[review] HYIOS – Consuetudines
Posted: August 18, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »
Sometimes I just like to drift away in total blackness where everything is seemingly unimportant and you can shut yourself down from the outside world. Night is obviously the perfect time for this. I’ve been sleeping rather bad these days so I’m more active at night. Of course you need suitable music for that, and what is more perfect than some nice dark ambient in the background for the deeper hours, when everything is quiet and the world is asleep?
I started looking around for more obscure releases and I landed at the awesome Malignant Records. I was already familiar with quite a few of their projects but when I browsed I came across a lot of new names and the name Hyios just stood out for me. I was attracted by the strange name, album title and the description of the album. The front cover also hinted towards megalithic structures and all that good stuff so I couldn’t wait to hear it. I didn’t really know what to expect at first. It was all shrouded in mystery and that’s how I like it.
Consuetudines is a trip to the most inward and forgotten regions of the Earth. By that I mean forgotten ancient places, hidden away for thousands, if not millions of years. When you look at the cover art and inside the digipack it becomes clear that this was the purpose of Hyios: to explore these regions and to experience them in the form of audio. Lost cities, strange monoliths, you get the picture. I like how this album manages to create an almost perfect harmony between mechanic and organic sounds, something that I find to be lacking in a lot of dark ambient.
Hyios are shrouded in mystery so I can’t tell you much more about them than this. Although nothing new, Consuetudines is an awesome and solid release that should appeal to anyone into dark ambient music. Can’t wait where they will take us next, hopefully into deeper and darker places. If anyone knows more about them, besides the fact that they come from Germany, let me know.
Buy the album here: http://malignantrecords.com/
