Five the Hierophant - Through Aureate Void (Full Album) Through Aureate Void offers a transient glimpse into realms unknown. Radical, bestriding, and at times even maniacal, Five the Hierophant have once again torn the fabrics of musical rule asunder on their spellbinding second album. For the uninitiated, Five the Hierophant are a London-based instrumental cabal that occupy an unearthly plateau, on which they routinely defy and dismantle the already elusive conventions of experimental metal. With their eclectic melange of blackened post-metal, jazz, drone, and psychedelia, they are one of the UK’s most intriguing and incomparable exports.
Hailing from within the gloomy cavities of the big smoke, the band’s oeuvre is appropriately dense and miasmatic, and their latest offering is a compelling expansion on their hypnotic debut, Over Phlegethon. Across five distinct vistas, the band traverses bleak and disturbing atmospheres with a metamorphosing grandeur, often heavy, and always exhilarating. Immediately, “Leaf in the Current” initiates the album with a mesmeric charisma, utilizing a rhythmic jazz-doom crux as a backdrop to the sensually phrased saxophonic voice. No sooner than the track has begun, the peculiar rhythms and barrier-tearing instrumentations establish the album as a characteristically eccentric collision of musical stripes.
On “Through Aureate Void” they go in an even more psychedelic direction, without losing any of the heaviness or darkness. Also, the use of untraditional instruments like saxophone, music saw, zither and a wide range of percussions, Five the Hierophant creates a totally unique soundscape which you won’t find anywhere else.
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