Iratus Vox Zine

Sigil of Time is a side project of two members of the gothic doom metal band "Train to Elsewhere" - Maria K. "Gerard" and Anton "Vargtimmen". She Drowned in this Lake is an archived collection of the project's material recorded between 2009 and 2011, and also includes one new track. The collection is material from three unreleased albums, united by the themes of detachment and emptiness of being. The music is infused with neofolk influences, depressive black metal, dark ambient and industrial elements. Here analog synthesizers, acoustic and electronic guitars, brass ethnic instruments and noise samples have been used, independently recorded for each composition. If we talk about influences, we can name: Autumn, Autumn People, As Autumn Calls, Xasthur, Autumn For Crippled Children, Six Dead Bulgarians, Old Woman Moss, Klever, Majdanek Waltz, Der Golem. Some compositions serve as a frame for Mary's lyric texts such as "South Wind", "Au...

  Sigil of Time is a side project of two members of the traditional doom metal band Train to Elsewhere - Maria and Anton. The main concept of the project is transcendental and existential states experienced by a person while communicating with the "dark" and hidden side of nature. This concept unites all the themes of this anthology. The collection includes both early pieces written in the period from 2010 to 2019, and previously unreleased joint works of Maria and Anton, as well as Maria's solo works in 2019. The material, united by a common theme and mood, achieves effect in different ways, combining melancholic rock, neofolk and ambient, black, drone and even funeral doom. But in almost all compositions you will hear atmospheric "heavy" and acoustic guitar, in some places ethnic instruments - flutes, jew's harps, percussion, analog synthesizer noises and samples. If we talk about the creativity that influenced the musicians, then this is a wide horizon, l...