Hypnotic Dirge Records releases are available on Bandcamp for streaming and unrestricted digital download for free / by-donation. Perhaps most tellingly of all, when it’s over, you’re left wanting more." It skilfully balances ferocity and melancholy, varying between complexity and simplicity, first caressing and then pummelling. ‘Revenant’ is a great-sounding and great-looking release that is presented with great care and attention to detail. "Orphans Of Dusk is a duo with limitless potential.” "Orphans of Dusk are clearly a band with heaps of talent, a lot on their minds, and the urge to pack 'Revenant' to the brim with content.". "Holy hell! You know that feeling you get when you have come across something that rocks you back on your heels? Well, listening to ‘Revenant’ left my awesome-metal-sense tingling.". He is attacked by a bear, and badly injured.
A man of many adventures, Hugh Glass goes West in 1822 in the employ of Captain Andrew Henry to do some profitable fur trapping. Orphans Of Dusk deliver enormous, powerful goth-doom riffs that are infused with both delight and derision.” - DoomMetalHeaven The frontiersman, Hugh Glass, who in the 1820s set out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling. "The great Pete Steele would definitely approve. Casting out the traditional second guitar line in favour of synth and producing several demos, Orphans brought on crushing death metal vocal talent from Sydney, Australia and solidified the line-up that unleashed the Orphans of Dusk vast debut EP, "Revenant" Immense, powerful, and atmospheric doom riffs coalescing with soft melodic textures and melancholy is what you can expect on this debut recording from Orphans of Dusk! For fans of Type O Negative, Woods of Ypres, My Dying Bride, The Foreshadowing, Swallow the Sun, etc. As the decade turned, the orphan was born - a crystallised idea of epic gothic doom music meshed with death/doom. Orphans of Dusk is a gothic death/doom band being projected into the stars from the South Pacific Ocean, New Zealand/Australia.