Obsidian

OBSIDIAN CHAMBER was brought to unholy life by Eerie in fall 2003. The musical tendency and style was obvious. It had to be Symphonic Black metal that contains many fast blast beat-parts but also classical and melodic elements. The name is based on Maya mythology. It describes a place in hell that is called “The chamber of knifes”. This chamber is filled with obsidian blades for torturing and dissecting doomed souls.

Produced by the much sought after Jaime Gómez Arellano (Paradise Lost, Ghost) and featuring the stellar performances of Attila Csihar (Mayhem, Sunn O)))) and Kristoffer Rygg (Ulver), this album flirts elegantly with alternative rock, electronics and extreme metal to provide you with a full-bodied and unforgettable experience. A spiked cocktail of city spleen, conspiranoia and personal trauma; blue like the stagnant water in the pool of a marooned holiday resort and heavy like the silence after the next radiant apocalypse…

Obsidian… dark, reflective and black: it’s a pretty decent description of the music that Paradise Lost have been making over the last 32 years, even though this most resilient of British metal bands have stoically refused to be pinned down to one easily defined formula. Powered by a lust for creativity and a stout devotion to haunting heaviness, Paradise Lost have defied the odds by coming back stronger than ever over the past decade.
From the deceptive elegance and dual atmospheres of opener "Darker Thoughts" through to the crushing, baroque doom of war-torn closer "Ravenghast", Obsidian reveals a band in masterful control of a broad array of vital ideas.