{"id":2976,"date":"2014-11-09T21:07:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T02:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2014-11-09T21:07:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T02:07:51","slug":"late-night-listening-unfathomed-abyss-arisen-upon-oblivion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2014\/11\/09\/late-night-listening-unfathomed-abyss-arisen-upon-oblivion\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Night Listening: Unfathomed of Abyss, Arisen Upon Oblivion"},"content":{"rendered":"

A home for things that might be fleeting, might be soothing, might be weird, might be soothing and weird. The blogging equivalent of sitting in the garage twiddling radio knobs just to see what might be out there.<\/i><\/p>\n

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\"unfathabyss\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Because sometimes, twiddling knobs in the virtual garage, you get some static followed by atmospheric creaking followed by a roar straight from the dungeon. Or: “symphonic black metal” may initially sound like a contradiction in terms, but I promise it isn’t.<\/p>\n

Unfathomed of the Abyss<\/a> (Kevin Price) spent 14 years (!) working on Arisen Upon Oblivion<\/i> and the result is a complex collection of sounds, some delicate, others more like a sledgehammer. That said, while it’s heavy, it isn’t suffocating.<\/p>\n

For example, there’s To Unequal the Balance of the Cosmos<\/i>, the first song on the record, which is fourteen minutes long, but not one single minute drags:<\/p>\n