Svarte Greiner - Knive
[Type Records]
Published Monday, 20th November, 2006 at 11:04 AM
UK release date: 23rd October 2006
Written by Jennifer Allan
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Knive is an ebbing tide of acoustic gloom, where harrowing clouds of grey matter swamped in loss and darkness are illuminated by the moonlit vocals of sirens, drawing boats to their doom. Echoes of lost guitar chords slide across still water whilst unearthly creatures dance at the waters edge, bony exoskeletons shifting on the gravel.
Slim acoustics close in on the deep pulse of static drones, quietly strangling dark swarms as they pass through the tracks silently, stealing as they go. Lonely hordes of strings cry out in desperation, to be muffled by their captors, quietly lamenting such dire misfortune.
An epic of the dark soundscape, Knive brings the shadows closer, slowly building a terrifying scene of malignant evil coming noiselessly to life. An eeriness saturates the albums core, the creaks and stutters of unidentified sounds and the deep groans omitted by anonymous creatures evokes a malevolence and hellish gloaming that seeps right through to its cold dead bones.
