Glemt — Eclipsing Through The Womb Of Twilight And Dementi
Eclipsing Through The Womb Of Twilight And Dementia is the debut album from one-man London based Black metal project Glemt. It’s an eight-track affair that blends clamouring ‘n’ wonky mid-paced BM, with moments of crude speeding chaos, and dips into creepily grim to darkly lumbering atmospherics.
The release is due out as a 180-gram vinyl album in early Nov on Lithuania’s Inferna Profundus Records- who put out another rewarding slice of wonky ‘n’ grim BM early this year with Martwi’s - Dangoswch Eich Darnau Gwyn i Mi. We’ve only been sent a digital promo for release- so I can’t comment on the vinyl release. The Glemt project has just one member Orobas, through this new album features guest appearances from projects such as Vampirska, Thy Dying Light, and Nocturnal Departure- the project has been active since 2019 releasing four demos, an EP, a compilation, and a few splits.
Glemt has a decidedly sloppy, lose-yet always authentically gnarled and grim sound. The tracks have a tendency to lurch back and forth between mid-paced battering’s, rough ‘n’ ragged speed-outs, more authentically metallic-though still wonky drum-less breakdowns, crawling and pained BM slugs, and more atmospheric/ moody dips. And it’s this unpredictable/ sloppy edge that makes the whole album more rewarding than your typical BM ride.
The album kicks off with “Under Lamenting Romanticism Of Nights Torment” this is a fairly short, sharp- yet decidedly sloppy and baying gnarled opener. It kicks off with a mixture of forlorn and waving guitar harmonies, glamouring ‘n’ smashing BM undercarriage, and this stretched ‘n’ muffled blend of shrieks, moans, and shredded growls. Around mid-way through this three-and-a-half-minute track, we find suddenly racing and evenly speeding drums- really giving the whole thing quite an epic feel, though fairly soon we drop back down to more uneven drum shifts bringing back the original wonky and grim spirit of the track.
As we move through the album we come to discordant baying riff meets over active cymbal crash of “Entranced By Ebon Shadows” which features some great roughly roaring ‘n’ ghoulishly moaning vocals, and mid-way shifts into a blend of wondering grim guitar/ bass simmering angularity and hovering spectral ambience. We have the nearing ten minutes of “Hiraeth”- which starts out with just bleakly flighty church organ runs, before kick into deathrock touched BM chug ‘n smash with great waving and wonky guitar harmonics moving with slowly shifting vocal bays ‘n’ shrieks. Then later kick into speeding lose BM meets lost in graveyard moans. With the album playing out in nice moody and waveringly grim fashion with the just over two minutes of “Southern Crux” which finds simmer organ rolls, blended with hammy horror synth tones, and towards the end a female voice intoning grim poetry- all sounding a little bit the slower more gothic horror elements of the first Cradle Of Filth record.
As you can imagine we get a lot of extreme and darkened metal through our review doors at M[m], and a large percentage of that is Black Metal- and to be honest about seventy-five percent of this is cliched, bland, and dully predictable. And Eclipsing Through The Womb Of Twilight And Dementia certainly raises above the normal mediocrity of what we get in- been impactful from the first play with its blend of wonky ‘n’ wavering grim-ness, sloppy-yet-appealing pace shifts, and general compelling/ authentic feel of true BM grimness. I wanted to give these three and a half mark, but as we only do full marks here I’ve gone for a three- but this is certainly a strong three moving towards a four release. To find out more about this release, check out a sample track, and order this when it’s out to head here