Original Sins

A CLASSIC ALBUM FROM THE DARKEST VAULT

Asis Of Perdition URFE CODE666 2008

Yorkshire’s Axis Of Perdition had already made a name for themselves with their sprawling, cinematic (if your tastes ran to avant-garde movies set in dilapidated hospitals) take on black metal. But their ability to build nightmare worlds whose vastness stemmed from some ambiguous, insidious dread took an even darker turn with the release of Urfe. Part dark ambient, part industrial BM, this was a 90-minute descent into overwhelming, abject, skin-crawling horror. Narrated by

The Descent/Dog Soldiers actor Leslie Simpson, it described a journey into depraved, demonic entity-infested realms that would make de Sade wince, as claustrophobic layers of sound endeavoured to push you off the precipice of sanity.