One of the more unique bands reviewed on this site is acclaimed and incomparable one-man USBM act, Leviathan. Boasting a prodigious body of work, some of the more familiar titles under artist Jef “Wrest” Whitehead’s belt include 2003’s “Tenth Sub-Level ofSuicide” and the following year’s “Tentacles of Whorror”, not to mention numerous splits with bands such as Xasthur and the ever-controversial Nachtmystium. These, as well as other releases, boasted raw, gritty recording, alternately gurgled and shrieked vocals, and produced an atmosphere as close to hell as one can get whilst still breathing.
Then, there’s “Silhouette in Splinters”.
“Silhouette…” is a brooding dark ambient release, devoid of the spiraling blackened guitar riffs and demoniacal aggression showcased in previous releases; rather, it conveys a sense of brooding melancholy and isolation through slow, thrumming background resonance, occasional groaned vocals, and slow but painfully deliberate guitar melodies. Chillingly bitter, “Silhouette” evokes a sense of an ethereal realm layered behind the tattered veil of our own reality coming closer to the surface, and more frighteningly, of the ghosts that haunt that somber extra-planar darkness. This album is an atrementous abyss teeming with unlife. Dive in…
Here:
Towers of Rust 