Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Artist: Zealotry
Track: “Yliaster“

For three long years, Zealotry has teased us. It was said the arrival of a frostbitten behemoth was imminent and that The Charnel Expanse was merely a portal for something far more malevolent, but somewhere along the way, a shadow of doubt was cast. Like unfulfilled prophesies, deadlines began to pass with barely a word to sate our hesitations. But we were wrong to doubt, so very wrong. The Last Witness has finally beckoned, set to leave nothing in its wake undefiled. If “Yliaster” is to be seen as a statement, it means we’re to be treated to a beast that, while cut from the same cloth as its ancestor, operates on a different wavelength. The Charnel Expanse was like a realm-traversing phantom that revelled in bending reality for its own amusement, but The Last Witness appears be less impish and more deliberate in going about its callous deeds. “Yliaster” is very serpentine in terms of composition, slithering between dimensional walls as guttural murmurings effervesce and guitar licks writhe and twist like tentacles. It’s a concoction that is slightly more contemplative than what we’ve come to expect, but make no mistake, it’s just as evil.

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