If most music is best suited to a specific place, then here is a new work that knows not rainbows or sunshine. Summoned from the depths of some dark abyss arrives P:R:I:S:M, a collaboration by Oakland’s Sutekh Hexen and Canada’s Funerary Call (aka field recording and experimental artist Harlow MacFarlane). Though released on Oakland “sonic warfare” label Sentient Ruin Laboratories, P:R:I:S:M deviates from much of their discography in being far more like ambient music, not metal. But it is dreadfully grim ambient music, and if there’s any source of light at all that emerges from these dragging wisps of funereal tones, then it’s the voice that appears throughout. A tortured voice, but a human voice still, aspiring for the prismatic.
