SELTSAME ERDEN (Ger) – ‘Gedankentempeln’ CD Digipak

Titlted Gedankentempeln, SELTSAME ERDEN’s first full-length was once again recorded in their remote bunker, deep in Hessian woods. As such, the austere and heavily hypnotic swarm of sound SELTSAME ERDEN present here strikes against modernity and other prevailing trends in the “black metal” scene. While the authentically ’90s-rooted atmosphere touches upon the medieval, more so do the power-trio push their onrush of crush toward the minimal-is-maximal splendor of earliest Inquisition, Ondskapt, and even Maniac Butcher: movements of subtlety, detail, and plainly stated POWER. However, the production itself – all recorded, mixed, and mastered by (((CYPHX-AUDIO))) – elevates SELSTAME ERDEN to their own plateau populated by few, so mysteriously ethereal yet palpably physical is Gedankentempeln. The cover artwork by Belial NecroArts vividly illustrates this unique dichotomy.