Dutch lo-fi black metal. One of the first things that attracted me to black metal was that, in its rawest, most primal forms, there's a very real sense of chaos that you just don't get from other styles. Take Hellegast. There are entire songs where it's not entirely clear that guitar and drums are in tandem for any significant length of time. I think it's a drum machine, too (except maybe on the last track?) so it's as if the guitarist was recording his parts without being able to hear the drums properly, and just decided to go with it. But it's all so distorted and difficult to decipher, maybe everything's actually going exactly according to plan? Or are they just making it up as they go along? It's that kind of true chaos that, say, a grindcore record will just never deliver.
Track listing:
1. Barashakusha
2. I See All
3. Night Beckons
4. Zwarte Magie Handhaaft Karma
Great description, that's one of the aspects that i love of black metal, and the reason for i totally dislike PROTOOLS BEATDOWN HARDCORE....
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...except the great Discordance Axis. Technichally, they are a grindcore band. But they deliver trve chaos.
ReplyDeleteI do love Discordance Axis, and I'd be a fool to say they don't deliver the chaos, but that's actually a great example of my point: as chaotic as they are, they're incredible musicians making an extremely effective, controlled chaos. With them, it's like they're expert drivers speeding through crowded city streets, narrowly avoiding disaster every two seconds, whereas with Galgeras, you're in the backseat rolling down the side of a mountain, and no one's at the wheel.
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