Black metal stalwarts The Fall and Darkside joined forces for a new project, Hauntologist, whose debut album, Hollow, is out now via No Solace, on CD.
While you can access it via YouTube and Bandcamp, due to technical issues with the digital distributor, Hollow has temporarily disappeared from most streaming services and won’t be back online until 7th February. You are advised to keep an eye on the band’s social media profiles for further updates.
Although the material is only released now, the roots of the project go back many years and due to the band members’ busy schedules elsewhere, they were waiting for the right time. The Fall – known for his work with Owls Woods Graves, Over the Voids, and as live bassist for Mgła and Darkside – drummer with Mgła and Kriegsmaschine – decided to venture further than the typical and conventional boundaries of black metal in their musical exploration.
Over the years, the band has undergone numerous clinical deaths and reanimations but eventually recorded their debut Hollow in 2023. Deeply rooted in negative metal music, it leans toward other genres and forms of expression to seek musical analogies of sleepless nights and surreal, anxiety-provoking hallucinations.
Hollow could be described as a field recording of a feverish nightmare. Despite its metal foundations, the music on constantly turns into side streets of other, often difficult to term and locate, music genres. It is an album built on the foundation of rubble and debris of visions that developed and died back throughout the years. The documentation of spirit decay and life slipping through the fingers.
Tracks featured are: Ozymandian’, ‘Golem’, ‘Waves of Concrete’, ‘Deathdreamer’, ‘Hollow’, ‘Autonomy’, ‘Gardermoen’ and ‘Car Kruków’.
The band released their first single ‘Ozymandian’ – It’s available on Spotify here and you can check out the video here at RAMzine.
The album is now streaming on YouTube, Spotify and at Bandcamp.
