All Reflections Drained - Xasthur

Funeral Of Being - Xasthur

Xasthur is a US black metal project, masterminded by Malefic, who is soley responsible for vocals, drums, guitars, songwriting and production. Typical of Xasthur s output, "The Funeral of Being" is a piece of hypnotic, depressive, distorted black metal, which combines fuzzy shoegaze riffs and a crudely programmed drum machine with keyboard-sampled chanting/droning voices and Malefic s distant, washed out and incomprehensible screams to evoke an ethereal, otherworldly atmosphere devoid of all life. The production is characteristically atrocious, with everything sounding as if it was recorded on a dictaphone in a bucket of water in the room next door, but here ...

Funeral Of Being - Xasthur

Xasthur is a US black metal project, masterminded by Malefic, who is soley responsible for vocals, drums, guitars, songwriting and production. Typical of Xasthur s output, "The Funeral of Being" is a piece of hypnotic, depressive, distorted black metal, which combines fuzzy shoegaze riffs and a crudely programmed drum machine with keyboard-sampled chanting/droning voices and Malefic s distant, washed out and incomprehensible screams to evoke an ethereal, otherworldly atmosphere devoid of all life. The production is characteristically atrocious, with everything sounding as if it was recorded on a dictaphone in a bucket of water in the room next door, but here ...