Gaze into the light of doubt!
Enbrinded
Enstoned
Engraveled
A lone
Men on the breaks
Salt on their skin
Women on the side
With salt in their eyes
Dreams
Burned
Bright!
Grace
Bleached with an anger made cold
Crawling dawn
Emboldened by broken law
Aged!
Furnace rages
Apparition
Stubborn womb
Cleaved
Hammer and chain
Cut the vein!
Rope
Crushing
Orbed
Wind
A bruised heaven!
Born under caul
Amniotic nightfall
Fossilized grain
The river explains
Don't grieve them x 3
Blood on sheepskin
A kerosene dream
A sign of a copper disease
Silken grey
Cut the wind's vein
Don't grieve them x 3
Hundred weight sin
Red clay
Atlantean Form
Bow, like the night
Disburdened wind
Hands bruised, eyes downcast
Thickening infinite night
Have you seen the flowers?
The color of pain?
Disquietude
Of colors twelve
Cerulean pity
Harrow and heart
Granite
Chord
Unleash
The vessel
For threading light
Crystal weapon
Semen weeping
Cold
Hand
Soft-spoken wind
Sun dogs
Brilliant doubt
Gold Cloud
Morning fog
No self-evident truth
Of the sun on your back
Swift shadow of the ghost eye
Thickening mirrored blaze
One Curse
One King
Fire Consumed
Stolen Womb
The dawn is tired and broken
Exhaled and enslaved
Smoke it stings like silver
A dead nettle drone
A story of stone
Your eyes open softly
And mine close as wounds
In silence, in voice
Lust and lead rejoice
Dominate, Delight!
An alabaster tomb
Carrion perfume
The wind is wild
The horses are quiet
Golden
Honey
On raptured wings
Pensive
I have no name!
Sulfurous soil
Brass visage
Wept
Bound throat
Phosphorous faith
Hissing
Foam thick
Breach and Bitter
Jealous shadow
Swarm of faith
Dungeness ancient
From first cosmic bosom
Laborious joy!
Thick summer stars!
about
The vision has been an absurdist wind.
Heavily influenced by Romantic-era ideas, existentialism, and the apocryphal, hellfire of William Blake’s word.
Conquest and transformation. Plotting particle and light into wisdom and thought.
Is there real knowledge in flowing water? Can intent organize the stars into action?
! GAZE INTO THE LIGHT OF DOUBT !
REVIEWS:
"Though it also bears significant folk influences, Cut the Rivers Vein's black metal element is temperamental, sometimes soaring but often burrowing into extremely doomy territory, shifting its atmosphere like changing seasons."
- Invisible Oranges
"It touches on similar spaces covered by Sumac and Yob - less because of clear or deliberate attempts to copy but more from attempting to mine the same emotional space with the same musical tools. That’s more than fine by me; sidling up comfortably against two of the best American groups going, producing music that is raw and heartfelt where the heaviness comes like a hammer to your (raw) heart rather than shifting minor thirds and operatic vocals, is always a plus in my book. I cried at my desk to this record the first time through. What bigger cosign is there?"
- Consequence
"A post-everything esoteric opus that runs the gamut from Inter Arma-style dissonance to deconstructed folk music. The record is deeply tied to the Romantic Era’s naturalism, touching on themes of nature and its despoilment, but on Cut the Rivers Vein, Sather also seeks to decouple nature from hierarchical structures. While not a record for the impatient, Cut the Rivers Vein is meditative yet immediate, a record to sit with."
- TOILET OV HELL
"At times the music becomes nightmarishly hallucinatory even as the force of its stomping cadences threatens to split concrete. At other times it pours out wrenching emotional ruin or cold-eyed fury with unadulterated honesty, or even seems to stretch out its hands in feelings of intense yearning. But just around the turn of the bend (see, e.g., the somber folk songs that open “Lowered Cloud” and “A Powerful, Uneasy Feeling”) you might imagine yourself alone in the wilderness, huddled in the cold with just your own lonely thoughts around a crackling campfire that doesn’t provide enough warmth. Or you might encounter progressively inclined instrumental interplays when you least expect it. The music can definitely jar and disturb when Sather puts its mind to it, but there’s so much creative skill in the songwriting that all the ingredients work together damned well, and the execution is extremely impressive."
- NO CLEAN SINGING
"So much darkness, all that darkness, there must be some remedy for that constriction of the throat that is life on earth right now. And while the newest effort from Minnesota one-man project Mur might not heal the world, it will in fact go a long way to open up your wounds, soothe them, and then stab them with a rusty knife. A beauteous melding of slow-paced doom, nasty black metal and that slight tinge of Americana. Oh and a wonderful quote (intentional?) from one of Loss' great songs. Fantastic."
- Machine Music (IL)
"Everything bursts as grisly growls become a major factor, and the playing pummels hard, giving way to a sprawling dream with the drums leaving bones as dust. Thick growls blister as sunburnt guitars race for the skies, and everything intensifies as the heat increases. Guitars blaze, the tempo flows, and the final minutes submit to the warmth, giving off some of the most exhilarating parts of this entire record.
The vocals carve as the playing hulks along, ripping and mauling, paving the way for black metal-style devastation. The drums erupt as the menace floods, splattering and splurging into doom tar pits. Everything trudges as burly energy becomes more abundant, the leads just strangle, and the final moments bask in the carnage it caused, Sather calling, “Laborious joy! Thick summer stars!”.
- MEAT MEAD METAL
"Tracks like “O’palesce” and “Breach & Bitter” stand out as the most powerful examples of the alchemic mixtures of sound that Mur has summoned. Cut The Rivers Vein is a damn good album and is a great example of not letting genres be defined and just letting the music flow and speak for itself. There are relentless black metal riffs and blasts, there are droning and sludgy doom metal moments and there are also melodic and calming folky breathers as well and that is what makes this album stand out above the rest and it is only January."
9.5/10 - Metal Purgatory Media
"All of the musical instruments have a very powerful sound to them. The production sounds very dark and heavy while also done in a very melodic style. This is another great sounding recording and if you are a fan of black, sludge, and funeral doom metal with some elements of folk music."
8/10 - OccultBlackMetalZine
"With a vibrant and cathartic vision, the song themes consist of a theatrically performed "godlike" monologue as thunderous growls."
9/10 - Femforgacs Metal Zine (HU)
"The songs are atmospheric and immersive, drawing the listener into a dark, avant-garde world of idiosyncratic extreme metal. The blackened soundscapes that the artist behind the band creates are rich and well-realised. The combination of brute heaviness and textured depth is balanced well, resulting in a collection of tracks that feel like a rewarding journey into the artist’s world."
- Wonderbox Metal
"It starts off with a folksy acoustic part reminiscent of someone like Agalloch, but soon progresses to sludgy doom, blackened doom, doomened black, funereal sludge-doom, psychedelic doom, blackened psychedelia, and so on — spiraling and rotating among each of these for a while, eventually returning to simple melancholic folk for much of penultimate track “A Powerful, Uneasy Feeling.”
"And ultimately the final twelve minutes (“Breach & Bitter”) provide some of the album’s bleakest, heaviest, slowest, doomiest, blackest, fastest, most chaotic, and all around most impressively epic moments."
- Valley Of Steel
credits
released January 27, 2022
All instrumentation recorded live by C.S. - MMXXI -
supported by 15 fans who also own “Cut The Rivers Vein”
What an impressive piece of black metal. This one-man hurricane is pure art. Sgah‘gahsowáh creates an haunting atmosphere. He puts so much soul in his music. Sælzer Bub
supported by 13 fans who also own “Cut The Rivers Vein”
Amazing atmospheric progressive black metal with some doom vibes.
Illusions In The Wake is emotional with some haunting melodies.
An outstanding debut album!
Highly recommended! Sælzer Bub
supported by 13 fans who also own “Cut The Rivers Vein”
PSA: if there was an album you heard a couple years ago and thought it was ok, listen to it again and you might love it.
That's what happened to me with this album. I cannot fathom why it didn't stick with me back then. Same thing happened with Decoherence's Unitarity for that matter. Matten
supported by 13 fans who also own “Cut The Rivers Vein”
Late 90's BM worship, but it's also a lil more than that. This album takes the best elements from the scene it's inspired by and mostly avoids the worst of it; the song-writing is well-written, it's performed with passion and fun, and the production is raw but isn't lo-fi. (i.e. it doesn't obfuscate and/or suckass).
Tl;dr It's safe but high quality BM. Recommended. Rabbit