This is the first new disc from Malignant that I've heard in a while, but hopefully this will be the start of finally catching up on the

label's prodigious catalog of ultraheavy ambient crush. Packaged in a sleek 6-panel digipack illustrated with images of what look like deep

space storm activity, Phaenon debuts here with a single hour-plus track of massive ambient darkness that fans of Lull, Maeror Tri, Lustmord,

Yen Pox, Caul, and Inade will fall in love with immediately. Phaenon is the solo project of Szymon Tankiewicz, who lives right here in Maryland

- making this the first heavy drone/ambient album I've heard from someone here in my home state? Surprisingly, I think that's the case. This is

a killer debut, a massive floating field of doomy synthesizer drones drifting through deep space and clusters of notes emerging from the void.

The track is constantly shifting over it's 66 minutes, moving from crushingly heavy slabs of cosmic bass to subdued, serene drones flitting

through interstellar space and endless sheets of icy metallic hum. Deep, ominous space drone with intense stereo panning that becomes

incredibly memserizing - you really need to sit down and soak this album up, preferably with some decent headphones, to fully plunge into the

heavy celestial drift. Recommended.