WORLD WIDE RE-ISSUE OF NEW CANDLELIGHT SIGNING ALTAR OF PLAGUES CRITICALLY ACLAIMED DEBUT ALBUM "White Tomb" takes the sonic vision of their debut EP "Sol" and expands it much further into new epic, destructive and desolate, collapsing, and unforgiving sonic realms. If bands like WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM conjure scenes of epic nature, massive cascading waterfalls and engulfing forests, Altar Of Plagues create stark images of crumbling skyscrapers, dying and rotten urban structures, empty cracked worn down highways and desolate vast oceans. Along with black metal, and by converging other styles in the band's visceral uncompromising mix without losing the deadly wall-of-sound effect created through the warm-edged sound and production, and without falling into a typical synthetically triggered digital-sounding paradigm nor falling into a post-whatever sounding mess.
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