The Desolation Letters, by Ardormort

The Desolation Letters

by Ardormort

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Cassette + Digital Album
SOLD OUT: Limited artist copies may be made available at ardormort.bandcamp.com

Pinewood 4x6x3 box, treated, stamped, stained, and finished by the artist's hand.

Hand-numbered 1-24.

Each musical piece from the album is represented by its own poetic "desolation letter," for a total of eight individual letters in each box, each weathered, tea-stained, and inoculated with flame by the artist.

Also contains vintage burgundy-shell pro-Cassette with black-on-gold foil label in norelco case with full-color J-card and band logo button.

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Deep vintage burgundy Pro-Cassettes with reflective gold foil labels in standard cases with full-color 3-panel J-card. Includes Ardormort band logo button.

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1.	A Study of Death 04:51	buy track
2.	The Eyes of Fall 03:41	buy track
3.	Fool's Prayer 04:34	buy track
4.	As the Smoke Dances 04:44	buy track
5.	Back the Blade 03:35	buy track
6.	Valfar 05:49	buy track
7.	Failure Index 04:11	buy track
8.	Tom Riker 04:26	buy track

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PT-25: Ardormort - The Desolation Letters  

We are proud to unleash Ardormort's latest offering, “The Desolation Letters,” unto the world. This is a work of enormity and passion, an expression of extreme eclecticism that nearly defies description.   

Already known for their masterful dungeon synth work as Shrouded Gate, the artist behind Ardormort here expands to much broader horizons - with sounds reminiscent of the awe-inspiring classics of funeral and death-doom, black metal, and coldwave cohered by strong neo-medieval synthesizer composition overlaid throughout. From the melancholic oboe and clarinet duet that opens “A Study of Death” before erupting to a thrumming blackened climax, the disorientingly heavy metal grooves of “Fool’s Prayer,” the disharmonic death-dance of “Back The Blade,” through the depressive melodicism of “Tom Riker” at the album’s close, Ardormort’s unique synthesis remains startlingly cohesive from start to finish.
These are masterfully engaging pieces that impart a complicated range of emotion; from languor and alienation to imperious battle-music, from harsh death metal aggression to gloomy doom atmospheres. “The Desolation Letters” is a lyrical work that manages to navigate the many pitfalls inherent to its more progressive style, leading us down its many shadowy pathways in awe of what we may find around the next corner.  

Recommended for listeners of Thergothon, Green Carnation, Empyrium, ColdWorld, Summoning, and dungeon synth music in general.  

We are offering a limited edition of 26 black-on-gold pro-cassettes in standard cases, with color printed j-card.

 24 additional copies are offered as part of an extremely special-edition pinewood box set; treated, stamped, stained, finished, and numbered by the artist's hand. Each musical piece from the album is represented by its own poetic "desolation letter," for a total of 8 individual letters in each box; each weathered, tea-stained, and inoculated with flame by the artist. In addition to these letters, each box contains the album on cassette in standard packaging and band logo button.

To be shipped 9/29/20.

ardormort.bandcamp.com

Written and Recorded June & July 2020

Valfar is dedicated to the memory of Valfar (ein WIndir)

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released September 29, 2020

All Music by Ardormort

Album Artwork: In the Woods, by Asher Brown Durand (1855)

This monumental painting departs from the pastoral treatment of Durand’s earlier works to celebrate the shadowy solitude of the deep woods. Living and dead trees rise from the fertile decay of the forest floor. In the summer of 1854, Durand had made plein-air studies in the Catskill Mountains in preparation for this work, and while it was on view at the National Academy of Design, the artist published his acclaimed “Letters on Landscape Painting.” In the third installment, he wrote, “That is a fine picture which at once takes possession of you—draws you into it—you traverse it—breathe its atmosphere—feel its sunshine, and you repose in its shade without thinking of its design or execution, effect or color.”

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 759

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