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WYRM was the primary recording project of Allan Zane from 2000 to 2011. The project was disbanded in 2011, but is now in the "exhumation" process in order to rise up against the incognizance and despondency currently facing the world at large. Bleak times require reflective, Jungian Shadow-imbued music in the hopes it will hold a mirror up to humanity so it can take a good, long, hard look at its own flawed existence and ill-begotten past (that has a propensity for repeating as we seem unwilling to change). This new album does just that--it holds up a mirror to the human race to illustrate what a malformed, maladaptive, mindless, bestial species it has devolved into. Organisms that do not adapt rarely survive over the course of evolutionary time.
The album is allegorical journey as much as it is an album. It embodies invocation via religious musical instrumentation such as the Tibetan thighbone trumpet--as well as samples taken from Meek and O'Neil's Spiricom recordings of audio frequency manipulation that opened up channels of communication with spirits that have passed on from this world. It also embodies the deliberate "opening of Pandora's Box" in order to glimpse behind the veil of life itself. The floodgate opens wide, revealing malevolent entities possessing the living (represented by recordings of the exorcism of Anneliese Michel) --as the whole experience rapidly becomes a descent into the tortures of the cavernous, abysmal void of Gehenna.
For this album, Zane is joined by long-time collaborator PBK--as well as a long-time friend and colleague, Kirk Wilson (on the Tibetan thighbone trumpet). 'Post Velum Inanis' serves as a clear metaphor for the human experience and where we are headed collectively. The road to Hell is paved with "good intentions". Now, more than ever, we need reminding that, "Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it."