Atra - Up-Turning the Curse (2011)

Previously on OPIUM HUM:

Atra - In Reverence of Decay (2011)

Y'all. This year has been fucking trash. Every day has sucked an entire ass. Here in Portland, things have been particularly wretched. Surveillance helicopters circling overhead at night, sound cannons booming day and night, Patriot Prayer driving into town talking about "cleansing" the city (hey great job guys we always feel MUCH safer when you're in town jumping random people in broad daylight) and more recently, a thick haze of smoke that turned the air sour and made everything look brown and sickly.

I'm not sure if I have a point. Maybe it was gonna be something about how we can try to have fun getting distracted by Halloween? Let's give it a shot. Here's some eerie black metal with a bunch of reverb and some spooky cemetery organ. I wish Atra would make another record. Bag it and tag it, boys, another great post in the books!

Track listing:

1. Invocation of the Departed

2. Wander the Absence

3. Up-Turning the Curse

4. Harbinger (Part II)

5. Graveless Apparitions

6. Possession

Horizons eclipsed with burning witchery

Also listen to:

Onirik - Songs for the Apocalipse (2005)

Drowning the Light - Catacombs of Blood (2011)

Atra - In Reverence of Decay (2011)

Haunting Australian black metal. Depressive and disturbing, with ghostly, reverb-drenched production. Fans of Drowning the Light -- with whom Atra's sole member, Blackheart, briefly played -- get in here.

Track listing:
1. Of Mysteries Ancient
2. Possessed by the Night
3. Majestic Evil
4. Phantasms of Silence and Dying
5. In Reverence of Decay
6. Upon the Throne of Shadows and Doom
7. Sacrifice to the World Beyond
8. The Souls of the Arcane Dance
9. Vox Vermes

Invocation of morbid torments

If you like this, try:

Harvest - Forgotten Vampyres of the Melancholic Night (2013)

Beatrik - Journey Through the End of Life (2002)