Throwback: “A Pale Reflection” by Sonus Mortis!

Eleven years ago in Celbridge, Ireland former Valediction bassist Kevin Byrne created the blueprint for Sonus Mortis, a solo project that has evolved from atmospheric Death Doom into something with more Melodic Death Metal leanings. That evolution has happened over six albums with the seventh deadly sin “Of Red Barren Earth” set for 25th October but today we celebrate the 10th Anniversary of a self titled three track demo. That’s where the journey started back in 2013, the commitment to tape of a trio of burnt offerings to an unsuspecting World, a year after the concept was first envisioned. So here is “A Pale Reflection“, the center piece of that record, an eleven minute magnum opus that set the tone for everything which followed…