Into halls
Of ghastly marble carved in strangest forms
I gaze up to their towers and domes
Ritual persists because unease never leaves us—but beneath repetition lies a more unsettling intuition: that order exists without our consent. When certainty collapses, we return to forms older than meaning—candles, circles, invocations—not to resolve anything, but to acknowledge a structure already in place. These acts assume design without comprehension, geometry without mercy. In moments of civic fracture and private dread, ritual becomes a way of standing still inside forces too vast to name. Presence is not faith but acquiescence—an admission that the world may be shaped by a mind that does not wake, and that our role is simply to move carefully within its dream.
From Athens, Greece, Reflection Black approaches The Architect in Slumber with that same sense of purposeful containment. There is a gothic punk charge in the rhythm and phrasing that nods to The Damned and Misfits: forward motion built on tight tension, the kind that turns mid-tempo into momentum. Guitars work in interlocked phrases, melodic yet stern; the vocal hooks arrive with clarity, held upright rather than thrown around the room. The track advances like a procession with its own internal law.
“The theme is inspired by dark fantasy and Lovecraftian horror,” says frontman Elis Alex. “It revolves around a divine architect and creator who sleeps, with our existence unfolding as part of his dreams and mind. During his slumber, he emanates structures that are both unearthly and magnificent, yet hiding also deathly and nightmarish horrors.”
The video, directed by Claudio Marino/Artax Film, absorbs this idea rather than illustrating it. Creation appears unconscious, beautiful and perilous by accident rather than intent. An invocation unfolds, the frame arranged as an altar: skulls laid with care, candles marking a perimeter, dried flowers holding memory in their brittle stems. Attera Nox inhabits the rite with measured gestures and a kind of disciplined stillness. The space reads as deliberate and sealed, a room temporarily removed from ordinary time.
Crucially, the film collapses distance. The camera’s patience makes participation feel inevitable. We are not watching a rite; we are standing inside its radius. What do the spirits say in response? They offer no speech. The reply arrives as alignment: a held breath, a shared stillness, the brief assurance that disorder has been acknowledged.
Watch the video for “The Architect In Slumber” below:
Reflection Black’s first EP, Entering Dreamtime, (2022, Razorbleed Productions) and debut full-length Last Stop to Nowhere (2023, Swiss Dark Nights), served as a first taste of their poison. Since then, the band has performed live along both local as well as international acts like Then Comes Silence, Darkways and Scheitan. In 2026, Reflection Black are unveiling their most potent material to date with their upcoming full-length album Burning Obsidian Star. This is a great taste of things to come.
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The Architect In Slumber by Reflection Black
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