Lord Cernunnos — They Live In The Digital Realm
They Live In The Digital Realm is a forty-six minute trip into dense & constricting walled noise. It’s a piledriving & unrelenting blend of tensely tight crunch, and slowly draining hiss- that once you’ve ventured into it seemingly locks you in numbing entrancement.
The digital-only release appears on Portland Oregon’s Basement Corner Emissions. The monochrome cover artwork features a glitch-lined picture, which could possibly of a stark headshot of some form- but it’s so fragmented, it’s difficult to see exactly what it is. The release can be found just here.
Lord Cernunnos is from Everett, Washington. It’s been active since 2013, and to date, has amassed an impressive discography of coming on seven hundred and fifty releases. I’ve now played/ reviewed a few of the projects releases, and have enjoyed what I’ve heard- and They Live In The Digital Realm is another example of this trend.
The single dead on forty-six self-titled track kicks in full, firm & crushing- and never deviates from that setting. It’s a very thick and compacting blend of constantly unfurling crunch, billowing judder, and fixed hiss. The elements are weaved in such a constricted and airless manner, that at points it feels like the tones are gnawing into each other- though at other times they seemingly slow, speed, up and threatening to break. Though of course these are all illusions of the wall itself, and the reality is this is set & crushing mesh of walled noise. Image wise I’m getting images of slowly trudging a bittering & billowing snow-white-out, as the amassed snow binds above you slowly shift & compact- readying to engulf you fully but never finally getting there.
They Live In The Digital Realm is very much for the season wall-head, as initially/ on the surface this feels like a simple example of crush sound weight. But as you get more & more engulfed, you start to make out( or imagine) the flow & the detail of the tones, as you go for a nearing fifty-minute freefall in densely raging wall-craft.