Shaidar Logoth: black metal depression-expansionists from Land of Ten Thousand Lakes streaming brutal black metal track "Consume Pieces of God"

Sit up and take notice of the new song from the black metal ambientists Shaidar Logoth, but let's not get too comfortable thinking that we know what is what here because this blasting track is only a part of a much bigger puzzle of dry-lung black metal that goes super slow and trippy for substantial stretches at a time. Check it: Below are the durations for the songs, just to give an idea that (1) this won't be a simple one-way trip, (2) you may want to sit down for this one, (3) you won't be able to absorb the album in one session, (4) we are still trying to figure out where these roads are going, and (5) this entity is seeking to deliver their magnum opus as if to say that it's going to be a long time before you hear from them again. It's possible that somebody is putting some funny stuff in the water of the ten thousand lakes in Minnesota. Alright, alright, this album is not going to be easy homework, friend. Minnesota, Minnesota, what have you done, Minnesota?! --Metal Bulletin Zine

Shaidar Logoth

Chapter III: The Void God

Sentient Ruin Laboratories

November 6th, 2020

track list:

1. Nest of Pigs 18:58

2. Anguish Cradle 05:20

3. Consume Pieces of God 07:16

4. Withered on the Vine 16:00

The official propaganda from Sentient Ruin Laboratories: Shaidar Logoth return with their brand new third album "Chapter III: The Void God", a massive three-sided 2XLP that that sees the Minnesota black metal specters completing both musically and narratively their inaugural trilogy opened in 2011 with "Chapter I: The Peddler". The Peddler has become The Ritualist, and now summoned The Void God to consume the world and rebuild it in its own image. Three years in the making, "The Void God" sees Shaidar Logoth dwell in familiar torments as well as evolve into a new transfiguration of themselves, dominated by a more defiant and unpredictable experimentation of moods and torn by a more profound and enigmatic dualism than ever before. Throughout the four monstrous songs that comprise the forty-eight minute double LP, the band's sound shapeshifts dramatically, designing increasingly claustrophobic and erratic trajectories and leaving the listener as helpless bystander to a disfigured and mangled ritual, while the songs evolve in and out of each other in a constant duality of ominous abjection and puzzling beauty. Sonically ungraspable but stylistically grounded in the fiercest and proudest black metal tradition, on "Chapter III: The Void God" Shaidar Logoth have conjured the same inverted and lurid atmospheres we've seen in bands like Leviathan, Funeral Mist, Misþyrming and Sargeist, while their unique and unmatched penchant in eviscerating beauty and grace has given birth to their most luminous and magnificent album to date.

releases November 6, 2020

All music & lyrics written, recorded and mixed by Shaidar Logoth. Additional vocals on "Nest of Pigs" by Ayriel Steffes. Mastered by Adam Tucker at SignatureTone. Artwork & layout by Brian Sheehan / LGRDMN.

Chapter III: The Void God by Shaidar Logoth