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Subliminal Genocide (Hydra Head). Review by Matthew Moyer.
XASTHUR SUBLIMINAL GENOCIDE Hydra Head There's an unease woven into the very fabric of Subliminal Genocide that will hit even the most seasoned metal devotee immediately. The notes feel sick and wrong, the way they're played, the way they reverberate, leaving nauseous feelings in the pit of your stomach ...
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Defective Epitaph (Hydra Head). Review by Matthew Moyer.
XASTHUR DEFECTIVE EPITAPH Hydra Head At first I was worried about how Malefic would follow up something as mind-blowingly beautiful as Subliminal Genocide, but I shouldn't have been at all. Defective Epitaph is even better. It's sparser, even more ambient, but burnt and mutilated, hacked away at the ...
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Matthew Moyer talks with atmospheric metal mastermind Per Gustaffssons, aka Bergraven about creating music in isolation, the genius of Lindsey Buckingham, and what makes metal an ideal form of expression.
... because for many musicians (and the audience), metal is more of a live and communal experience, whereas you—and a few other like minded musicians (Xasthur, Leviathan come to mind immediately)—seem to be purposely isolating yourself and creating your own way. What made you say "fuck it, I want to ...
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The Yawn of the New Age (Vendlus Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
... is what happens when the twin poles of insular creativity and radical individualized isolationism that have been growing and growing in black metal (Xasthur, Sunn 0))), Bergraven, Thorns) reach their logical conclusion. At some point, when you reach the limits of tolerance and free expression in a genre ...
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Cold (Silber Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
... 's opening up to wide vistas of tense, seesawing synthetic orchestration. The instrumental "Colder" definitely had to have been a huge influence on Xasthur — I can hear so much of the more melancholic moments of Forgotten Epitaph springing from this — the cavernous drum machine, the cabin ...
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