BM and other things
So I got loads of usbm a while ago but I haven’t wrote much about it, I also got Deathspell Omega and Drudkh and I haven’t wrote about those either.
Then what there is to write about? I’ll try.
BM is one of the first subgenres of metal I’ve listened. I have Burzum’s self titled as a first press copy. I got all fisrt four darkthrones (eventhough soulside journey doesn’t really count). But Burzum I really followed only till det som engang var, and after Transilvanian Hunger I forgot darkthrone too. Actually those two are the only things I have labelled as BM in my collection, but of course later after DHG’s 666 international I got all of their previous releases which are pretty much labelled as BM too. Anyway I was wondering about the difference between Burzum and Darkthrone, and at least on those early records to me Burzum is much more bleak, sad, hopeless, melancholious, where Darkthrone has really great grooves on their albums (really, listen A Blaze in the northern sky) and has some of this jeering and defiant quality in. On the overall atmosphere and mood they are, to me, quite different.
Some how I connect this with Xasthur and Leviathan. I feel that Xasthur has a lot of this bleakness in, like Burzum. It’s really hard to pick up songs from Xasthur’s album because they seem to be this one big mass of hopelesness. Where as Leviathan has great songs and I pick easily my favourites. And also has some great grooves there too, like Darkthrone.
All of the above doesn’t mean that Leviathan would sound like Darkthrone, or Xasthur like Burzum though. They all sound different (and to someone who isn’t into metal they all probably sound the same) But there is something in the mood that to me connects them in this way.
Anyway I’m quite quite glad that I got the albums because there is something so touching in them. It’s a funny thing somehow, but yes, I’m touched. Both bands (Xasthur, Leviathan) are mainly just one person, multitalents lie in everywhere. Well you just have to handle guitar, bass and drums. But more importantly they both make good pieces of music.
I often notice that at least in my mind, songs work through pop esthetics in a way. There needs to be one really good riff and that works almost like chorus, then the rest of the song might have sections that I don’t really care for, (but which I’m not disliking either) and the song is great. Maybe this has come through trying to explain to some of my friends why something is good. And it’s easy when there’s a good riff and arrangement, but then why do I like those bits that seems to be just a bulk of noise with somebody yelling their eyes out. Hell, it’s hard to explain, but I just like it.
Deathspell Omega. To be honest I have mainly listened Kénôse, which is an ep and easiest to access, I guess. It’s great, the main thing why it’s so hooking is the endings of both sides. Side A is only one song which they end such a nice guitar pattern, fading everything else slowly away. Side O has two songs and again they finish the latter so brilliantly, with a riff that actually brings Unholy to my mind. Through out the album they have really nice moving bass lines and guitars sweeps. Great album. About two other albums I can so far only say that “fa -…” is better than “si…” which isn’t really surprise Fa being newest and Si being oldest (of these three)
About Drudkh, no not much, Autumn Aurora is a nice album but it hasn’t really yet worked on me.
Lately been quite lonely, always when I go somewhere where there is people I’m often alone, and if I’m not then when I come back home I feel even more lonely. So I easily stay home. But to meet people is to go out. And metting people is easy, right.
My grants application didn’t go through, so I made application for childcare. I haven’t heard anything from there either. It would be nice to do some days there, to get some money to also gather it up a bit for the summer.
Nadja relases are coming in on vinyl this year + Aidan is releasing loads of stuff all the time. Oh boy I’m in trouble.
I want more things. I want to get rid of my want of wanting things.
I need a princess. Way too much fairytales for me.
I have tried this buddisth/newage/hippie/manipulating the ether stuff, but so for, no goal.
You can change if you can, could anyone say it better?
But the festival time is soon. That’s nice. Let’s see how lonely I feel after that one. Although with so many people around it might be that the being alone after is a blessing.
I wish I could write about music well enough, that I would have the vocabularity to express what is so great about all the music I hear and listen to, but I can’t really reach it. Rare people actually can and even them don’t really reach it but they get close enough, so it’s interesting to read. I can’t even speak well enough about it. But I still should go to radio. Who else would play you USBM and Aidan Baker at the same show?
