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.
All tracks composed and recorded by Bestia Astrum (Abby Helasdottir) at Ultrasound following inspiration by Justin Mitchell.
Additional percussion on The Darkness Drops Again and Twenty Centuries Of Stony Sleep by Serena Helasdottir-Cole.
Additional sounds on The Ceremony Of Innocence Is Drowned performed by Serena Helasdottir-Cole.
Graphic design, layout and liner notes by Abby Helasdottir.
Mastered by Martin Bowes At The Cage.
CD in full colour digipak with gold spot colour, accompanied by a 16-page booklet with an essay by Abby Helasdottir.
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