Out There We Walked Quite Friendly Up to Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvrhnHx09cc
The opening line in the title is from "The Next War" by Wilfred Owen.
The 29th album by Rinta-Perälä. On this album the alphabet was aligned with musical notes and the melodies were inspired by the words in the opening lines.
Out September 1, 2023.
Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, August 2023.
Music, artwork and production by Rinta-Perälä.
Audio commentaries used to be worth listening to. I never thought they were just meant to exist in order to employ film historians. What the hell happened?
Here's a little news flash: cinema is a creative medium. Get some creative people on those audio commentary tracks. Is that too much to ask?
It's not about explaining your work, it's about the perspective you have.
I have been actively watching films for 30 years. I'm also a creative person. What I have found out is that cinema is not about the info. It's about imagination and curiosity. The filmmakers are faced with creative opportunities and problems. Cinema should be a playground for the imagination.
What is the point of making a blu-ray if it only has one commentary track from the point of view of a historian?
I don't care if the historian calls himself a "genre expert." That's not enough. Most of them are just boring farts who have no imagination.
One of the saddest things is that so many people are now addicted to information. They ignore everything else.
Historians barely even care about the films half the time. I can't listen to the opinions of some detached historian without jumping off a cliff. Next time you talk about "quality blu-rays", ask yourself: how much do they really care?
https://rintaperala.bandcamp.com/album/cellar-door
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQR7fRGUiPo
1. Cellar Door 1
2. Cellar Door 2
3. Cellar Door 3
4. Cellar Door 4
5. Cellar Door 5
6. Cellar Door 6
7. Cellar Door 7
Cellar Door is the 28th album by Rinta-Perälä. The sound of a cellar door opening followed by 84 processed versions of it.
Recorded on location and in Silence & Desolation Studio, September 13 - December 8, 2022.
Cellar Door 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqlpo8kREJM
Cellar Door is the 28th album by Rinta-Perälä. The sound of a cellar door opening followed by 84 processed versions of it.
Recorded on location and in Silence & Desolation Studio, September 13 - December 8, 2022.
Out August 1, 2023.
1. Woesphere
2. Godlike Nonperformance
3. Testament to Tyrannical Disgust
4. To Verse Revelation
5. Pest Heart
6. Martyrology
7. No Devil Beyond Me
8. Afterlife Before Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1Y0_vdDVWs
https://vengefulsemblance.bandcamp.com/album/afterlife-before-death
Afterlife Before Death is the 11th Vengeful Semblance album and the 27th composed by Rinta-Perälä.
Vengeful Semblance is against the neo-nazification of Finnish black metal.
Afterlife Before Death is out July 1, 2023.
Godlike Nonperformance
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
People and art are one and the same. We can not be separated. Why the hell would you even attempt that? Apparently some people have decided to do that because they don't give a shit about art.
Whenever I hear stupid things like "people are interested in people" or "people are more important than art", I immediately realise how narrow-minded all this deceitful nonsense is. You can't just say the word people and leave it there. Who are they? What are they doing and what are they truly interested in?
Art is one of the few things that show us what is underneath the surface. Underneath all the bullshit. Is that something you don't like? You're a fan of bullshit? The stinkier the better?
Saying the word community is not enough either. What kind of community are we talking about? What is actually happening? We don't need more shallow pretending. Fake positivity is extremely important and useful to oppressive societies.
Is that the kind of future you're interested in?
