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.
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Destinies Bursting into Sight
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
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