Yep, that's the one. Came out Tuesday...I haven't heard it but am getting it as we speak.
Thing that sucks is, I hadn't even heard of these guys until my buddy Jason sent me the Ved Buens Ende stuff...I feel like I have missed out on so much. This is so incredible. Honestly the greatest thing to happen to me musically since Bathory.
post by voidexpression at Nov 12,2008 7:57pm edited Nov 12,2008 8:03pm
I hear ya, man - the first time you hear Ved Buens Ende is just like "MOTHERFUCKER!"
I've been listening to Virus a LOT lately. "The Black Flux" is pretty fucking out there. But you're in ELS, so it's gotta be right up your alley. Check it out:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1OPE5S0Y
The bassist from Ved Buens (along with Hellhammer and Garm) played on one of my absolutely favorite records ever, ARCTURUS "Aspera Hiems Symfonia". Quite possibly the ultimate atmospheric / wintery / shredtastic / black record of all time in the history of ever. The first time I heard it and Carl August "The Grim Sweeper" ripped into the solo in the first song, I SHIT ALL OVER MY BALLS!!!. I got a hunch you too will cherish the fuck out of it, too:
Written in Waters is one of my favorite albums...I've never heard any of their other stuff. Some of the slower dissonant parts in the last Deathspell Omega make me think of Ved Buense Ende, but they don't quite hit the mark. I love the drumming and bass lines.
Awesome bands!
VBE, Arcturus, Ulver, Negativa, Shape of Dispair.
Check this guys out, great chilean band, they'd toured europe a couple of times with Saturnus.
http://www.myspace.com/mardegrises2
lol @ how much better VBE is than just about EVERY other so-called 'progressive' BM band.
it always amazes me how much more "avant garde" if you will, some of the early black metal bands were than some of the stuff that you see strutting around brookyln wearlng that label nowadays. i pine for the era of black metal before there was an officially codified version of what "black metal" was supposed to sound like...
could anything as brilliant as this
bennyhillifier for instance be created in the environment of the modern bm scene? i hope so but im not holding my breath
Never listened to Virus, I was less into weird shit by the time I heard of them. In The Woods was another band I remember being in the Ved Buens Ende ballpark, but like I said it's been awhile. Also Fleurety - I'm pretty sure they're actually who I was thinking of when I was blabbering about slap bass.
I agree with Dunwich, some of Deathspell Omega's guitar tones and chording remind me of those bands.
Virus is less black metal and more of just bizarre, "i-bet-you-can't-anticipate-the-next-note-i'm-going-to-play" type of shit. Virus has an almost, dare I say avant garde surf rock feel. The bass player is phenomenal, I think it's the same dude from VBE, albeit he's older and clearly more well versed on his instrument.
lol @ how much better VBE is than just about EVERY other so-called 'progressive' BM band.
it always amazes me how much more "avant garde" if you will, some of the early black metal bands were than some of the stuff that you see strutting around brookyln wearlng that label nowadays. i pine for the era of black metal before there was an officially codified version of what "black metal" was supposed to sound like...
could anything as brilliant as this
bennyhillifier for instance be created in the environment of the modern bm scene? i hope so but im not holding my breath
Crossing the Fiery Path is in the top three BM albums of all time definitely. What's up with that cover in the youtube window though? I WANT THE YELLOW FACE VAMPIRE BACK
didn't this dude jump off of a building and lose the ability to walk?
post by MikeOv at Aug 13,2012 9:11am
Rumor has it that he was tripping on acid and fell out of a window. While at MDF a few years back, this got brought up around Apollyon from Aura Noir and he said "Fell?" Obviously implying he jumped. He was in a wheelchair for a while but now he walks with a cane I believe but he no longer drums. A shame, for he was a master of that particular instrument.
Rumor has it that he was tripping on acid and fell out of a window. While at MDF a few years back, this got brought up around Apollyon from Aura Noir and he said "Fell?" Obviously implying he jumped. He was in a wheelchair for a while but now he walks with a cane I believe but he no longer drums. A shame, for he was a master of that particular instrument.
and with mdg we've been friends for more than 15 years.
