Released via Panurus Productions
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toweroffilargyria.bandcamp.com
Praise -
"[...]the sound becomes more lo-fi and atmospheric, to an almost suffocating point. Highly disturbing and not for the faint of heart - just like we like it!" - Antifascist Black Metal Network
"Petrine Cross has a way of transcending time and genre, taking the standard tropes and merging them with atmospherics so dark and dank as to blur to near-ambience. The muffled production values which are core to the genre are something not only embraced here, but utilised to create a distancing and a sense of ‘otherness’: this isn’t drums, guitars, vocals, it’s a dense wall of sound that envelops your entire being, and smothers the senses" - Aural Aggravation
"For each of their respective sides, they explore the themes of one card from the tarot – Petrine Cross through the aural raw ambient black embodiment of beautiful, tortured bleakness and murdered echoes of the mind, Tower Of Filargyria through anti-capitalist raw black imbued with ghostly essence that runs a gamut of emotion through vitriol to despair – and both sides invite and inspire the listener to look deeper. To think. To interpret as they will. To perhaps research, and maybe even act" - Black Metal Daily
"Following on from both the demo and Centuries Of August full-length last year, the three tracks on this split feel even more desolate and haunting – the intoxicating smog of Velvet Cacoon is an obvious reference point, but there’s a distraught melodic sensibility here that feels pretty unique. Check out the way those yearning, emotive riffs in ‘Sobriquet’ cut through the harrowing swathes of pitch black tremolo fuzz, for example. Rather than relying on the soundscape to do most of the legwork, there’s some great song-writing hidden beneath the dirge, with the song building to a genuinely cathartic crescendo without breaking that mesmerising tension. ‘The Grecian Bend’, meanwhile, feels closer to funeral doom in some ways, but instilled with a bristling anxiety that makes the song feel far more uncomfortable and tense than the more meditative, still effect produced by much of that genre." - The Quietus