Escaping Aghartha is back with more environmentally conscious music to please your ears and pull your heart down into your guts. The previous release, Oceanic Womb, addressed issues of ocean acidification and warming. This experimental ambient metal release brings you a 30-minute track, “Accepting Death Amidst an Inexorable Blizzard,” chronicling the plight of bats infected with white-nose syndrome. The disease is caused by cavers and spelunkers bringing in an invasive European fungus as they explore, which then grows in hibernating bats’ noses, causing them to awaken in the middle of winter and starve to death as they have no insects … Continue reading REVIEW: Escaping Aghartha – White-Nose Syndrome