Libérez Barabbas! by the french doomsters Barabbas is a record which was released in 2011 but it's just available on Bandcamp now, so if you missed it then you have another chance to discover it (you can stream it or download it on Bandcamp as a name your price purchase).
you really should discover or rediscover this album because it's really great! it has cool riffing with a good heavy groove (in a doom way not in a stoner way, it really develops a doomy atmosphere), sublte keyboard parts bringing a melodic touch, going hand in hand with the deep heaviness of the guitars and drumming, a bit like it is in Cathedral. but what's maybe the best are the singing and the lyrics in french (around the story of Barabbas. you can't find doomier than that! and it's treated in a smart way, with a subtle irony. but if think that even if you don't understand french you would appreciate the singing).
try it and then I'm pretty sure you'll be waiting for the release of their new album in june 2014!
Libérez Barabbas! on BC
and for the french readers, enjoy the interview below :
-Est-ce que vous pouvez revenir rapidement sur la naissance de Barabbas ? c'était quoi le projet la base?
La domination mondiale et la conversion de l'humanité toute entière au culte du Saint Riff Rédempteur! En vrai notre seule ambition était de nous réunir entre potes pour jouer une musique inspirée des maîtres du genre : Black Sabbath, Cathedral, Saint-Vitus. Au départ, nous n'envisagions même pas de sortir un CD, nous étions simplement heureux de prendre du plaisir ensemble (musicalement s'entend : ). Je sais, c'est d'une banalité consternante, j'espère ne pas avoir dissuadé les visiteurs de ton site de poursuivre la lecture de l'interview : )
-comment est né votre premier album Libérez Barabbas!? comment vous est venu cette idée faire des chansons autour de l'épisode biblique de la crucifixion et de Barabbas? en partie parce que la religion chrétienne est un thème récurrent dans le doom "traditionnel"?
Tout vient du péplum «Barabbas», avec Anthony Quinn. Ce film raconte le destin de Barabbas après qu'il ait été libéré à la place de Jésus et son difficile chemin vers la rédemption (d'autant plus difficile que Barabbas meurt crucifié à la fin du film, si c'est pas un destin funeste...). Plus que le côté religieux, c'est l'aspect «existentialiste» du film qui nous a touché : un type bien meurt la place d'un salaud, pourquoi? Qui décide? (Ne me regarde pas, je n'ai pas la réponse : ) Mais je précise que nous ne sommes pas un groupe de white metal / christian métal : nous utilisons l'imagerie religieuse comme Dio utilisait l'imagerie médiévale, pour sa puissance métaphorique. La chanson «Barabbas» parle de l'absurdité apparente du destin, «Horizon Golgotha» traite de l'inéluctable qui arrive dans ta vie, etc. Enfin, il est exact que les références religieuses font partie intégrante des origines du doom (ce n'est pas le Sabbat Noir qui dira le contraire : ) et exploiter la thématique religieuse / spirituelle était aussi pour nous une manière de rendre hommage à nos idoles.
-comment composez-vous?
«Composer», c'est un bien grand mot. Ce que nous faisons s'approche davantage de l'assemblage de pièces et boulons : «Amène ton riff, on va le riveter la section rythmique et après, on recouvrira le tout d'une bonne chape de chant pour pour masquer les soudures.» C'est primitif, mais ça marche.
-votre musique m'évoque quelque chose entre du doom "classique" et un groupe comme Cathedral avec le son bien heavy mais aussi un travail particulier sur la mélodie et l'atmosphère, notamment avec les parties de claviers qui s'insèrent subtilement dans les morceaux. comment vous voyez les choses de votre côté?
Tu as vu juste, nous privilégions les mélodies. Les riffs sont primordiaux, bien sûr, mais ils sont toujours au service de la mélodie. Nous pensons davantage «chansons» que «morceaux». Tous nos morceaux ont d'ailleurs une structure classique «couplet / refrain / pont». De même, les paroles sont quasiment toujours écrites en dernier pour mieux épouser la ligne de chant. À partir de là si nous avons besoin d'un clavier, d'une harpe ou d'une cornemuse pour renforcer l'atmosphère de la chanson, nous ne nous en privons pas même si, en live, nous privilégions une approche plus brute en utilisant exclusivement chant / guitare / basse / batterie. On a eu des débats houleux en interne sur l'utilisation possible de samples sur scène mais pour l'instant, le camp des «brut de fonte» a eu le dernier mot : ) Remarque, ça évoluera peut-être à l'avenir.
-il y a bien sur le chant en français qui fait aussi votre originalité on vous questionne souvent la dessus, c'est quand même pourtant paradoxal que ça puisse paraître surprenant de chanter dans sa langue, et c'est d'autant plus bizarre que justement dans vos chansons cela semble (logiquement!) parfaitement naturel et pertinent. est ce que vous vous êtes posés la question au commencement du groupe?
Non, le français s'est imposé sans que l'on y réfléchisse. Nous ne sommes pas des perdreaux de l'année, nous avons beaucoup écouté de hard / métal français dans notre lointaine jeunesse et la majorité des groupes chantaient dans leur langue: Trust, Sortilège, Satan Jokers... Nous avons forcément été influencé. C'est vrai que nous sommes toujours étonnés quand des compatriotes nous demandent pourquoi on a choisi de chanter dans notre langue. Tu te vois demander à Black Sabbath pourquoi ils chantent en anglais? : ) Ceci dit, nous sommes conscient que ça nous ferme des portes, curieusement plus dans notre pays qu'à l'étranger ou on a toujours de bons retours sur notre parti pris linguistique. Mais nous n'avons rien contre les gens qui choisissent de chanter dans une autre langue (tu parles à un fan de Scorpions : ) et au final, l'important reste l'émotion musicale, pas la langue qui la véhicule. L'un de mes groupes préféré est Magma, ils chantent en Kobaen, je ne comprends pas un traître mot de ce qu'ils disent mais cela ne m’empêche pas de ressentir pleinement leur musique.
-vous préparez un nouvel album pour juin je crois, vous pouvez nous en dire plus ce sujet? quoi faut-il s'attendre?
Il sera en fait un peu différent du premier album, un peu moins frontal, on a essaye de diversifier un peu les couleurs sans renier nos fondamentaux, la lourdeur et la mélodie. Mais en fait, on a rien «essayé» du tout, ce n'était pas un processus conscient, on a simplement été ou la musique nous a conduit. De toute façon, on aurait été incapable de refaire le même album que le premier et puis, quel aurait été l’intérêt?
-et entre l'élaboration de ce futur album et la sortie du premier qu'est ce qu'il s'est passé pour Barabbas?
Plein de bonnes choses, comme quoi ne rien attendre de ce groupe nous a permis d'avoir d'heureuses surprises : d'avoir de bons échos sur l'album, tant en France qu'à l'international, des dates intéressantes avec Wounded Kings, Huata, Bottle Doom Lazy Band, Ataraxie, Marche Funèbre, Winnhand, Pilgrim (pardon ceux que j'oublie) et puis de belles rencontres avec des groupes qui sont devenus des potes.
-Qu'est-ce que vous avez de prévu d'autre pour 2014 ? Tourner pour jouer vos nouveaux morceau et présenter le nouvel album?
Oui, trouver des dates et commencer à mettre le troisième album en chantier. On fera le Mennecy Fest en septembre, on aimerai bien jouer dans d'autres festivals (programmateurs, si vous nous lisez...). Trouver un label fait forcément partie de nos projets mais vu la situation du marché du disque, j'ai l'impression que cela devient difficile.
-C'est qui les groupes qui vous inspirent ou vous ont inspirés? Vous avez l'impression de faire partie d'une scène?
Concernant le doom, nos principales sources d'inspiration sont chercher du côté des Grands Anciens (Sabbat, Vitus, Cathedral, Trouble, Pentagram, même si nous sommes forcément influencé par les groupes plus récents que nous écoutons, français ou étrangers. Mais nous apprécions aussi d'autres musiques, du stoner à la pop en passant par le punk, le prog, le classique. Maintenant, si tu organises une soirée free jazz, je ne sais pas si nous viendrons : ) Pour en revenir ta question, faisons-nous partie de la scène doom ? Ce serait prétentieux de l'affirmer, c'est elle de nous le dire : )
-quels autres groupes français conseilleriez vous?
La scène doom / stoner française est très riche, l'amateur de pesanteur métallique n'a que l'embarras du choix : outre Huata, Ataraxie et Bottle Doom Lazy Band cités plus haut, ne passez pas côté de Northwinds, Funéralium, Sons of Zardoz, Tombstone, Stangala, Stonebirds, Hangman's Chair... La liste est longue! J'en profite d'ailleurs pour saluer nos amis bretons de Voight Kampff qui déchirent tout dans un registre techno trash.
-Quelque chose ajouter pour finir l'interview ?
Merci toi de nous avoir ouvert les colonnes de Blasting Days et au plaisir de se retrouver pour parler plus en détail du nouvel album!
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samedi 11 janvier 2014
vendredi 10 janvier 2014
Gripe - In his image (2014)
In his image is Gripe swansong, which is really a bummer because since I listened to Pig servant (see HERE my review, which goes with an interview of the band) Gripe was one of my favourite recent grind band. really intense as grind should always be. the real deal. In his image is maybe a bit slower / mid tempo than what they did before (overall it's still fast!), it's still frenetic, raging and really intense, but in a darker, more vicious way, a less straigthforward aggression. at least they stop on a high note, with another salva of cop killing blastbeats. an excellent grind album to start the new year, a pity that it's their last one..
you can listen to it on this Hygiene records BC page.
you can listen to it on this Hygiene records BC page.
jeudi 9 janvier 2014
Vastum - Patricidal lust (2013)
Vastum first release, Carnal lust, in 2011, left a really good impression and fortunately Patricidal lust lives up to the expectations and confirms that Vastum is one of the best recent death metal band. what they play is old school, mostly mid tempo, death metal. its rooted in old school but the smart songwriting dispays enough creativity in every song to prevent any impression of boring déjà vu, you know the different elements, but the way it is played and arranged makes it sound "fresh" (well, its death metal but you see what I mean..) and intriguing. the vocals are excellent, the lyrics about sex are more original and better than usual, the riffing and drumming is cool (especially if you like the slayeresque touch it has), and the guitar soli are original, weird and creepy. good to see a record as cool as its excellent cover art.
check it on Bandcamp.
check it on Bandcamp.
mardi 7 janvier 2014
my 10 favourites 2013 grind and related albums
well, all is said in the title of the post..I'm giving you a list of the 10 grind (or related music) albums that I liked the most in 2013. with the exception of a split I limit myself to albums here, but of course some Ep's splits, etc were also very good. I ive it in no specific order.
-Blockheads - this world is dead review & interview
-Cloud rat - Moksha review
-Progress of inhumanity -economy extortion review & interview
-Captain Cleanoff / War of the second dragon split review
-Squash bowels - grindcoholism review
-Detroit - reality denied review
-Inhumate - expulsed review
-Agents of abhorrence - Relief review
-Ratbomb - Lowcost gangstas review & interview
-Cut to fit - The doors of deception review & interview
lundi 23 décembre 2013
Cut to fit - The doors of deception (2013)
Cut to fit is a finnish grind band that is around since 2008. The doors of deception is their latest release (for the previous album, see my review HERE). the album is all about grind, the old school way, but faster, the typical (and so cool!) punk sound / vibe and the ridiculously fast parts. and by fast I mean not fast like a grind band, I mean fast for a grind band! so you know, really fast then.. and at the same time with a really loose and spontaneous feel, not the cold technical stuff.
if you're into grind you'll love it!
their Bandcamp
their website
their singer answered to my questions by mail, read it below :
-can you go back to the origin of the band and tell us how it happened? what was he project at the start and how have you evolved since the beginning of the band?
Everything great begins with something less great. I was struggling with my obligatory civilian service in 2008 and was denied all the welfare benefits my peers got (no one payed the rent, for example). I kept telling everyone I'd like to have grindcore band, and I wanted to include my brother, since everyone just kept mocking his skills as a guitarist. Yeah, he did suck, but this was sort of "our thing". I wanted to be careful with who we ask to join the band, but he went drinking with Vili and the next morning he just told me Vili would play the other guitar. Three of us had a shitty proto-band called Havoc Supreme with two other good friends of ours as kids, so it seemed fitting. We found our drummer Miro from the internet. We started "writing" songs in the first rehearsals, and in two or three weeks we had recorded the first demo.. The biggest changes came in 2010. First Vili quit the band. Then Miro got tired of playing gigs and quit. We had an upcoming Obscene Extreme show we did not want to cancel. Eetu went drinking with Vili again and told me the next morning that he'll be playing drums from now on. It was one of the best things that ever happened.
-do you play or have played in other bands?
Yeah, we have played in shitloads of other bands too. At the moment Vili plays guitar in Inferia, a band older than himself! Eetu plays in a punk band called Zyprexa, has some sort of stoner project and whatever, I just do my own semi-acoustic voodoo-shit while I wait for them to have enough time to focus.
-what do you want to express through your lyrics?
Kinda big question.. We have 116 songs right now, if my memory serves me right. Mainly it's sharing my perception of this reality, but the focus seems to change on every album. I guess it all just paints a picture of our personal growth, my fears and frustrations and things like that. I find it quite hard to connect with most human beings, so there's quite a lot of some sort of feeling of social exclusion. But I am not misanthropic. I love people on the paper, but the reality of their social mind games usually just disappoints me. In one review we we're referred to as "beatnik grinders", I think it seemed quite fitting!
-what about The doors of deception? In your opinion how is it different from your others records?
Well, I think they're the best songs we ever had, but we kinda rushed it. I'm not going to tell you we won't do that mistake again, because I know we will. We're impulsive and impatient. It would have been way better if we would have recorded it live. Still, I think those songs just CRUSH! Of course we are still on our way to that "own" sound, I think the next album will be way better. But we prefer playing live, and albums are more like checkpoints in Crash Bandicoot, or something.
-The doors of perception features on the list of my favourite grind records in 2013, what would be your own list of favourite grind (or related) records released this year?
I always have trouble remembering which albums came which year, but I'm quite sure these were all last year:
Feastem - Avaritia Humanae
Nistikko - Kehä
Spawn From Deceit - Woven Promises, Unravelled Victims
Famine Year - Ja Kaiken Kruunaa Kuolema
And of course Magrudergrind's self-titled is the best grind album of any year!
-do you think grindcore (or grind related music) can be undestood as a reaction against the recuperation and commodification of punk?
I'm not sure about that. In many levels it has helped grindcore, too, to flourish. When the "marginal" things grow bigger, the smaller things in their marginal get more attention too. Personally I'm quite happy about the fact that people who listen to music seem to be more open to new things than few years back. I don't believe we'll ever get our living out of playing grindcore, to us it's more important to have some people who would still be eager to listen to this noise. I acknowledge that being independent lets you have certain creative freedoms..
-do you think that the DIY way of action could be a global alternative or do you see it more as a practical way of growing for an underground band?
Depends entirely on the scale of things. Aldous Huxley predicted in his Brave New World Revisited, that this world will eventually be so bureaucratic it will stumble on it's own impossibility. We are pretty damn close to that point, and it has already sprouted a sort of social microcosmos, where people actually get tired of bureacracy and start doing shit themselves. To me this is always a hope inspiring sight, but then again here in Finland things take much time since majority of people will let the state fuck them sideways for years before they'll decide they are sore enough to get mad. Globally there's kids who claim to have solutions for cleaning pollution from oceans, more efficient electric cars and greener technology, but the dinosaurs of economy keep them from getting funding in fear of change in the global status quo. But the generation of revolutionary ideas (and ideals) is there, waiting. We're not doomed yet. We're just waiting for the dinosaurs to die.
-I like the fact that you have a real website for the band, with many informations, links, writings, etc,, some thought about it?
I think it's a great way to gather things together, instead of having just a boring chickenshitfacebookpage that won't even work, and reaches only those who are using the service. We use Facebook mostly to write something totally irrelevant and moronic or confusing on our wall.. And when it comes to writing, well, as you might have gathered I write quite a lot, so it is a way of digging deeper into some themes that are involved in our albums. Since you only have something like 8 or 10 verses, you really need to cut your thought to fit the songs, too.
-I read that you're interested in psychedelia (at least one of you!), do you relates it to playing grind? If so, how? Or do you just keep your “psychedelic side” for your other musical project(s)?
I think my interest in psychedelic, consciousness altering experience is pretty much related to grindcore too. Since I don't do any drugs (The rest of the band does whateverthefucktheywant!), our shows are my "drug". I black out instantly when Vili counts the first song in, and the next thing I usually actually realize is lying backstage, out of breath. Again, Huxley helped me understand this thing better. It's the lack of oxygen kicking in, combined with adrenaline rush and somewhat spiritual experience of the pure noise and resonance of the guitar amps and drums. Also we think intuition is the key of writing music, most of our songs are played live in their early stages, when we usually fuck them up, and then we realize a minor mistake, that actually makes the song even better. Probably not the most conventional approach to writing music.
-which bands were more influential for you, either for the music or for other things?
For me personally Neurosis, Tom Waits and all the music Peter Dolving has done. I think we're all influenced at least by Magrudergrind, which we had the honor to play live with, Phil Anselmo's several projects, which we grew up with, and Sepultura, since they are just the best heavy metal band in the world. We listen to all kinds of music, hip hop, punk, blues, jazz, whatever! And of course it always affects you somehow.
-which bands from your area would you recommend?
The forementioned Nistikko, Spawn From Deceit, Famine Year and Feastem, and some other great groups like Psykoanalyysi, Nothing More To Eat, Lurk, Midget Fetish, which is not a porngrind band, though the name would imply so..
-which evolution would you like to see for underground music in the future?
All sorts of experiments are always welcome. Music evolves with people, and I think we are on the edge of something new and interesting.
-what is planned for Cut to fit in the coming months?
Hopefully we'll get abroad very soon, we're also working on new songs and hopefully get to play shitloads of shows.
-something to add?
If you want to have us play where-ever-you-happen-to-be, contact us at cuttofit@windowslive.com, we have no sense of self-worth and we're cheap.
if you're into grind you'll love it!
their Bandcamp
their website
their singer answered to my questions by mail, read it below :
-can you go back to the origin of the band and tell us how it happened? what was he project at the start and how have you evolved since the beginning of the band?
Everything great begins with something less great. I was struggling with my obligatory civilian service in 2008 and was denied all the welfare benefits my peers got (no one payed the rent, for example). I kept telling everyone I'd like to have grindcore band, and I wanted to include my brother, since everyone just kept mocking his skills as a guitarist. Yeah, he did suck, but this was sort of "our thing". I wanted to be careful with who we ask to join the band, but he went drinking with Vili and the next morning he just told me Vili would play the other guitar. Three of us had a shitty proto-band called Havoc Supreme with two other good friends of ours as kids, so it seemed fitting. We found our drummer Miro from the internet. We started "writing" songs in the first rehearsals, and in two or three weeks we had recorded the first demo.. The biggest changes came in 2010. First Vili quit the band. Then Miro got tired of playing gigs and quit. We had an upcoming Obscene Extreme show we did not want to cancel. Eetu went drinking with Vili again and told me the next morning that he'll be playing drums from now on. It was one of the best things that ever happened.
-do you play or have played in other bands?
Yeah, we have played in shitloads of other bands too. At the moment Vili plays guitar in Inferia, a band older than himself! Eetu plays in a punk band called Zyprexa, has some sort of stoner project and whatever, I just do my own semi-acoustic voodoo-shit while I wait for them to have enough time to focus.
-what do you want to express through your lyrics?
Kinda big question.. We have 116 songs right now, if my memory serves me right. Mainly it's sharing my perception of this reality, but the focus seems to change on every album. I guess it all just paints a picture of our personal growth, my fears and frustrations and things like that. I find it quite hard to connect with most human beings, so there's quite a lot of some sort of feeling of social exclusion. But I am not misanthropic. I love people on the paper, but the reality of their social mind games usually just disappoints me. In one review we we're referred to as "beatnik grinders", I think it seemed quite fitting!
-what about The doors of deception? In your opinion how is it different from your others records?
Well, I think they're the best songs we ever had, but we kinda rushed it. I'm not going to tell you we won't do that mistake again, because I know we will. We're impulsive and impatient. It would have been way better if we would have recorded it live. Still, I think those songs just CRUSH! Of course we are still on our way to that "own" sound, I think the next album will be way better. But we prefer playing live, and albums are more like checkpoints in Crash Bandicoot, or something.
-The doors of perception features on the list of my favourite grind records in 2013, what would be your own list of favourite grind (or related) records released this year?
I always have trouble remembering which albums came which year, but I'm quite sure these were all last year:
Feastem - Avaritia Humanae
Nistikko - Kehä
Spawn From Deceit - Woven Promises, Unravelled Victims
Famine Year - Ja Kaiken Kruunaa Kuolema
And of course Magrudergrind's self-titled is the best grind album of any year!
-do you think grindcore (or grind related music) can be undestood as a reaction against the recuperation and commodification of punk?
I'm not sure about that. In many levels it has helped grindcore, too, to flourish. When the "marginal" things grow bigger, the smaller things in their marginal get more attention too. Personally I'm quite happy about the fact that people who listen to music seem to be more open to new things than few years back. I don't believe we'll ever get our living out of playing grindcore, to us it's more important to have some people who would still be eager to listen to this noise. I acknowledge that being independent lets you have certain creative freedoms..
-do you think that the DIY way of action could be a global alternative or do you see it more as a practical way of growing for an underground band?
Depends entirely on the scale of things. Aldous Huxley predicted in his Brave New World Revisited, that this world will eventually be so bureaucratic it will stumble on it's own impossibility. We are pretty damn close to that point, and it has already sprouted a sort of social microcosmos, where people actually get tired of bureacracy and start doing shit themselves. To me this is always a hope inspiring sight, but then again here in Finland things take much time since majority of people will let the state fuck them sideways for years before they'll decide they are sore enough to get mad. Globally there's kids who claim to have solutions for cleaning pollution from oceans, more efficient electric cars and greener technology, but the dinosaurs of economy keep them from getting funding in fear of change in the global status quo. But the generation of revolutionary ideas (and ideals) is there, waiting. We're not doomed yet. We're just waiting for the dinosaurs to die.
-I like the fact that you have a real website for the band, with many informations, links, writings, etc,, some thought about it?
I think it's a great way to gather things together, instead of having just a boring chickenshitfacebookpage that won't even work, and reaches only those who are using the service. We use Facebook mostly to write something totally irrelevant and moronic or confusing on our wall.. And when it comes to writing, well, as you might have gathered I write quite a lot, so it is a way of digging deeper into some themes that are involved in our albums. Since you only have something like 8 or 10 verses, you really need to cut your thought to fit the songs, too.
-I read that you're interested in psychedelia (at least one of you!), do you relates it to playing grind? If so, how? Or do you just keep your “psychedelic side” for your other musical project(s)?
I think my interest in psychedelic, consciousness altering experience is pretty much related to grindcore too. Since I don't do any drugs (The rest of the band does whateverthefucktheywant!), our shows are my "drug". I black out instantly when Vili counts the first song in, and the next thing I usually actually realize is lying backstage, out of breath. Again, Huxley helped me understand this thing better. It's the lack of oxygen kicking in, combined with adrenaline rush and somewhat spiritual experience of the pure noise and resonance of the guitar amps and drums. Also we think intuition is the key of writing music, most of our songs are played live in their early stages, when we usually fuck them up, and then we realize a minor mistake, that actually makes the song even better. Probably not the most conventional approach to writing music.
-which bands were more influential for you, either for the music or for other things?
For me personally Neurosis, Tom Waits and all the music Peter Dolving has done. I think we're all influenced at least by Magrudergrind, which we had the honor to play live with, Phil Anselmo's several projects, which we grew up with, and Sepultura, since they are just the best heavy metal band in the world. We listen to all kinds of music, hip hop, punk, blues, jazz, whatever! And of course it always affects you somehow.
-which bands from your area would you recommend?
The forementioned Nistikko, Spawn From Deceit, Famine Year and Feastem, and some other great groups like Psykoanalyysi, Nothing More To Eat, Lurk, Midget Fetish, which is not a porngrind band, though the name would imply so..
-which evolution would you like to see for underground music in the future?
All sorts of experiments are always welcome. Music evolves with people, and I think we are on the edge of something new and interesting.
-what is planned for Cut to fit in the coming months?
Hopefully we'll get abroad very soon, we're also working on new songs and hopefully get to play shitloads of shows.
-something to add?
If you want to have us play where-ever-you-happen-to-be, contact us at cuttofit@windowslive.com, we have no sense of self-worth and we're cheap.
samedi 21 décembre 2013
Domovoyd - Oh, sensibility (2013)
Oh, sensibility, by the finnish quartet Domovoyd (released this year on Svart records) is an album in which I like to get lost into. it's a really trippy and addictive listening experience and that's why it made it into my best of heavy / psychedelic album for 2013. one of is strenght is also the originality of its take on the spacey psychedelic kind of doom. they play some occasionnal Sabbath inspired riffs butunlike many doom album it's not all about the riffs, the heavy trippy atmosphere it develops is more created by the thick layers of fuzzy and noisy guitars. the guitars bring some melodies but even more they bring an almost physical impression to the listener, somewhere between heaviness, noise and drone, but with some potent psychedelic effects. and the more you get into the album the more it progress from doom songs to trippy "noisescapes". and you get lost into it, in a smokey haze of guitar sound and hypnotic rythms.
try this sensorial experience on their Bandcamp.
try this sensorial experience on their Bandcamp.
a selection of excellent 2013 releases in various styles
here's a list of some albums I really enjoyed in 2013, which doesn't really fit in my list of best heavy / psychedelic stuff (that you can read HERE), and won't fit either on the grind list and death / black / trash lists that will come later. I give it in no specific order. your comments are welcome.
-The Funeral and the Twilight - lust review & interview
-Comadre - st review
-Beastmilk - Climax review
-Lux interna - there is light in the body, there is blood in the sun
review
-Ascetic - self initiation review
-Coliseum - sister faith review & interview
-Ruined families - blank language review & interview
-The black heart rebellion - har nevo review
-Correction house - last city zero review
-Circle of Ouroboros - The final egg review
-The Funeral and the Twilight - lust review & interview
-Comadre - st review
-Beastmilk - Climax review
-Lux interna - there is light in the body, there is blood in the sun
review
-Ascetic - self initiation review
-Coliseum - sister faith review & interview
-Ruined families - blank language review & interview
-The black heart rebellion - har nevo review
-Correction house - last city zero review
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