I fucking hate myspace. I fucking hate myspace. I fucking hate myspace. Every fucking time without fucking fail, when I try to log into a band's myspace page to get some background info, my pc freezes and I lose about 20 minutes of my life. Fucking fuck it fuck it fuck you whore's bastard of a site. So - alas - no band info from me on Hierophant (a project I thought would have been way too cool to be associated with something as lame as myshite in the first place) or in future on any band with a myspace page instead of an official site. There are only so many hours in a day.

Hierophant is the original funeral doom vehicle of Catacombs mastermind Xathagorra Mlandroth, who recorded a mere output of three EPs between 1994 and 2000. "The Tome" gathers all three on one disc and was first released by Dark Vision five years ago. It's been excavated by Solitude Productions, with new artwork and is a haunting, testing listen.

If the music was any slower it would be going backwards. This is paced like a Christian's brainwaves, so slow it's hardly moving at all. A major gripe with the tracklisting (why the same songs twice, really?) aside, it's an enjoyable and historic listen, if at times demanding and overly long. I’d tell you some more if I hadn’t been subjected to that cursed computer cock-up courtesy of the biggest cunt of a creation in cyberspace history.

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