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The Black Moon, Buried Underground, Rises from Beneath 10​,​000 Years of Sediment

by Yume Nikki

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"What is it about the summer? Humidity hangs over the city like a shroud, time slows, the sun shines but its light feels dim and distant, life withers just as in the middle of winter and Death... death lurks around every corner and saturates every open pore. Death oozes, like a tar, around everyone and everything. Death opens wide its putrid maw and sucks in, dragging into its terrible orbit everyone and everything that lacks the strength to resist - to cling to life, with its withering heat and freezing cold, wanton violence and uncaring institutions.

This is a record that sort of accidentally became about all of those things, recorded, impossibly, in the sweltering summer heat as death came for so many. It became an attempt to chronicle the sound of a morbid summer, shadows forming silently around floods of summer sunlight.

I think my negative associations with the summer started a few years back, with a friend's suicide, and peaked this year, when I got a lot of bad news all at once. This album, if anything, is a sort of tribute to all of those people. There is a narrative structure to it, too:

'Eric loses all hope and interest in life and, thus, becomes obsessed with occult studies in order to find meaning in death. He discovers a way to sacrifice himself and call forth an ancient evil deity that will ravage the earth and nearly destroy all human life. After his suicide, he attempts to warn those close to him by appearing in their dreams, but it is ineffective. Instead, the calamity comes to pass and those left alive roam a destroyed earth, camping out in burned out buildings and other landmarks of the wasteland and waiting for death.'

The language and imagery are things Eric would have liked: Earthbound, doom metal, satanism, Neon Genesis Evangelion, dramatic pop songs, etc. Maybe you will feel it too."

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released December 4, 2015

Written, Performed by Yume Nikki

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Ali at Ecstattic Studio

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Doomgaze, Celestial Sludge, Blackened Ambient, DSSM

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