The excellent first album from this Italian dark ambient artist comes to us from Malignant after my continued plundering of their back catalog; Idolatriae came out in 2007 in a limited edition six-panel digipack, and features minimal but striking black and white artwork that has the stark look of an instruction manual while at the same time blending together images of human skulls, abstract symbols and illusory walls. This being a Malignant release and all, Eidulon deals in dark industrial ambience like you'd expect, with seven tracks of extremely sinister sounding dronescapes comprised of low, subterranean drones and cavernous catacomb ambience a la Lustmord that's further embellished with streaks of high end synth and bursts of tactile glitch and noise. It's one bleak trip for sure, an exploration of the old-school isolationist soundscapery pioneered by Lustmord and Maurizio Bianchi, but Eidulon does mix things up by coloring these ultra-bleak slabs of despair with grinding rhythmic machine loop, churning whirlpools of blacknoise magma, ghostly voices, brief passages of ominous orchestral ambience, and minimal organ tones, each track becoming a sinister, brooding expanse of abstract industrial darkness that feels like this had been recorded somewhere deep underground, broken synths and dirt-covered pipe organs leaning against crypt walls, damaged mixers and trone generators buzzing in the darkness, slowly spreading drones creeping out through sewer pipes and gutters.