{"id":56211,"date":"2025-01-29T20:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T20:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/ambient-music\/letum-the-face-of-life-and-death\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T20:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T20:28:12","slug":"letum-the-face-of-life-and-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=56211","title":{"rendered":"L\u1ebdtum \u2013 The Face Of Life And Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/noisereceptor.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/l.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7578\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/noisereceptor.wordpress.com\/2021\/09\/08\/letum-the-face-of-life-and-death\/l-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/noisereceptor.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/l.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"L\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/noisereceptor.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/l.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/noisereceptor.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/l.jpg?w=584\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7578\" src=\"https:\/\/noisereceptor.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/l.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noisereceptor.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/l.jpg?w=584&amp;h=584 584w, https:\/\/noisereceptor.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/l.jpg?w=150&amp;h=150 150w, https:\/\/noisereceptor.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/l.jpg?w=300&amp;h=300 300w, https:\/\/noisereceptor.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/l.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>L\u1ebdtum \u2013 <em>The Face Of Life And Death<\/em> CD Mathias Henriksson 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Personally, I have always viewed L\u1ebdtum as one of the three pinnacle dark ambient projects emerging from the classic era of Cold Meat Industry, with the other two being raison d\u2019etre and Desiderii Marginis. However, L\u1ebdtum has ended up being lesser recognised and somewhat overshadowed given L\u1ebdtum\u2019s debut came out in 2001, which at that point in time the other mentioned projects were already well established. Yet now in 2021, it would be a significant mistake to continue overlooking L\u1ebdtum given the project\u2019s albums represent quintessential examples of sacral toned dark ambient music.<\/p>\n<p>With reference to prior albums, I intently followed the project through to 2014\u2019s <em>The Fifth State of Grief, <\/em>and while far from being a bad album I found it a slight letdown in comparison to prior releases due to some of the orchestral synth pads sounding overly synthetic, while a few melodious passages felt more suited to a dungeon synth style and therefore not typically what I would expect from a L\u1ebdtum album. Consequently, 2019\u2019s <em>Shades Of A Lost World<\/em> passed me by, where I only picked up the L\u1ebdtum thread again with this new fifth album, which incidentally marks 20 years of activity of the project. I must then admit that <em>The Face Of Life And Death <\/em>has absolutely blown me away, and been the most listened to dark ambient album of recent times. As an initial observation, the emotively titled tracks are ample mood descriptors, such as: <em>Shadows In The Abyss; Echoes From A Time Without End; The Hidden Vastness; A Seared Conscience; The Beauty Of Miserable Souls; Afraid Of The Void <\/em>etc, <span style=\"font-style:inherit;\">and when coupled with the album title, it seems to allude to a broader concept of spiritual existentialism. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:inherit;\">Musically speaking all of the hallmarks of sacral toned dark ambient music is here: the choral vocal textures; the ever-shifting inky black drones; the sparse doom addled rhythmics; <\/span><span style=\"font-style:inherit;\">the controlling creaking metallics; the deeply emotive orchestral melodies; the lamenting piano\/church organ etc. Likewise, as far as dark ambience goes, it is an \u2018all in\u2019 scenario, where full immersion is required to appreciate the album in its totality, which spans eight tracks over 47 minutes. Without being a mere re-tread of what has come before, the lamenting minimalist soundscapes are expertly controlled and display clear compositional refinement and emotive depth in the delivery of such high calibre consecrated soundscapes. The end result is L\u1ebdtum\u2019s most sophisticated album to date, and now that I have since become acquainted with 2019\u2019s <\/span><em>Shades Of A Lost World, <\/em>I would also categorise it as the <span style=\"font-style:inherit;\">strongest given it has that \u2018special\u2019 aura of an exceptional album.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Although <em>The Face Of Life And Death<\/em> does not flip the script on sacral toned dark ambience, this new recording from L\u1ebdtum is delivered with such flair and emotive impact that it absolutely demands attention. Suitable imagery pressed as a four-panel digipack function to round out the physical presentation, for what is a highly recommended album from these quarters.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"wordads-inline-marker\" style=\"display: none;\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L\u1ebdtum \u2013 The Face Of Life And Death CD Mathias Henriksson 2021 Personally, I have always viewed L\u1ebdtum as one of the three pinnacle dark ambient projects emerging from the classic era of Cold Meat Industry, with the other two being raison d\u2019etre and Desiderii Marginis. 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