To begin, this is NOT black metal, Emit from the United Kingdom performs a very specific sort of mixture between black noise and ambience with a heavy focus on themes of spectral horror. The styles of Emit have ranged vastly throughout the years, from the elder Emit relying on the psychological in terms of fear, pain, death, blood, and torture, to the latter Emit (and the eventual transformation into the current vessel Hammemit) which features more of a shrouded medieval sound that pushes the mystery behind the band's hidden rites. I find "Unknown Presences Whisper" to act as their half way point between the transition from Emit to Hammemit, and with a blatant obsession with the ghosts and the paranormal this release peaks my interest. For those unaware, the "Borley Rectory" is a real place in Europe and it is regarded as the most haunted house in England. Images have been caught near the now burned down site with bricks floating by themselves and apparitions floating the nearby hallowed grounds.
Emit is certainly not going to be for everyone, especially those opposed to experimental music that tends to consistently veer away from the traditional structures that keep ones mindset in their comfort zone. Unknown Presences Whispers, although my favorite release by Emit through extensive comparison with all other releases, can only be accessable to those willing to explore the haunting and the all consuming darkness... Seperated into two parts, "Part the First - On an English Night in Summer" and"Part the Second - HEOLSTOR FYRN- DAGAS, FORHWEGA", this tape will take you nowhere pleasant.
1. A Lunatic Hermit Dies in His Woodland Home
2. Unknown Presences Whisper
3. Borley Rectory Breaks the Silence
4. For the Priest's Amusement
5. Behind the Manor House, Amongst the Weeds
6. Life, Death, and the Ghost
7. Cernunnos
8. Poisonous Mushrooms, Rotting Toadstools and Moss
9. The Night of Panic
10. Black Dogs of Spectral Darkness
11. Heolstor- Furgenholt
12. Black Noises Emitting From Beyond
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