Luminous Vault – Charismata LP

Formed in 2014 by acclaimed NYC musician MDdL (aka Oneirogen), the band evolved into a duo with SS (of Artificial Brain) on bass and combined militaristic death / black metal with colossal drum machine beats with ethereal synth passages sounding like early ’90s Greek black metal and Godflesh amalgamated.

Charismata, the duo’s second EP (which follows their 2015 EP Communion released on limited edition cassette on Graceless Recordings), is a primal, hypnotic, and hallucinatory set of four songs, conjuring mythological experiences of death, rebirth, and battles of the inner self.