Aldfrith is back on its 3rd moody Dark Ambient enterprise. Fluvium Tenebris was being made while Daniel “Death” Vieira, the man behind the machines was researching some new possibilities to his music. He found the first results impressive, but what changed his mind and added more insult to injure was his trip to Europe, mainly to England. London and its smell of medieaval history put Daniel on alert again: he was in UK, he was in the land of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of the past, he was in the land of King Aldfrith. After visiting the Middlelands, the ideas started to draw about his new album FLUVIUM TENEBRIS (a reference in Latin of River Humber, hence the North of Humber equals NORTHUMBRIA). Using elements of the first albums “from Northumbria to Mehrgarh” and “Combinatorial Explosion May Result In The Curse of Dimensionality” he started to experiment with real pulses, creating actual melodies near the Black Ambient like Burzum, Vinterriket or Paysage D’Hiver, but never abandoning his roots in Dark Ambient like Lustmord, Inade or Nordvargr.
All the more, Daniel Death put some order in chaos: the real aim is to create the right atmosphere to tell through music (without lyrics) the history of Northumbria: Fluvium Tenebris is the first chapter in this direction. “Battle of Arfderydd” was an actual the battle between Britons in Northumbria prior to the Anglo-Saxon invasion, presumably in the year 573. It’s believed that this fight between celtic brothers actually had left the underkings weak, leaving Northumbria up for grabs.
“Angles Across the Humber” is an imaginative crossing of the river to Deira, but the Angles could had came from the North Sea for instance… we will never know…
“Deifr” is the Celtic (Brythonic) name for Deira and one can just imagine what the denizens have witnessed. Could Angles be like their distant cousins, the Vikings? Could they had annihilated the hamlets nearby?
“Storm in Bryneich”raises the same questions but with one difference: the Angles did declare war against Brythonic people.
“Yr Hen Ogledd” literally means THE OLD NORTH, a reference to Bernicia (Bryneich).
“Battle of Catraeth” was fought between the Celtic/Brythonic people called Gododdin, against the Angles around the year 600. The Angles succeed. It was the first the first chapter of the formation of Northumbria...
Synthesizers, explosion, martial music, calm and ominous atmospheres pervades this disc with sensations that will throw you back in time. So just sit down and relax while traveling through time and space to witness the birth of the greatest kingdom Britannia had seen prior to the total ANGLO-SAXON dominions of England… this is the first chapter… to be continued…


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