Description

Us 2009 press in A5 digipak cover with bonus cd

This album marks a significant departure for Xasthur from previous recordings: only two or three tracks here feature vocals and lyrics though some of the others may have voice as a textural layer in the music, and the music itself is much less black metal.All Reflections Drained is a brilliant foray into a realm of purely desolate guitar work and oppressive sewer-like atmosphere. The music is thick and muddied with keyboards dominating guitars and percussion in large parts, and all semblance of conventional song structures and elements has been sucked into the textures of the sound. There is a strong soundtrack feel as though the music had been composed for a psychological horror movie too baffling and terrifying to be unleashed on the public. All Reflections Drained feels like a psychic isolation in just misanthropic bleak darkness. Its an album that needs to be heard to be believed, for few albums which make the effort turn out even a fraction as haunting as this. This A5 version comes with a whole bonus disc of rare material. Content includes alternate versions, unreleased song and several covers.

Track list:
1. Dirge Forsaken
2. Maze Of Oppression
3. Achieve Emptiness, Pt. 2
4. Masquerade Of Incisions
5. Damage Your Soul
6. Inner Sanctum Surveillance
7. Obfuscated In Oblivion
8. All Reflections Drained
9. Torment
10. Aura Of Denial
11. Fleshcrawl-Autopsy cover
12. Concealed Barren Thoughts
13. Released From This Earth
14. Untitled
15. A Living Hell
16. Trauma Will Always Linger
17. Jomfrulysets Fall-Forgotten Woods cover
18. Untitled