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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