Bicephalous entity, Inritvm formalized Ex Nihilo Ad Nihilum within a collective comprised of individuals active since the 90s.
Syht (Haemoth) and Akhaeus (Bael) laid the foundations – both new and deeply rooted in a claimed and embraced heritage – whose embodiment drew upon the contributions of Yhrm (Deviant), Hth (Haemoth), MkM (Antaeus), Aguares (Bael), Ablass (6666).
What one could describe as resolutely nihilistic Black Metal, fueled by the layered experiences of its contributors, is based on the cold pronouncement of an undeniable truth: all is vanity; all that exists is doomed to fade into naught.
The entirety of it assumed shape from 2022 through an iterative and decidedly exploratory method, a prolonged process at once guided and of unbounded definition.
If a paradox must needs be forged to articulate that which is not, it is but the stark illustration of an impotence, a confession, a confusion.
The inherent contradiction of expressing nothingness has guided the artistic approach embedded within this work. Tangibly, the piece aims to represent a form of chaos, emptiness, a descent into the void, delivered through tones and playing built on a ‘traditional’ Black Metal praxis interspersed with noisier passages, creating a sound that’s both coherent & exploratory, and a visual approach by Metastazis that is equally abstract and materially vertiginous.
This is no more about darkness than it is about light.
Yet in the void, none can fail to envision the presence of that which corrupts.
