Un packaging impeccable, sobre mais efficace, un booklet contentant des illustrations qui en disent long sur la noirceur et les ténèbres de cet album (limité à 500 exemplaires). Voilà comment se présente la première approche de cette fabuleuse pièce qu’est The Black Lodge. A la première écoute, il est impossible d’apprécier l’album à sa juste valeur ainsi que de saisir toutes les subtilitées de ce dernier. Ce n’est...

It has always been a problem for me to find a dark ambient release that was able to fullfill my needs of darkness. You know, the problem is that with the years I became used to listen drones and mysterious voices coming from dusty closets. Musterion‚s first release The Black Lodge fortunately isn’t a dark-ambient release that contains tracks made with two sounds with titles that evoke unknown demons. Simon AA Kölle had the idea...

On the HORUS CyclicDaemon web site I read about the release. HORUS CyclicDaemon explains the cd as a story. Not surprising as Musterion is the solo project of Simon AA Kölle. The story (or concept) is not presented like he (and Simon Heath) presents the Za Frûmi saga, in a dialog. The Black Lodge is a world beyond the normal world as we know it. The main character Dale Cooper of the cult series Twin Peaks is trapped there. In the cd we...

As the album progresses the listener travels through water bound places in the wild as you struggle alongside unknown companions to escape unseen forces in the night. Time shifts and landscapes morph into new and undetermined lands as if you walk through a reality constructed of dreams. What was an open marsh under the stars becomes a moment of deep inner reflection alone in an alley. One moment you are exploring the abandoned remains of a...

The Wondrous Journey Through the Catacombs of Life is the second album of Musterion, following the highly acclaimed debut album The Black Lodge (2005), built upon complex and obscure composition techniques and musical innovation, and it drags the listener on a brilliantly imaginative and frightening journey that combines elements of dark ambient, surrealism, absurdity, Holyism with the help advanced structural and theoretical...