Il Cinghiale & калуђер
I remember the first Il Cinghiale (only-digital) release on Bandcamp, which I loved dearly and wished that it came out on cassette. It didn´t... Nevertheless, this obscure dungeon-synth project has reemerged in the dear company of калуђер. Translated it would be The Wild Boar (Italian) and the Monk (Serbian)...A wild boar and the monk?... nevermind!
The cover itself clearly illustrates a ruined gateway in some winter´ish setting... probably to a monastery. A way for escapism maybe? Background clearly illustrates a more infernal aesthetic and yes... it is quite infernal´ish. The kind of monks that would have been thrown back into hellfire whence they came! The album is an 8-track, a bit over 30 minutes long. And the 8 tracks switch between the two projects (while the sound aesthetic being maintained).
Occult-driven, esoteric, hidden lore, demonic, obsessive neo-classical synth music. The album shines of a proto martial industrial sound which we all (back-in-the-day) called neo-classic to excellent ambient ritual music. Fans of Puissance, Endvra, Elijah´s Mantle, Arcana etc... will like this!. The music of Il Cinghiale contains martial and ritualistic drummings, evocative murky trumpets, haunting sorrow-filled strings. While the music of калуђер beautifully explores the thing between traditional dungeon-synth and melodic ambient/ritual esoteric soundtracks. There is a certain element of pure mysticism to калуђер, it sounds really ancient!
I can CLEARLY recommend this almost... Lovecraftian-in-the-middle ages-feel kind of an album. Repetitive listening is recommendable! -This release also came out on limited CD-R via Masked Dead Records, sold out on Bandcamp and available (from time to time) vis Discogs!.
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