Benthik Zone - Na Iluminação do Presente (single, 2022)

In February I featured the full Εἴδωλον album from cosmic spectres Benthik Zone, and today I am psyched to bring you a visualiser video edition of a single track from it; Na Iluminação do Presente, that offers a suitably disorienting and mind-expanding illustration of the experience. Check out the full album too, if you are not familiar with it, and read an interview with F. Braga and A. Leão from the band, on Black Metal Daily. “Beyond this interesting convergence between the term εἴδωλον and the culmination of the myth (Actaeon) from which we were inspired, it was perceived that in general terms the meaning of particular interest to us, in the context of this album, was that of a spectre, ghost, that has been vexing us at every stage of our work.” %ce%b5%e1%bc%b4%ce%b4%cf%89%ce%bb%ce%bf%ce%bd-by-benthik-zone/ “Could this be the room of a space capsule where one beholds the traces of nature's final stage of evolution, or is this apparition no longer the simulation of a territory, just a simulacrum? Plush, blades, fluttering pebbles clog our perception, an array of Martian attack movements combined. Inhuman eyes strike us with full glory, like powerful mechanisms of subjugation. The fickle pulse of the supernatural. How dreadful can our imagination be seemingly by forcing itself on our path. There seems to be no choice in this scenario, but to embrace this hypnogenic environment. To live in the eternal high flame of the energetic conductions. While the journey lasts one feels nauseated, even at times one will hear the sound of “voices in distress“. No destination is expected, we just open the doors to the Erebus of sleep to fulfill the bored spirit. In this prison, the echo of the mind produces a psychedelic effect and while the shadows dance, the need for simulating materiality grows in the most subjective and abstract form. Finally, we wake up from this nightmare to an explosion carrying the brightness of a virginal sacred nature.“ Tapes, CDs digital, and shirts are still available from the band at their BC site too, released through Onism Productions: Band: Benthik Zone ‘Na Iluminação do Presente’, from the album Εἴδωλον Year: 2022 Label: Onism Productions Country: Portugal Genre: Extra-terrestrial Atmospheric Black Metal Transmissions links: Album: More about the artist here: - Benthik Zone - Linktree: Bandcamp: Instagram: Facebook: Spotify: Metal Archives: - Onism Productions - Web: Bandcamp: Facebook: Instagram: Metal Archives: Uploaded on behalf of Benthik Zone, with thanks. - Transmissions links - LinkTree: Instagram Facebook Page: Twitter Transmissions Banner image photography by Alison Scarpulla – untitled, 2010. #AtmosphericBlackMetal #OnismProductions #PortugueseBlackMetal #BlackMetalDaily