἀδάμας. “
Pandaemonium, the only Constant, forever a-whorl within the hollow Apparatus of this World -- dawning as Words and Wills of a bygone Oath reignite into iridescent wreaths. Recognize its Presence its Resolve -- the trampling echoes engulfing you -- recognize and accept its Potency its Merciless Crushing. Heed Its silver waves and breakers, those collapsed monuments and their sublimity -- heed, unwaveringly, not merely a witness, as the Firmament of this Time is torn asunder -- its falsehood, its idolatry. Accept yourself as another hollow husk amidst such Strife such Velocity, together sweeping through and across all known patchworks of man-claimed lands -- all directions and temporalities -- to return to the One, the very Glimmer first uttered, the Seed of Purity still pulsating within. Open up this shell of your self as an Aperture for such Primal Will -- for its next Cleansing -- folding forward into another genesis. So that all forces shall come to pass. Only for this moment.
Serpent Column, one among the very few BM artists who manage to manifest in each album an embodiment of pure and unconstrained rapture, once again paves new grounds with unparalleled ferocity in his latest full-length album -- Aion of Strife. Itself an homage to the irrational idealism -- an elegy of the Promethean flame -- this album serves as a continuum of style marked in Tassel of Ares (2024), when the melody-centered and Greek-BM-inspired writing approach return as the core of Serpent Column’s sonic world: filled with triumphant riffs, nearly-manical solos, and eerily woeful chords of dissonance with shades of his more avant-garde-leaning period. Mesmerizing, more accessible, yet without sacrificing any technical prowess from which his trademark musicality shines, this album will carry listeners into that Vortical Strife amassed in its seven tracks and submerge them with its rapture -- ever flowing, an Imminence Adamantine.
Pest Productions will release this absolute gem as Digipak CD soon and Gatefold LP in April.