03. Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan

[Ender]

The beginning of this track makes me think of William Basinski stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOYYmgXWUkw

[bleak.]

The beginning of this track makes me think of William Basinski stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOYYmgXWUkw

Yeah...I definitely get the Basinski inspiration. I also get a gy!be "vibe" from it too.

[mc10101]

That beautifully degraded string sample puts me in mind of 'The Beach at Redpoint'

[Waterbagel]

That beautifully degraded string sample puts me in mind of 'The Beach at Redpoint'

SAME! first thought I had when it started

[kyriakos]

THAT BASS !!! Those compressed synths. <33 Beach At Red Point vibes. Really love this one.

[ryetronics]

Even the handclap sounds unique. I freaking love this band so much.

[Waterbagel]

honestly this makes me think a bit of some Boreal Network, on a later listen!

[GeoDose]

Redpoint! THAT's what it reminded me of! That's awesome.

I'd like to quickly acknowledge & appreciate that Inferno has a few tracks that are reminiscent of their previous full-length albums. This track and few others remind me of Geo, 'Memory Death' and 'Deep Time' remind me of Tomorrow's Harvest, 'Introit' and 'I Saw Through Platonia' remind me of MHTRTC, and then 'The Word Becomes Flesh' and a couple of other tracks kinda resemble TCH production-wise.

And yet, it also all sounds so fresh & new! Brilliant album. I'm officially addicted.

[IanRedpoint]

When that opening synth starts up, I immediately thought of "Touched" from MBV's Loveless. I think it's the glide into each of the notes.

[egbdf]

Does anyone else hear some sort of chant in the distant background in the second half/last third? I can only pick it up on headphones , but I swear it’s there.

Yes, only just noticed it on my 5th+ listen on what happened to be a different sound set up because I was at a friend's

[Radiobuzz]

Maybe this is about how evil is intrinsic to our universe? The runtime is 4:44 and 4 in the bible represents the material universe (it's the day where supposedly God created the sun, moon and stars, and it ties to the four elements, the four cardinal points, the four seasons, etc), which also ties with hydrogen, helium and lithium being the first elements to appear with the Big Bang.

[WATER_CAN-_-]

https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol26/iss1/53/

[sowhereareyouliving?]

Hobbes' Leviathan is truly terrifying beast

[GeoDose]

Does anyone else hear some sort of chant in the distant background in the second half/last third? I can only pick it up on headphones , but I swear it’s there.

OMG, I hear that now! It starts around 3:05 and continues for quite awhile! It sounds cinematic, and rather creepy.

Props for spotting that! I can't believe I never noticed that...

Also, the 4:44 thing is interesting. I remembered that 4 is a 'bad luck' number in East Asian cultures.

"In many East Asian cultures, including China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan, the number four is steeped in superstition. This fear of the number four, or tetraphobia, holds so much power that many buildings skip the fourth floor, much like how some Western buildings omit the 13th.

The root of this fear lies in linguistics. In Chinese, the word for the number four sounds eerily similar to the word for death. This phonetic resemblance isn't limited to just one culture. In Japan and Korea, the words for four and death are identical. In Japan, the number 49 is particularly dreaded as it sounds like the phrase "pain until death."

Source: https://people.howstuffworks.com/number-4-unlucky.htm