Apopthelema Entry 7 Part 6 by Kyle Nonneman

Apopthelema Entry 7 Part 5 by Kyle Nonneman


[Note: this was composed in prison where proof-reading facilities are notoriously bad. Please don't hold that against the author. You can contact Kyle through the address listed at the end of this entry. I (Mykel Board) am posting this to give a voice to the otherwise voiceless. The opinions here belong solely to Kyle]

MERZBOW/KEIJI HAINO/BALAZS PANDI

-AN UNTROUBLESOME DEFENSELESSNESS

This one of the best Merzbow collabs since his work with Boris.

Merzbow has remained for decades an abrasive fuck you to ignorant cattle that justify their lack of creativity & laziness by saying its all been done before/no ones original/everyones copying someone. fuck off. listen to this and then go fucking kill yourself.

I'm an uncompromisingly militant fucking elitist when it comes to certain shit. I have no patience let alone interest in pedestrian shit that panders to the status quo. In a depraved echo of the Lovecraftian occult researchers quest for forbiden esoteric grimoires to summon fourth the ancient ones to destroy the earth, I've always been driven towards the obscure fringes of aesthetic expression.

This collaboration combines Merzbow's experimental analog synth noisescapes with experimental guitar work. Dragging the conventional standards of improv free jazz into a hellish landscape of discordant madness almost on the level of the acid freakouts of Les Rallizes Denudes. This is uncompromisingly extreme work that makes John Zorn and Anthony Braxton sound like fucking Kenny G in comparison.Making freeform improv jazz psychedelia a threat again.

At this point, Jazz has become the go to genre of choice for neophyte faux intellectuals, freshly born again as dilettantes from decades of listening to pedestrian pop music. Still reaching for something so accessible it's just about as bubblegum. Because Jazz and Blues isn't a threat, it's not challenging. It's status quo and assimilated into popular culture. So now whenever you see a former sheep trying to crawl out of his cage and sever his mass media feeder tube, they crawl towards major label jazz . Jazz decades ago used to be innovative and original, now it's as exciting as elevator music and a convenient way for people to pose and pretend to have sophisticated knowledge of fringe music.

Don't you just fucking hate those simple minded centroclines who claim they appreciate all forms of music and listen to everything with an open mind. The fucking brutal truth of the matter is they say that largely because they're unable to form an opinion about anything let alone express themselves independently outside of what's deemed acceptable by the herd. Second of all, the wankers that say that shit aren't obsessive completists whose sanity can justifiably called into question.... I'm obviously on the spectrum. so what.

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NOOTHGRUSH-FALLING EARLY,FALLING OFTEN,

When you melt Early Swans records on top of Flipper and Saint Vitus lps and play it at half speed, you get Noothgrush. I just manged to obtain this album. Noothgrush is to Grief what Return Of the Living Dead is to Dawn Of the Dead. Both bands work also shambles fourth like a stumbling reanimated corpse. I had a copy of this about 12 years ago i got it right before Slap a Ham went out of business.

Pure bleak suffocating low end domination from this cult crawling horde . Noothgrush came out of the Slap A Ham fringes of the hardcore/power violence underground with slow as fuck hypnotic riffs&push-pull rhythms. Downtuned stomach churning low end guitars with all the high end notched out and saturated with distortion. The only thing cutting through the bass is the drums,the crazed pained vocalist and the feedback that bleeds through to the surface like an open wound. The lyrics deal with stuff like misanthropy, animal rights, primitivism and Star Wars,.There are a few well- chosen and placed samples throughout this record that make you think-- very thought provoking brief intermissions from the sludge. Like a drowning victim poking his head above water and briefly seeing the light..

This also includes a neat cover of the Imperial March from Star Wars. This is discordant disharmonic violent sludge, not the melodic doom of the Cathedral school.

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Apopthelema Entry 7 Part 5 by Kyle Nonneman

Apopthelema Entry 7 Part 5 by Kyle Nonneman


[Note: this was composed in prison where proof-reading facilities are notoriously bad. Please don't hold that against the author. You can contact Kyle through the address listed at the end of this entry.]

 PARADISE LOST-DROWN IN DARKNESS:THE EARLY DEMOS

Burzum cited the Paradise Lost demos as a main influence in his autobiography. And if you listen to Frozen Illusion from Paradise Lost and then Snu Mikrokosms Tegn off Burzum's Det Som Lp the influence is obvious. Slow shambling down tempo combination of campy late 80s death metal histrionics and more atmospheric 'Early Bathory in slow motion' evilness, Like a blackened Autopsy .

The noisy production of this and the epic evil nature of this and the attitude of this render this an absolute cult classic. There's a lot of distinctive pinch harmonics and saturated distortion on the guitars, that attempts to emulate the slow menacing melodies of Hammer films horror soundtracks, matching perfectly with the demonic vocals fighting for clarity on the warped cassette this was sourced from. After these late 1980s demo tapes Paradise Lost sadly went the way of the various beloved Proto-industrial groups that sold their soul to synthpop. These demos fucking rule. In addition to their noted influence on Burzum.,These demos tapes helped start Death Doom, moving death away from its speed-obsessed thrash roots towards more transgressive sonic explorations of evil.

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BEREFT - LEICHENHAUS

This appears to be recorded in one straight session, no editiing. Mentality of The Inanimate is the best track on this record.  Very bleak funeral sludge, the suffocating dissonant doom is combined with harmonic droning walls of piercing feedback and rusty accoustic interludes, Like a low-budget Evoken crossed with a less core Dementia Senex. After Mentality, it briefly gets too melodic in certain sections but the brutality of the vocals save it. They try to layer fx pedals to add texture. Electric Wizard and Skullflower can pull that off, but when Bereft tries , you get the maudlin aftertaste of beardo Isis worship.

There appears to be two vocalists trading off: low/high. One of the vocalist sounds like he has alot of experience doing death metal and the other vocalist sounds like he comes from more of a dark hardcore background, in the vein of His Hero Is Gone. This changes up quite a bit and bleeds into itself like one long harrowing composition. It's a unique full length. This band should move away from the 'Cult Of Luna' aspects of their sound and move towards a noisier death direction. It sounds like most of this band is made up of reformed hardcore musicians trying to cross over into a darker more extreme direction. This is a fucking epic harsh brutal and monolithic effort for the most part aside from the unfortunate dabblings in hipster/core shit.
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CHTHE'ILIST -LE DERNIER CREPUSCLE

A gurgling gothic sewer of Death Doom. . Like Demillich crossed with Undergang . Subtle horror soundtrack keyboards and dark ambient effects fleshing out the sewage and alongside the absurdly low vocals Demillich is infamous for you also get Incantation-esque raspy shrieks and occult chanting. Shredding solos and satanic Funkadelic basslines occassionally float to the surface of the sewage, like bloated corpses.The vocals change up depending on the atmosphere.

Very well-layered work that builds like a nightmarish soundscape. Some sounds become buried and then rise from the grave. Unsettling fluctuations in sound..Very powerful metal record with intelligent themes and interesting riffs and atmosphere .
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