* all texts from Fucked By Noise excerpt where noted.
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InurnBetween
'Inurn is a two piece black metal band, with one member residing in New Mexico, and the other in Arizona. Despite this, Inurn have overcome the problems you'd expect to have when band members live in separate states to deliver three tracks of mournful, depressing blackened dirges. Each piece on Inurn I builds on a repetitive riff, in the usual DSBM/atmospheric black metal fashion, and adds additional layers on to them as the song progresses. As well as the standard bass/drum/guitar affair, Inurn incorporate a synthesizer to great effect, using it to thicken their overall sound, and add even more haunting atmospheres to their compositions (thankfully there's no boring 'dungeon synth' excursions a la Burzurm, so worry not). Inurn's vocalist, Luke, goes between a throatier, almost hardcore tinged black metal shriek and a low end bello, which both carry the emotional heft you'd hope to hear in a DSBM release. Inurn I is built around minimal, repetitive song structures, but they never feel boring or stagnant. Instead it's a slow, steady build up of emotional catharsis and depressing atmospheres, that perfectly encapsulate what this genre is about.'-- FBN
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MutterDry Cum
'Black metal is no stranger to synthesizers and guitar-less tracks - but to extend that beyond a single ambient track on an album and to foreground the synth as the main instrument in the band is something else. Enter Mutter, a Western Massachusetts project that does just this. On Trashed Body, the synthesizer is used to created lush drones and harsh oscillating burst of sound layered on top of each other to create an all encompassing wall of sound. Utilizing a drum machine as the means of percussion, Mutter switches between a more traditional black metal drum sound and a heavily distorted, electronic drum sound that borders on EBM or industrial. Combined with the washed out vocals, this thing just pummels you with this constant barrage of stark, experimental black metal and frost ambiance.'-- FBN
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Make A Change ... Kill YourselfLivets Gave
'Make A Change...Kill Yourself are a two piece black metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark who are all about doom, gloom and depression. A decidedly more epic and atmospheric take on depressive suicidal black metal, Make A Change... still pack the emotional punch of their fellow DSBM peers, with repetitive, mournful riffs that slowly progress throughout the course of the song. One of the main hang ups people have the genre is the reliance on melodramatic, shrieked vocals that can often backfire (looking at you Shining) - thankfully Make A Change... have taken a more traditional, raspy approach, which still convey the intended emotions without sounding like a seagull in distress. Fri is an excellent addition to the DSBM genre, and would more than likely appeal to fans of traditional and atmospheric black metal as well.' -- FBN
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Lost Inside I Hate Myself
'FrostBiteNinja13: I hate myself... Every little detail of me. Everyone should go fucking die. So I only have to deal with myself. (Your response) Well fuck you too! I hope you die. Angel R.: Another day, another way to hate me. Darkness Shadow: So beautiful when i start listening this song i wanna my death by hate to myself. Marcus Fossa: Everyone would be better off if I was dead... I am nothing, I hate myself and shouldn't have been born. Archnn Darknessror: Eons have passed but the hate for myself still remains fresh. Edward Kenway: Cursed on this earth. richi hahh: This song is for me im gonna die alone in darkness :c. MrDastosh: I don't see the light at the end of the tunnel.. :-((. ob fartburger: if you knew me you would want me to die. L. Amoeba: Ok... I have no idea how I got here, but guys... Goddamn it, your comments are creepy.'-- youtube comments
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GravekeeperEx(ac)cept Death
'I'm pleasantly surprised to see such a great release to come from right here in my home of Ottawa, Canada in the form of Gravekeeper- a deliciously doomy and ethereal dsbm band. With all the instruments being played by one person titled "Gravekeeper" on their bandcamp page I'm wondering whether or not I can look forward to any live performances around the city by Gravekeeper this year- I certainly hope so. Gravekeeper cranks out some melancholy, lo-fi tunes with vocals that sound like a more muffled, slowed down version of Wrest's vocals in Leviathan, along with segments of haunting dark-souls-opening-theme-esque keyboard on tracks such as "Ex(ac)cept Death". I enjoyed the fact that Gravekeeper's songs are usually pretty short as well, I love the sprawling ten to twenty minute tracks that dsbm musicians like Xasthur create, but its nice to see musicians break away from the formula of a given genre- Gravekeeper did so wonderfully here as there's still plenty of range and flow in each song rather than just long, flat, overly drawn-out tracks with no real sense of motion to them.'-- FBN
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Trist Depression
'This album is insane, that's just all I have to say. It's insane. It borderlines the realness of music and passion without being too overwhelmed into assisting upon itself like it's some divine entity in heavy metal either. Trist is a black metal artist from Czech Republic. His visions on the world are entirely fucked up, his music completely reflects that. Trist generates some of the most blackest and atmospheric songs I think I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing. His self-inflicted scars that he has on his arms comes as no surprise either. Going as far to his self-harm even being displayed on the very album cover I'm writing this review for is really all the least you can expect from tortured musician such as himself.'-- GuardAwakening
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GGUWGegen Gravitation und Willensfreiheit
'Well it wouldn't be a black metal project if it wasn't shrouded in mystery and/or death, and in the case of GGUW they've got both. With their guitarist and founding member dead by his own hand, and the rest of the band choosing to remain anonymous (either based in Brazil or Germany), it's pretty tricky to get more information on this band. Ah well. Onto the music though. GGUW are bit hard to put my finger on. On the first (untitled) track of this release, they play a pretty repetitious style of atmospheric black metal, that winds it's way in between inhumane, animalistic howls and depressing ambience. Yet, on the second track they go for a more straightforward, almost bestial style with slightly more sinister, less melodramtic vocals. The EP's closer however sees them merge the two styles in a mournful yet aggressive track.'-- FBN
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Thy light666
'Every single DSBM band on earth knows the Brazilian group Thy Light, though the band has released only one demo album Suici.De.pression, but the quality of the compositions and the technicality of the performance have made this demo one of the most highlighted depressive/suicidal black metal releases of all time. Thy Light has proved that there is no single band in the world can create depressive\suicidal black metal music better than them. These tracks will be worshiped and respected as masterpieces in the DSBM world throughout the years, just like their first demo album. If you're a fan of this type of music and the other alike genres (black doom and funeral doom metal), then you have to get your copy of this record immediately and start discovering the perfect art of suicidal black metal.'-- JorZine
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GrisIl Était une Forêt
'Their name alone, "Gris", meaning "grey" in French, pretty much gives you a solid idea of what you're in for musically speaking, which understandably goes along with where they're from: Montreal. I don't know about Montreal in particular, but if its anything like it is where I live in Ottawa (about two hours away) then it's long, beyond cold, and absolutely dead- which is exactly how Il était une forêt sounds. Gris is pretty much the musical equivalent of standing naked in the middle of nowhere during a snowstorm, using insanely heavy pieces where the guitars, bass, and drums work in complete harmony with one another, none standing out more than the other as they drag you through the aforementioned snowstorm whether you like it or not. This is mirrored however the albums use of classical instruments such as cellos, violins, and even piano which work extremely well to bring an end to the album on it's final track "La dryad"- not completely breaking away from the black metal aspect of the rest of album but still bringing you back into reality a bit from the abyss of ear-splitting, melancholy that you've been sitting through.'-- FBN
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Happy DaysDrowning In Razorblades
'Happy Days is a black metal duo that originally began in Sarasota, Florida as a solo project consisting of guitarist/bassist/vocalist A. Morbid who started the group by himself at 14 years old in the year 2004. But music wasn’t released until he recorded three demos under the Happy Days name in 2007. In 2008, Karmageddon (Managarm, Wedard, Griefthorn) joined the band as the permanent drummer and has contributed to every release since. Happy Days’s lyrical themes include suicide, negativity, depression, extreme emotional pain, betrayal, failed relationships and misanthropy. With both members living in separate states, most music is created and recorded separately by each musician then mixed by A. Morbid to get the final outcome. A. Morbid currently resides in San Antonio, Texas and Karmageddon currently resides in Carlsbad, California. Despite them living in different states, they have eventually met each other in person.'-- collaged
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Skagos Colossal Spell
'When I first heard the opening track to Ást I was immediately stricken by how well Skagos is reflective of their home, Vancouver Island, as it's filled with massive and and ancient trees straight out of a fantasy novel cover which Skagos' sound emulates extremely well with their use of slow, ambient drone mixed with a touch of feedback that uneasily leads into the rest of the album- masterfully transitioning through anti-melodic strings, blast beats, and screeching black metal vocals, beautiful choir-like chants, and medieval feeling acoustic pieces.'-- FBN
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Black Autumn Shades
'German one man band Black Autumn is an excellent mixing of elements of harsh noise, dark ambient, and black metal. Largely disorganized and engendering a feeling of hopelessness, “End” makes great use of the signature aspects of black metal's distorted bass and guitars while also reaching peaks of ridiculously fast segments and then masterfully transitioning back into a somewhat relaxed valleys of dark ambient- before throwing you back into it's chaotic mess of synths, strings, and blast beats that you just can't seem to get enough of.'-- FBN
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NorttDøden...
'You'll be hard pressed to find a more bleak, depressing and pulverizing black metal album than this one. Nortt play slow and heavy on this, with little regard for your mental wellbeing. With a guitar tone that sounds like ten billion angry wasps trapped in an amp, and guttural raspy vocals that are barely there, this is the sort of listen that just encompasses you entirely with it's sorrowful dirges and oppressively slow tempo. There's a wonderfully melancholic symphonic intro, and strings and pianos feature in most of the songs adding an even more sombre element to an already bleak and downtrodden album.'-- FBN
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Psychonaut 4Nackskott
'Psychonaut 4 is a Georgian black metal band from Tbilisi, Georgia, formed in July 2010 by Graf von Baphomet (vocals) and André (bass). The lyrics are written by Graf von Baphomet and are about drugs, sex, drinking, depression, lies and suicide. A psychonaut is a human being who deeply explores his or her own mind (usually with the aid of recreational drug use). The "4" in the band's name refers to the number of plateaus in the drug dextromethorphan. Lyrics by the band fluctuate from being written in Georgian, Russian, Ukrainian and English.' -- collaged
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p.s. Hey. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. She's also a really wonderful writer. ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh. I was sort of immersed in or surrounded by the groupie thing during the Glam era as a denizen/ regular at Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco, which I only now see you knew and have written about; wow, I wonder if we bumped into each other without knowing -- where practically every kid there was or wanted to be a groupie, as you know, and which I think was kind of the peak and beginning of the end of the golden age of the groupie in the classic sense. Everyone, apropos the PDB post this weekend, the great Tosh has written on the subject of groupiedom, and you maybe oughta check it out. If you haven't read Des Barres's 'I'm With the Band', I very highly recommend it. ** Sypha, Hi. Nick Drake's work meant the world to me, and it still does, even if it's hard for me to listen to now, as I said. He was the great favorite of George Miles, and in fact George's last known words were a voice mail on the night he killed himself to a friend telling the friend to please call him because he couldn't stop thinking about Nick Drake and needed to talk about that, which is another reason that it's very hard for me to listen to him. It's cool that Ligotti actually wrote back to you. ** Kier, Hi! Strange that 'Dennis' would be so agreeable with nicknames and mutations. You wouldn't think so looking at the word, or I wouldn't. You should get 'I'm With the Band'. It's deliriously great. Is there a reason for those names Silje and Pernille? I mean, is there something about the animals that made those names perfect for them? Yeah, it's so awkward to be with people when they look at your work. Writers never really have to do that, except at readings where the event's formalities kind of protect you. I guess poets who say, 'Here, read my poem', have to deal with that and seemingly want to deal with that. Scary. Nice. Nice weekend too, obviously. Oh, more photos, superb! Everyone, Go look at the final two sets of photos by the supreme Kier taken in/of Bardufoss/Senja. They're amazing, and they're here and here. You don't need to hear me tell you what an awesome mixtape that is. Nonstop giddifiers. My weekend isn't too exciting, and wasn't, I have to say. I worked fitfully on some stuff. As I think you know 'cos I think I said so, I always give Zac edible 'treats' when he goes away on a trip or comes back from somewhere, so I went out and gathered them, mostly at Paris's few-ish Japanese grocery stores and patisseries, and I'll go put a bag of them on his doorstep shortly 'cos he gets back later today. I finally coerced Yury into giving me a desperately needed haircut, so now I look normal-ish again. It got really, really cold here. I had to wear my Antarctica coat when I went out. When I was out, I ran into this boy on the metro whom Zac and I really, really wanted to have in our film. He did an amazing audition. He's an escort, and he seemed to be incredibly insecure about his non-sexual abilities, and he kind of freaked out that we were so into him being in our film and flaked out on the scheduled second round audition and then stopped answering our emails and phone calls. Anyway, I saw him, and he was extremely apologetic and said our enthusiasm about his 'acting' abilities, etc., had scared him to death, and that he'd really regretted not doing it ever since. It was sad. He's very complicated. Really, I feel like I really didn't do much of anything this weekend, and my memory mostly has a blank space where the last two day were. Today or probably tomorrow we'll go back to hard work on the film editing, and I'm excited/ anxious to restart. Monday was ... ? ** Misanthrope, My mom and dad used to say much the same thing about free stuff. Different time, I guess. Yikes, I hope you got the FB thing sorted. You have any idea who it might be, not to stoke your paranoia. Expect a 'DeathEaters' post any day now. If it's real and not just you pranking me, no, I don't know it, and, yeah, I kind of really want to know it. ** Steevee, Hi. Yeah, I thought it was interesting as a character study, and I do think that what's-his-name ... Glyllenhaal, will never be better than that. Sorry to hear that about 'Big Eyes'. Like so many others, I hoped it would be Burton's comeback. Well, actually, the 'Frankenweenie' remake was his comeback in my opinion, but I hoped 'BE' would prove the comeback to be more than a random blip. ** Thomas Moronic, She is! Nice, very nice about your Xmas with the b'friend. I did not know about the Xiu Xiu Christmas sound track gift! I'll will get over there pronto. Thank you! ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi. Great you got 'I'm With the Band'. It's so great. I wish I could write like her. Sweet about the Dundee return plus Art101 countdown plus the Vines stuff! Safe trip home! ** Mark Gluth, Oh, aren't you sweet, thank you, Mark! Dude, when I got a Gary Lutz blurb, I read it a million times in disbelief just like I do with everything he writes. That was heaven. ** Derek McCormack, Hi, Derek! I know, I'm so happy and excited that Semiotext(e) is going to put out your novel! It doesn't get any better than that press. Yay for ... Hedi? I'm guessing Hedi is the super wise person there who leapt at this opportunity. I wish you guys had surprised Millhauser. I've thought about sneaking into one of his classes or something and counting on him not knowing me from Adam and just seeing what he's like. Love, Dennis. ** Kyler, Hi. Elaborate? Oh, was it the 'cardinal rule' thing? Yeah, I don't know the derivation of that term. It was something my mom used to say that got stuck in my vocabulary. It's just important, I think, never to use guilt as a weapon or to allow oneself to be susceptible when guilt is used as weapon against you because it's a creepy, chickenshit device. That's all, really. ** Rewritedept, Fuck blogspot, shit. Sorry on its behalf. Zac gets back in the late morning today. We won't do a rush job on our film. We'll undoubtedly get big pressure to do a rush job from our producers, but we won't and never would. If we can nail it in time, we will. Otherwise, there are other film festivals to try for. I saw the 'third nipple' photo. I don't know, it didn't look weird to me at all. I feel like I've seen nipples like that a bunch of times. I don't know. Hope your Monday is even radder than mine. ** Okay. Go get suicidally depressed via music today or else go lock your analytical side onto why it is that the music up there has been categorized as DSBM. Or not, or neither. See you tomorrow.
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InurnBetween
'Inurn is a two piece black metal band, with one member residing in New Mexico, and the other in Arizona. Despite this, Inurn have overcome the problems you'd expect to have when band members live in separate states to deliver three tracks of mournful, depressing blackened dirges. Each piece on Inurn I builds on a repetitive riff, in the usual DSBM/atmospheric black metal fashion, and adds additional layers on to them as the song progresses. As well as the standard bass/drum/guitar affair, Inurn incorporate a synthesizer to great effect, using it to thicken their overall sound, and add even more haunting atmospheres to their compositions (thankfully there's no boring 'dungeon synth' excursions a la Burzurm, so worry not). Inurn's vocalist, Luke, goes between a throatier, almost hardcore tinged black metal shriek and a low end bello, which both carry the emotional heft you'd hope to hear in a DSBM release. Inurn I is built around minimal, repetitive song structures, but they never feel boring or stagnant. Instead it's a slow, steady build up of emotional catharsis and depressing atmospheres, that perfectly encapsulate what this genre is about.'-- FBN
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MutterDry Cum
'Black metal is no stranger to synthesizers and guitar-less tracks - but to extend that beyond a single ambient track on an album and to foreground the synth as the main instrument in the band is something else. Enter Mutter, a Western Massachusetts project that does just this. On Trashed Body, the synthesizer is used to created lush drones and harsh oscillating burst of sound layered on top of each other to create an all encompassing wall of sound. Utilizing a drum machine as the means of percussion, Mutter switches between a more traditional black metal drum sound and a heavily distorted, electronic drum sound that borders on EBM or industrial. Combined with the washed out vocals, this thing just pummels you with this constant barrage of stark, experimental black metal and frost ambiance.'-- FBN
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Make A Change ... Kill YourselfLivets Gave
'Make A Change...Kill Yourself are a two piece black metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark who are all about doom, gloom and depression. A decidedly more epic and atmospheric take on depressive suicidal black metal, Make A Change... still pack the emotional punch of their fellow DSBM peers, with repetitive, mournful riffs that slowly progress throughout the course of the song. One of the main hang ups people have the genre is the reliance on melodramatic, shrieked vocals that can often backfire (looking at you Shining) - thankfully Make A Change... have taken a more traditional, raspy approach, which still convey the intended emotions without sounding like a seagull in distress. Fri is an excellent addition to the DSBM genre, and would more than likely appeal to fans of traditional and atmospheric black metal as well.' -- FBN
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Lost Inside I Hate Myself
'FrostBiteNinja13: I hate myself... Every little detail of me. Everyone should go fucking die. So I only have to deal with myself. (Your response) Well fuck you too! I hope you die. Angel R.: Another day, another way to hate me. Darkness Shadow: So beautiful when i start listening this song i wanna my death by hate to myself. Marcus Fossa: Everyone would be better off if I was dead... I am nothing, I hate myself and shouldn't have been born. Archnn Darknessror: Eons have passed but the hate for myself still remains fresh. Edward Kenway: Cursed on this earth. richi hahh: This song is for me im gonna die alone in darkness :c. MrDastosh: I don't see the light at the end of the tunnel.. :-((. ob fartburger: if you knew me you would want me to die. L. Amoeba: Ok... I have no idea how I got here, but guys... Goddamn it, your comments are creepy.'-- youtube comments
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GravekeeperEx(ac)cept Death
'I'm pleasantly surprised to see such a great release to come from right here in my home of Ottawa, Canada in the form of Gravekeeper- a deliciously doomy and ethereal dsbm band. With all the instruments being played by one person titled "Gravekeeper" on their bandcamp page I'm wondering whether or not I can look forward to any live performances around the city by Gravekeeper this year- I certainly hope so. Gravekeeper cranks out some melancholy, lo-fi tunes with vocals that sound like a more muffled, slowed down version of Wrest's vocals in Leviathan, along with segments of haunting dark-souls-opening-theme-esque keyboard on tracks such as "Ex(ac)cept Death". I enjoyed the fact that Gravekeeper's songs are usually pretty short as well, I love the sprawling ten to twenty minute tracks that dsbm musicians like Xasthur create, but its nice to see musicians break away from the formula of a given genre- Gravekeeper did so wonderfully here as there's still plenty of range and flow in each song rather than just long, flat, overly drawn-out tracks with no real sense of motion to them.'-- FBN
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Trist Depression
'This album is insane, that's just all I have to say. It's insane. It borderlines the realness of music and passion without being too overwhelmed into assisting upon itself like it's some divine entity in heavy metal either. Trist is a black metal artist from Czech Republic. His visions on the world are entirely fucked up, his music completely reflects that. Trist generates some of the most blackest and atmospheric songs I think I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing. His self-inflicted scars that he has on his arms comes as no surprise either. Going as far to his self-harm even being displayed on the very album cover I'm writing this review for is really all the least you can expect from tortured musician such as himself.'-- GuardAwakening
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GGUWGegen Gravitation und Willensfreiheit
'Well it wouldn't be a black metal project if it wasn't shrouded in mystery and/or death, and in the case of GGUW they've got both. With their guitarist and founding member dead by his own hand, and the rest of the band choosing to remain anonymous (either based in Brazil or Germany), it's pretty tricky to get more information on this band. Ah well. Onto the music though. GGUW are bit hard to put my finger on. On the first (untitled) track of this release, they play a pretty repetitious style of atmospheric black metal, that winds it's way in between inhumane, animalistic howls and depressing ambience. Yet, on the second track they go for a more straightforward, almost bestial style with slightly more sinister, less melodramtic vocals. The EP's closer however sees them merge the two styles in a mournful yet aggressive track.'-- FBN
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Thy light666
'Every single DSBM band on earth knows the Brazilian group Thy Light, though the band has released only one demo album Suici.De.pression, but the quality of the compositions and the technicality of the performance have made this demo one of the most highlighted depressive/suicidal black metal releases of all time. Thy Light has proved that there is no single band in the world can create depressive\suicidal black metal music better than them. These tracks will be worshiped and respected as masterpieces in the DSBM world throughout the years, just like their first demo album. If you're a fan of this type of music and the other alike genres (black doom and funeral doom metal), then you have to get your copy of this record immediately and start discovering the perfect art of suicidal black metal.'-- JorZine
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GrisIl Était une Forêt
'Their name alone, "Gris", meaning "grey" in French, pretty much gives you a solid idea of what you're in for musically speaking, which understandably goes along with where they're from: Montreal. I don't know about Montreal in particular, but if its anything like it is where I live in Ottawa (about two hours away) then it's long, beyond cold, and absolutely dead- which is exactly how Il était une forêt sounds. Gris is pretty much the musical equivalent of standing naked in the middle of nowhere during a snowstorm, using insanely heavy pieces where the guitars, bass, and drums work in complete harmony with one another, none standing out more than the other as they drag you through the aforementioned snowstorm whether you like it or not. This is mirrored however the albums use of classical instruments such as cellos, violins, and even piano which work extremely well to bring an end to the album on it's final track "La dryad"- not completely breaking away from the black metal aspect of the rest of album but still bringing you back into reality a bit from the abyss of ear-splitting, melancholy that you've been sitting through.'-- FBN
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Happy DaysDrowning In Razorblades
'Happy Days is a black metal duo that originally began in Sarasota, Florida as a solo project consisting of guitarist/bassist/vocalist A. Morbid who started the group by himself at 14 years old in the year 2004. But music wasn’t released until he recorded three demos under the Happy Days name in 2007. In 2008, Karmageddon (Managarm, Wedard, Griefthorn) joined the band as the permanent drummer and has contributed to every release since. Happy Days’s lyrical themes include suicide, negativity, depression, extreme emotional pain, betrayal, failed relationships and misanthropy. With both members living in separate states, most music is created and recorded separately by each musician then mixed by A. Morbid to get the final outcome. A. Morbid currently resides in San Antonio, Texas and Karmageddon currently resides in Carlsbad, California. Despite them living in different states, they have eventually met each other in person.'-- collaged
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Skagos Colossal Spell
'When I first heard the opening track to Ást I was immediately stricken by how well Skagos is reflective of their home, Vancouver Island, as it's filled with massive and and ancient trees straight out of a fantasy novel cover which Skagos' sound emulates extremely well with their use of slow, ambient drone mixed with a touch of feedback that uneasily leads into the rest of the album- masterfully transitioning through anti-melodic strings, blast beats, and screeching black metal vocals, beautiful choir-like chants, and medieval feeling acoustic pieces.'-- FBN
_____________
Black Autumn Shades
'German one man band Black Autumn is an excellent mixing of elements of harsh noise, dark ambient, and black metal. Largely disorganized and engendering a feeling of hopelessness, “End” makes great use of the signature aspects of black metal's distorted bass and guitars while also reaching peaks of ridiculously fast segments and then masterfully transitioning back into a somewhat relaxed valleys of dark ambient- before throwing you back into it's chaotic mess of synths, strings, and blast beats that you just can't seem to get enough of.'-- FBN
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NorttDøden...
'You'll be hard pressed to find a more bleak, depressing and pulverizing black metal album than this one. Nortt play slow and heavy on this, with little regard for your mental wellbeing. With a guitar tone that sounds like ten billion angry wasps trapped in an amp, and guttural raspy vocals that are barely there, this is the sort of listen that just encompasses you entirely with it's sorrowful dirges and oppressively slow tempo. There's a wonderfully melancholic symphonic intro, and strings and pianos feature in most of the songs adding an even more sombre element to an already bleak and downtrodden album.'-- FBN
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Psychonaut 4Nackskott
'Psychonaut 4 is a Georgian black metal band from Tbilisi, Georgia, formed in July 2010 by Graf von Baphomet (vocals) and André (bass). The lyrics are written by Graf von Baphomet and are about drugs, sex, drinking, depression, lies and suicide. A psychonaut is a human being who deeply explores his or her own mind (usually with the aid of recreational drug use). The "4" in the band's name refers to the number of plateaus in the drug dextromethorphan. Lyrics by the band fluctuate from being written in Georgian, Russian, Ukrainian and English.' -- collaged
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p.s. Hey. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. She's also a really wonderful writer. ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh. I was sort of immersed in or surrounded by the groupie thing during the Glam era as a denizen/ regular at Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco, which I only now see you knew and have written about; wow, I wonder if we bumped into each other without knowing -- where practically every kid there was or wanted to be a groupie, as you know, and which I think was kind of the peak and beginning of the end of the golden age of the groupie in the classic sense. Everyone, apropos the PDB post this weekend, the great Tosh has written on the subject of groupiedom, and you maybe oughta check it out. If you haven't read Des Barres's 'I'm With the Band', I very highly recommend it. ** Sypha, Hi. Nick Drake's work meant the world to me, and it still does, even if it's hard for me to listen to now, as I said. He was the great favorite of George Miles, and in fact George's last known words were a voice mail on the night he killed himself to a friend telling the friend to please call him because he couldn't stop thinking about Nick Drake and needed to talk about that, which is another reason that it's very hard for me to listen to him. It's cool that Ligotti actually wrote back to you. ** Kier, Hi! Strange that 'Dennis' would be so agreeable with nicknames and mutations. You wouldn't think so looking at the word, or I wouldn't. You should get 'I'm With the Band'. It's deliriously great. Is there a reason for those names Silje and Pernille? I mean, is there something about the animals that made those names perfect for them? Yeah, it's so awkward to be with people when they look at your work. Writers never really have to do that, except at readings where the event's formalities kind of protect you. I guess poets who say, 'Here, read my poem', have to deal with that and seemingly want to deal with that. Scary. Nice. Nice weekend too, obviously. Oh, more photos, superb! Everyone, Go look at the final two sets of photos by the supreme Kier taken in/of Bardufoss/Senja. They're amazing, and they're here and here. You don't need to hear me tell you what an awesome mixtape that is. Nonstop giddifiers. My weekend isn't too exciting, and wasn't, I have to say. I worked fitfully on some stuff. As I think you know 'cos I think I said so, I always give Zac edible 'treats' when he goes away on a trip or comes back from somewhere, so I went out and gathered them, mostly at Paris's few-ish Japanese grocery stores and patisseries, and I'll go put a bag of them on his doorstep shortly 'cos he gets back later today. I finally coerced Yury into giving me a desperately needed haircut, so now I look normal-ish again. It got really, really cold here. I had to wear my Antarctica coat when I went out. When I was out, I ran into this boy on the metro whom Zac and I really, really wanted to have in our film. He did an amazing audition. He's an escort, and he seemed to be incredibly insecure about his non-sexual abilities, and he kind of freaked out that we were so into him being in our film and flaked out on the scheduled second round audition and then stopped answering our emails and phone calls. Anyway, I saw him, and he was extremely apologetic and said our enthusiasm about his 'acting' abilities, etc., had scared him to death, and that he'd really regretted not doing it ever since. It was sad. He's very complicated. Really, I feel like I really didn't do much of anything this weekend, and my memory mostly has a blank space where the last two day were. Today or probably tomorrow we'll go back to hard work on the film editing, and I'm excited/ anxious to restart. Monday was ... ? ** Misanthrope, My mom and dad used to say much the same thing about free stuff. Different time, I guess. Yikes, I hope you got the FB thing sorted. You have any idea who it might be, not to stoke your paranoia. Expect a 'DeathEaters' post any day now. If it's real and not just you pranking me, no, I don't know it, and, yeah, I kind of really want to know it. ** Steevee, Hi. Yeah, I thought it was interesting as a character study, and I do think that what's-his-name ... Glyllenhaal, will never be better than that. Sorry to hear that about 'Big Eyes'. Like so many others, I hoped it would be Burton's comeback. Well, actually, the 'Frankenweenie' remake was his comeback in my opinion, but I hoped 'BE' would prove the comeback to be more than a random blip. ** Thomas Moronic, She is! Nice, very nice about your Xmas with the b'friend. I did not know about the Xiu Xiu Christmas sound track gift! I'll will get over there pronto. Thank you! ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi. Great you got 'I'm With the Band'. It's so great. I wish I could write like her. Sweet about the Dundee return plus Art101 countdown plus the Vines stuff! Safe trip home! ** Mark Gluth, Oh, aren't you sweet, thank you, Mark! Dude, when I got a Gary Lutz blurb, I read it a million times in disbelief just like I do with everything he writes. That was heaven. ** Derek McCormack, Hi, Derek! I know, I'm so happy and excited that Semiotext(e) is going to put out your novel! It doesn't get any better than that press. Yay for ... Hedi? I'm guessing Hedi is the super wise person there who leapt at this opportunity. I wish you guys had surprised Millhauser. I've thought about sneaking into one of his classes or something and counting on him not knowing me from Adam and just seeing what he's like. Love, Dennis. ** Kyler, Hi. Elaborate? Oh, was it the 'cardinal rule' thing? Yeah, I don't know the derivation of that term. It was something my mom used to say that got stuck in my vocabulary. It's just important, I think, never to use guilt as a weapon or to allow oneself to be susceptible when guilt is used as weapon against you because it's a creepy, chickenshit device. That's all, really. ** Rewritedept, Fuck blogspot, shit. Sorry on its behalf. Zac gets back in the late morning today. We won't do a rush job on our film. We'll undoubtedly get big pressure to do a rush job from our producers, but we won't and never would. If we can nail it in time, we will. Otherwise, there are other film festivals to try for. I saw the 'third nipple' photo. I don't know, it didn't look weird to me at all. I feel like I've seen nipples like that a bunch of times. I don't know. Hope your Monday is even radder than mine. ** Okay. Go get suicidally depressed via music today or else go lock your analytical side onto why it is that the music up there has been categorized as DSBM. Or not, or neither. See you tomorrow.