This is Summoning‘s Electro/Industrial version. Pure mastery.

In the dim-lit corridors of the soul,This Killing Emptiness pulses like a slow heartbeat, a ritual quietly played by shadows. From the very first murmur of synthetic breath, a cold, mechanical exhale, it becomes clear: this is a landscape of bleakness, a stark and unrelenting horizon carved from wires and memory.

Richard Lederer / Protector, best known for ancient mythic realms through Summoning’s sprawling soundscapes, here retreats inward, into a crystalline inner void. With Ice Ages he constructs something no less profound. Every sequence, every throbbing bass note, every echoing synthetic lament unfolds like a glacier’s inexorable march: majestic, icy, indifferent.

Listening, you may feel the stillness seep into your veins. You may feel the spaces between your own thoughts widen. Or perhaps you will rise from it, unsettled, changed, aware that what you encountered was no mere music, but a meditative journey into the blank, uncharted hinterland between sound and nothingness.

Transparent Green LP in Gatefold