CONSUMMATION - The Great Solar Hunter CD Slipcase

CONSUMMATION is the brainchild of vocalist/guitarist Craig Young (ex-Impetuous Ritual) who is joined by drummer David Hayley (Psycroptic) and bassist/guitarist Joel Rademaker. Alongside the central CONSUMMATION trio, “The Great Solar Hunter” also features guitarist John Gossard (Dispirit/Asunder/The Gault/Weakling) among its ranks, Gossard lending his lead guitar work to this colossal work in helping to elevate it to and even darker, more warped and epic plateau.

“The Great Solar Hunter” succeeds the band’s 2017 “Ritual Severance” EP (Invictus Productions) which was the follow-up to their 2012 self-titled demo. “The Great Solar Hunter” is the result of the band’s serpentine-like build up since inception, to a impenetrable demonic yet monolithic sound. The band’s elongated tracks are a key element that define their sonic vastness. Dark, murky, atmosphere-drenched dissonance and twisted guitar riff mutations flow through tension and intense passage while they shape-shift towards building something even more of grandeur; culminating in epic and moving moments of melancholic majesty and triumph. It is through such characteristics that give CONSUMMATION a sense of singularity and noteworthiness within the mire of extreme death/black metal.

“From the shores of Eden we were cast, and to sufferance condemned. Yet in the Act of Defiance the cosmic libido injected incandescent fire into the world. To the eye of man this was the uncoiling of the serpent. Now bereft of paradise, a true gift unfolds - for in suffering is found power and the coming of truer dawn. In the image of the Fallen Angel, man usurped an earth defined only by his will, a sphere shaped in his own image. Throughout millennia, one enters through the cosmic womb to display dominance above all. The Great Solar Hunter spreads the gift of fire to initiate the new aeon.”