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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Uncertainty Principle - Pounded by the Abrasive



Hell, it's been a long while since the last post, but here we are again with works by Uncertainty Principle. Its founder and the only participant S.P.White creates slow, abrasive music which one can perceive with difficulty. There are, of course, exceptions. His music is a mixture of funeral doom (slow'n'steady tempo, majestic atmosphere), harsh noise (jaggedly-abrasive sound in general) and ambient (fuck, just pieces of ambient). He's got quite a large discography including rather diverse releases. Besides, Mr. White is one of the participants of Null Collective.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Methuselah - Do You Ever Sleep in the Abyss?


Methuselah - The Sleeper in the Abyss
-2004-


Ostiarii Wakim:
Weird music. It can put bodily and unexplainable fear into your heart, like works by H.F.Lovecraft do. You won't even understand which of the host of ponderous phrases frightened you most. That's the music of the eternal fall into a fathomless well with no walls at all, and the surrounding darkness is full of Soggoths. Music that you hear in your nightmares, but awakening is much more frightening. Weird music.


Stacheldraht:
This act is probably the very first ambient\doom work in my life which I can call eclectic. Well, it is eclectic after all, I think. The album starts with mild and soft ambient intro that shrouds you and to which some kind of oriental voices are later on added (actually I don't know for sure what these weird sounds are, so let them just be voices, huh). Minimalistic passages, thin drums and sounds of some kind of string ensembles reminding of neo-classic pieces, whisperings, growlings, other kinds of bla-bla-bla and a pinch of pianoes. Dark, gloomy, unusual, eclectic and, yes, a bit oriental - that, probably, would be the words to describe this album.