Apopthelema Entry 9 Part 9 by Kyle Nonneman
NOTE: PARTS 2-4 ARE MISSING FROM THE MESSAGES
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.]
GRIEF-TURBULENT TIMES
Grief & Noothgrush set the fucking benchmark on sludge doom.
The difference between Noothgrush & Grief is like the difference between Return of the Living Dead and Fulci's Zombi.
Grief has some of the slow wall of noise dissonance you hear on the ugliest of Swans early 82-86 period live recordings combined with ugly abyssic deviant doom that makes Ramesses sound like Candlemass in comparison. The misanthropic lyrics on Grief records deal with fucked up mental states, uselessness, suicidal despair and self loathing. Approaching drone metal levels of sustain, the screaming and crushing riffs bursting like abscesses into piercing feedback. This is one step away from being a HNW built from guitars,bass,drums,violent psychotic vocals and the wreckage left behind by a destroyed mind.
I love the drum tone on this record. It cuts through the guitars like a rusty axe to your skull... Throughout the monochromatic abusive monotony of this full length you can still hear the haunted spirit of Black Sabbath rising through the void like a shot of Narcan and Green Vegetable Matter has a killer solo that totally shreds like Iommi.
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COFFINS/NOOTHGRUSH SPLIT
This is a split between Japan's masters of sewer sludgegore death doom and the Almighty Noothgrush! So you should already know this is some potent high grade doom.This ain't no fucking Elder/Orange Goblin jam with safe seventies stoner rock vibes to give you some remission from the violence. Coffins Wretched Path is one of my Favorites, like an Autopsy'd Electric Wizard getting high on some Pungent Stench.
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NOOTHGRUSH-LIVE FOR NOTHING
This is my favorite Noothgrush record. Noothgrush's Live For Nothing, contains a harsh as fuck cover of Procreation of the Wicked, with an evil dank basement in hell production. Enslaved and a lot of other bands have covered that song but Noothgrush owns it.
Like Dissection owned it on their cover of Slayer's Antichrist and Kreator's brutal cover of Number of the Beast. Invoking a new dark age incarnation of the crushing primitive bludgeoning that made Morbid Tales more brutal and influential to the development of extreme metal than most of the other glossier more technical speed metal/thrash acts in 80s. The riffs on Morbid Tales were more cult and iconic than anything on Killing Technology & Time Does not Heal. (As far as evil technical thrash with a lot of time changes goes, its hard to fuck with Hellwitch's Syzgial Miscreancy. )
Noothgrush puts out straight up suffocating low end dominating blunt force trauma grinding crawling sludge ,with some neanderthal power violence elements like the Man is The Bastard slow jams turned up to eleven. Like listening to Sabbath & Swans at the same time on a bad acid trip.
Noothgrush dosn't give a fuck what the crowd thought like Saint Vitus, Kilslug and Flipper did in the 80s. I was at a Disclose show in Portland around 2002-2003, i remember some crusty talking about a Noothgrush show, "I was just waiting for em to slam, I thought it was an intro and it just went on and on and it was fucking painful".... Fuck all the negative connotations scene politics gives to California and the stoner/sludge strain of doom. Noothgrush kills all those lesser mortals!
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NECROS CHRISTOS-DOOM OF THE OCCULT
Bathory's Destroyer of Worlds had Kali/Shiva related lyrics likely sourced from and in reference to the infamous quote from the atomic bomb scientist...This album has an epic ritual doom invocation to Shiva & Kali.
There's a lot of deeply demonic and occult darkness to those two deities that is underappreciated. So the themes of that piece stand out in terms of lyrical themes.
It starts out with thrash whammy bar torture & pinch harmonics before settling into a semi-melodic death doom groove . With the melodic elements sourced more from Seasons of The Abyss than Vincebus Eruptum.
It has a hollow empty epic occult atmosphere to it that changes up throughout the piece with more discernible riffs and progressions then your average death doom band. To me this sounds like a less innovative Disembowelment with the grindcore & Goblin elements substituted for more traditional thrash & Florida death metal influences. With more of a DS-1 than an HM-2 production.Necros Christos ability to retain the traditional thrash/death elements of the old school and carve them into epic 9 minute long rituals, while remaining interesting and challenging distinguishes this band from the hordes of generic uninspired acts out there lacking an original sound.
I like the fact that you don't know what to expect next from this album. It doesn't settle into a genre restricted routine. Nor does it become a tedious exercise in quirky genre mashing.This isn't a new album. I review it here because it deserves to be promoted and spread like a virus. More people need to do stuff like this, rooted in atavistic tradition while carrying it on further!
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