So. Ya'll like music I guess. Stuff that goes sweet, stuff that goes beep beep bop, stuff that goes bleeeargh bluaaargh. Yeah. I'm going to post here at least a band everyday. I hope you'll find something atractive here and if you don't, eat a bag of dicks.
Today's band is called Bathuska(meaning Holy Father, Father or Priest; these are pretty rough translations), they are from Poland and they are quite mysterious. Nobody knows the lineup, but it is said that they belong to well known polish Black Metal bands, so people are guessing the lineup consists of members from Behemoth, Vader, Mgła... You get the point. They started playing live pretty recently as well and they use robes to cover their identity.
Their sound is a mixture of well produced Black Metal (not too clean not too necro), mixed with Doom Metal, Drone and with something pretty new and interesting: liturgical chants in Church Slavonic, the language used in the Orthodox Church in places like Poland, Russia, and Ukraine, as well as nations in the Balkan Peninsula. They entire sound is pretty big and majestic and they trully sound new and refreshing in a unique way. If you want to find a word that describes Bathuska, that'd be EPIC.
I hope you dig their debut album (and yet their only album). More to come. Enjoy and tell me what do you think.
If you happen to know a really hardcore DIY crust punk fan, he'd probably be mad at you because you are listening to Fall of Efrafa. But why is that? Well, they got quite a bit of attention through their three records and one split they released and that's not very crust punk, uh?
Fall of Efrafa released three albums which dwell in the mythology of Richard Adams' Watership Down novel, touching themes like veganism, animal liberation, modern soceity and dictatorship. The band was meant to release JUST three albums and then split up. It's kinda sad that we are not going to hear more material nor these songs played live but I actually prefer that to a band that continues to recycle themselves over and over again. The singer formed two more bands after Fall of Efrafa: Light Bearer (which follows the same sound of FoE) and Archivist, with a more Black Metal w/ Crust influences sound.
Musically speaking they draw influences from bands like Neurosis, Cult of Luna, Discharge, Godspeed You! Black Emperor... Their influences are pretty vast and you can tell by the music itself. Their songs tend to be very very long, +10 minutes, and they tend to have ambient moments with spoken parts from different scientists like Richard Dawkins.
I'd recommend you to check their three albums in order if you happen to have three spare hours, but if you just wanna hear a bit, go straight into Elil
Panopticon is a solo project made by A. Lunn, who plays every single instrument here. In the early albums the lyrics where pretty left winged but now A. Lunn focuses on singing about nature. So far this seems like a normal one man band Black Metal right? Well, Lunn is really prolific with his ability to play a shitload of instruments, so one day he decided to mix Black Metal with... Bluegrass. Yep. And the end result is really interesting and great.
Panopticon's latest three records (Kentucky, Roads to the North, Autumn Eternal) follow that formula of adding bluegrass moments to the general sound, Kentucky is the album that has more of those moments out of the three, but I still think Roads to the North is his best album yet. His early stuff is not my cup of tea but Lunn has remastered a few of his previous works, so I guess I'll give it a second chance soon.
Sit down, relax and enjoy this band, Panopticon is something else, the general sound is pretty unique, then you add the americana moments and that makes the band really interesting and engaging.
Ya'll like Doom? I think you do. What if you mix the slowness of Doom with the darkness of Black Metal, you take that godly mixture and put it into a Jazz context? Well, you get Bohren & Der Club of Gore. These german fellows are huge metalheads that instead of playing guitar they play keys, saxophone and drums and yet they are able to make really dark, slow atmospheres that remind me of noir movies...
Sit down, relax, idk, smoke a joint or drink wine and listen to this. You might end up in some old noir movie being a detective or something. Black Earth is the darkest album they have, but Sunset Mission, Geisterfaust (yup, thats where I've taken my name from) and Piano Nights are really enjoyable.
I remember founding this band thanks to YouTube and it's recommended videos. Jambinai are a weird mix of Post-Metal, Post-Rock and traditional korean folk music. Their music is complex in instrumentation, the add layers and layers of diferent instruments, being folk instruments or more traditional instruments.
And guess what... They've just released a new record! I've been listening to it since yesterday and I'm blown away, they've went nuts on this one. At moments I feel like I'm listening to Swans mixed with folk instruments, which is GOOD.
Ya'll don't like Skrillex right? Dubstep is lame? Well, that ain't dubstep. This is dubstep (or future garage as it's called by /mu/ experts). Burial is a solo project run by William Bevan, a really shady guy that has showed his face once, has a few interviews and doesn't play live, just like your normal one man Black Metal band I guess.
He makes really moving dubstep/future garage music with a suberb use of sample manipulation and beat making. Yes, this ain't metal but fuck it, it's my thread. And this is dark as fuck, it's the kind of music you'll listen to non stop if you are depressed as fuck because your girl cheated on you. So go and listen to Untrue right away.
One of the best acts of US Black Metal right now, they are praised equally by trve fans as well as Pitchfork hipsters. And I understand it, they discography is solid (besides their latest album, looks like if you have a Black Metal band you HAVE to make a synth record...), they don't play that much live which makes them mysterious... I don't know really. Their style is a tribute (or they robbed the sound) of a band called Weakling. Long tracks, shit ton of blast beats, trebly guitars and a shitload of reverb.
They are recording an album, which is meant to be released anytime in 2017.
They hail from Basque Country, Spain, so don't expect english or spanish lyrics, they sing in basque (one of the few bands I know that sing in that lovely language). They are pretty pretty underground even in Spain, they barely play live and they are pretty secretive about the daily life of the band. Right now they are on an hiatus.
They mix Post-Hardcore a lá Fugazi, Giant Sand, etc, with long and experimental sounds like late Swans, and whatever experimental/avant garde band u wanna mention tbh. Lisabö's sound is huge, with two guitars, two bass players and two drummers (even sometimes they add a thrid guitar player), the music is pretty simple but haunting. They have a pretty small discography but every single record they've put out is insane. And I really mean it, the production is raw, the sound is experimental at moments but the songwriting is always on point.
My favorite album is Ezarian but I've been listening Animalia Lotsatuen Putzua a lot lately. Tell me what you think!
Zhrine comes from Iceland. Iceland = good quality Black Metal. But Zhrine is different, they add a really interesting Death Metal twist to their sound (think of Gorguts for example; the vocals remind me a lot from Opeth's classic albums like Deliverance or Blackwater Park).
Hope you like it! One album. It's dense sounding but really fun to listen to.