His insights into the underbelly of the American dream are reflected in the lyrics of "Inevitably Dark", which are there even though there is no singing on the album. Conner has used black metal, dark ambient, acid folk, doomgrass, and other genres to express what he has seen and felt, as well as a way to find his own sound or style at a point in time – for example when he was without a steady home and often living in hotels or cars. Be warned: this album is neither meant as a return to black metal of mastermind Scott Conner, even though he does this time, nor a guarantee that it will happen again next time – although, he might. Darkness is the element that holds all the tracks together despite the fact that they are expressed in a multitude of genres, which even includes black metal. 250 on cassette, vinyl record available at Appalachian Noise Records.There is hardly a more fitting title for the new XASTHUR compositions than "Inevitably Dark". DIGITAL NOT AVAILABLE ON DAY OF PURCHASE. The overall feel of the record is akin to waking up in an asylum with no memory of arriving it is disconcerting at times, unnerving at others, but occasionally tricks the listener with subtle reprieves from the gloom only to be pulled back under all over again. Both men titans of black metal, each in their own right living pillars of dark music in America, have distilled their creative methods into this innovative approach to dark synth music. "The Hallucination Tunnels" pairs Xasthur's unmistakable gift for macabre, discomforting soundscapes with the melody-writing and structural genius of Casket of Dreams. This record is an homage to the slow, downward spiral of man into chaos-the troubled mind's plea for the relief of permanent silence death.
For the first time ever, Xasthur and Casket of Dreams have paired up to produce this 40-minute crawl through haunted and discordant corridors.
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