xasthur - c/d?

Bought Subliminal Genocide the other day, together with the new Nachtmystium. I quite like them both.

it's kind of like Loveless if it was made by Satan

Awesome.

Just bought this record and it's incredible.

Recently snagged a download of Mutiilation's rare "Vampires of Black Imperial Blood", partly on the basis of the track covered on "Gate though Bloodstained Mirrors". If you like Xasthur, you need to hear this. There's a very similar feel to the guitar playing, and the production is just nuts, even by BM standards. Great original cover art, with our imperial vampires, in full corpse paint, apparently overcome by despair in a domestic setting.

New Xasthur release is "All Reflections Drained" - limited super old school cassette-only package from Hydra Head, cased with a booklet, patch and three badges. Vinyl to come, and the tracks already leaked via the usual sources. Pushes the Defective Epitaph sound way into the ambient zone, stripping it down to crashing waves of effects, and those repeating, chiming figures so oddly reminiscent of 60's soundtracks. Booming garagey drums and half-buried vocals push it further off the deep end. I've been bingeing on Striborg recently, and even after getting my head bent around his work, I was amazed by just how fucked up and perverse this sounds. Malefic certainly isn't making any concessions to over-ground distribution here, or to anything else, for that matter.

Defective Epitaph is one swell piece of music.

Can we have a split EP with Scott Walker?

dream split

CD issue of All Reflections Drained out next week or so with extra disc of "alternate versions, uneleased song and several covers".

Bonus CD:

1. Torment (4:54)
2. Aura of Denial (4:45)
3. Fleshcrawl (0:44)
4. Concealed Barren Thoughts (6:08)
5. Released from this Earth (4:58)
6. Untitled (5:54)
7. A Living Hell (3:00)
8. Trauma Will Always Linger (14:20)
9. Jomfrulysets Fall (6:13)

Thanks, hadn't heard about this. Always interesting to check out the bands he chooses to cover.

. . oh, and here's that fanvid:

Well, I've now listened to All Reflections Drained and the bonus disc once each, and not killed myself. I don't expect it'll supplant some of the earlier albums in my affections, but I do appreciate the vein he's, er, tapping? sapping?

'malignant prophecy' on defective epitaph is an amazing song. might be his best after 'arcane and misanthropic projection', maybe alongside 'the prison of mirrors'

Title track on All Reflections Drained still sounds like Serge Gainsbourg backed by Einsturzende Neubauten. Seriously odd record, and I imagine there should be another one along soon.

Listening to Telepathic... for the first time right now and loving it. Anyone want to recommend similar stuff (I've got zero knowledge on this type of music)?

If you don't get many answers here, you may have more luck over at the Rolling Metal Thread 2010 thread.

Cheers boss.

you will get answers here, though!

If you're looking for more stuff about black metal in general, ILM's talked about it quite a lot:

Black Metal!
black metal primer
Favorite First Wave Norwegian Black Metal Act.

(You can also just search 'black metal' for more threads.)

he's looking not so much for BM as music with the sonic layering and doomy ambience of xasthur imo

"this type of music" is pretty vague — I imagine that, if he likes Xasthur, there'd be some other black metal he'd like too. but you're also right, i think he'd be into some non-BM that sounds similar too

in his case i would recommend 'subliminal genocide' and 'defective epitaph' right off the bat

NORTT! i recommend NORTT. and yeah subliminal is really, really good. and i'm not a xasthur fan at all.

Anyone digging Portal of Sorrow? It's the Malefic / Marissa Nadler album.

Can we have a split EP with Scott Walker?

― Soukesian, Saturday, May 30, 2009 12:15 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

!!!

Anyone seen Xasthur live? He's playing in Seattle soon and, though I support his growth, I'm not interested to see him in 'doomgrass' mode.

Haven't seen him but he is definitely in doomgrass mode on this tour.

Tf is 'doomgrass'?

Doomgrass is the melancholy, finger-picked acoustic style that he's doing now. It's his term. He's put out a couple albums in that style under the name Nocturnal Poisoning. Good for him. Not for me.

Thank you! I've got some catching up to do then, not heard of Nocturnal Poisoning before. Doesn't bode well though tbh.