There are times when an album cover tells everything needed to know about the music. Such is the case with Alunar, the debut album from U.S. based act Aureole. The fantastic artwork by Ariella Vaystukh depicts a crumbling fortress, serene and majestic despite the harsh treatment of time; isolated in the depths of space where the devastating loneliness is equaled only by the vast beauty of the untainted cosmos. Solo project by the ever toiling Markov Soroka, who also spearheads Eternium and Slow, Aureole turns toward the cosmos with a vacuous and consuming form of ambiance and atmospheric black metal that brings to mind the works of Alrakis and Darkspace.
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