Drowning the Light's The Serpents Reign is a 2008 album of raw, atmospheric and melancholic Australian black metal. Its imagery draws on whispering forests, winter rain, forgotten fields and spectral landscapes.
Longer, immersive songs are punctuated by brief transitional passages, giving the album a compact and deliberate flow. Cold nostalgia and desolation remain at the heart of the record from its opening mark to the final ghosts of the south.
CD edition released in 2024 by Dark Adversary Productions. Catalogue DA 172. Originally released in 2008. Dark Adversary Productions limited CD reissue, released January 18, 2024; includes two bonus tracks taken from the split with Arkha Sva. Limited to 200 copies.
FFOSatanic Warmaster, Mütiilation, Xasthur, Sargeist, Striborg.
Track listing
- The Mark That Lies Beneath — 06:59
- White Tomb of a Whispering Forest — 07:42
- Winter Rain & Tides of Change — 00:59
- The Nostalgia of the Old That Runs Through Our Veins — 07:55
- The Birth of a New Age — 03:58
- Fields of Forgotten Melancholy — 01:13
- Unforgotten Treachery — 04:16
- Embraced by a Tragic End — 05:34
- Wandering Alone & Forgotten Forever — 03:16
- Ghosts of the South — 01:15
Total running time: 43:07.
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