Imperious Fabler
Monday, March 24, 2025
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Fornax Ferrea trilogy is complete
Dark Night of the Omnipresent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbB-Jsmjuao
Trial of the Fatal Forces is the concluding album in the death metal trilogy and the 40th by Rinta-Perälä.
Out April 1, 2025.
https://fornaxferrea.bandcamp.com
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Soft alternative rock and pop culture are draining your potential
"I believe the greatest characteristic of genius is, above all, force."
- Gustave Flaubert
Art gives us different ways of discussing and portraying important things. When reality becomes too painful, it's easy to slip into the passive mode. Passivity and escapism will never let you discover your potential.
This is a form of censorship. Both self-censorship and fear in the public eye. The fear of being different.
The cliche of government sanitisation is just a diversion. There's no need for an oppressive government if narrow-minded people can dominate the creative fields.
One of the biggest symptoms is music and art turning into pure escapism. Harmless and formulaic playlists promoted by algorithms. These are mainly driven by popularity and commercial obsessions.
I didn't care about popularity in school as a kid. Why would I care about it now?
Critical thinking, creativity and curiosity are not compatible with self-censorship. Anyone who's creative or interested in the results of imaginative work: look around you. Now is not the time to soften the blow.
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Phantasmentum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcgQs4unvro
https://grallochery.bandcamp.com
1. Raging Blood of a Geminate Poet
2. And Tyranny Fell
3. Destinies Bursting into Sight
4. Painted Hex
5. Offering of Unbounded Eyes
6. Engraved in Neonates
7. Stone Coffin for a Funeral Moon
8. Itinerant Sabbath
The fourth Grallochery album and the 39th by Rinta-Perälä.
Written and recorded in October-December 2024, Silence & Desolation Studio, Finland.
Dedicated to the artists whose works were included in the "Degenerate Art" exhibition, Munich 1937.
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Destinies Bursting into Sight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLW2mNFCiRA
From "Phantasmentum." Out March 1, 2025.
A two and a half minute song. No, I'm not embarrassed.
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Written in Waters 30 years
Ved Buens Ende was active in the mid-90s, just at the right time when black metal '93 was becoming boring. Written in Waters is an imaginative effort and it reminds me of memorable art music. The dissonance is not too obvious.
One of the compilations I listened to in 1997 had Carrier of Wounds on it, but unfortunately I usually skipped it. I wasn't ready for it at the age of 12. Fleurety had recorded a song called Absence and I remember listening to that a lot. Arcturus interested me even more.
The next step a few years later was listening to the Thorns discography, the 1994 demo from Ved Buens Ende and of course, Written in Waters.
I'm so glad they can still tour and bring in some sort of crowd.
Friday, February 14, 2025
Grallochery rises from the grave
And Tyranny Fell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3WeRhTBgs8
Last year I announced the end of this black metal project, but I guess it's still preying on my mind. The third Fornax Ferrea album is not finished yet, so here's another in-your-face assault.
Phantasmentum is the fourth Grallochery album and the 39th by Rinta-Perälä.
Out March 1, 2025.
Inspirited by black metal before the rules of 1993 existed.
Written and recorded in October-December 2024, Silence & Desolation Studio.
FINNISH FUCKING BLACK METAL
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Metal is not about the comfort of nazis
Now, more than ever, we have to think about who we are supporting. The different genres we listen to on a daily basis can be exploited, seized and degraded. Far-right bands are still defecating on the metal foundry.
Bands like Marduk referring to non-white people as "barren mud" (song called "Red Tree of Blood".) The word mud in a similar context was heavily used by the neo-nazi Tom Metzger. Impaled Nazarene continuing their embarrassing clownery after decades of racism and sexism (songs "The Burning of Provinciestraat" and "Reflect on This", for example).
Writing lyrics about killing minorities or beating up women is not "provocation" just like having a swastika tattoo is not merely "controversial."
We live in an age of buzzwords and lazy research. Overused words like accusation and politics are there to lessen the importance of anti-fascism and make language softer.
We also live in a world where money talks and bullshit walks. So many of the smaller record labels are owned by neo-nazis who want to extend their influence. The neo-nazification of Finnish black metal has been going on for years. Most of the older musicians still rely on the reputation they had in the 1990s.
Even if you think that metal will never be a white power movement, you still have to actively work in order to prevent that from happening. If you don't have the guts to stand up against a herd of nazi hipsters, you deserve to be called a wimp.
Sunday, February 2, 2025
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Top 20 tinted films
These weren't included in the top 50 black-and-white films.
1916 Intolerance
1919 Madame Dubarry
1919 The Doll
1920 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1920 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920 The Golem
1920 Leaves from Satan's Book
1921 The Haunted Castle
1921 The Phantom Carriage
1921 Destiny
1922 Häxan
1922 Nosferatu
1922 Phantom
1922 Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
1923 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1924 Waxworks
1925 The Pleasure Garden
1925/1929 The Phantom of the Opera
1927 The Cat and the Canary
1927 The Lodger
Saturday, January 25, 2025
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Monday, January 20, 2025
Saturday, January 18, 2025
Fornax Ferrea - Thanatolith
Thanatolith - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0qHc_QXqy8
Davidia Mortizoa is the second album in the death metal trilogy by Fornax Ferrea and the 38th by Rinta-Perälä.
Out February 1, 2025.
https://fornaxferrea.bandcamp.com
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