Orbulax Mabuo

'Coldest Keep in Bitter Heavens' revolves around Aetherhold, a levitating castle isolated in a distant cold plane. At the helm of this castle is a disgraced wizard, who casts spells of telepathic visions across dimensions to lure a variety of beings for experiments.

Aetherhold floats high above a mysterious, snowy mountain, which holds powerful artifacts and devices, attracting adventurers and thrillseekers from other planes. These artifacts are connected to my death metal project Sallow Moth and its album 'Mossbane Lantern' as both of these albums take place in the same world: https://ampwall.com/a/sallowmoth/album/mossbane-lantern

Notable influences on this album: Ulver, Arcturus, Emperor, Dødheimsgard, Covenant, Sigh, Abigor, Odium, Nobuo Uematsu, Yellow Magic Orchestra.

Synopsis for each track:

1. Orbulax Mabuo: A quasi-mechanical orb guards the entrance to the ice castle, serving as a beacon for the wizard’s messages. It is the [mystical and mechanical] manifestation of a formerly trapped mage.

2. Porcelain Glare: A mischievous clown doll (from the album Spell Piercings) who terrorized and transformed a suburban neighborhood into an ice dungeon, is being summoned back to its owner, the wizard of Aetherhold.

3. Icewall Worms Grown From Leftover Aura: Worms begin to manifest from the aura of dreams, an unintended side effect of those trapped in the ice walls. They exhibit regenerative abilities and the need to consume.

4.Parallel Visions of Static Languish (by Stealth Archer) (instrumental, representing the dream state of the trapped)

5. Coldest Keep in Bitter Heavens: The unnamed wizard of Aetherhold shaping his castle into a cold laboratory of experiments.

6. Overload of Melded Solitude: Orbulax becomes overloaded due to a crosswire of incoming and outgoing signals, thus causing a series of cosmic anomalies and catastrophic events.

7. Giga Axe Beam: Data log and inner monologue of interdimensional android investigating a strange signal and mysterious artifacts in an ice cave, eventually succumbing to a giga axe beam produced by one of these artifacts.