SUTEKH HEXEN have undeniably pushed boundaries once again. 'Primeval' can be considered their most authentic, cinematic and polarizing album to date.

SUTEKH HEXEN have undeniably pushed and progressed boundaries once again. 'Primeval' can be considered their most authentic, cinematic and polarizing album to date. With these 8 tracks of base elemental transmutations, utilizing arrangements of exclusively acoustic instrumentation and other non-electric methods of sound generation via: acoustic strings (guitars, viola, violin), percussion: (metal, stone, wooden objects, timpani), wind: (pipe organ and open-air orations) resulting in their brightest recorded material ...casting the darkest shadow.

Recorded on location in the majestic (darkness) of the redwood forests, decaying WWII era bunkers and a light-soaked wooden chapel on the west coast in California and Oregon, to the northeastern haunted pastures of the first American witch trials in New England, the urban brutalism of Berlin, to the glorious and ancient caverns deep within the French Pyrenees.

The journey begins with 'Malediction' a plodding processional piece appropriately setting the tone, 'Severed & Sealed' immediately draws upon menacing abstraction via ghastly fragmented chamber movements and disembodied glossolalia, 'River of Shadows' the immortal wind and pulse, serves early as the brief, melodic and moody centerpiece of this album, 'Moss Skull' ushers the listener within temple stasis: guiding one further toward infinite, 'Pyre' embraces despair and triumph through bombastic discernment, 'Orædjinn' evokes the tangible and intangible through grand surreal chapel pipe organ and dense overtones of 100% analog harsh noise wall and powerful incantations, worshipping at the altar of beauty + brutality, 'Cavern Rite' clears the cast circle, contemplating the mysteries and intention through our own hands, 'The Clarion Call' thus closes the album, perhaps this is the end or maybe the beginning? The theme has now closed full circle, were you (t)here? Co-Released with Breath Sun Bone Blood.

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Label: Cyclic Law

Genre: Ambient/Experimental

Run Time: 36:10 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 04/11/25

UPC: 3770033798232