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THRALLDOM
BEAST EYE OPENED TO THE SKY
CD

Tracklisting:

1. Oath Of Ex-Communication
2. Parasites (The 7th Plague)
3. Slicing Morality Off The Face Of The Sphere
4. Hypaethral
5. Dead Aeon Of The Slain Gods
6. Distorted Air - HEAR IT
7. De Mysterio Mali


Arising from the sewers, THRALLDOM spews forth their debut CD. BEAST EYE OPENED TO THE SKY contains 7 black rituals designed to soil and darken your mind. Using the tools of audio amplification and the subconscious will, the cult manifests artistic replications of nightmares/dreamstates inside the cerebral flame. This meditative journey is an escape for the sake of POWER and EXPRESSION. BEAST EYE OPENED TO THE SKY is a dysphoric maze of discordance, doom and astral malevolence - Do What Thou Wilt!

Release date: October 31st, 2003

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REVIEWS

Thralldom: Beast Eye Opened To The Sky
reviewed by Cody
9/10

I seriously didn't know what I was in for upon looking at this CD. Blood splatters barely seen through dark green background, with a simple image of a knife-wielding horned skeleton. Very cool, very cryptic. The layout and packaging itself is very simple: text on dark green background, very modern looking, with a little "artsy" flair thrown in (meaning off kilter text, band pictures in the tray instead of the booklet.) I did not expect one of the most dirty, filthy, gross-sweaty, heavily psychedelic, psychedelically HEAVY, TRUE METAL releases in quite some time. Black metal, that is. I'm talking Bathory, Hellhammer, Darkthrone, Profanatica, VON. The real dirty, heavy, primitive bands. These bands are what give Thralldom the basis for their ideas, but make no mistake, Thralldom creates an atmosphere all their own, taking the best parts of these bands in their hands, force-feeds marijuana and various hallucinogens to them, and leaves them to run loose on their own with nasty distorted vocal howls shouting to the ritualistic drumming, creating very convincing, true occult music that anyone into such practices should consider listening to.

It all starts with the first assault, "Oath of Ex-Communication." Musically, it's a venomous combination of old Incantation-esque lows trading with a Kreator/Morbid Angel ascending/descending tonal spell, breaking into a droning, one-chord blasting riff with excellent, raw, dark, spastic, and sporadic soloing. The vocalist, Rion Killusion, spews forth, well, an oath of ex-communication - with great conviction. That's one great thing about Thralldom (among many great things!) is that from the get-go (especially reading the lyrics, the first push of the play button, etc.), there is a certain dirt, filth, and archaic sense to this album. This is truly what Thralldom are all about. Nothing fake.

From here on out this album is, for lack of better words, a total mindfuck. The cosmo-stirring metal-punk of "Parasites (The 7th Plague)", the hellish guitarnoise variation on a astral gut-swirling wave that IS the song called "Slicing Morality Off the Face of the Sphere", the simplistic, Burzum/Bathory-style power chordy "Hypaethral", the blistering, total-blackness of "Dead Aeon of the Slain Gods" (with its hypnotic Incantation/Kreator-esque harmonizing fading into a black metal blast with a seriously mind-bending, drug-drenched wah wah accompanyment, then just bursting into pure old-school black metal fury a la Translyvanian Hunger-era Darkthrone), the reverse-structure of the following track "Distorted Air", which starts off a furious Darkthrone/Bathory/Hellhammer molotov cocktail, but you won't feel the burn until the end of the song, when the truly distorted air whips flames of noise and barbs all over your ears and eventually your face. This only serves as a primer to the straight-from-the-depths-of-Inferno noise/ambient/torment track "De Mysterio Mali", whose lyrics were taken "with permission from AIWASS" (For those who don't know, AIWASS was one of Aleister Crowley's demon manifestations. Crowley was highly influential on the occult culture.) Like I said, they take everything they do seriously, all of it a true expression of their souls. So what else is there to say about this? Contact Alex from Bestial Onslaught and BUY THIS! If you like your music(k) dirty, heavy, arcane, obscure, offensive, depressive, furious, psychedelic, and/or have a penchant for things truly occult, this is your album (also available on LP for a deeper state). 9 out of 10. Original and outstanding.

TWOBLOCK.NET



Thralldom "Beast Eye Opened to the Sky" CD
7/10 - [Bestial Onslaught]

Nice. Here's some raw and filthy black that's basically just the way I like it. The recording is totally rugged and dirty, but in a way that's well handled and listenable. There's a lot of messy distortion hanging over the instruments, and there's definitely a distant ring to the mix, but you can hear everything that's going on, and the furious vocal screams are fucking awesome. I might like to hear a slightly different guitar tone, but I can live with this. Musically it's generally fast chord progressions with a few slower breaks, but there's a lot of atmosphere involved (part of which comes from the recording, the rest of which is the actual attitude and delivery). The cool thing is that it doesn't really sound that much like anything else.There are occasional caustic textures and chords used, as well as some interesting lead lines of sorts, but they almost have more of a really nasty punk thing going on than anything (think Black Flag but more sinister). Sure, there's a classic Norwegian sort of thing going on at times, but there are always uniquely dissonant textures involved that really give this its own approach (most notably in "Hypaethral"). "De Mysterio Mali" is more of a rugged experimental noise track of sorts, complete with some thick, rumbling distortion and twisted ambient textures along with some sparse vocal treatments. Not bad. The layout kicks ass here. Everything is really bleak and minimal, with clean text, subtle imagery, etc. There's no text on the front cover, which looks spectacular, and everything else is very consistent and clean. I love it. It definitely stands out and catches the eye. The lyrics are also infinitely more creative than most anything else of this nature: "Razor tongue - lawless and arrogant, Vespertine flames - burn tradition burn, Inner voices - project livid self, Explosive electric autonomajesty, Earn your death and crawl out of the grave, When the eyes close I am a universe of chaos, When the eyes open I curse the god of silence, Slicing morality off the face of the sphere." I really like this. Everything about both the audio and visual aesthetics of the release is interesting, and this is certainly a band to watch.

Running time - 30:31, Tracks: 7
[Notable tracks: Hypaethral, Dead Aeon of the Slain Gods, De Mysterio Mali]
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THRALLDOM 'BEAST EYE OPENED TO THE SKY' 2003 7 TRACKS

This is the first time that I hear this band and I was surprised.'Beast... ' is a brutal black metal in the CARPATHIAN FOREST/MARDUK (the older one's) stuff. This album is just deepest and morbid, heaviness riffs but please don't played the guitar solo's nevermore (are bad done) This band is extremely brutal, has possessed vocalist that made of this work one to who are looking for brutalism and heavy black metal be urged!!! The best tracks is HYPAETHRAL which is faster & slowly at time too!!! Excellent screamin' & killer atmosphere. This release is to all fuckin' black/death metallers from all over the world

www.bestialonslaught.com

EXPLOSION CEREBRAL WEBZINE



Thralldom
by Keith Bennett

THRALLDOM

Beast Eye Opened To The Sky

Anybody remember MYSTICUM? Tired of waiting for PLANET SATAN? Stop posting appreciation threads on the FMP message board, and meet the new boss. Thralldom are worthy inheritors of the industrial black metal crown. And they are a decidedly more organic beast than their forefathers. If Aborym is too glow stick-friendly for you (if so, you're a retard, but hey), or if you're looking for that hard to find/easy to embrace/all too rare original sounding band, here's your next impulse purchase. (Bestial Onslaught) www.unearthlytrance.com/thralldom

THE WEEKLY DIG
May 5-12, 2004



THRALLDOM/Beast Eye Opened To The Sky (Bestial Onslaught)

7 tracks of old school death/black metal that will crush you with it's power and feeling. Sort of reminds me of Bloodstorm in spots mixed in with some Hellhammer. The production is raw as fuck too. Great total black metal style vocals and just music played the old way and the right way. Info: www.bestialonslaught.com

METAL CORE FANZINE



LP Review: Thralldom: Beast Eye Open to the Sky

Full length from NY's noisy bm group Thralldom. The recording is a little meessd up I think, particularly the drums, which sound like most of the kit is missing in the mix, but I guess they were going for that kind of sound -- everything blends in at maximum volume and sounds like an all-out war on your hearing. This works well for them I think, being that it is hard to draw direct comparisons between them and any band in the bm scene, probably because they are really only peripherally in the bm scene. They do experiment enough that hopefully a few ears will be turned on by their sound. The absolutely hellish vocals sound like Pest or Gaahl and keeps Thralldom on familiar ground. I have this on green vinyl from Parasitic Records which looks cool as hell. It's also available on CD from Bestial Onslaught. What it comes down to is: if you like occult ritual noise, you need to hear Thralldom.

KVLT.NET