Tryhm - Phobos Sanctum
Warm weather is here... and what can we do about it? My idea would be to escape into a damp and cold cellar-room while having cold and murky horror-ambient... churning out from my speakers. And that is what Tryhm is (kind of) about. Phobos Sanctum is their fourth release, and this Norwegia-based act has been in existence since the year of 2016. An 8 track album, about 40 minutes of length.
First track All Nightmares To Come begins with that kind of.... familiar CMI-sound. An ambient-industrial version of In Slaughter Natives via Controlled Bleeding sort of. Evocative religious humming voices, strange sort of gasmask sounds, a female voice gasping for air, metallic chain-sounds loops in a rhythmic fashion, and more. A very decent opening, I liked it a lot... VERY evocative intro here!
Next track Chamber of Mirrors has that same sort of feeling like the first track, the kind of feeling that you in someplace... and you cannot get out. This track has to be closer to a haunted and eerie place, the sort of place where walls whisper their secrets while your neck hair slowly stands up. Lovely depth to this piece, a terrific piece of multi-layered horror-ambiance!.
Third track Final Form Of Life adds death-industrial aesthetics to the mix. Strange sort of clicking sounds, which gives the listener the feeling of a certain activity happening in the recording... something dreadful if you ask me. Hints of neo-classical tunes add more to the horrific drama, without getting too dramatic. A great track, with a kind of weird sudden ending (should have been longer).
Fourth track Ghosts Nests, is a nest where... sorrow and despair have just... clumped together. Sounds of (slightly altered) crying sound of children and women with strange whispering happening in the background. The mixing of sounds and the added sound-effects (echo/reverb) really gives this sad piece a horrific effect here! Lovely neo-classical Raison D´être sort of wipe enters the track later on, which adds more fuel to the sort of storytelling feel this album has (so far).
Fifth track In A Trance of Absence has a really discomforting kind of intro. It sounds like... someone is japing something into piano strings, this is going on while the sound of a swirling vortex is going. Doom laden and militant sounds start suddenly and add a good deal of industrial dynamics into the track.
I will not have to reveal anything more to the reader since the rest of the album continues to deliver those excellent tensions. Worth discovering and listening to right from the start. A great example of horror-themed (ghost)-ambient... if you please. A modern ghost story flick could use a soundtrack like this, do give it a spin!.
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