I've been listening to some Deathspell Omega lately. I don't think I can keep it up much longer; their work is disturbing in a way that I'm altogether unused to in music, and it's bothering me on some deep level.
To quote Wikipedia, "Their lyrical content deals primarily with Satanism on a metaphysical level – as the band has stated that "all other interpretations of Satan are intellectually invalid."" This leads to a lot of incredibly malevolent lyrics which are delivered with a sort of deadpan ferocity I'm not accustomed to seeing with metal groups:
"Every human being not going to the extreme limit is the servent or the enemy of man and the accomplice of a nameless obscenity."
"It is at the magnitude of daily murders, massacres and mass graves, that we do measure the propagation of our faith."
"Let us be a blight on the orchard, on all orchards of this world, even the least of these words will be judged during the times of reckoning, bearing a latent damnation a feverish seduction exasperated in death, every letter is a code to extreme horror, utter contempt and divine conflict; it is lethal to speak the language of resistance, every gasp exhales a particle of the remission of Golgotha, as if the blazing Logos demanded the exercise of a task for a man who cannot bear any longer to be, a chore for the lost in the denial of free will: perinde ac cadaver!"
Their entire lyrical body reads like a paean to a malevolent deity. Combine these lyrics with the immensely aggressive and hateful instrumental work that accompanies them, and I'm finding myself less and less comfortable with this.
I've been listening to Paracletus again, because fuck these guys are brilliant.
Even with all of the amazingly dark, hateful, self-harming music I listen to - if you really want to feel down, spin some Altar of Plagues some time - this is the only band that really makes me uncomfortable and almost nauseous at times. Skitliv makes my skin crawl; Deathspell Omega makes me want to claw my ears out to stop the pure evil pouring into them.
Holy shit, they sound so much better live. I love what they bring back to the table, I really missed these type of theatrics on my metal, not going to lie. Most of the bands that do this type of things are laughable.
Even if you think you are ready to listen to Dopesmoker, you're not ready to listen to Dopesmoker. No, this is not a loop. Yes, the song is over an hour long.
You know, there is a lot of heavy shit getting played over here which is all well and good, but sometimes you need some lighter metal that does ballads about Rommels Panzer Ghost Division.
So, Korpiklaani's next album is shaping up to be pretty interesting. They're doing the entire album in both Finnish and English, which is potentially pretty cool. But they're also covering Ievan Polkka, which some of you may know from Leek Spin. I'm excited.
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Even with all of the amazingly dark, hateful, self-harming music I listen to - if you really want to feel down, spin some Altar of Plagues some time - this is the only band that really makes me uncomfortable and almost nauseous at times. Skitliv makes my skin crawl; Deathspell Omega makes me want to claw my ears out to stop the pure evil pouring into them.
Maybe I'll just move to Sweden and visit both. Get my complete metal experience.
You know, there is a lot of heavy shit getting played over here which is all well and good, but sometimes you need some lighter metal that does ballads about Rommels Panzer Ghost Division.
Sometimes, you need some power metal.
So, Korpiklaani's next album is shaping up to be pretty interesting. They're doing the entire album in both Finnish and English, which is potentially pretty cool. But they're also covering Ievan Polkka, which some of you may know from Leek Spin. I'm excited.
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Ihsahn's new solo album. Streaming. For free. It continues the avant jazz-fusion thing he's been doing lately. Excellent stuff.
http://www.metalinjection.net/podcasts/open-metalcast/open-metalcast-episode-51-60-minutes-to-midnight
Did you know they introduced me to this amazing Russian folk-metal?