Burial Hex/
Crown Of Bone Split (Crucial Blast): Clay ain't standing out with his best work here, but its exemplary as a mashup of his old tortuous cthono-tronics and his more recent synth-heavy (sans beat) work. Dolorous cries writhe amidst the almost-metal vocals he's been utilizing for the last few years. A melancholy drone lulls amidst the background and that's about what you get for a near thirty minutes. If Ruby's words were decipherable in any way whatsoever, or if they were included in the release, I'd probably find a far greater interest. It's all too abstracted this way. Darkness for darkness' sake isn't much to write home about.
Crown Of Bone is just what you'd expect from the Crucial Blast oeuvre and from a project that does tribute albums to horror flicks and has splits with groups like
Steek Hook Prostheses,
Wilt,
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer,
Funerary Call, etc and was also one-half of
Demonologists. Looking at the project's website, it appears they've got 30 releases out and/or pending in less than 2 years. This says it all about what the sounds contained herein might be like....creepy noise then BOOM - noise wall. The end.
In regard to
SunnO))), I always got the biggest boner over
White2, but that might be because the first time I heard it was the first time I went to the beach; sat on the shore with headphones and tripped on mushrooms while listening to the album. Still resonates in a similar way, most times. Saw them perform during the
Black One era and that was tits, but when the album came home, I might have played it twice. Ebay'd it for the Jewish price people are willing to pay and bought about 15 more worthwhile releases.
Quote from: Scat-O-Logy on August 20, 2013, 09:22:43 PM
About "Son Of Man", who the fuck starts a track singing "Forgive me father for I have sinned". For fuck's sake!!!
Perhaps this is because they're currently wanking off as faux-classical. That is essentially the sort of lyrics, just in English instead of Latin or the like, you get with Pärt, Penderecki, etc... Seems a little shallow seeing as I noticed the name of St. John Of The Cross mentioned in their write-up on the album. A man of great wisdom like that would certainly denounce wanking of this sort. Wankers. They sorta fit together in the world of art like O'Malley was mentioned. That is, someone from the metal community shows an interest in something besides metal and people are scrambling over one another to praise and pay them. When I think of
Nazoranai playing some huge festival or
KTL performing in all these galleries and museums I just have to scratch my head. All these people who feign interest - seems exhausting. I must admit, I think O'Malley's greatest work is the Ideologic Organ label; aside from the
SunnO))) albums released on it.
On a lighter note, also replayed
Sewer Election's
Vittra Sönder several times today. Love the last few releases by Johansson.
