An intense fusion of occult industrial rituals and supreme dark ambience from this German project. Combative Alignment have been at this stuff for years, starting with their Everlasting Sun Ep back in 2003, and by the time that they released their second album And Outside Glows The Red Dawn on Malignant in 2005, the duo had mastered their ritualistic dronescapes and delivered a six track set of immense ominous drift that sounded like a heavier, more aggressive variation on the Aural Hypnox sound. Here, washes of bleak black ambience and solemn choral voices crash against pulsating percussion and hypnotic tambourine-like rattling, pounding repetitious tribal drumming thundering deep beneath Combative Alignment's ceremonial descent into the void. Some of this also sounds like Troum, but it's much darker and creepier and more active, with endlessly swirling chimes and massive didgeridoo-like drones that rise from the depths; these huge buzzing drones take over on the third track, becoming a lead instrument and leaving massive black trails of seismic low-end snaking through the swirling industrial fog. Distant horn-like tones and clanking metal combine with mysterious percussive sounds and mechanical sputter, strange swarms of electronic warble and whir infesting the background, a living soundscape beneath the thick layers of low-end drone and hum. Those rare moments of prettiness that break through the darkness come in the form of fragments of backwards sound and smears of dreamy melodic noise, but the majority of And Outside Glows The Red Dawn is pretty creepy, swells of immense low-end heaviness, grinding machinery, malevolent whispers cloaked in reverb, thick clouds of black drift, the sound constantly evolving and transforming, but always eerie, always ominous, inhabiting the dark occultic ambient realms of Funerary Call, Onirot, Wolfskin, Tho-So-Aa, and Nordvargr. Presented in digipack packaging, limited to 1000 copies.