WOM (Cyprus): “Ascend, Thy River”

​WOM is a project from Cyprus of a guy known simply as A. Launched in 2011, A. has been very prolific, having released three albums and several EP's. I would define his style as noir black metal, namely long songs with repetitive and obsessive melodies and a wide use of piano and synths. Apart from the fact that it can be extremely exhausting to listen to this kind of music, the first issue is the production, very poor. Maybe A. deliberately looked for a primitive and raw sound, but the guitar seems to be plugged into a HI-FI system rather than an amplifier. This aspect is made even more evident in the latest release, the EP Ascend, Thy River, which is completely instrumental and therefore brings out these flaws. Work on it, A.!
 
Notes:
Ascend, Thy River was self-released on December 7, 2018.
 
Personnel:
A.: everything
 
Text by Herjann
herjann@unholyblackmetal.com