Description

Reduced price due to poster is missing

Double album on black vinyls with gatefold cover.

Active from 2001-2005, the highly revered side project of Leviathan’s Jef Whitehead, Lurker Of Chalice, is mostly known for this, their 2005 self-titled full-length. Prior to that album, however, Wrest recorded two CD-R demos under the Lurker Of Chalice name, each of which was limited to approximately 50 copies or less and sold at a single record store in San Francisco, near where he was living at the time. The Lurker Of Chalice material features some delicate ambient passages and labyrinthine excursions give way to electronic dirges of lumbering percussion with guitar shimmering transcendent above a melancholic lake of atmospheric sound and cascading sheets of electronics dissolving into lush acoustic melodies. Only very rarely do heavy riffs emerge; compared with Wrest’s work in Leviathan the metal elements are far less direct and overt. Instead, this album conjures a bleak, unsettling mood without resorting to the compositional trappings of black metal. So to keep it simple musically speaking; Lurker Of Chalice is an amplified depressive Leviathan, being much less black metal than Wrest’s main project. This is however just as brilliant, and even more unconventional, than his Leviathan work. Overall a s soulful, emotional, darkened black metal journey into the depths of Wrest’s psyche. There arent any anger here just sadness, regret and melancholy so you will get chilly feelings through your spine when listening to this the first time. If you like the depressive side of Leviathan and depressive black metal in general you have to check this out…it’s just perfect and soul crushing. It might not sound like black metal but you cant deny that this is some of the blackest of the black art.

Track list:
1. Untitled
2. Piercing Where They Might
3. Spectre As Valkerie Is
4. Minions
5. Paramnesia
6. Wail
7. This Blood Falls As Mortal Part III
8. Granite
9. Vortex Chalice
10. Fastened To The Five Points