DEAD MAN'S HILL:
Songs from the Forthcoming Apocalypse (ltd.)
"Piette Yetayi aka Dead Man’s Hill can be seen and considered as one of the best hidden secrets from the Belgian ambient and industrial scene. This musician has been active in numerous bands and projects, but Dead Man’s Hill is for sure the most famous one. This project released an impressive number of albums on very different labels like War Office Propaganda, Bugs Crawling Out Of People, Old Europa Café and now Midnight Productions. On “Songs From The Forthcoming Apocalypse” P. Yetayi explores new realms of dark and mystical territories. Inspired by the Maya prediction of the apocalypse announced for 2012 Dead Man’s Hill shows us his darkest sonic thoughts. This project takes again some distance with the established ambient standards touching a few other grounds. One of the main characteristics is the vocal parts dealing with some real somber and obscure themes. A kind of oppressive ambient mood hangs over the entire composition while an indefinable metal-doom spirit appears on most of the tracks. That’s for sure what makes the main difference with established names from the dark ambient scene. Dead Man’s Hill goes further than the average ambient project by exploring and experimenting with a wider arsenal of influences. The tracklist from this album goes crescendo reaching a kind of apotheosis at the end by cuts like “And Back To What Happened in 2012” and especially “The Earth Falls, And Will Not Rise Again”. This last cut is a real masterpiece in cold ambient stuff with a vague tribal touch on top. You get the vision of tormented creatures lost in a horror-scape. The metal touch I was referring to appears on the more bombastic “Visions Of Volcanic Lakes”. We here get a kind of symphonic and epic flavor leading the listener in some stupefaction. This is dark ambient music from another dimension!" - Side Line Magazine
Released by the long-defunct Midnight Productions label in China. Out of print.
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1. Oortwolk
2. Songs from the forthcoming apocalypse
3. Voice of the sky
4. The eternal
5. Visions of volcanic lakes
6. ...And back to what happened in 2012
7. The earth falls,and will not rise again
8. Papa Jupe (will maybe carry our souls)
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CONDITION: Still SEALED. No outward sign of damage to the case or disc.
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