Melkor - Hall of Bats
MELKOR is a Dark Ambient project and a Composer – Sound designer from Tehran,Iran. Project “Melkor” founded in 2013 as an Atmospheric, Drone, Cinematic and partly Dark psychedelic project.
The core purpose of the Melkor project is to departure into profundity of dark and black layers of creation, quiddity and the existence which is described and depicted in Atomistic phases.
Concept of Melkor project is in Dark atmospheres and abysses of vast Blackness and it’s also to scrutiny the core of existence despite of confronting internal awe.
Purpose of Melkor is to demonstrate and declare existential deepest layers and the philosophy of existence in the language of Music; besides of experimental journey to Dark spaces, Blackness and what would come beyond.
Today I would like to focus on the latest Melkor album in collaboration with Kalamine Records, I’m talking about Hall of Bats, an extremely well done dark ambient album.
Hall is the first trace that opens the doors to a distorted reality, a descent towards an unknown abyss. The feeling it gave me is pure “anxiety”, in my opinion the dark ambient should arouse this type of emotion and Melkor hits completely the target with this track. Attention to shrill and high pitched sounds is the touch that makes the first track perfect to open Hall of Bats.
In Hollow (second track) the spatialized and reverberated drops that fall to the ground make me imagine a… [ continue reading ]