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VARGHKOGHARGASMAL - CD DROWNED IN LAKES

 DROWNED IN LAKES - supershop.sk
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Label: TUMULT
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Nosič: CD

Popis - DROWNED IN LAKES:
Ready for some harmonies and heaviness? Pure, prog-tastic METAL for the long, dark winter? We know you are, ?cause it?s been a long while. But now, it?s here. The Hammers come down for the second time with this long-awaited new album, the follow-up to their acclaimed (and already out-of-print, for now) debut The Bastard also released on tUMUlt back in 2001. Whereas The Bastard was a full-on rock opera, The August Engine only *sounds* like a rock opera, it isn?t actually one. There?s no narrative, unifying concept to the songs this time, which puts HoM?s eclectic metal mixture in danger of losing focus, being too unpredictably psychedelic and epic for their own good. Wait, what are we saying? That?s no problem! As diverse as their songwriting and sonic palette can be, everything here sounds like Hammers and nothing else (well, except Slough Feg), which can only be the mark of a brilliant band. Bursting out of the gates with an adrenalized instrumental opener that thrashes like Megadeth while remaining as gloriously ?classical? and over the top as anything on The Bastard, we can?t say The August Engine never lets up. It does, but only in the sense that some decidedly unusual, and sometimes mellow avenues are explored. But for every non-metallic moment of sweet singing and pleasant acoustic guitars, you get plenty of shredding electric ones, with pounding drums, dramatic male and female vocals on a grand scale, and headbanging riffage. Advanced metal mastery here folks. Pretentious? Indulgent? Arrogant? No, simply mighty.  Both sport cool Voivod-ish liner art by Hammers mastermind John Cobbett himself.

01. A twisted confusional mix of slowed down Dick Dale style surf riffage
02. stumbling drums
03. haunting melodies
04. warbly organs
05. all wrapped around a simple motorik almost krautrock groove. So here we have the brand new album from Avenger
06. the man solely responsible for Varghkoghargasmal
07. and if anything
08. it?s even more haunting and mysterious
09. more creepy and strange
10. and some- how way more beautiful. It?s a difficult sound to describe
11. the guitars are clean
12. but are often still playing in a black metal style
13. frantic riffing or rapid picking
14. but just as often the guitars are spidery and minor key
15. unfurling lugubrious tendrils of creepy twang
16. or reverbed shimmer. The vocals are minimal
17. a hushed whisper here and there
18. a Viking style chant during one song
19. but it?s mostly left to the music
20. which is incredibly evocative
21. it?s like some sort of acoustic black metal
22. mixed with slowed down surf rock
23. dark languorous krautrock
24. and a distinct Morricone vibe as well. And then there are the drums
25. which by design or by happenstance
26. are a definite sonic focal point
27. as they are WAY up in the mix
28. and they are all over the place
29. the fills are chaotic
30. the rhythms stumble and stutter
31. but in their imperfections lie a truly unique sort of emotion and feeling not found in most music. The drums anchor everything
32. locking into foresty krautrock grooves
33. sputtering into dense little tumbling squalls
34. the prefect framework for Avenger?s rickety moonlit jams. Most of the songs creep and crawl
35. sometimes behind a curtain of rainfall
36. the sound of the forest spirits
37. flickering firelight
38. fireflies lighting up the canopy overhead
39. pianos pick out mournful melodies
40. the drums
41. lurching along
42. a perfectly imperfect accompaniment
43. organs wheeze
44. synths whir
45. steel strings twang
46. the whole thing so impossibly transcendent
47. effortlessly evoking ancient atmospheres and deep emotions. When the band lock into a more rocking groove
48. and the rhythm builds into something propulsive
49. the guitars stretch out into long streaks of buzzing melodies
50. the organ plays along like some old time music box
51. and the sound transforms before your ears and transports you to some truly mysterious otherworld. Utterly unlike anything else you will ever hear! Hauntingly beautiful
52. beautifully damaged and so totally essential listening for folks into fucked up black metal
53. and freaked out blackened krautfolk.

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