Ices Ages This Killing Emptiness (Transparent Green)

New Mastering. New layout . First time on vinyl Limited edition (250 copies) Format Transparent Green LP in Gatefold

Richard Lederer, best known for ancient mythic realms through Summoning's sprawling soundscapes, here retreats inward, into a crystalline inner void. With Ice Ages he constructs something no less profound. Every sequence, every throbbing bass note, every echoing synthetic lament unfolds like a glacier's inexorable march: majestic, icy, indifferent.

The opening track cracks open the emptiness. A skeletal drum, minimal and precise, sets the pulse. Above it, layers of cold, humming synth halos of light and distortion, phantoms of feeling drifting over the abyss. The melody is almost imperceptible, elusive, like the glimmer of a star seen through shifting fog. Here, Lederer's voice is distant, emerges not as human warmth but as spectral witness, reciting fragments of despair as though reading from a prayer that has no God.

One senses Lederer at work in the mind's hinterland, excavating memory, grief, solitude. The melodies are like distant sirens: mournful, hypnotic. Perhaps they recall lost worlds, mythic or personal, but most likely they call from nowhere, from a place between consciousness and oblivion.

Midway through, a track arrives that seems to center everything. A heartbeat stops. Then returns, brittle and tremulous. A slow cascade of cold chords washes over it, like a glacier shedding its weight. And there, in that moment, This Killing Emptiness becomes something broader than desolation: it becomes memory, it becomes ritual, it becomes strange solace.

Lederer's artistry here is subtle. He does not push narrative or bombast; he whispers, distorts, repeats. He asks us not to believe in something, but to experience the absence of belief. This Killing Emptiness is not a story. It is not even a mood. It is an altar to loneliness, cold beauty, and the human mind's fragile resilience in the face of silence.

This is Summoning's Electro/Industrial version!

Track Listing

Far Gone Light Lifeless Sentiments The Fiend I Come For You This Killing Emptiness Heartbeat The Last Time Shades Of Former Light The Denial Lost In Daze