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i do think there's more of a lockstepping to the arrangements once they hit higher speeds, for the most part, but then speed confers a different sort of effect on the sounds, say, when they become relatively more repetitive, than at the slower speeds where things sound less repetitive, more lyrical

j., Friday, 14 February 2014 00:53 (twelve years ago)

yes - at the slower speeds it has the feel of a great, slightly and deliberately disjointed engine, a lyrical treatise as you say - perhaps one that attempts to reveal the chaos immanent in order, or vice versa - but at greater speeds it has a more direct & annihilatory purpose, the pigfuck into gnostic oblivion, the menacing, chanting expression of an attempt to express whose moment has already flown (and yet, cruelly repeating - the repetition ensuring it wasn't just a passing thought but a state of perhaps permanent insanity)

the final track is a particular masterpiece as it manages to synthesis these two speeds into a single lumbering-yet-lightspeed manifesto, a wavering, confounding slab of sound. in fact I'd say this album achieves this synthesis to varying degrees throughout - and does so more successfully than its already-brilliant predecessor

the melodies here are so, so lovely, obv; so lovely and so blasted

Know Scot! Free Getaway: Glen, Handa Island, Rua Reidh (imago), Friday, 14 February 2014 01:03 (twelve years ago)

that poor obliterated pig

j., Friday, 14 February 2014 01:04 (twelve years ago)

this track is pretty badass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVWF__KVJHs

everyday sheeple (Michael B), Sunday, 16 February 2014 18:02 (twelve years ago)

mentioned elsewhere, but i just ordered CD-Rs of the last two joots off dude's bandcamp. he looks to have more than 20 full albums available, all currently in print on CD-R & avail for download. anyone dug back beyond the recent "microtonal black metal" stuff? loving discontinuities and vast chaing, but content to explore there for the moment.

CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Sunday, 16 February 2014 21:02 (twelve years ago)

hobo chaing ba

CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Sunday, 16 February 2014 21:03 (twelve years ago)

theres a ton on Spotify

۩, Sunday, 16 February 2014 21:13 (twelve years ago)

The Jute Gyte music seems interesting but the vocals suck-diddly-uck. I have download links for the two new ones but haven't used them yet because of that.

Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 16 February 2014 21:15 (twelve years ago)

two months pass...

interesting interview with Adam K:

http://thegrindthatannoys.com/2014/03/27/jute-gyte-interview/

what goes in vegans stays in vegans (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 11:53 (twelve years ago)

three months pass...

Rivalling the Jute Gyte album imo:
https://soundcloud.com/flenserrecords/sets/botanist-vi-flora?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=facebook

EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 16 August 2014 04:01 (eleven years ago)

Better link:
https://soundcloud.com/flenserrecords/sets/botanist-vi-flora

EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 16 August 2014 04:01 (eleven years ago)

Yes! The new Botanist album is so fucking majestic and moving. I love it. Gives me a Branca vibe big time.

Bloody Pelt Found Near the Scene of the Crime (Skrot Montague), Saturday, 16 August 2014 13:39 (eleven years ago)

okay I'm way into Botanist

ODB's missing grammy (bernard snowy), Saturday, 16 August 2014 17:04 (eleven years ago)

"tags: metal avant-garde black metal experimental hammered dulcimer San Francisco"

could this be the album to finally bring my mother into the black metal fold???

ODB's missing grammy (bernard snowy), Saturday, 16 August 2014 17:05 (eleven years ago)

yeah that's amazing

reminded me of the latest MBV album a bit

i'm elf-ein lusophonic (imago), Saturday, 16 August 2014 19:51 (eleven years ago)

Hm, maybe I should actually listen to the MBV then. (And, yes, Botanist's stuff is almost all done on amplified hammered dulcimer.)

EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 18 August 2014 19:18 (eleven years ago)

my GF called Botanist "dream metal" when I played it the other day, which is roughly 1000x better as a genre name than "blackgaze"

ODB's missing grammy (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 17:48 (eleven years ago)

idk i love the name "blackgaze", sounds p metal - gazing into the depths of blackness

Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 19:12 (eleven years ago)

Sund4r, I'm mostly referring just to the last three tracks of the MBV album, which are so good it makes me wonder why the whole album isn't like that

i'm elf-ein lusophonic (imago), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 19:15 (eleven years ago)

I also think I prefer 'blackgaze', maybe amended to 'blackgauze', for that is the secret to the word shoegaze's success. Botanist as 'dream metal' rather than blackga(u)ze I'd entirely agree with, though - it's coming from a slightly different place to yer Deafheavens and whatnot. It's much weirder, much more psychedelic.

i'm elf-ein lusophonic (imago), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 19:17 (eleven years ago)

~muslimgaze~

like darkthrone, but w/ islam somehow

j., Tuesday, 19 August 2014 19:24 (eleven years ago)

you're practically inviting me to google 'islamic black metal' and then make a trite infographic about it

i'm elf-ein lusophonic (imago), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 19:25 (eleven years ago)

i was wondering where ppl were talking about botanist. this new album is the shit.

Mordy, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 20:03 (eleven years ago)

btw, for islamic black metal start here

Mordy, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 20:03 (eleven years ago)

oh yeah I recall you showed me a few (some impromptu copyediting iirc). ty!

i'm elf-ein lusophonic (imago), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 20:05 (eleven years ago)

that's just a link to a search i made to keep up w/ ~MENA metal

Mordy, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 20:07 (eleven years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/user/SpaceBlackMetal/videos
I have a feeling I'll be hitting this stuff heavily while I wait for Darkspace IV IIII to drop

ODB's missing grammy (bernard snowy), Monday, 25 August 2014 21:29 (eleven years ago)

oh wait, wrong thread? I know people were discussing Darkspace somewhere recently--mighta been on the Deafheaven thread

ODB's missing grammy (bernard snowy), Monday, 25 August 2014 21:30 (eleven years ago)

it was. I basically rep for them whenever the (solar) winds change

imago, Monday, 25 August 2014 21:34 (eleven years ago)

darkspace aren't branca metal tho, they're totally space-bm as the youtube name implies. nobody else does it remotely so well

imago, Monday, 25 August 2014 21:35 (eleven years ago)

they can play here tho coz this thread is basically about the awesomest metal

imago, Monday, 25 August 2014 21:36 (eleven years ago)

now playing: Polish band 'Cold Womb Descent' because o_O that name........
this is pretty chill but the drumming is hella-weak/synths way too forward in the mix

next up: Celestial Oblivion, "Prison Without Walls"

whoever curates this youtube channel is a hero, obviously

ODB's missing grammy (bernard snowy), Monday, 25 August 2014 21:45 (eleven years ago)

it's kind of blowing my mind right now to see how many bands are out there following the Darkspace blueprint with minor variations in production quality & use of movie samples....... do we need a dedicated a space-black-metal thread? because I am determined to find the diamonds in the rough

Celestial Oblivion was a lot more interesting, structurally & texturally. have now moved on to Galaktik Cancer Squad, whose buzzy Switched-On Bach synth harmonies are about the farthest thing imaginable from the images conjured by that name. enjoyable!

ODB's missing grammy (bernard snowy), Monday, 25 August 2014 21:56 (eleven years ago)

i dunno i was listening to darkspace the other day and it sounded like a less-committed / less-ecstatic paysage d'hiver. later parts sounded a bit more spacy/malevolent, but.

j., Monday, 25 August 2014 22:00 (eleven years ago)

lol i just realized upon doing some googling that that dude is in darkspace. sonic signature, check.

j., Monday, 25 August 2014 22:01 (eleven years ago)

just recalled the other space-BM band I'll really ride for: Progenie Terrestre Pura. check 'em out if you can bernard

imago, Monday, 25 August 2014 23:02 (eleven years ago)

here

http://progenieterrestrepura.bandcamp.com/album/u-m-a

it is sick

plus i'm in italy rn so forza PTP

imago, Monday, 25 August 2014 23:05 (eleven years ago)

(it's probably closer to, say, Ocean Machine-era Devin Townsend than Darkspace, but this should be of equal encouragement)

imago, Monday, 25 August 2014 23:15 (eleven years ago)

I will wholeheartedly second Progenie Terrestre Pura. Their album is hypnotizing and way the fuck out there.

Bloody Pelt Found Near the Scene of the Crime (Skrot Montague), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 00:20 (eleven years ago)

k I will check it out as soon as this Cosmic Church song ends in 9 minutes

ODB's missing grammy (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 00:33 (eleven years ago)

Cosmic Church is a great band.

Siegbran, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 12:04 (eleven years ago)

^this dude's proper-trad-BM as fuck and had PTP, a decidedly avant/experimental BM outfit, authoring his album of the year, which should demonstrate its quality, coherence & entirely un-gimmicky nature

will also check out Cosmic Church yeah

imago, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 12:30 (eleven years ago)

On the subject of space BM this album to me is pretty similar in vibe but not necessarily in style to both Darkspace and especially PTP and if you like those you should definitely check this out

http://petrychor.bandcamp.com/album/makrokosmos

Doesn't sound anything like Branca though admittedly

a proclamation of tortoise intent (ultros ultros-ghali), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 14:58 (eleven years ago)

Oh and Oranssi Pazuzu are pretty spacey too, psychedelic BM that blends these elements really well rather than having 'metal' and 'prog' sections awkwardly jammed together.

a proclamation of tortoise intent (ultros ultros-ghali), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 15:10 (eleven years ago)

cool :) plenty for me and andrew to check out

imago, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 15:17 (eleven years ago)

Loved loved loved the last Oranssi Pazuzu album

rockist raccoon (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 30 August 2014 09:42 (eleven years ago)

this Petrychor is so far extremely great

imago, Saturday, 30 August 2014 09:57 (eleven years ago)

um this is fucking phenomenal

imago, Saturday, 30 August 2014 10:05 (eleven years ago)

this is one of my fave youtube channels. lots of stuff i wouldn't have heard (heard of) otherwise:

http://www.youtube.com/user/AtmsphericBlackMetal/videos

scott seward, Saturday, 30 August 2014 13:44 (eleven years ago)

ANOTHER NEW JUTE GYTE

http://jutegyte.bandcamp.com/album/ressentiment

released approximately 1 minute ago

impromptu MTSLGB listening club: commence

imago, Monday, 1 September 2014 12:49 (eleven years ago)


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