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The inaugural Celestial Darkness is the brainchild of the people behind Camden’s trve cvlt Cosmic Void festival, and if its brief is more eclectic, the culture of camaraderie is every bit as tangible, even more so when the crowd are unified in thrall to Forgoing the traditional Romanian instrumentation, the spiritualism that rises up sounds prismatic and newborn, a devoutly invoked cinematic sweep bolstered by Edmond Karban’s alternating far-flung and blackened vocals. sense of the epic is more conventional, blending blasts and mid-paced riffs to moderate effect, with
