Lamp of Murmuur
SPB: You covered a Dead Can Dance song on your record: Why this band and this song in particular? What is it about them that you feel links them to your style of black metal?
Lamp of Murmuur: Starting with the notion that music is some sort of "universal language," it is quite obvious that some bands/groups of people excel at translating specific emotions and textures from the plane of imagination into the sensual world.
Since their inception, Dead Can Dance is a band that created a powerful artistic vision, and strengthened it with diligent musical athleticism. Their curiosity and ever expanding sonic palette made them one of the most revered institutions not only in their musical niche, but in the artistic world in general. Even in their beginnings as a humble, yet extremely mystic post-punk oriented band, one could already feel the spasms of something bigger to come. Something delighted to stand between the contradictory line that divides the tragically horrendous, and the most sacred of beauties.
"In The Wake Of Adversity" is probably my favorite song from the project overall, and that's the sole reason why I picked it to cover it in my debut album. From the solemn instrumentation, its unnerving crescendo, cryptic lyrics full of romanticism; everything is like a fire that spreads in one's subconscious that never fades out.
It's no secret that gothic and post-punk permeates my take on black metal, as seen in some of the passages of the album (and specially the title track), so it felt completely fitting to finish it with this hymn of obscure music and unapologetic dramatism.
