Cyclic Law: Gives birth to a sister (and she's screaming!)

Canadian label Cyclic Law, seminal in the field of moodful ambient, is preparing for one one the biggest steps in its history: Launching a fully-fledged sister company. “Twilight Foundation” will be geared more towards the Metal market and highlighting genres such as Black Metal and Doom Metal next to the styles typically associated with Cyclic Law: Dark Ambient and mysterious, spaceous electronics. To make this an impressive start in every possible way, Cyclic Law and Twilight Foundation’s Frederic Arbour has chosen to release the debut album by his compatriots “Towards Darkness”, "Solemn" is a work full of crunching guitar chords, distorted screams and – to top things off – majestic atmospheric synthesizer pads. The latter can be attributed to the inclusion of Keyboarder Simon Carignan, who has now complemented the ranks of Towards Darkness.

The release of this record actually makes Twilight Foundation come full circle. After all, the band was previously known as “The Mass”, releasing a self-produced CD in 2004, entitled “Towards Darkness”. With this raw, rancid and raunchy disc, which already owed a lot of the group’s temperament and channeled aggression, yet lacked the ambient component, the threepiece toured the country as a support to “Longing for Dawn”. That band, meanwhile, had their music supported and distributed by (you might have guessed it) Frederic Arbour. Confused? Then let’s put it like this: If you enjoyed the more recent Nadja releases (or thought the reviews on these pages sounded interesting), then "Solemn", a powerful tour de force might well be your thing.

Next to this move, the traditional line of Cyclic Law will also be featuring two new albums, which had been in their pipeline for quite some time: Tholen’s “Sternklang” and “Akrasia” by Sinke Dus. Tholen is the ambient moniker of “Eisen”, the man behind projects such as Rostiges Riesenrad and Weerhaak. As we were in the lucky position of having been allowed a glimpse of this CD long before its publication date, we can already claim that this will be a feast for friends of the galactic branch of Dark Ambient – which Cyclic Law has regularly propagated with albums by Gustaf Hildebrand, among others. Sinke Dus, meanwhile, deals with the question of how it feels to act against better judgement and with clear knowledge of the wrongness of one’s path. Markus Lonebrink has created a romantic soundscape of autumnal timbres and with a strong subcurrent of yearning and unfilled desire.

“Sternklang” by Tholen and “Akrasia” by Sinke Dus will again come in the luxurious foldout Covers Cyclic Law has become famous for and are now ready for preordering.

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