NEWS: Voidwards tell the tale of Ivan Perfiliev…

Extreme Drone Doom act Voidwards have unveiled an excerpt of a track from their forthcoming first full-length album “Bagulnik“. Set for a 27th December arrival at the mortuary via Aesthetic Death, it finds the outfit committed to their vision of creating heavy, oppressive, claustrophobic doom once more. Pre-orders for the two part affair are available over at bandcamp.

As depicted in the cover art, most of the lyrics are extracted from the diaries of a rural teacher, named Ivan Perfiliev, who claimed that the swamp on the outskirts of the town possessed supernatural properties. Believing he could hear the voice of the swamp inside his head, constantly calling to him. Somewhere in the depths of this swamp, he believed, lived an unknown ancient beast that howled at the moon and caused great suffering.

In his diary, he also wrote how other people in the locality were suffering from the same condition. It hasn’t been possible to verify the accuracy of these accounts, occurring over a century ago, but through the album Voidwards take us on a sonic journey of the events from the swamp, giving both hypothesis and conclusion to what caused people in this area to have such visions and mental illness.

Ivan was hospitalized with acute psychosis (schizophrenia) but later escaped the institution and ended his life through blunt trauma to his head.