Album of the day: Amber Asylum – Bitter River

Lovingly pinched from Sonic Frontiers.net: It’s easy to trick yourself into believing there is no beauty left in the world. Most of us lead dreary lives, grinding away the hours behind a desk amidst a sea of cubicles, only to waste what little freedom we have at the end of the day in front of the mind numbing glow of the TV set.

Little by little, our natural world is being depleted and destroyed while the elite few reap the benefits of this wholesale rape. The media paints a constant picture of a world full of nothing but the ugly, the violent and the barbaric. It is easy to convince yourself we live in a disgusting, depraved waste of an existence, only to wither up and eventually die to little fanfare.

Fortunately, we have the music of Amber Asylum to remind us that there can still be moments of utterly majestic beauty amidst the morass of nihilism we so often find ourselves mired in. Lead by multi-instrumentalist and singer Kris Force, the San Francisco based group has been a beacon of dark magnificence for over 10 years, and nowhere is this more evident than on their latest album, Bitter River.

Continue reading: Amber Asylum – Bitter River (Profound Lore, 2009) at Sonic Frontiers.

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