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mommy, i'm scared

this sounds like what people say sonic youth sounded like in the 80s

I'd dispute that it's a 'droney doomy plod' throughout - while the pace is rarely what you'd call hurried (Jute Gyte being of the 'let it stew slowly into shape' school of musical resolution) there are practically ambient passages interspersed with frantic, extremely noisy sections that are held back from cacophony not by sonic reserve but by excellent and thoughtful composition. The guitar tracks are overlaid with a great deal of care and technical precision, so that a certain clarity is always present even through walls of microtonal & polymetric distortion. I don't think the speed is what makes it listenable. Microtonal metal played in the blistering styles of Orthrelm or Deathspell Omega might also work, as both of those acts are similarly precise in their composition. I just think Adam K is a brilliant, brilliant songwriter who has found an incredible way to realise his visions.

oh xposts :D

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

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

that poor obliterated pig

this track is pretty badass

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

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.

hobo chaing ba

theres a ton on Spotify

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.

interesting interview with Adam K:

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

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

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

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

okay I'm way into Botanist

"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???

yeah that's amazing

reminded me of the latest MBV album a bit

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

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

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

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 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.

~muslimgaze~

like darkthrone, but w/ islam somehow

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

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

btw, for islamic black metal start here

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

here

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

it is sick

plus i'm in italy rn so forza PTP

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

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

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

Cosmic Church is a great band.

^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

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

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.

cool :) plenty for me and andrew to check out

Loved loved loved the last Oranssi Pazuzu album

this Petrychor is so far extremely great