@@justsomejusstsome8994 ah i understand. I always thought avant-garde was a more burlesque vibe. Always thought BAN is more progressive when it comes to riffs but who cares. BAN is one of the best bm.
The craziest album of the band it's definetly the work which transforms god, It is like the Obscura (Gorguts) of Black metal but I think very few people could appreciate for what it is
I think your comment about higher dimensions is spot-on -- that could be the "non-euclidean" geometry of Lovecraft being expressed, but it's been a feeling in Blut Aus Nord's music since they found their sound. I think the microtonal playing on the fretless guitar is a key to that sound.
Such a strange band, their discography has a fair few changes in style but they always manage to keep it engaging. Would love to see more reactions from these guys 🤘great analysis!
Mesmerising track! Although a bit "off topic" from the theme as you said, we got the opportunity to listen to some truly unique stuff and I'm glad it worked for you (too)!
Oooh, B.A.N. finally makes an appearance, one of the most interesting bands to come out of black metal's primordial ooze. In many ways they're a band containing a few other bands. They have their own recognizable sound and tone, but within that recognizable sound, they often release vastly different albums. This is their least digestible facet by far, leaning into a lot of dissonance and microtonality, though it's probably the most accessible they've been within that facet. Then they have a couple of industrial/electronica tinged albums, and then again, they have 3 albums called Memoria Vetusta I, II, and III which are essentially epic melodic black metal. The main theme is lots and lots of atmosphere in whatever they do. Electronic elements and a downplaying of the guitar are not that uncommon in black metal, and you heard at least one example in Summoning who do 90% of the music with synths and treat guitars as mere windo dressing. B.A.N. do use guitars here, as far as I can tell. As for other examples of the strange directions metal and metal adjacency went, you have Elend, who are very black metalish in feel, though the only common element are the shrieky yells, which are superimposed over (synth) orchestra and set in opposition to gregorian choirs, all this over music that sounds like the bastard child of renaissance church homilies and Penderecki. Oh, and they sing a 3 album reimagining of Milton's Paradise Lost. And on a more "normal" tone, Young Gods were being pretty metal without a guitar in sight way back in the 80s and 90s.
This album to me is about being swept by the swell of their atmosphere and then allowing the barrage of the drums and vocals to do their thing. Instead of head bobbing it’s more of a smooth glide. I think they do a great job of allowing the listener to melt into the music while also creating an atmosphere of discomfort. Ps- yeah, the drummer is stellar. He does some gnarly stuff.
First time Blut Aus Nord was ever described as "highly palatable" lol I really want to see your reaction to some of their earlier albums like MoRT or the 777 trilogy.
@@progperljungman8218 13:35 I'm pretty sure he said palatable. It is in the drum section. And hey, I'm ready to have the general public accept music like this, I'm still just a little doubtful though.
I forget where I first heard this about trying to follow along with Blut Aus Nord, but they said that it's like you're falling in a bottomless pit, trying to grab onto anything at all and having it dissolve away in your hands. It describes the nightmarish quality of the music perfectly.
Good description. Their industrial stuff (The Work Which Transforms God, Odinist, and Mort), feels like being trapped inside a metal box with chains swinging from the ceiling while a giant godlike being is twisting and crushing the box you're inside
This album is wonderful; but it's kinda devoid of melody and rhythm; which is interesting in itself. The Memoria Vetusta albums are very very riffy! Very different to this!
Blut Aus Nord has been one of those bands I’ve always wanted to get around to, but never managed to. Definitely not within my wheelhouse, quite a disturbing sound, made me very uneasy in an unpleasant way, but something tells me that’s what they were trying to do. I think you’re very much on track with your analysis of this trying to invoke a lovecraftian feel, and it certainly succeeds in my opinion.
One should note that this track is not wholly representative of Blut Aus Nords work and that on Memoria Vetusa and Ultima Thule albums they play much more symphonic, epic and maybe traditional style of black metal reminiscent of bands like early Emperor and Burzum.
Blut Aus Nord has two extremes in style, and this particular one doesn't really appeal to me. But as mentioned, Memoria Vetusta 1 and 2 are melodic and emotional. Great stuff. There's a Memoria Vetusta 3 as well, but somehow it just doesn't do it for me. Ultima Thule and Hallucinogen are also in the more melodic end of their repertoire. There's also the three-CD Cosmosophy, which has a wide mix of styles.
@@GuerillaBunnybro this album is unbelievable. It really achieves what it sets out to do. It's their best. If you don't 'get it' then something is missing from your brain.
This album is the quintessence of Fausto Romitelli's two theses: 1. experimental rock music (here: metal), using radically different means, has achieved effects akin or close to spectralism (Blut Aus Nord more than anyone can be compared to Grisey) 2. contemporary music, worthy of the name, must be violent and enigmatic (you don't have a key to it, you can't "explain" it with some accessible theory - it just IS and amazes/disgusts the listener). (Yes, they use fretless instruments, at least used to/sometimes).
Yes it's fretless guitar. I think you describe the music as dissonant black metal , it's very atonal. There is not many black metal bands with fretless guitar, the other band that comes to mind is Velvet Cacoon. Drums is programmed as far as I know atleast samples are just so it could be a digital kit but still quantized notes.
@@mason_dale No, Vindsval uses fretless guitar on many albums, and he and GhÖst will also use fretless bass (GhÖst and W.D. Feld are not always on every BAN album).
@@joshuasmith8695 W. D. Feld will use programmed drums though on BAN albums and on the Yerûšelem album he and Vindsval also did together. And GhÖst and W. D. Feld are not on every album.
@@joshuasmith8695no not really. The band has always utilized a drum machine, except for two releases in 2014. W.D. Feld is an alias and a clear indicator that it's the drum machine
You're right about the lovecraft point. That's one of the lyrical themes listed for them and all the track titles on this record sound lovecraftian with some of them outright referencing it. Chants of the Deep Ones - The deep ones are amphibious lovecraft creatures Tales of the Old Dreamer - I think the old dreamer is referencing a lovecraft character named Azathoth Into the Woods Neptune's Eye That Cannot Be Dreamed - Lovecraftian concept Keziah Mason - A witch from one of Lovecraft's short stories The Apotheosis of the Unnamable - The Unnamable is the name of one of Lovecraft's short stories. I think you're right about the lyrics too. There's a bunch of their albums where they either don't release them or they don't have any.
This band RULES. I really suggest checking out "Odinist," "The Work Which Transforms God," and the "777" Trilogy of albums. Really cool and different stuff - like a weird, bendy... wiggly(? lol) cousin to Deathspell Omega... speaking of which, you should really check out the band Plebeian Grandstand (the song Eros Culture is a great starting point, and I enjoy them more than BAN and DsO most of the time). BAN, DsO, Esoctrilihum, and PG are all from the French atmoblack/dissoblack scene - there's something in the water over there, I swear. Some insanely compelling black metal is coming out of the French/Belgian scene.
Am glad you did this one. I would call this Astral Black Metal or estra dimensional Death metal. They have some really far out stuff. They are definetly guitars. They are very secretive about how theyu get those sounds. The rhythms sound very naturall and fat without sounding crusty which is a bonusm The leads are some sorts of layers and slightly detuned voices and effects of some sort. The atmopheres are quite hauntiny yet unearthly.
This band is really incredible. As others have said they have gone through so many different eras, sometimes returning to old ideas after many years with new evolutions. All of it is black metal-adjacent, but it runs the gamut from much more traditional, melody-driven ideas to nihilistic industrial-tinged death marches to weird religious chanting to, well, this. It doesn't all work all the time and some of it is clearly meant to be disturbing, but you cannot say Vindsval and crew lack vision.
Hi Bryan, I was a bit busy & still am a bit, so didn't have time to thank you for the review (i was one of those who asked for this band to be covered-ok on a free suggestion basis, but still..). Glad that it at least intrigued you. This is a unique band in its style & yeah maybe we can speak of "Dream Experimental Black Metal" or "Experimental Black Gaze" (I say that but it borders or enters into horror often) but their style did evolve a lot in time (their debut were more austere & more radical Black Metal), and they still do vary their offer almost for each album, but I really recommend their 2 latest albums (including the one which that one come from) for more exploration of their strange style...and yes those 2 last albums are ultra-atmospheric & this is one of the reasons I like them...some of the early ones are way more dissonant, btw...and I agree that the drummer is something...I was surprised you doubted there were guitars involved, though, lots of effects for sure, mind you...Cheers !
in norse mythology North, East, South and West are names of the Dwarfs that crafted Odins Spear and Thors Hammer. so Blut aus Nord probably relaying to the Dwarf Nord.
Its an artistic interpretation of German, and they are French. It is guitars. Really you need to be listening to the Work Which Transforms God. That was their masterpiece, and I personally never felt that topped it. Although I enjoy all the albums to a degree. Deathspell Omega is another one you really should check out, as its very dissonant and dark. Just don't go exploring the singers other projects, or back story/interests. When it comes to non-metal, I really, really wish you would check out Le Days. Its simplistic yet haunting acoustic music from a odd swedish man that I swear must have something going on mentally but unleashes it in a powerful and at times disturbing way.
One of my favorite bands, but not so much this album. Would love to see a reaction to anything off 'Hallucinogen' after having heard this. Very much in the melodic/psychedelic direction, while this album is more dissonant/industrial vibe.
This band has been high on my list to check out for a long time but haven't gotten to them yet. This will definitely inspire me to get to them faster. Basically psychedelic black metal with avant-garde elements... reminds me a bit of Deathspell Omega but with more focus on atmosphere.
i really like their Hallucinogen album, this song def doesn't sound like some others I've heard from them at all lol. Cool to see they have diverse soundscapes.
I'd also recommend The Remotest Cipher (Beside the last breath vanished) by Leviathan from his 2018 album Unfailing Fall into Naught not as clean production wise but it has this uncanny valley type of atmosphere and feels like shifting into more microtonal regions by moments, I always felt as this song is depicting misanthropy and depression as a disgusting eldritch god I truly love it
I have heard of them and I believe I have at least checked out an album in the past, but never really dove deep into their music. This reminds me a little of Oranssi Pazuzu though and I really like that band. This is even more crazy, so not something I would listen to regularly, but I might have a look at the album this is on.
This is awesome! You really should check out the new Thantifaxath album Hive Mind Narcosis. People are going nuts over it, including myself. I’ve basically heard their style described as modern classic music played in the style of avant-garde dissonant black metal. Would love to hear your thoughts.
ALL HAIL BLUT AUS NORD : BEST FRENCH BLACK METAL BY FAR. Listen Memoria Vestuta (I/II/III), The work ..., Hallucinogen, Mystical Beast, Ultima Thulee and others ...
Late response, but very cool review. You are pretty spot on about the feel of the music, it is meant to be alien and otherworldly. If I am correct, they use guitars, but as you guessed early on, they are fretless guitars. The melodies are created by tapping notes on the fretboard rather than picking notes.
Had to make a 2nd comment; it is an experience, perhaps some would define it as a spiritual one, but it is definitely that. Listening to it, you have had a similar shared experience as I and many others.
Very cool and funny review, getting close to the music and its atmosphere. BAN is one of the best modern black metal bands, pioneers in dissonant guitar work. Some try to compare with Portal for example, but honestly those guys are miles away from this entity, both in songs, atmosphere and ideas.
archetypical "i dont give a fuck" music. they have a thing they do and they subscribe to that thing 100%, sense be damned. i dont like this, but i appreciate the everliving shit out of this.
Hallucinogen was a far better album. They have a few albums that are just amazing. This one is alright but I'd be interested in seeing reactions to others
I was gonna write some stuff about the insane droning sound of this album but instead i'll just leave a lovecraft quote. "....and whirled blindly past ghastly midnights of rotting creation, corpses of dead worlds with sores that were cities, charnel winds that brush the pallid stars and make them flicker low. Beyond the worlds vague ghosts of monstrous things; half-seen columns of unsanctified temples that rest on nameless rocks beneath space and reach up to dizzy vacua above the spheres of light and darkness. And through this revolting graveyard of the universe the muffled, maddening beating of drums, and thin, monotonous whine of blasphemous flutes from inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond Time; the detestable pounding and piping whereunto dance slowly, awkwardly, and absurdly the gigantic, tenebrous ultimate gods-the blind, voiceless, mindless gargoyles whose soul is Nyarlathotep." And yes even tho i am a huge Lovecraft fan and i think they nailed the sound they were going for 10/10, it can be abit to much for even me to listen too. If you wanna get into this band their album "Hallucinogen" has a very similiar feel but with the overal dissonance turned down by maybe 50% 😄
ouch, you started from like you said an overwhelming album, a few earlier albums would have been better to start with: Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue with the Stars Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry 777 - The Desanctification 777 - Cosmosophy ps. it's so called "post black metal", so it can be anything :)
Was about to say, the Disharmonium series (Undreamable Abysses / Nahab), are really not where id start. The Memoria Vetusta series is alot more approachable and more closer to music than the swirling disjointed sounding Disharmonium stuff.
I play D&D pretty regularly, and one of the things I’ve taken to doing is to create playlists for characters as I create them as a way of short-handing my way into a character. I was listening to this album and wound up writing up a character whose backstory involves finding some forbidden tome, carrying out a ritual from it seeking knowledge (character worships a deity whose domain includes knowledge and secrets), and subsequently breaking one of the seals on the prison of a primordial god of chaos, a sin for which he is dedicated to atoning by making sure the other seals remain intact. So clearly I agree with your assessment of what this music is for. It’s deeply unsettling in a pretty compelling way. They’re a fascinating band; most of their albums sound fairly different, though all with some black metal roots. They’ve got straight up melodic black metal albums, more avant/ambient albums like this one, more abrasive black metal, industrial, etc.
stuck music rounding and rounding a dizzy-carrousel not even spiral. it is more production than music. i would like a music with fire-mares burning the very closed fence of spines the image you showed. react to "hijos de la tierra los jaivas" . jajaja with all my respect
One of the best Avant Garde Metal albums of 2022
wtf u talking about, this aint 'avant garde' this is black metal...................... listen to master's hammer JILEMNICE OCCULTIST, 1991 record..
@@TiwazGoudsnor To be fair, theres a lot of avant-garde metal on this album
@@justsomejusstsome8994 ah i understand. I always thought avant-garde was a more burlesque vibe. Always thought BAN is more progressive when it comes to riffs but who cares. BAN is one of the best bm.
Oh yes Blut aus nord is one of the best atmospheric black metal bands ever. Their early stuff is something real special
hey i always enjoyed their newer stuff, and heard some of their older stuff (which is great and brutal) What albums do you suggest i check out
@@Nile8765 "Memoria Vetusta I: Fathers of the Icy Age" is my favourite early album from BLUT AUS NORD.
"Procession of Dead Clowns" ranks highly
The craziest album of the band it's definetly the work which transforms god, It is like the Obscura (Gorguts) of Black metal but I think very few people could appreciate for what it is
Yep it’s their best. Love that album.
Agreed
I think your comment about higher dimensions is spot-on -- that could be the "non-euclidean" geometry of Lovecraft being expressed, but it's been a feeling in Blut Aus Nord's music since they found their sound. I think the microtonal playing on the fretless guitar is a key to that sound.
Such a strange band, their discography has a fair few changes in style but they always manage to keep it engaging. Would love to see more reactions from these guys 🤘great analysis!
Mesmerising track!
Although a bit "off topic" from the theme as you said, we got the opportunity to listen to some truly unique stuff and I'm glad it worked for you (too)!
Oooh, B.A.N. finally makes an appearance, one of the most interesting bands to come out of black metal's primordial ooze. In many ways they're a band containing a few other bands. They have their own recognizable sound and tone, but within that recognizable sound, they often release vastly different albums. This is their least digestible facet by far, leaning into a lot of dissonance and microtonality, though it's probably the most accessible they've been within that facet. Then they have a couple of industrial/electronica tinged albums, and then again, they have 3 albums called Memoria Vetusta I, II, and III which are essentially epic melodic black metal. The main theme is lots and lots of atmosphere in whatever they do.
Electronic elements and a downplaying of the guitar are not that uncommon in black metal, and you heard at least one example in Summoning who do 90% of the music with synths and treat guitars as mere windo dressing. B.A.N. do use guitars here, as far as I can tell. As for other examples of the strange directions metal and metal adjacency went, you have Elend, who are very black metalish in feel, though the only common element are the shrieky yells, which are superimposed over (synth) orchestra and set in opposition to gregorian choirs, all this over music that sounds like the bastard child of renaissance church homilies and Penderecki. Oh, and they sing a 3 album reimagining of Milton's Paradise Lost. And on a more "normal" tone, Young Gods were being pretty metal without a guitar in sight way back in the 80s and 90s.
This album to me is about being swept by the swell of their atmosphere and then allowing the barrage of the drums and vocals to do their thing. Instead of head bobbing it’s more of a smooth glide. I think they do a great job of allowing the listener to melt into the music while also creating an atmosphere of discomfort.
Ps- yeah, the drummer is stellar. He does some gnarly stuff.
These guys never fail to impress, crazy band
Blut aus Nord. Real Genius. Made his first album with 15 years!!!
First time Blut Aus Nord was ever described as "highly palatable" lol I really want to see your reaction to some of their earlier albums like MoRT or the 777 trilogy.
Didn't he say palpable though?
@@progperljungman8218 13:35 I'm pretty sure he said palatable. It is in the drum section. And hey, I'm ready to have the general public accept music like this, I'm still just a little doubtful though.
I forget where I first heard this about trying to follow along with Blut Aus Nord, but they said that it's like you're falling in a bottomless pit, trying to grab onto anything at all and having it dissolve away in your hands. It describes the nightmarish quality of the music perfectly.
Good description. Their industrial stuff (The Work Which Transforms God, Odinist, and Mort), feels like being trapped inside a metal box with chains swinging from the ceiling while a giant godlike being is twisting and crushing the box you're inside
This album is wonderful; but it's kinda devoid of melody and rhythm; which is interesting in itself. The Memoria Vetusta albums are very very riffy! Very different to this!
This album feels like the expression of a huge unknown creature from somewhere else.
Blut Aus Nord has been one of those bands I’ve always wanted to get around to, but never managed to. Definitely not within my wheelhouse, quite a disturbing sound, made me very uneasy in an unpleasant way, but something tells me that’s what they were trying to do. I think you’re very much on track with your analysis of this trying to invoke a lovecraftian feel, and it certainly succeeds in my opinion.
They just released a second this album called “Lovecraftian Echoes”- good stuff.
One should note that this track is not wholly representative of Blut Aus Nords work and that on Memoria Vetusa and Ultima Thule albums they play much more symphonic, epic and maybe traditional style of black metal reminiscent of bands like early Emperor and Burzum.
Blut Aus Nord has two extremes in style, and this particular one doesn't really appeal to me. But as mentioned, Memoria Vetusta 1 and 2 are melodic and emotional. Great stuff. There's a Memoria Vetusta 3 as well, but somehow it just doesn't do it for me. Ultima Thule and Hallucinogen are also in the more melodic end of their repertoire. There's also the three-CD Cosmosophy, which has a wide mix of styles.
@@GuerillaBunnybro this album is unbelievable. It really achieves what it sets out to do. It's their best. If you don't 'get it' then something is missing from your brain.
@@LCRLive687 Right, because people don't have different tastes.
This album is the quintessence of Fausto Romitelli's two theses:
1. experimental rock music (here: metal), using radically different means, has achieved effects akin or close to spectralism (Blut Aus Nord more than anyone can be compared to Grisey)
2. contemporary music, worthy of the name, must be violent and enigmatic (you don't have a key to it, you can't "explain" it with some accessible theory - it just IS and amazes/disgusts the listener).
(Yes, they use fretless instruments, at least used to/sometimes).
Yes it's fretless guitar. I think you describe the music as dissonant black metal , it's very atonal. There is not many black metal bands with fretless guitar, the other band that comes to mind is Velvet Cacoon. Drums is programmed as far as I know atleast samples are just so it could be a digital kit but still quantized notes.
Drums definitely not programmed, current drummer is W. D. Feld....
@@mason_dale No, Vindsval uses fretless guitar on many albums, and he and GhÖst will also use fretless bass (GhÖst and W.D. Feld are not always on every BAN album).
@@joshuasmith8695 W. D. Feld will use programmed drums though on BAN albums and on the Yerûšelem album he and Vindsval also did together. And GhÖst and W. D. Feld are not on every album.
@@joshuasmith8695no not really. The band has always utilized a drum machine, except for two releases in 2014. W.D. Feld is an alias and a clear indicator that it's the drum machine
You're right about the lovecraft point. That's one of the lyrical themes listed for them and all the track titles on this record sound lovecraftian with some of them outright referencing it.
Chants of the Deep Ones - The deep ones are amphibious lovecraft creatures
Tales of the Old Dreamer - I think the old dreamer is referencing a lovecraft character named Azathoth
Into the Woods
Neptune's Eye
That Cannot Be Dreamed - Lovecraftian concept
Keziah Mason - A witch from one of Lovecraft's short stories
The Apotheosis of the Unnamable - The Unnamable is the name of one of Lovecraft's short stories.
I think you're right about the lyrics too. There's a bunch of their albums where they either don't release them or they don't have any.
This band RULES. I really suggest checking out "Odinist," "The Work Which Transforms God," and the "777"
Trilogy of albums. Really cool and different stuff - like a weird, bendy... wiggly(? lol) cousin to Deathspell Omega... speaking of which, you should really check out the band Plebeian Grandstand (the song Eros Culture is a great starting point, and I enjoy them more than BAN and DsO most of the time). BAN, DsO, Esoctrilihum, and PG are all from the French atmoblack/dissoblack scene - there's something in the water over there, I swear. Some insanely compelling black metal is coming out of the French/Belgian scene.
Am glad you did this one. I would call this Astral Black Metal or estra dimensional Death metal. They have some really far out stuff. They are definetly guitars. They are very secretive about how theyu get those sounds. The rhythms sound very naturall and fat without sounding crusty which is a bonusm The leads are some sorts of layers and slightly detuned voices and effects of some sort. The atmopheres are quite hauntiny yet unearthly.
This band is really incredible. As others have said they have gone through so many different eras, sometimes returning to old ideas after many years with new evolutions. All of it is black metal-adjacent, but it runs the gamut from much more traditional, melody-driven ideas to nihilistic industrial-tinged death marches to weird religious chanting to, well, this. It doesn't all work all the time and some of it is clearly meant to be disturbing, but you cannot say Vindsval and crew lack vision.
Hi Bryan, I was a bit busy & still am a bit, so didn't have time to thank you for the review (i was one of those who asked for this band to be covered-ok on a free suggestion basis, but still..). Glad that it at least intrigued you. This is a unique band in its style & yeah maybe we can speak of "Dream Experimental Black Metal" or "Experimental Black Gaze" (I say that but it borders or enters into horror often) but their style did evolve a lot in time (their debut were more austere & more radical Black Metal), and they still do vary their offer almost for each album, but I really recommend their 2 latest albums (including the one which that one come from) for more exploration of their strange style...and yes those 2 last albums are ultra-atmospheric & this is one of the reasons I like them...some of the early ones are way more dissonant, btw...and I agree that the drummer is something...I was surprised you doubted there were guitars involved, though, lots of effects for sure, mind you...Cheers !
in norse mythology North, East, South and West are names of the Dwarfs that crafted Odins Spear and Thors Hammer. so Blut aus Nord probably relaying to the Dwarf Nord.
Its an artistic interpretation of German, and they are French. It is guitars. Really you need to be listening to the Work Which Transforms God. That was their masterpiece, and I personally never felt that topped it. Although I enjoy all the albums to a degree. Deathspell Omega is another one you really should check out, as its very dissonant and dark. Just don't go exploring the singers other projects, or back story/interests.
When it comes to non-metal, I really, really wish you would check out Le Days. Its simplistic yet haunting acoustic music from a odd swedish man that I swear must have something going on mentally but unleashes it in a powerful and at times disturbing way.
Pretty sure he’s done DsO now
You should definitely listen Oranssi Pazuzu - Vasemman Käden Hierarkia
One of my favorite bands, but not so much this album. Would love to see a reaction to anything off 'Hallucinogen' after having heard this. Very much in the melodic/psychedelic direction, while this album is more dissonant/industrial vibe.
This band has been high on my list to check out for a long time but haven't gotten to them yet. This will definitely inspire me to get to them faster. Basically psychedelic black metal with avant-garde elements... reminds me a bit of Deathspell Omega but with more focus on atmosphere.
Check out their last album hallucinogen. It's more psychedelic and less nightmarish than this one
Not sure about now, but i'm pretty sure they used to use programmed drums/drum machine.
i really like their Hallucinogen album, this song def doesn't sound like some others I've heard from them at all lol. Cool to see they have diverse soundscapes.
I'd also recommend The Remotest Cipher (Beside the last breath vanished) by Leviathan from his 2018 album Unfailing Fall into Naught not as clean production wise but it has this uncanny valley type of atmosphere and feels like shifting into more microtonal regions by moments, I always felt as this song is depicting misanthropy and depression as a disgusting eldritch god I truly love it
I have heard of them and I believe I have at least checked out an album in the past, but never really dove deep into their music. This reminds me a little of Oranssi Pazuzu though and I really like that band. This is even more crazy, so not something I would listen to regularly, but I might have a look at the album this is on.
This is awesome! You really should check out the new Thantifaxath album Hive Mind Narcosis. People are going nuts over it, including myself. I’ve basically heard their style described as modern classic music played in the style of avant-garde dissonant black metal. Would love to hear your thoughts.
thats a very harsh introduction to them :D i think their album Hallucinugen would be a better place to start as it is much more accessible
ALL HAIL BLUT AUS NORD : BEST FRENCH BLACK METAL BY FAR. Listen Memoria Vestuta (I/II/III), The work ..., Hallucinogen, Mystical Beast, Ultima Thulee and others ...
Great review. I thought the song was killer, but wasn’t sure you would like it, and the way you liked was fun to watch.
This would go well along Shub-Niggurath's Les Morts Vont Vite, it's also very otherworldly but in an more "audible" way. Maybe for a Lovecraft week...
Late response, but very cool review. You are pretty spot on about the feel of the music, it is meant to be alien and otherworldly. If I am correct, they use guitars, but as you guessed early on, they are fretless guitars. The melodies are created by tapping notes on the fretboard rather than picking notes.
Excellent album!
Had to make a 2nd comment; it is an experience, perhaps some would define it as a spiritual one, but it is definitely that. Listening to it, you have had a similar shared experience as I and many others.
My favourite band, and there are from my region: Normandy
This is such a great album.
Very cool and funny review, getting close to the music and its atmosphere. BAN is one of the best modern black metal bands, pioneers in dissonant guitar work. Some try to compare with Portal for example, but honestly those guys are miles away from this entity, both in songs, atmosphere and ideas.
archetypical "i dont give a fuck" music. they have a thing they do and they subscribe to that thing 100%, sense be damned. i dont like this, but i appreciate the everliving shit out of this.
you gotta check out their 777 albums
it's the demon snatch.
Hallucinogen was a far better album. They have a few albums that are just amazing. This one is alright but I'd be interested in seeing reactions to others
I was gonna write some stuff about the insane droning sound of this album but instead i'll just leave a lovecraft quote.
"....and whirled blindly past ghastly midnights of rotting creation, corpses of dead worlds with sores that were cities, charnel winds that brush the pallid stars and make them flicker low.
Beyond the worlds vague ghosts of monstrous things; half-seen columns of unsanctified temples that rest on nameless rocks beneath space and reach up to dizzy vacua above the spheres of light and darkness. And through this revolting graveyard of the universe the muffled, maddening beating of drums, and thin, monotonous whine of blasphemous flutes from inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond Time; the detestable pounding and piping whereunto dance slowly, awkwardly, and absurdly the gigantic, tenebrous ultimate gods-the blind, voiceless, mindless gargoyles whose soul is Nyarlathotep."
And yes even tho i am a huge Lovecraft fan and i think they nailed the sound they were going for 10/10, it can be abit to much for even me to listen too.
If you wanna get into this band their album "Hallucinogen" has a very similiar feel but with the overal dissonance turned down by maybe 50% 😄
ouch, you started from like you said an overwhelming album, a few earlier albums would have been better to start with:
Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue with the Stars
Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry
777 - The Desanctification
777 - Cosmosophy
ps. it's so called "post black metal", so it can be anything :)
Was about to say, the Disharmonium series (Undreamable Abysses / Nahab), are really not where id start. The Memoria Vetusta series is alot more approachable and more closer to music than the swirling disjointed sounding Disharmonium stuff.
They're much more avant-garde or experimental than post. They don't have as much post-rock / shoegaze influences as most pure post-black metal bands
I play D&D pretty regularly, and one of the things I’ve taken to doing is to create playlists for characters as I create them as a way of short-handing my way into a character. I was listening to this album and wound up writing up a character whose backstory involves finding some forbidden tome, carrying out a ritual from it seeking knowledge (character worships a deity whose domain includes knowledge and secrets), and subsequently breaking one of the seals on the prison of a primordial god of chaos, a sin for which he is dedicated to atoning by making sure the other seals remain intact. So clearly I agree with your assessment of what this music is for. It’s deeply unsettling in a pretty compelling way.
They’re a fascinating band; most of their albums sound fairly different, though all with some black metal roots. They’ve got straight up melodic black metal albums, more avant/ambient albums like this one, more abrasive black metal, industrial, etc.
stuck music rounding and rounding a dizzy-carrousel not even spiral. it is more production than music. i would like a music with fire-mares burning the very closed fence of spines the image you showed. react to "hijos de la tierra los jaivas" . jajaja with all my respect
I get your idea but think what it is producing isn't necessarily music in the common sense, but an ambiance or a spiritual experience.
Production sounds influenced by the feeling of being at the bottom of a slimy well...not my thing but hey, for the goth frogs out there, have at it!
Here's a better title: man mumbles random words about genre he does not understand.
downlifting