Aelter “IV: Love Eternal”
Avantgarde Music
Where I live in the UK, it’s an area that normally avoids the big storms, mainly as I’m so far inland. The last time a storm hit my part of the country, the gable end of my roof came off in a 70 miles an hour rampage.
So here I am, about two and a half years later, and Storm Doris has decided my part of the country needs a battering once again. Ok, I have a new roof on the house, but I can still hear my satellite dish creaking as it’s the other side of my office wall and the wind and rain is lashing against my windows…
Why am I telling you this?
Because while chaos reigns supreme on the outside, the re-issue of the fourth Aelter album is helping me keep calm on the inside.
Originally released on vinyl almost two years ago, Avantgarde Music are opening it up to the world with a digipack cd release, and this really is a beautiful collective of music. And thankfully, it’s music that makes you switch off from the outside world. Which is a very good thing when the storm is about to reach its peak.
A few days ago, I was talking to a friend about the re-issue of the classic Monumentum album, In Absentia Christi. And while Aelter sing from a slightly different hymn sheet, both albums do have a similar feel. Semi sung/spoken vocals, and a hint of Doom Metal flirting with Gothic sensibilities.
The big difference here, is that Blake Green, (also of Wolvserpent, who I’ve only just discovered, but love already) moves away from the solitude and Gothic splendour of the first couple of numbers and drifts into what I can only describe as darkened homage to Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone. The music feels like a soundtrack to a Western movie, but one with a very black heart. I’m also reminded of Nick Caves, Red Right Hand, although the music of Aelter is a hell of a lot slower, and gloomier.
The norm for me, is the more miserable an album, the more I embrace it. And that’s the case here. It’s dark and gloomy and it barely registers above suicidal on the happiness front. But it’s so damned beautiful.
Rain is lashing against my window, I can see the telephone and electricity wires bounce across the street as the wind takes hold. But fuck the outside world. I’m in the safety of my warm cocoon and misery is very good company indeed.
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