Swiss experimental extreme metal cult Death. Void. Terror. return metamorphed into a marvelous transfiguration of their former selves. Through the transformative radiance of a rebirth demonstration titled "To The Great Monolith 2.5", the Helvetic death ritualists signal an imminent return shrouded in aesthetical triumph through evolution, here hinted at and introduced via spasmodic liturgical precognition. An EP of sorts, or introductory short player, forever and immutably bound to the primitive and restrained format of cassette tape, to serve as ante-infernal annunciation to a full-bodied multi-format masterwork awaiting ahead, in a comprehensive and magnificent glory yet to be revealed. Herein, soul-disintegrating metamorphosis is initiated, as the band prepares self-revelation through spiritual mutation, shedding their ancient black/death metal skin to reveal a primeval new flesh being grown underneath, irrigated with the vessels of worship and animated by the blood of timeless rituals. A cryptic liturgy unto the visceral worship of a timeless megalithic stone is initiated, as sound is expanded beyond form or convention, and stretched to the state of dismal veil, draping reality in symbolism and immersing the listener into a marvelous spatial trance. Massive guitar drones reverberating through gorges, valleys and caves, liquifying into an hallucinatory bucolic continuum shrouded in asceticism and violence. War drums, horns, bone instruments and mantric chants opening a passageway to an alternate dimension of primitivism, ritualism and historic reconjunction. The specter of conterranean ancestral metal masters Bölzer liquefying further into mountainous infinity, embracing the death-riddled occult-rock asceticism of Urfaust and spreading far beyond like miasmatic pestilence into boundless abyssal darkness. A small stone laid on the path towards the Great Monolith, already stirring into Sentient Ruin's abysmal sonic cauldron.
