Musicians in the 1960s thought a lot about getting beyond scales, chords, and key, and making pure music, but the results usually ended in chaos because they were still thinking about music. K.K. Null creates dynamic sonic textures that convey a poetic sense of contrast and evolution, and uses that to create beauty from ugliness.
5 CommentsTribalism In Music
Hippie intellectual poseurs The Guardian are like a broken compass: whatever direction it indicates is North can be safely assumed not to be North. Their foaming vat of slime mold and anal yeast that manages the music section produced a shrill complaint about tribalism in music:
8 CommentsTags: assimilation, tribalism
Triptykon featuring The Metropole Orkest – Requiem (Live At Roadburn 2019) (2020)
This album will make waves because it is going to divide audiences based on who will give it a chance and who will categorically ignore it; this, like trolling, is the pure provocation that forms a necessary part of Art as opposed to Entertainment. The album possesses a fatal flaw, but makes up for it with some of the more interesting experiments within the notion of doom — dark, melancholic, sentimental, but not self-pitying — sounds, going beyond metal and rock in composition.
9 CommentsTags: Ambient, atmospheric, celtic frost, death metal, hellhammer, triptykon
Insomnium Will Stream Live Concert on May 29
Melodic Finnish death metal band Insomnium will play a coronavirus virtual live concert on Friday, May 29, starting at 1:00 PM EDT. The show will consist of the Winter’s Gate album in total plus a smattering other songs from previous albums, and will be followed by a live chat with fans.
6 CommentsTags: Insomnium, melodic metal
Corvus Corax Streaming Living Concert On Thursday, May 21
Medieval neofolk band Corvus Corax plans to stream a live concert on Thursday, May 21, live at 6:00 PM CET from the band farm in Berlin Lübars. Like other coronavirus events, this one promises a lively show that you can enjoy from the comfort of your living room, phone, or a tablet nailed to the wall of your basement.
2 CommentsTags: corvus corax, neofolk
Triptykon With The Metropole Orkest Releases “Rex Irae” From Requiem
Attempting to sound the depths of the vision Tom G. Warrior had for Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, and now Triptykon, the band joins with orchestral layers of sound from The Metropole Orkest to release an extensive doom metal, gothic metal, and heavy metal onslaught.
No CommentsTags: celtic frost, Doom Metal, hellhammer, the metropole orkest, triptykon
Acerus Releases The Tertiary Rite
In nature, populations improve when a small group breaks away, develops new traits, and then is partially or completely absorbed by the original group, spreading those beneficial traits to the whole group. Heavy metal is now absorbing death metal and black metal through power metal.
2 CommentsTags: acerus, daniel corchado, Heavy Metal
Sorcier des Glaces Announces 2020 Album Un Monde de Glace et de Sang
Sorcier Des Glaces released a trailer for its new album Un Monde de Glace et de Sang to be released in October 2020 on CD by Obscure Abhorrence Productions and on cassette through Dread Records.
No CommentsTags: Black Metal, sorcier des glaces
That Glorious “I Believe In The Dark Lord” Sample From Necrophobic “Unholy Prophecies” (The Nocturnal Silence)
Every now and then, someone says (or writes) something so inane that the only proper response seems to be to quote the archly disturbing rant sampled in Necrophobic “Unholy Prophecies” from their 1993 melodic Swedish death metal album The Nocturnal Silence which goes something like this:
16 CommentsTags: covid-19, dean koontz, death metal, i believe in the dark lord, necrophobic, Satanism, the nocturnal silence
Century Media Records Hosts Isolation Festival Live Stream On May 14, 2020
As the civilized world dithers over whether to open back up and suffer some ‘rona casualties or stay closed for a prolonged sequel to the Great Depression, business including the music business goes on where it can, even if it must be done from home, which is where you can stream Voivod, Borknagar, Insomnium and a bunch of random bands on May 14th.
3 CommentsTags: century media, isolation festival, Voivod