![]() ![]() Later that year in december she releases her second single "NECROSIS" (earlier named "Necrosis part 1: Psicosis"). In the following years she focused on performative arts so her music was left aside until june 2021 when she announces that her first album was on the making and release her first single "A.M." (earlier named "Unable") on Souncloud and BandCamp with a Lyric Video that was online just one month. In 2018 Saturnalia uploads a snippet of her song "Unable" in her Instagram account. Few years later in 2017 Saturnalia decided to continue her project and later that year she teamed up with a new member called Isded as guitar and bass but he left the project in few months due to musical differences. She made a hiatus in 2015 deleting everything on her social media and due to mental health issues and drugs abuse. She released a few more covers and a video for "Necrosis I : Psicosis". Later on 20 Saturnalia recorded and released 2 demo EPs on Souncloud and BandCamp including original songs and covers to artist such as FKA Twigs and Bjork. He later agrees to give the beats to Saturnalia but never become an official member. In 2012 Saturnalia writes lyrics on beats made by her online friend ONIMORTIS (based in Birmingham, UK) because she felt that those beats sounded exactly the way she wanted to sound. Her first songs were made in 2009 but were never recorded nor released yet archived to be released someday. Stick these songs on a playlist with Ufomammut, Bomg, Dirge, Ethereal Riffian, and Saturnalia Temple.SATURNALIA999999999 is a solo experimental gothic act based in Chile, started in 2009 with Saturnalia as voice, composer, lyrics, performance and violin being the only official member throught the years but collaborating with multiple musicians and producers aswell support members. Obscure Fire by Megalith Levitation releases March 31st, with an impressive CD package put together by the Aesthetic Death label ( pre-order here) and artwork by godlikeikons, who did the covers for Doomed & Stoned in Russia I & II. We encounter the trio in plainchant one more time, taking us to finish with narcotic haze. ![]() Seven-and-a-half minutes in, the mood suddenly changes with new cries of pain and ecstasy revealing a mystical second theme. The final number carries on in purposeful stride, whilst guitars wail in a way most fitting for “Eternal Doom.” Phlegmatic voices intone and we are once again in a trance. Around four-minutes, the band shifts into slow headbanging mode with an undeniable riff and mesmerizing chanting. A Cathedralesque tempo dances us closer and closer to the flames. It’s as if we’re gradually being slowly lowered into a great well as voices echo above and beneath the pit.Īs we enter “In The Depths” we enter a clandestine chapel far, far underground, lit with candles and an odd glowing ember in the center, a place of arcane magick. The theme is laid out in painstaking fashion, while priests cantillate in darkness around a cauldron of spite. “Descending” bathes us in a swirl of ancient fuzz, as we enter the passageway connecting Side A to Side B. By the end of the song, we’re lost in the throes of sweet delirium. The heartbeat quickens at the seven-minute mark and things start to feel deadly amidst unsettling tremeloes and pulsating rhythm. This bleeds into the anodyne strumming “Of Silence.” The song’s central riff surfaces four minutes in and worshipful voices consort. Drums and bass join in a dirge, and cultic voices bellow while the solemn ritual proceeds, complete with the swaying hands of acolytes and damning riffage. Strange dissonant guitar strains emerge from opening track “Obscure Fire.” It’s a bit jarring at first, but we’re quickly captured under its spell. “And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not.” Whether these songs lay claim to the profane offering of Leviticus 10:1 we may never know, but what is certain is their dark, powerful, hypnotic atmosphere. My closest stream of consciousness is an archaic reference to “strange fire” in the Old Testament. Their third full-length is called ‘Obscure Fire’ (2023). ![]() Now two years hence, the mysterious cult speak once again. When we last checked in with the hooded cadre from the Ural Mountains of Chelyabinsk Oblast, MEGALITH LEVITATION had just revealed their collection of Void Psalms (one of Doomed & Stoned’s Heavy Best of 2021, reviewed here). ![]()
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