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TOPOGRAFIA - El culto del eclipse

from HDK 121 † HDK Dungeon​​​-​​​synth magazine #7 by V.A.

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The uncharted islands of the east indies are said to be home to what sailors refer to as the “Culto del Eclipse”. Most Spanish and Dutch expeditions believed them to be nothing more then a group of animistic and pagan savages. Most of what they knew was provided by locals who lived in straw huts in the outer parts of the jungle. Nevertheless their reports on these misterious people were considered unreliable, distorted and too fantastic to be true. The Spanish decided to launch an expedition. Their disbelief was undone when they had no further news from the expedition and remains were found in the jungle as offerings for their pagan deities.

The high king sent without hesitating his most experienced conquistadores along with a small military party. When they got deeper in the jungle an incoming monsoon started to fall and every sound was muffled by the sound of heavy rain. While crossing a river, they noticed what the natives called “a shimmering anomaly”: a bubble-like distortion in the light that predicted an eclipse, and inside the bubble was Baltasar, one of the priests from the early expeditions. When they touched the bubble, it snapped in a shockwave and the men noticed masked figures watching them and soon run away in the confusion.

Their muddy tracks led to a cave that had galleries and paths that could only be accessed by divers, the “moon” shapped carvings on the walls indicated they were on the right way. The carvings led them to a stone prison and inside one of the cells there was Baltasar. After releasing him they got surrounded by the masked cult and the anomaly. Baltasar said “Curse you, unholy abomination” and those were his last words as the bubble struck his chest with lightening. The spanish drew their muskets and a bloody battle raged in an instant with few losses on their side. The pagans ran and they returned to the river victorious.

Outside, the sun was covered and they saw the unbelievable. It was Baltasar, unaware of his death, he was the one they saw moments before the battle, resurrected by time itself.

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DIY label focused on ambient punk, minimal-synth, dungeon-drone, wartime music and post-nuclear wave. Managed by a creative punx collective from Milano city.

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