HIC IACET – The Cosmic Trance Into The Void (LP) Black Gatefold Vinyl

HIC IACET (Spain) - The Cosmic Trance Into The Void (used LP copy) (2015) Released by Iron Bonehead Productions on 140gram Black gatefold vinyl - includes 8 page booklet, A2 sized poster - limited to 500 copies worldwide. HIC IACET is Latin for "Here Lies"

The artwork for this album clearly indicates a meditation session gone mind-blowingly "wrong", at least where human beings seeking enlightenment might be concerned but then, the recording is called "The Cosmic Trance Into The Void" so it is intended to lull the listener into a frame of mind where consciousness slips away and the soul is transported into the Black Infinite.

Occasionally there is New Age Eastern-style exoticism in the form of acoustic percussion clash 'n' burn with background drone and the use of chimes and deep sonorous chant.

Is it possible to descend lower than Hell itself, to go deeper where even Satan and his demon army fear to go? Armed with their battery of stringed and percussive weapons, HIC IACET fearlessly lead the way into blacker, more despairing territory. You can almost feel yourself transforming into an uber-demon such are the horrors revealed by the rolling storms of deep guitar grind, stuttery drums and that mud-encrusted voice. -- Iron Bonehead Productions – IBP229