Hermetic Brotherhood Of Lux
Anacalypsis

THE REVIEW

Following the recent Libido credited to the moniker MS Miroslaw, the mystical creature of the Hermetic Brotherhood Of Lux is making headlines again, a formation emerging from the Sardinian collective Trasponsonic. The new work—it's the seventh—is titled Anacalypsis and is a cathartic journey to the origins of the myths and rites of Sardinia that are lost in the mists of dark times. It is a particular operation that goes beyond music and concerns anthropology and studies on the culture of Tradition, which has also found favor with a charismatic figure like Julian Cope, who has always been a devotee of ancient Celtic myths but also very interested in the study of nuraghes. The key word to describe the music of Hermetic Brotherhood Of Lux is “rituality”: in the 3 long tracks that Anacalypsis is divided into, we can hear a percussive and minimal sonic magma, a sort of avant-garde psychedelia that certainly has points of contact with the experiments of the early Pink Floyd, with the cosmic journeys of Krautrock, and with the esoteric post-industrial aesthetic of early Current 93 and Coil and ritual-ambient. In particular, the final track—“Phantasms Of The Living”—is a long occult ritual that leads the listener into another dimension where the ancient myths of Tradition come alive: from the sonic “maelstrom,” satanic vocalizations emerge while the general atmosphere tends towards darkness: it seems like the evocation of ancient extra-cosmic deities that were worshipped in remote and prehistoric times. The listening experience reaches incredibly high levels of involvement, and one can actually have the “vision” of things. Hermetic Brotherhood Of Lux is an antidote against the decay of modern civilization, and Anacalypsis is a new chapter in the search for transcendence.