Presented on orange vinyl with a poster.
It should clearly be noted that Black Cilice isn’t exactly like other black metal bands. Banished From Time is certainly abrasive and purposely poorly recorded, but this is more art than ritual. These five tracks are brimming with caustic, abrasive, and unrelenting noise of the harshest order. The noise level and constant anguished shrieks (actual words are tough to come by) bombard the listener in a hair-raising manner; it’s not quite dissonant, but it’s certainly eerie. Yet, one can clearly make out quite a few riffs and melodies, and once the piercing mayhem settles into a groove partway through the excellent opener, “Timeless Spectre”, you realize how pleasant and haunting Banished From Time actually is. Much in the way the most abrasive dissonant death or black metal can become beautiful over time, Black Cilice’s artistic goals are laid clear.