BESTIA ASTRUM
FURY 161
Compact Disc Digi
Item no. :CSR342CD Barcode :0641871746323 Artist :BESTIA ASTRUM Product type :Compact Disc Digi Label :COLD SPRING Release Date :24 January 2025
DESCRIPTION TRACK LIST
- The Blood-Dimmed Tide Is Loosed (9:27)
2. And What Rough Beast, Its Hour Come Round At Last (7:59)
3. Surely Some Revelation Is At Hand (8:02)
4. A Gaze Blank And Pitiless As The Sun (8:47)
5. The Ceremony Of Innocence Is Drowned (6:44)
6. The Darkness Drops Again (10:35)
7. Twenty Centuries Of Stony Sleep (5:03) -
The debut album from Bestia Astrum (aka Abby Helasdottir / GYDJA) is a grim exploration of Fury 161, the prison planet from the movie Alien³. An industrial ambient travelogue of the spaces in the planet's dark and rusty facility, beginning on a wind-swept shore and ending in the eternal repose of stony sleep.
More than just an alternate soundtrack to a film, "Fury 161" takes cues from the long and troubled production of Alien³, incorporating themes from earlier concepts proposed during its development hell, including the treatment created by Vincent Ward, who imagined the movie's location as a wooden planet that was home to an order of space monks.
Motifs of eremitic religiosity permeate the album, as well as themes of Yeatsian apocalypticism, abject anatomy, and the intersection between the sacred and the profane, betwixt the beautiful and the grotesque.
Full colour matt-laminate digipak with gold spot colour, accompanied by a 16-page booklet with an essay by Abby Helasdottir.
