Chthonium’s Hades Project is a sparse, low-key dark ambient effort. The album opens with an organic glistening that conjures up images of rattling metal sheets, and promptly establishes a solid foundation for the mood of the remaining tracks. Sounds seemingly dredged, with an exquisite softness, from an ethereal darkness hunker low creating a sense of vast emptiness crushing down from above. The sparse nature of the tracks don’t lend themselves to fading into the background, but rather to creating their own space; a space upon space within which these whispers dwell.
Keep an eye out for the curious tagging of the second track…
[Rating:3.5/5]
