Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2023.
Drawing 422.
Friday, June 30, 2023
Saturday, June 24, 2023
Godlike Nonperformance - from Afterlife Before Death
Afterlife Before Death is out July 1, 2023.
Godlike Nonperformance
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
About Afterlife Before Death
Is this album part of a trilogy?
No. There are three trilogies: black, white and grey. They were recorded between 2019 and 2021.
The album was written in six days from scratch. The track Godlike Nonperformance was written on paper without playing an instrument. I've only done that a couple of times. The titles include religious terminology, but the intention was to subvert cliches.
Vengeful Semblance is both classical and black metal at the same time. That's what black classical means. I want to make my own kind of music. Style is not the reason.
What is so boring about today's avant-garde black metal bands is that the dissonance is too obvious. It's like they discovered it yesterday and started mindlessly molesting their instruments. There's nothing surprising about it. Some of them just can't write music to save their lives.
There's nothing wrong with memorable music. You don't have to think in opposites or obsess over theories. An album is pointless if you can't remember anything distinct about it.
Black metal has many problems and one of them is the fact that it attracts childish imbeciles. The internet is filled with brainless jackoffs who think they're the biggest fanatics. They don't know anything. Fanaticism is not the answer. It gives you the same tired old crap over and over again.
Without musical innovation we wouldn't have black metal in the first place. That kind of innovation has to continue. There is no other way.
Sunday, June 18, 2023
New Vengeful Semblance track
Woesphere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_grBWxWrqc
Afterlife Before Death is the 11th Vengeful Semblance album and the 27th composed by Rinta-Perälä.
Out July 1, 2023.
Written between September 28 and October 3, 2022.
Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, October 12, 2022 - June 17, 2023.
Sunday, June 11, 2023
Artistic merit versus money and numbers
One of the worst things online is having a number next to your name. Number of followers or subscribers. The weird thing about being judged based on that number is that you can't even see all the numbers in one place. There is no "one number". We are not numbers, we are people who live in the real world.
I'm not on Youtube or Bandcamp to make money. I have a day job. People need to know what artistic merit really is. Money is just a bonus to me.
Why am I releasing ten albums this year? Because of the ideas and the creative opportunities. No record label on Earth would allow me to do all these things.
Art is a realm where ideas have a life of their own. That's what it is. Making money should never be the starting point if you want to be a real artist.
No one else has done these things the way I have. There's only one me.
Sunday, June 4, 2023
The end of Art Questions 2019 - 2023
This is the end of the monthly art questions.
These questions came from online and real life interactions. Sometimes they were inspired by research.
I have been writing about art since 2014. The writings you will find here in the future will focus on art related topics in a more concentrated way, but I won't do essays.
Thursday, June 1, 2023
Erebos Symphonia - out now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj6EPDBFHQc
https://rintaperala.bandcamp.com/album/erebos-symphonia
1. Hatched Out of Ardour
2. Messenger of Abyssic Colours
3. Voice Reflection Poetry
4. Music in the Creator's Memory
5. Spiral Pillars
Erebos Symphonia is the 26th album by Rinta-Perälä.
Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, September 9 - November 2, 2022.
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