Esoteric
Subconscious Dissolution into the Continuum

"The hidden side of human things is wonderful and inexplicable: we deny it because we are unable to explain it." Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly

Esotericism is a term used to indicate secret doctrines, whose teachings are reserved for the initiates, revealing the occult truth of hidden meanings. In a world where appearance and possession count more than being, and higher values are generally overlooked in favor of the most abject scandals, the perverse, materialism is often masked by the desire to enrich oneself at all costs. Certainly, it is more convenient to disdain or even deny what we do not understand and what escapes rational thought, which in everyday existence, in its agonizing monotony, offers us a safe haven against any push towards possible evolution. A distorted path, a valley of tears, perhaps, are no more harmful to the true being than the presumptuous contemplation of immaculate peaks, of the benevolent and genuinely compassionate gaze towards humankind, which it scandalously rejects the offer presented. The sadness of the human condition becomes apparent, whether it wears the mask of opulence of a life languishing in luxury and boredom, or it takes on the aspect of misery and the struggle that many people carry out to survive. Some individuals, isolated and certainly too rare, find themselves engaged in the spiritual life, even though they are lost and gripped by doubt. They wander in desperate search of people willing to favorably receive the revelations and mystic messages of which they are bearers. Such spirits, with their marked genius, have reached the peak of mastery and the knowledge of the secrets of nature. Legendary figures like Count of Saint-Germain and Cagliostro are clear examples of greatness, especially the former mentioned by me. Alchemist, freemason, hermeticist, esotericist, musician, and gentleman of high class, he adorned and loved all that represented the world. However, as often happens, he was maligned and heavily slandered for his actions, although the nobility of spirit and sincerity that characterized them could not be disputed. Nevertheless, he was accused of being eccentric and a charlatan, he was rejected by the "good societies" after they had welcomed him. This perfectly reflects today's world, which reflects the fear towards the unknown, or what is "occult" for the matrix of society surrounded by envy and falsehood. We can interpret this discourse in any circumstance, for music, for theater, for cinema. Everything that appears different is synonymous with "transgression" or "freak show."

This is what Esoteric's music represents, a mystic message surrounded by a cosmic catastrophic Doom, framed by a dark and mysterious vision of things. "Subconscious Dissolution Into The Continuum" is the arcane and claustrophobic representation of the unknown rendered in music. An ethereal sound, mystic and melancholic tones of a Doom fully adorned with sounds from the Gothic, Death, Ambient, and Dark Wave family.

A funeral dance that begins with "Morphia," a raw and heavily filtered voice that envelops us in the painful recesses of metal's characteristic instruments, which intertwine in the flexible harmonies of guitars and drums, 15 minutes of pure madness. They then lead us, in my opinion, to the album's peak, the highest summit is reached with "The Blood Of The Eyes," sweet and melancholic riffs wrapped in a fictitious atmosphere, a harmony that makes us hover, lovingly leading us into the arms of mystery. A process in which the soul is cradled as in the womb of a mother that resides and grows, placed like a seed of life near a grain of wheat in the damp earth, before blooming in the universe. "Gray Day" is the symbiosis, the perfect metamorphosis for the peak of desolation, the end of a cycle and the start of a new one. In reality, a sort of conjunction, the door that opens to the place where fears, controversies, and the most hidden thoughts of man are unleashed, giving birth to a macabre and acidic sound that falls victim to the desolate atmosphere created by the British Esoteric. But the final chapter, the concluding act of this work sees "Arcane Dissolution" as the protagonist, the epilogue that gives life to an infernal nightmare, a demonic lyric, an infinite abyss into which it plunges into total darkness.

A hard, decadent, atmospheric, surreal album, a manifesto, a trademark of the most catatonic and dark Doom. For lovers of the genre, it can only be a masterpiece.