Embers #3 - Hollow Cage  Facebook / embersembers.com
Manchester's Embers returned yesterday to remind everyone just
why they sent so many blogs into hyperbole overdrive after the
release of their initial demo tracks a year or so ago, new track
"Hollow Cage" is without doubt their best yet and will blow
anything else you've heard this week out of the water, recorded
live in a dimly lit Manchester Monastery (full marks to the
director for final video quality) "Hollow Cage" is
groundbreaking, a seven minute journey beyond comprehension that
is truly, truly stunning.  Joined by an orchestra and backing
choir who add sweeping strings and ethereal harmonies to the
bands cinematic soundscapes the track creeps along majestically
from quiet, ambient beginnings to reach a conclusion as
grandiose on scale as anything you'll hear, murky keys and
shimmering guitars become more and more saturated until they
explode upon a cataclysm of shattering emotions, turning the
beauty conveyed before into a deafening cacophony as in