FOREST-OF-EQULIBRIUM

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen Puhuu

"PSYCHEDELIC BLACK METAL!?!" FINLAND 2009

LEAVE IT TO THE FINNISH TO TAKE THEIR KRAUT REVIVAL (AKA "FINFOCK" MADE WORLD KNOWN BY CIRCLE) AND FUSE IT WITH BLACK METAL... THE RESULT IS EXACTLY WHAT I WOULD HAVE NEEDED AT AGE 15 TO LISTEN TO ON MUSHROOMS FOR A LONG WALK INTO A MOONLIT FOREST... HOWEVER I CAN HELP BUT FEEL AS IF I WOULD HAVE TRANSFORMED THROUGH SOME PSYCHIC MENTAL SCARIFICATION/BRAIN TUMOR (VIDEODROME..?) IN TO A PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION OF SOME SORT OF NOCTURNALLY FEEDING CREATURE, WORSHIPED BY A SMALL TRIBE OF HIPPIES. OFFERING THEIR YOUNG AS SACRIFICE EVERY FULL MOON UNDER A THICK FOG OF SAGE IN A SMALL GROVE OF CASCADIAN TREES...

Title translations:
Alien Speaks:
1. Raven
2. Danjo's Zero
3. Mirage 1968
4. The Great Head from Heaven
5. The Praying Mantis of the Theatre of Latter-day Saints
6. Dub to the Memory of a Dead Whore (of Babylon)
7. Alien Speaks
8. Heretic Goat

1.	Korppi	05:31
2.	Danjon Nolla	03:43
3.	Kangastus 1968	04:00
4.	Suuri Pää Taivaasta	06:57
5.	Myöhempien Aikojen Pyhien Teatterin Rukoilijasirkka	03:41
6.	Dub Kuolleen Porton Muistolle	08:12
7.	Muukalainen Puhuu	03:42
8.	Kerettiläinen Vuohi	08:49
Total playing time		44:35

http://www.mediafire.com/?fa2mzdgy2no

Saturday, December 19, 2009

SECTION 25-ALWAYS NOW

"DEPRESSIVE POST PUNK" BLACKPOOL ENGLAND / FACTORY RECORDS 1981

OF THE FACTORY SCENE IN MANCHESTER IN THE LATE 70s/EARLY 80s THE MOST NOTABLE ARE OF COURSE JOY DIVISION AND THEIR LESSER KNOW LITTLE BROTHERS SECTION 25. APPARENTLY THEY BOTH DRANK FROM THE SAME WELL OF DARK, BROODING, ESOTERIC WATER AS THESE "DREARY CHAPS" AS SOME ASSHOLE BRITISH ROCK CRITIC PUT IT "HAVING SUFFERED FROM A MASSIVE DOSE IF P.I.L" (IN SOME SHITTY SNOBBY ACCENT) IN FACT AFTER READING THAT ARTICLE I SET ABOUT TRACKING DOWN "METAL BOX" (WHICH I HAD YET TO HEAR) AND SUCCEDED IN FINDING.
BACK TO SXXV, ROUMOR HAS IT THAT THE BREAK AFTER THE SECOND ALBUM "KEY OF DREAMS" WAS DUE TO THE GUITARIST (WHO REFUSED TO EVER PLAY THE SAME THING MORE THAN ONCE THE SAME WAY) RAN OFF TO INDIA TO BECOME ENLIGHTENED...
IF YOU LOVE JOY DIVISION AND CAN'T GET ENOUGH, GIVE THIS ALBUM A TRY.
"CHARNAL GROUND" IS MOST LIKELY THE DARKEST THING EVER RECORDED UP UNTIL THEN...
ALL OF THEIR BONUS TRACKS FROM THE TIME PERIOD LEADING UP TO THIS RECORD ARE HERE AND IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE, CHECK OUT THEIR BIO HERE:
http://www.section25.com/biography/

1. Friendly Fires
2. Dirty Disco
3. C.P.
4. Loose Talk (Costs Lives)
5. Inside Out
6. Melt Close
7. Hit
8. Babies in the Bardo
9. Be Brave
10. New Horizon
11. Haunted
12. Charnel Ground
13. Human Puppets
14. Knew Noise
15. Up to You
16. Girls Don't Count
17. Oyo Achel Ada
18. After Image
19. Red Voice

http://rapidshare.com/files/31077971/Section_25_Always_Now.rar.html

Friday, December 18, 2009

WEAKLING DEAD AS DREAMS

"USBM" RECORDED IN SAN FRANCISCO IN 1998... RELEASED IN 2000 ON tUMULUt RECORDS...

THIS DOUBLE ALBUM MAGNUM OPUS OF BLACKENED PAIN AND MISERY, WAS CONSIDERED FOR MANY YEARS BY THE EUROPEAN BLACK METAL ELITE TO BE THE ONLY TRUE BLACK ALBUM TO BE RELEASED IN AMERICA (THIS HAS SINCE CHANGED WITH THE EMERGENCE OF XASTHUR AND LEVIATHAN) AND FOR GOOD REASON. VOCALLY, JOHN GOSSARD SOUNDS LIKE A WOUNDED ANIMAL, CRYING OUT IN PAIN AS IF IMPAILED OR TRAPPED IN THE WILDERNESS. THESE ARE NOT CRIES FOR HELP BUT OF AGONY AND SUFFERING. AS IF DEATH WERE IMMINENT AND WELCOMED.
THE GUITAR WORK OF GOSSARD AND JOSH SMITH IS UNPARALLELED IN IT'S VIOLENCE AND DISSONANCE. COMBINED WITH THE RHYTHM SECTION'S (SARAH WEINER-BASS; SAM FOSTER-DRUMS) UNCOMFORTABLE CHURNING AND CASEY WARDS DRUG-LIKE HAZE OF WAHSHY SYNTHS TO LEAVE THE LISTENER TWISTED, MANGLED AN STUNNED...
A MODERN WORK OF ART...

1. "Cut Their Grain and Place Fire Therein" - 10:28
2. "Dead as Dreams" - 20:39
3. "This Entire Fucking Battlefield" - 14:47
4. "No One Can Be Called as a Man While He'll Die" - 13:09
5. "Disasters in the Sun" - 17:05

http://www.mediafire.com/?095yjt5owcj

WORSHIP - DOOOM

"FUNERAL DOOM" GERMANY 2007

THE KNOWLEDGE OF SINGER/DRUMMER "FUCKED UP MAD MAX" HAVING THROWN HIMSELF OFF OF A BRIDGE IN QUEBEC IN 2001 (SIX YEARS BEFORE THE RELEASE OF DOOOM) SETS A HEAVY PRECEDENCE FOR ONE TO FOLLOW. THIS ALBUM REDEFINES THE WORD "HEAVY" AND GOES ON TO ADD "TRAGIC" "SORROWFUL" AND "BLEAK" TO THE FOREFRONT OF THE MIND. FEW ALBUMS HAVE EVER EXPRESSED SUCH TRAGIC BEAUTY, PAINFUL SORROW AND BLEAK HOPELESSNESS AS THIS RECORD HAS TO ME. FROM THE GIGANTIC WALL OF CRUSHING DOWNTUNED BASS GUITAR INTENTIONALLY LEFT DRY OF THE REVERB DRENCHING THE REST OF THE INSTRUMENTS. THE ARID, SOPPING WET MULTI-TRACKED HARMONIZING GUITARS AND THE ALMOST NON EXISTENT DRUMMING TO THE DEEPEST HARSHEST GROWL A HUMAN BEING POSSESSED OF BRUTAL PAIN CAN MUSTER COMES THE OCCASIONAL CLICKING OFF OF THE DISTORTION AND DROPPING DOWN TO A CLEAN AND INFINITELY SOMBER VOCAL LINE. THIS IS WHERE THE TRUE PAIN OF A DYING MAN IS FELT...

Endzeit Elegy