So I've been a huge fan of the following Black Metal bands for a few years now...
Windir (Sognametal band - Blends Norwegian folk melodies with black metal)
Summoning (Atmospheric Black Metal Band - has louder keyboards than guitars and blends in
mideival music)
Melechesh (Oriental Black Metal Band - Crossbreeds Black Metal with Middle Eastern Music)
I've always wondered what It sounded like if you crossbreed the three into one sound. If you mixed the three, what would it sound like? I always wondered that... So I put myself up to the challenge of mixing Oriental Black Metal and Atmospheric Black Metal.
I always wrote Oriental Melodies well. Don't ask why. I am not perfect at it and I am quite inexperienced at doing it at a Melechesh Level but melodies Unleashing Vengeance had had a very strong oriental element to them at times so, I wondered if I could do it again...
Crossbreeding in Summoning styled melodies and instrumentation and production with oriental Black Metal is one hell of a challenge. The two just don't mix well.. Getting them to mix was hard. I got insanely lucky. Since I have actually wrote Atmospheric Black Metal before, I thought mixing the two would be something I could do. Poof. 30 minutes later I had written 5 songs.
Songs 1 and 4 have no oriental elements and are normal Atmospheric Black Metal Songs. However, tracks 2,3 and 5 are a completely different animal, being much more of a mix of Oriental Black metal with Atmospheric Black Metal, complete with Drum Beats, melodies (which are not the best oriental melodies done but they have that vibe) and also have Atmospheric sounds to them such as the production atmospheric black metal needs (louder keyboards than guitars, echoey production on keyboards, etc) plus medieval elements (Trumpets and stuff)... It's a weird mix but it works...
But mixing the two wasn't enough. I thought later on once I had perfected the tracks to see if I could add in Sognametal elements into it. I've tried to mix 2 out of 3 of these styles before, but 3 into one sound? I've never done that at all, and I wondered if I could crossbreed Sognametal melodies and Oriental Melodies to make some weird hybrid. I also thought, sognametal and Atmospheric sound great together, why not mix all 3! SO I worked on re-writing the songs in 2 phases:
Phase 1:
I added in sognametal style melodies that were based off of Windir's melodies but altered heavily, such as downtuned, timing changes, etc... I played them with these changes on several instruments including keyboards and guitars for tracks 1 and 4. For tracks 2 and 3 I decided I needed to try to mix them with Oriental Melodies. That mix is.... Weird Sounding! I did it well though...
Phase 2:
I decided the sound of the music wasn't Oriental Enough. So I added in Sitar for tracks 2,3 and 5 plus tribal drumming (like on certain Melechesh Songs) for track 5. Now It sounds really odd, but neat...
Can you say Atmospheric Oriental Sognametal? I Can!
In all seriousness, I think I may have made the absolute craziest, weirdest, yet best sounding black metal album I have ever done. It sounds like NOTHING out there, in any way, yet sounds cool. I decided that this would be the next Unscrupulous vomit cd (which was going to be about the Dunwich Horror by HP Lovecraft) and the last with this style. That's right, I don't think I can crossbreed these things this well a second or third time. They just don't work well together normally and the mix is so volatile that it doesn't really flow well, so I don't think I'll be doing this band any further... Fans of Unscrupulous Vomit will be like "WTF! Melechesh Influences in this! WTH!" but whatever. It had to be done once...
Update : Here we go, the album has been recorded since this post was first made, and the vocals came out great! I did choirs for this cd and they are epic, but don't expect them to sound as good as Summoning's Choirs... I used a multivoice chorus to add multiple voices to the sound when I only sang 1 in the first place.... It's kind of crappy sounding because that effect adds a LOT of noise into the sound and I had to lowe the volume a lot to compensate for that... Anyway, here is a link to the new cd on noisetrade!
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Monday, December 18, 2017
Thursday, September 14, 2017
Rancid Abomination releases it's final CD "The Wrath of Hell" which is a throwback to oldschool Rancid Abomination stuff that was Blackened Thrash!
Good news people... I just finished another new Rancid Abomination CD.... This one is entitled "The Wrath of Hell" and it is a concept album based on the story of the Legendary FPS game Doom. It is also a lot lot different than our last 2 cd's "Staring into the Eyes of Madness" and "Metaphysical torment", being a much more raw, thrashy cd with far far less Windir Influences, Summoning Influences and other similar influences....
I originally wrote all the music for the cd last night... I didn't want this one to sound like the last 2. I listened to them and they don't really sound like Rancid Abomination Cd's. They have the melodies needed but lack the thrashy riffs, intense drumming and sick lyrics. The drumming is too experimental on them and the thrashy rhythm guitars are replaced by black metal chords... I didn't like that... Rancid Abomination was supposed to be different than most black metal bands, not taking influences from them, so In a fit of disappointment I wrote the music for the new cd last night..
I decided to go down an oldschool route taking influences from old 2004-2005 Rancid Abomination only, like stuff I no longer have thanks to hard drive failures, like the cd's "Abhorrance and disgust", "CD 5" and others... I wrote very thrashy black metal with power metal touches and decided to change the production of the cd to be very close to what stuff in 2004 sounded like, using reverb on guitars and no amp simulator this time to make it sound more like a black metal cd. The song you see below is an example of what the new cd sound like....
I ended up writing 6 songs, and 1 was a massive instrumental that came out ok... All the others were really good though. The title track was actually the instrumental... The first song sounds really haunting and evil... Track 2 is heavy as hell... Track 3 is more uplifting... Track 4 is a massive symphonic black/thrash song, the next song is really fast and heavy and has cool melodies, and the final song has an exotic sound to it that is slower and yet very mystical sounding...
Lyrically track 1 is about the demons of hell finding out the anomalies on Phobos and Deimos (in the doom story) are being used by humans to teleport from one moon to the other. They then plot to start a demon invasion.... Track 2 is about how the demon leader (a cyberdemon) kills and posesses humans who went through the anomalies, turning them into former humans that attack mars in track 3, which is about the demonic invasion of phobos and the marines call to send flynn taggart to phobos.. Track 4 is the epic title track... Track 5 is about Flynn taggarts journey through Phobos and Deimos... It references phobos anomaly, Deimos, The Cyberdemon in Tower of Babel and more. Track 6 is about Flynn taggart's journey through hell and the showdown with the Spidermastermind boss...
The style of the new cd is something I really dig, it sounds a lot like oldschool RA is supposed to sound like... In fact it is so good that I think it is equally good as Abhorrance and disgust... That's amazing...
That's the good news, all of what I just said in this article up to this point..
Here's the bad news... This is Definitely the last Rancid Abomination CD. I simply cannot do any more... I don't have time... It sucks... But at least the last cd was amazing, right?
Official music video for track 1:
Link to download new album:
http://www.noisetrade.com/rancidabomination/the-wrath-of-hell-2017
I originally wrote all the music for the cd last night... I didn't want this one to sound like the last 2. I listened to them and they don't really sound like Rancid Abomination Cd's. They have the melodies needed but lack the thrashy riffs, intense drumming and sick lyrics. The drumming is too experimental on them and the thrashy rhythm guitars are replaced by black metal chords... I didn't like that... Rancid Abomination was supposed to be different than most black metal bands, not taking influences from them, so In a fit of disappointment I wrote the music for the new cd last night..
I decided to go down an oldschool route taking influences from old 2004-2005 Rancid Abomination only, like stuff I no longer have thanks to hard drive failures, like the cd's "Abhorrance and disgust", "CD 5" and others... I wrote very thrashy black metal with power metal touches and decided to change the production of the cd to be very close to what stuff in 2004 sounded like, using reverb on guitars and no amp simulator this time to make it sound more like a black metal cd. The song you see below is an example of what the new cd sound like....
I ended up writing 6 songs, and 1 was a massive instrumental that came out ok... All the others were really good though. The title track was actually the instrumental... The first song sounds really haunting and evil... Track 2 is heavy as hell... Track 3 is more uplifting... Track 4 is a massive symphonic black/thrash song, the next song is really fast and heavy and has cool melodies, and the final song has an exotic sound to it that is slower and yet very mystical sounding...
Lyrically track 1 is about the demons of hell finding out the anomalies on Phobos and Deimos (in the doom story) are being used by humans to teleport from one moon to the other. They then plot to start a demon invasion.... Track 2 is about how the demon leader (a cyberdemon) kills and posesses humans who went through the anomalies, turning them into former humans that attack mars in track 3, which is about the demonic invasion of phobos and the marines call to send flynn taggart to phobos.. Track 4 is the epic title track... Track 5 is about Flynn taggarts journey through Phobos and Deimos... It references phobos anomaly, Deimos, The Cyberdemon in Tower of Babel and more. Track 6 is about Flynn taggart's journey through hell and the showdown with the Spidermastermind boss...
The style of the new cd is something I really dig, it sounds a lot like oldschool RA is supposed to sound like... In fact it is so good that I think it is equally good as Abhorrance and disgust... That's amazing...
That's the good news, all of what I just said in this article up to this point..
Here's the bad news... This is Definitely the last Rancid Abomination CD. I simply cannot do any more... I don't have time... It sucks... But at least the last cd was amazing, right?
Official music video for track 1:
Link to download new album:
http://www.noisetrade.com/rancidabomination/the-wrath-of-hell-2017
Friday, June 30, 2017
Unleashing Vengeance is back together, new album being worked on!
Well I have good news for you guys... Unleashing vengeance may have been broken up... But no more! We are now back together. After hearing some of our old stuff, I decided to reform Unleashing Vengeance.
It wasn't an easy decision. But I think it was a good one. It has always been my most popular band till recently. It's doing well online and people even liked my videos on youtube talking about the reunion of this band.
The reunion will feature a new album. Entitled "slaughter the innocent", it is a return to form for unleashing vengeance. We recorded the music for it already over a 5 day period. It has 6 tracks with vocals, 3 without, and overall sounds like a later period unleashing vengeance cd (aka : really technical, thrashy, folk influenced metal).
Track 1 is a slow brooding type song that reflects the mood I have been in lately. It's not a good mood to be in but bad things may be happening in my life very soon if things don't go my way. This is the first UV cd to not have a fast thrashy opener.
Track 2 is a lot faster and heavier. It also has a lot more complex drumming... American folk melodies are thrown in here during the chorus on accoustic. This song is about crappy entertainment on TV, not going to say what tv station yet...
Track 3 is a pure thrash song. It is quite heavy and somewhat complex although it's nothing like track 2 in that department. It's about me getting trolled by idiots in the gaming community surrounding a certain FPS game 2 years ago.
Track 4 is a slow, yet super complex technical thrash song with an interesting melody... It has more american folk melodies thrown in in the chorus. This one is a big political statement. Until the cd is out I don't want to reveal what it is about.
Track 5 is a folk music instrumental.
Track 6 is the first song on the album that blends several different kinds of folk music into metal. It sounds very experimental yet thrashy at the same time. One of the heaviest songs on the cd, but not really complex for a song. This one is about the legendary doom addon hell revealed. This song is going to have black metal vocals, for to fit the theme well it had to be black metal.
Track 7 and 8 are folk instrumentals.
Track 9 is a melodic thrash song with some very technical drum beats and riffs... It has complex melodies as well and has some folk melodies at the end that are non European/American. This one is about how loudwire is stupid and they refuse to mention great music when they do their youtube lists, like Windir, Persuader and Summoning.
Track 10 is going to be an unreleased Windir Cover. I won't include this on the internet do to copyright issues... Song to cover : "The Spiritlord".
Overall I like the way the cd came out. It is a little bit less complex than old unleashing vengeance. But it's close to older stuff melody and riff wise at least... There are fast songs, slow songs and medium speed ones. It's varied enough for my taste. The drumming is a little bit different this time as well, more focused on prog metal drum beats than jazzy ones like old UV stuff.
It wasn't an easy decision. But I think it was a good one. It has always been my most popular band till recently. It's doing well online and people even liked my videos on youtube talking about the reunion of this band.
The reunion will feature a new album. Entitled "slaughter the innocent", it is a return to form for unleashing vengeance. We recorded the music for it already over a 5 day period. It has 6 tracks with vocals, 3 without, and overall sounds like a later period unleashing vengeance cd (aka : really technical, thrashy, folk influenced metal).
Track 1 is a slow brooding type song that reflects the mood I have been in lately. It's not a good mood to be in but bad things may be happening in my life very soon if things don't go my way. This is the first UV cd to not have a fast thrashy opener.
Track 2 is a lot faster and heavier. It also has a lot more complex drumming... American folk melodies are thrown in here during the chorus on accoustic. This song is about crappy entertainment on TV, not going to say what tv station yet...
Track 3 is a pure thrash song. It is quite heavy and somewhat complex although it's nothing like track 2 in that department. It's about me getting trolled by idiots in the gaming community surrounding a certain FPS game 2 years ago.
Track 4 is a slow, yet super complex technical thrash song with an interesting melody... It has more american folk melodies thrown in in the chorus. This one is a big political statement. Until the cd is out I don't want to reveal what it is about.
Track 5 is a folk music instrumental.
Track 6 is the first song on the album that blends several different kinds of folk music into metal. It sounds very experimental yet thrashy at the same time. One of the heaviest songs on the cd, but not really complex for a song. This one is about the legendary doom addon hell revealed. This song is going to have black metal vocals, for to fit the theme well it had to be black metal.
Track 7 and 8 are folk instrumentals.
Track 9 is a melodic thrash song with some very technical drum beats and riffs... It has complex melodies as well and has some folk melodies at the end that are non European/American. This one is about how loudwire is stupid and they refuse to mention great music when they do their youtube lists, like Windir, Persuader and Summoning.
Track 10 is going to be an unreleased Windir Cover. I won't include this on the internet do to copyright issues... Song to cover : "The Spiritlord".
Overall I like the way the cd came out. It is a little bit less complex than old unleashing vengeance. But it's close to older stuff melody and riff wise at least... There are fast songs, slow songs and medium speed ones. It's varied enough for my taste. The drumming is a little bit different this time as well, more focused on prog metal drum beats than jazzy ones like old UV stuff.
Sunday, June 25, 2017
Loudwire is a complete joke, they refuse to recognize Windir as the awesome band they were.
Ok... So I saw some best band per country thing on www.loudwire.com being advertised on facebook. Full of crap it was... Tons of horribly overrated bands being put there for popularity reasons and underrated bands that completely annihilate them being left off the list. It was so pathetically bad that it pissed me off...
Sweden : Opeth
(Should have been Persuader - Sounds way better and Way Heavier than Opeth. Groovy Brutal Power Metal FFS!)
USA : Metallica
(Anything but metallica, come on! I would rather have Unleashing Vengeance, My Old Band here than metallica! (Even Though Unleashing vengeance really isn't that good...))
Australia : Some stupid crappy band
(Should have been Harlott - wtf are they thinking...)
Finland : Who cares what they chose
(If they didn't chose Wintersun they have no credibility)
Austria : Belphegor! (WTF!)
(WHERE THE FUCK IS SUMMONING!)
But that doesn't piss me off as much as the complete lack of any sogndal (norway) bands being listed there or anywhere else on their site or any video done by them... These bands are far better than normal norweigan black metal and need to be recognized as how amazing they really are.
No Vreid?... Co'mmon!
No Mistur? Stupid.
No Cor Scorpii? WTF!
No Windir? Fuck you!
I mean these 4 black metal bands collectively shit all over most other black metal bands you can name with Vreids rock n roll riffs, Mistur's Epic Atmosphere, Cor Scorpii's Classical inspired riffs and instrumentation and Windir's fucking sick dark folk melodies, amazing clean vocals, sick guitar solos, and haunting keyboards... Valfar was a fucking Genius! Yet they don't want to mention ANY of these bands ONCE! You put any black metal band FROM THE WORLD against any of these bands and They have a hard time competing at best and get annihilated at worst.
Emporer? Can't beat Windir
Burzum? WTF! Guy is a fucking nazi fuck off... WINDIR >>>>>>>>>>>>>> BURZUM
Mayhem? Windir kills them
Dimmu? A joke. Any of the Sogndal bands eats them alive.
Old Mans Child? Close but still no Windir. Can't beat Cor Scorpii either.
Darkthrone? Windir kills them. Cor Scorpii Also
Satyricon? No Windir, NEXT!
Sarcofago? No Windir
Watain? WTF! It's a joke, no Windir,. These guys made their stupid 10 best black metal bands list but Windir Didn't? Watain Can't beat Cor Scorpii, OR Vreid either.
Rancid Abomination? No can't beat them either. Comes really close admittedly but.... Yeah.
(And that's MY BAND we're talking about)
There is only THREE black metal bands that are anywhere near WINDIR. The First is Summoning (EPIC Mideival folk influenced black Metal? That's original! AND KICKASS!).. The Second (SURPRISE!) Aren't even from Norway, or even Europe either. (And no they aren't American).... That's Melechesh. Really good band and it's good they got recognized because (IHMO) They have the atmosphere to pull of a really good sound. And it's catchy... Which is a plus. Where are they from. Israel. Yeah... Israel. Third one is.... BATHORY... Who obviously invented black metal! So they should be ahead, right? Every other black metal band out there sucks compared to Windir and the other 4. These 3 are really good, good enough to be equals... But no others come close.
Windir may be the best sounding black metal band ever. Yet the stupid turds at Loudwire, don't want to give them recognition.... Even their damn stupid "11 AMAZING bands that speak in foreign languages" refuse to mention Windir (Who Speak in Sogndal in 90% of their songs) (but they did mention the faggotry infested crap band Arkona, fuck you!). Fucking Band founder Valfar is dead and has been Dead for over 12 years and No Mention of them at all... Fucking stupid....
If you are a windir Fan go here and piss off some stupid idiots on the comments section:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xlwuOrF4Xk
(It's a stupid list that mentions musicians who died before releasing their masterpeice... NO Mention of Valfar there either, OR chuck from Death, for that matter)
Sweden : Opeth
(Should have been Persuader - Sounds way better and Way Heavier than Opeth. Groovy Brutal Power Metal FFS!)
USA : Metallica
(Anything but metallica, come on! I would rather have Unleashing Vengeance, My Old Band here than metallica! (Even Though Unleashing vengeance really isn't that good...))
Australia : Some stupid crappy band
(Should have been Harlott - wtf are they thinking...)
Finland : Who cares what they chose
(If they didn't chose Wintersun they have no credibility)
Austria : Belphegor! (WTF!)
(WHERE THE FUCK IS SUMMONING!)
But that doesn't piss me off as much as the complete lack of any sogndal (norway) bands being listed there or anywhere else on their site or any video done by them... These bands are far better than normal norweigan black metal and need to be recognized as how amazing they really are.
No Vreid?... Co'mmon!
No Mistur? Stupid.
No Cor Scorpii? WTF!
No Windir? Fuck you!
I mean these 4 black metal bands collectively shit all over most other black metal bands you can name with Vreids rock n roll riffs, Mistur's Epic Atmosphere, Cor Scorpii's Classical inspired riffs and instrumentation and Windir's fucking sick dark folk melodies, amazing clean vocals, sick guitar solos, and haunting keyboards... Valfar was a fucking Genius! Yet they don't want to mention ANY of these bands ONCE! You put any black metal band FROM THE WORLD against any of these bands and They have a hard time competing at best and get annihilated at worst.
Emporer? Can't beat Windir
Burzum? WTF! Guy is a fucking nazi fuck off... WINDIR >>>>>>>>>>>>>> BURZUM
Mayhem? Windir kills them
Dimmu? A joke. Any of the Sogndal bands eats them alive.
Old Mans Child? Close but still no Windir. Can't beat Cor Scorpii either.
Darkthrone? Windir kills them. Cor Scorpii Also
Satyricon? No Windir, NEXT!
Sarcofago? No Windir
Watain? WTF! It's a joke, no Windir,. These guys made their stupid 10 best black metal bands list but Windir Didn't? Watain Can't beat Cor Scorpii, OR Vreid either.
Rancid Abomination? No can't beat them either. Comes really close admittedly but.... Yeah.
(And that's MY BAND we're talking about)
There is only THREE black metal bands that are anywhere near WINDIR. The First is Summoning (EPIC Mideival folk influenced black Metal? That's original! AND KICKASS!).. The Second (SURPRISE!) Aren't even from Norway, or even Europe either. (And no they aren't American).... That's Melechesh. Really good band and it's good they got recognized because (IHMO) They have the atmosphere to pull of a really good sound. And it's catchy... Which is a plus. Where are they from. Israel. Yeah... Israel. Third one is.... BATHORY... Who obviously invented black metal! So they should be ahead, right? Every other black metal band out there sucks compared to Windir and the other 4. These 3 are really good, good enough to be equals... But no others come close.
Windir may be the best sounding black metal band ever. Yet the stupid turds at Loudwire, don't want to give them recognition.... Even their damn stupid "11 AMAZING bands that speak in foreign languages" refuse to mention Windir (Who Speak in Sogndal in 90% of their songs) (but they did mention the faggotry infested crap band Arkona, fuck you!). Fucking Band founder Valfar is dead and has been Dead for over 12 years and No Mention of them at all... Fucking stupid....
If you are a windir Fan go here and piss off some stupid idiots on the comments section:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xlwuOrF4Xk
(It's a stupid list that mentions musicians who died before releasing their masterpeice... NO Mention of Valfar there either, OR chuck from Death, for that matter)
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
NEW Rancid Abomination is out! Completely changes the sound of the band for the better! (LONG post)
Ok.... ZA Here... Decided quickly last month that Finality would not be the last Rancid Abomination CD and that Rancid Abomination would go down a different route from now on. Originally conceived as a horrible black metal one man joke band, rancid abomination wrote evil lyrics on purpose that are disgustingly bad at times. But that's in the past as I move forward to redefine Rancid Abomination and what it should be like with the new cd...
I conceived this cd last month. I was reading the Mothman Prophecies book by John A Keel. It's a book about unexplained things that happened in West Virginia in the 1960s. It's a fascinating read. But it's also a scary read as it goes into A) UFO Sightings B) Men in black sightings C) Alien Contactees D) Other weird crap and E) Sightings of a 7 foot tall bird man thing with red eyes called the mothman.
This book is one of my favorite books ever and it inspired me to write a concept album on paranormal stuff... I wanted to do this for at least one month and I decided to write the music for this album earlier this week.. I entitled the album "Staring into the eyes of madness" and it's out on noisetrade to download for FREE right now.. Download it here I composed it with a twist... The usual rancid abomination sound was ditched for an expanded sound that adds the following elements on top of the old RA sound without losing that sound much:
A) Totally new rhythm guitar style inspired by Unleashing Vengeance's guitar style but done more in a black metal way. The triplet infested riffs are still there but they are done with muted notes and black metal chords now. This is more of a groovy styled guitar sound and it fits C) well and it unfortunately replaces the old blackened thrash sound the band used to have but... Whatever.
B) Atmospheric Black Metal (think summoning) elements such as medieval instruments, long song lengths, slow drumming and such are used in the 3 atmospheric black metal type songs on the cd... These are generally slow and epic sounding and have trumpet in them and medieval elements thrown in in one case.
C) Far more varied drumming. Drum beats are really experimental sounding on this cd and it shows. Some Drum beats sound quite jazzy sounding. Others are "Hybrid drum beats" based on 1) Rancid Abomination Drum beats and 2) beats other bands do... Bands such as A) Dimmu Borgir B) Summoning C) Unleashing Vengeance and D) Melechesh (!) That being said I am not trying to sound like Oriental (Middle Eastern music inspired) Black Metal here.. I just have been listeneing to that stuff a lot lately and was SLIGHTLY inspired by it. Not inspired enough to want to sound just like it mind you! You will here drum beats that have part of them sound like part of a drum beat Melechesh uses but not the whole thing.. It ends up sounding very experimental but cool nonetheless.
This next one is completely expected coming from me, me being the biggest WINDIR fan in North america by now!
D) HUGE Inspiration from WINDIR:
This cd is the first cd I've ever done to incorporate WINDIR-ESQUE folk metal melodies into the album. It's huge. I based them on PARTS of a lead guitar melody from the legendary Windir Song Fagning. and altered the pitch of the whole melody than transposed parts of the melody several times by several pitches to get the melodies I do in the cd that sound really folky sounding. But don't worry. This isn't cheezy folk metal stuff here. It's fucking windir. They were the least cheezy folk metal/folk inspired black metal band ever so...
Also some of the cd has some industrial elements thrown in in places. Mostly it was done to add some other influences in. It's especially noticeable on tracks 3 and 5.
So now Rancid Abomination blends in influences from Summoning, Windir AND slight Melechesh influences now... Heh...
Older elements of the band are still there, such as the trademarked delayed harmony style used in 90% of my music, deep evil sounding synths, tons of blastbeats, scary sounding music and creepy lyrics and vocals.
Lyrical inspiration comes from several paranormal things that have happened in US and England since the 1960's. As a firm believer I know some of these things are real. And some of them are quite disturbing...
Track 1 deals with alien Abduction... It's called "The Experiment". It's a brutally fast song with a symphonic style to it. Alien Abduction is a scary concept to open the cd with I think. The song explores screen memories, alien experiments, and other things... The vocal production in it is a bit lacking but it's not too bad. It also has some windir styled melodies..
Track 2 "Abode of the Phantom" deals with a weird "invisible" bigfoot sighting in maine I read about online. It's weird as hell and the song about it is even weirder sounding. Extremely experimental and ugly sounding, the song has some very dissonant chords and fucked up sounding melodies, and some very groovy drum beats too.. It also has more thrashy and death metal styled druim beats as well..
Track 3 "Mr Apol" deals with a mysterious alien visitor who fed prophecies to John keel in the 1960's through a contactee in Long Island New york. The contactee met this alien several times and it would speak through the contactee and give Keel lots of fucked up prophecies, that were almost true but not quite... A few were however and it was weird... The song itself is very heavy and has a brutally heavy thrashy black metal styled start and an industrial styled finish..It also has a windir styled melody in it.
Track 4 "Black Eyes" is about reports of "Black Eyed Children". Black eyed children supposedly show up on doors of remote towns late at night and asked to be let in. The people who see them experience insane amounts of fear and refuse to let them in. The ones who let them in suffer cancer, dead pets, nose bleeds, radiation exposure and worse. The kids themselves look like kids with out of place clothing and completely black eyes. The song itself is an interesting mix of summoning styled atmospheric black metal and Groovy Black Metal in the vein of Melechesh minus middle eastern elements... It's slow and very evil sounding but very groovy. It's my favorite song on the cd..
Track 5 "Stalker of the Night" is the longest song on the whole album. At 11+ Minutes long it is an epic Medieval/atmospheric black metal (think summoning) song about the ancient English Legend of Spring Heeled Jack. Spring heeled Jack was a weird winged phantom that showed up in Victorian london in 1837 and later. He was able to jump great heights, breath fire and he had glowing red eyes. He attacked and hurt several woman supposedly but always got away by leaping over fences and things.. He was never caught. The song is a slow epic atmospheric black metal song with mideival music elements thrown in including medieval percussion, such as kettle drums and tambourines, and such. Mix that in with black metal and some Windir Styled melodies and some industrial elements and you get this song. It also has clean vocals but they came out bad... They sound a bit badly mixed and produced but they are there...
Track 6 "Wendigo", is about reported phantoms that resemble the Wendigo Creature from Native American Mythology. I am specifically talking about things that have human bodies and deer's heads. They show up a lot in sighting reports. There is one report in Colorado where a woman see's something like this haunting her cabin while she and her husband went out hunting into Colorado. Another frightening encounter happens in Oklahoma where 2 guys go up to a mountain to do Astrophotography. They run into wildlife, all running away from them. They then see the phantom, human shape with a deer's head and glowing red eyes. This story scared the shit out of me. So I wrote about it in this song. The song is a fast heavy song with strong Dimmu Borgir and Windir Elements thrown in. It also has some more groovy drum beats in the chorus but they are rarely used and the riffs in this song are super complex and haphazard sounding..
Track 7 "Pukwudgie" is about sightings of "Pukwudgies" in the Freetown state forest. Pukwudgies are evil dwarf things that show up in Local Native American Folklore. People supposedly see them if they go into the Freetown state forest, a supposedly haunted forest, in the same state as me (Massachusetts). Whether they are hallucinating it or it's something being put into their head is beyond me. But it's happening. The song is similar to the last one and has heavy dimmu Borgir influence in it and also has a very sinister sounding melody being used.. At the end it gets a bit groovy but the beginning is more of a dimmu type song with evil melodies.. It also has a Windir styled melody thrown in..
Track 8 "Staring into the eyes of madness" is about the Mothman itself. Mothman was seen by hundreds of people in West Virginia in 1967. Right after the sightings ended, the nearby bridge leading into the town colapsed. Many people say the mothman was a death omen. People who saw it died in the bridge collapse. But I don't think so. I do think it was supernatural in origin because it could fly WITHOUT flapping it's wings and could take off vertically like a helicopter without flapping it's wings. It also had Hypnotic red eyes and people who saw it were terrified. Again like Black Eyed Kids, it induced tons of fear. The song itself is a lot more sinister sounding than the last two... It is the second longest song on the album and has foreboding type elements thrown in including a very deep creepy keyboard and evil sounding folk melodies played by trumpets. It also has a Windir styled melody in the break.. It has clean vocals, and unlike track 5 they came out good....
PHEW: That was a lot to type out...
Anyway, I am pleased with the way this album came out in every category but production which is off but it's black metal, so who cares (!). I'm no "production Nazi" and I think maybe the bad production makes it sound better. Lyrically it's awesome and the whole sound of it is very diverse and weird sounding at times and at other times sounds like older RA stuff plus some new influences... It's cool... All the influences mentioned in this post are really good bands people (minus maybe Dimmu), they are worth checking out!
Anyway that's the end of this insanely long post. But before I go... Check out my youtube channel for updates...
I conceived this cd last month. I was reading the Mothman Prophecies book by John A Keel. It's a book about unexplained things that happened in West Virginia in the 1960s. It's a fascinating read. But it's also a scary read as it goes into A) UFO Sightings B) Men in black sightings C) Alien Contactees D) Other weird crap and E) Sightings of a 7 foot tall bird man thing with red eyes called the mothman.
This book is one of my favorite books ever and it inspired me to write a concept album on paranormal stuff... I wanted to do this for at least one month and I decided to write the music for this album earlier this week.. I entitled the album "Staring into the eyes of madness" and it's out on noisetrade to download for FREE right now.. Download it here I composed it with a twist... The usual rancid abomination sound was ditched for an expanded sound that adds the following elements on top of the old RA sound without losing that sound much:
A) Totally new rhythm guitar style inspired by Unleashing Vengeance's guitar style but done more in a black metal way. The triplet infested riffs are still there but they are done with muted notes and black metal chords now. This is more of a groovy styled guitar sound and it fits C) well and it unfortunately replaces the old blackened thrash sound the band used to have but... Whatever.
B) Atmospheric Black Metal (think summoning) elements such as medieval instruments, long song lengths, slow drumming and such are used in the 3 atmospheric black metal type songs on the cd... These are generally slow and epic sounding and have trumpet in them and medieval elements thrown in in one case.
C) Far more varied drumming. Drum beats are really experimental sounding on this cd and it shows. Some Drum beats sound quite jazzy sounding. Others are "Hybrid drum beats" based on 1) Rancid Abomination Drum beats and 2) beats other bands do... Bands such as A) Dimmu Borgir B) Summoning C) Unleashing Vengeance and D) Melechesh (!) That being said I am not trying to sound like Oriental (Middle Eastern music inspired) Black Metal here.. I just have been listeneing to that stuff a lot lately and was SLIGHTLY inspired by it. Not inspired enough to want to sound just like it mind you! You will here drum beats that have part of them sound like part of a drum beat Melechesh uses but not the whole thing.. It ends up sounding very experimental but cool nonetheless.
This next one is completely expected coming from me, me being the biggest WINDIR fan in North america by now!
D) HUGE Inspiration from WINDIR:
This cd is the first cd I've ever done to incorporate WINDIR-ESQUE folk metal melodies into the album. It's huge. I based them on PARTS of a lead guitar melody from the legendary Windir Song Fagning. and altered the pitch of the whole melody than transposed parts of the melody several times by several pitches to get the melodies I do in the cd that sound really folky sounding. But don't worry. This isn't cheezy folk metal stuff here. It's fucking windir. They were the least cheezy folk metal/folk inspired black metal band ever so...
Also some of the cd has some industrial elements thrown in in places. Mostly it was done to add some other influences in. It's especially noticeable on tracks 3 and 5.
So now Rancid Abomination blends in influences from Summoning, Windir AND slight Melechesh influences now... Heh...
Older elements of the band are still there, such as the trademarked delayed harmony style used in 90% of my music, deep evil sounding synths, tons of blastbeats, scary sounding music and creepy lyrics and vocals.
Lyrical inspiration comes from several paranormal things that have happened in US and England since the 1960's. As a firm believer I know some of these things are real. And some of them are quite disturbing...
Track 1 deals with alien Abduction... It's called "The Experiment". It's a brutally fast song with a symphonic style to it. Alien Abduction is a scary concept to open the cd with I think. The song explores screen memories, alien experiments, and other things... The vocal production in it is a bit lacking but it's not too bad. It also has some windir styled melodies..
Track 2 "Abode of the Phantom" deals with a weird "invisible" bigfoot sighting in maine I read about online. It's weird as hell and the song about it is even weirder sounding. Extremely experimental and ugly sounding, the song has some very dissonant chords and fucked up sounding melodies, and some very groovy drum beats too.. It also has more thrashy and death metal styled druim beats as well..
Track 3 "Mr Apol" deals with a mysterious alien visitor who fed prophecies to John keel in the 1960's through a contactee in Long Island New york. The contactee met this alien several times and it would speak through the contactee and give Keel lots of fucked up prophecies, that were almost true but not quite... A few were however and it was weird... The song itself is very heavy and has a brutally heavy thrashy black metal styled start and an industrial styled finish..It also has a windir styled melody in it.
Track 4 "Black Eyes" is about reports of "Black Eyed Children". Black eyed children supposedly show up on doors of remote towns late at night and asked to be let in. The people who see them experience insane amounts of fear and refuse to let them in. The ones who let them in suffer cancer, dead pets, nose bleeds, radiation exposure and worse. The kids themselves look like kids with out of place clothing and completely black eyes. The song itself is an interesting mix of summoning styled atmospheric black metal and Groovy Black Metal in the vein of Melechesh minus middle eastern elements... It's slow and very evil sounding but very groovy. It's my favorite song on the cd..
Track 5 "Stalker of the Night" is the longest song on the whole album. At 11+ Minutes long it is an epic Medieval/atmospheric black metal (think summoning) song about the ancient English Legend of Spring Heeled Jack. Spring heeled Jack was a weird winged phantom that showed up in Victorian london in 1837 and later. He was able to jump great heights, breath fire and he had glowing red eyes. He attacked and hurt several woman supposedly but always got away by leaping over fences and things.. He was never caught. The song is a slow epic atmospheric black metal song with mideival music elements thrown in including medieval percussion, such as kettle drums and tambourines, and such. Mix that in with black metal and some Windir Styled melodies and some industrial elements and you get this song. It also has clean vocals but they came out bad... They sound a bit badly mixed and produced but they are there...
Track 6 "Wendigo", is about reported phantoms that resemble the Wendigo Creature from Native American Mythology. I am specifically talking about things that have human bodies and deer's heads. They show up a lot in sighting reports. There is one report in Colorado where a woman see's something like this haunting her cabin while she and her husband went out hunting into Colorado. Another frightening encounter happens in Oklahoma where 2 guys go up to a mountain to do Astrophotography. They run into wildlife, all running away from them. They then see the phantom, human shape with a deer's head and glowing red eyes. This story scared the shit out of me. So I wrote about it in this song. The song is a fast heavy song with strong Dimmu Borgir and Windir Elements thrown in. It also has some more groovy drum beats in the chorus but they are rarely used and the riffs in this song are super complex and haphazard sounding..
Track 7 "Pukwudgie" is about sightings of "Pukwudgies" in the Freetown state forest. Pukwudgies are evil dwarf things that show up in Local Native American Folklore. People supposedly see them if they go into the Freetown state forest, a supposedly haunted forest, in the same state as me (Massachusetts). Whether they are hallucinating it or it's something being put into their head is beyond me. But it's happening. The song is similar to the last one and has heavy dimmu Borgir influence in it and also has a very sinister sounding melody being used.. At the end it gets a bit groovy but the beginning is more of a dimmu type song with evil melodies.. It also has a Windir styled melody thrown in..
Track 8 "Staring into the eyes of madness" is about the Mothman itself. Mothman was seen by hundreds of people in West Virginia in 1967. Right after the sightings ended, the nearby bridge leading into the town colapsed. Many people say the mothman was a death omen. People who saw it died in the bridge collapse. But I don't think so. I do think it was supernatural in origin because it could fly WITHOUT flapping it's wings and could take off vertically like a helicopter without flapping it's wings. It also had Hypnotic red eyes and people who saw it were terrified. Again like Black Eyed Kids, it induced tons of fear. The song itself is a lot more sinister sounding than the last two... It is the second longest song on the album and has foreboding type elements thrown in including a very deep creepy keyboard and evil sounding folk melodies played by trumpets. It also has a Windir styled melody in the break.. It has clean vocals, and unlike track 5 they came out good....
PHEW: That was a lot to type out...
Anyway, I am pleased with the way this album came out in every category but production which is off but it's black metal, so who cares (!). I'm no "production Nazi" and I think maybe the bad production makes it sound better. Lyrically it's awesome and the whole sound of it is very diverse and weird sounding at times and at other times sounds like older RA stuff plus some new influences... It's cool... All the influences mentioned in this post are really good bands people (minus maybe Dimmu), they are worth checking out!
Anyway that's the end of this insanely long post. But before I go... Check out my youtube channel for updates...
Friday, March 17, 2017
Metal bands that have music that complements Certain Video Games Well....
As a fan of metal, and video games, I like to mix both. So I started listening to metal at the same time as playing a video game a long time ago. Until recently, the choice of what I listened to didn't matter much.. Not so much now. Now I have found metal bands that fit the theme of the game very close and I chose to play said video game with said band... It all started when I experimented with playing Doom with my black metal band Rancid Abomination. Then I heard about how my new favorite metal band windir was being listened to while people played skyrim... So I wanted to find metal bands that fit the theme of games very closely, specifically black metal and folk metal bands of various types..
I tried playing Serious Sam while listening to the band Nile. Since Serious Sam takes place in Egypt, and Nile bases their music partly on Egyptian music, the combination I thought would be good. But I severely understimated how cool Nile sounded with sam. The sound of it really complemented the game well... Nile's really dark egyptian melodies made me fear the alien enemies of Serious Sam more than I normally ever would. I've never been so terrified of a game than when I listened to nile a the same time. That was for serious sam : first encounter only. I later on tried another experiment, trying to play the Persian levels in Serious Sam : Second Encounter with the Israeli metal band Melechesh. That was even more incredible sounding, especially when I was walking around the tower of babel and "doorways to Irkala" was playing. Melechesh blends middle eastern music into their style of metal and they do it incredibly well. It fit the theme of the levels I was playing perfectly... I also tried playing the band summoning, who mix middle ages music into black metal, with the game Hexen. That was also incredible... The music fit the theme of hexen (a mideival fantasy FPS) perfectly.
So here is a list of metal bands that fit the theme of certain games perfectly.
Game: Band to listen to while playing game: reason why:
Wolf3d- Vreid - Milorg Milorg is a WW2 concept album and
it's music fits ww2 games perfectly.
Doom- Rancid Abomination - Eternal Hate
and pestilence Rancid Abomination is an evil black metal
band I was part of, it fits doom well
Doom 2 (Hell Revealed addons and similar) -Unleashing Vengeance Unleashing Vengeance was
my old experimental yet brutal
thrash band. In maps such as
Hell Revealed you fight
hundreds of bosses per level.
UV's loud and intense brand of \ metal fits that perfectly...
Heretic/Hexen- Summoning Summoning uses mideival folk music
which is the same music heretic/hexen uses
Mass Effect- Cor Scorpii Cor Scorpii is a black metal band that
blends classical into their music well
It sounds really dreadful sounding
and fits mass effect well
Serious Sam : FE- Nile Nile is inspired by egyptian mythology and
egyptian music
Serious Sam : SE Chapter 1 - Xipe Totec Xipe Totec is a mayan themed death
metal band. Their music fits the
mayan temples well
Serious Sam : SE chapter 2 - Melechesh Melechesh blends middle eastern music
with black metal. Their style fits the
persian section of SE really well. Their
melodies are incredible sounding and so
are their vocals.
Dead Space- Dismembered September - Unitology My band Dismembered september wrote
a "unitology themed" black metal cd...
Skyrim- Windir Windir was a viking/folk metal band from
norway that had a very atmospheric
dark haunting sound. By far my favorite
band on this list. Too band skyrim sucks..
I tried playing Serious Sam while listening to the band Nile. Since Serious Sam takes place in Egypt, and Nile bases their music partly on Egyptian music, the combination I thought would be good. But I severely understimated how cool Nile sounded with sam. The sound of it really complemented the game well... Nile's really dark egyptian melodies made me fear the alien enemies of Serious Sam more than I normally ever would. I've never been so terrified of a game than when I listened to nile a the same time. That was for serious sam : first encounter only. I later on tried another experiment, trying to play the Persian levels in Serious Sam : Second Encounter with the Israeli metal band Melechesh. That was even more incredible sounding, especially when I was walking around the tower of babel and "doorways to Irkala" was playing. Melechesh blends middle eastern music into their style of metal and they do it incredibly well. It fit the theme of the levels I was playing perfectly... I also tried playing the band summoning, who mix middle ages music into black metal, with the game Hexen. That was also incredible... The music fit the theme of hexen (a mideival fantasy FPS) perfectly.
So here is a list of metal bands that fit the theme of certain games perfectly.
Game: Band to listen to while playing game: reason why:
Wolf3d- Vreid - Milorg Milorg is a WW2 concept album and
it's music fits ww2 games perfectly.
Doom- Rancid Abomination - Eternal Hate
and pestilence Rancid Abomination is an evil black metal
band I was part of, it fits doom well
Doom 2 (Hell Revealed addons and similar) -Unleashing Vengeance Unleashing Vengeance was
my old experimental yet brutal
thrash band. In maps such as
Hell Revealed you fight
hundreds of bosses per level.
UV's loud and intense brand of \ metal fits that perfectly...
Heretic/Hexen- Summoning Summoning uses mideival folk music
which is the same music heretic/hexen uses
Mass Effect- Cor Scorpii Cor Scorpii is a black metal band that
blends classical into their music well
It sounds really dreadful sounding
and fits mass effect well
Serious Sam : FE- Nile Nile is inspired by egyptian mythology and
egyptian music
Serious Sam : SE Chapter 1 - Xipe Totec Xipe Totec is a mayan themed death
metal band. Their music fits the
mayan temples well
Serious Sam : SE chapter 2 - Melechesh Melechesh blends middle eastern music
with black metal. Their style fits the
persian section of SE really well. Their
melodies are incredible sounding and so
are their vocals.
Dead Space- Dismembered September - Unitology My band Dismembered september wrote
a "unitology themed" black metal cd...
Skyrim- Windir Windir was a viking/folk metal band from
norway that had a very atmospheric
dark haunting sound. By far my favorite
band on this list. Too band skyrim sucks..
Saturday, December 31, 2016
Complete shitty troll reviewer tries to Ruin Valfar's Legacy with shitty ass Windir Reviews posted to all major Review Sites.
Words cannot describe how Pissed off I am now... There is a troll who is trying to trash one of my favorite bands ever, Windir. Windir was a black/folk metal band from Norway that broke up when their founder died in 2004. They were by far the best black/folk metal band I have ever heard, and completely destroyed all I have heard from that genre... Only Bathory is better..
Most folk metal bands use intentionally stupid sounding happy folk melodies on folk instruments over average to bad guitars without adding atmosphere to it at all. When I first discovered Windir I was listening to a lot of Wintersun and Ensiferum. The happiness of such bands was something that was getting to me. I wanted to hear new folk metal bands. A website got me into Windir and Mithotyn. Over a period of 6 months I had gotten into 21 new Folk Metal bands and 2 new black metal bands. Windir was the best of all of these and no other band came even close to them.
Windir did things differently.... Instead of using happy folk melodies gotten from folk music, Windir tried using dark sinister sounding Norwegian hymn melodies and played them on guitar and accordion, the instrument they were originally played on. This created dark sounding melodies, something I value a lot. Happy melodies piss me off. On top of that haunting keyboards were used throughout the songs to add dark atmosphere to them, something no other folk metal band even attempted...
A few months later I discovered This idiot who was posting shitty ass Windir Reviews like the below review of Windir's best cd.. "arntor"...
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/42976/Windir-Arntor/
This fucking idiot has spammed the following shitty reviews of Windir albums over the following sites... metal-archives.com (cthonicism), Sputnickmusic.com (hyperbore), rateyourmusic.com (Rusted Idiot) and maybe even more (I haven't checked)... The guy even made fun of Valfar's death on his review of Windir's second demo. He is a shitty reviewer who only gives "brutal" metal good reviews. Good atmospheric metal like this gets shitty reviews minus a few. But it seems he has spammed his shitty windir reviews all over the these review sites and none of them even care. The lack of integrity they show is ridiculous to allow total trashing of bands music as an official "review".
On the review of Artnor this idiot posted on sputnikmusic, he kept on trolling posters who protested the review by reposting his rating and made fun of them several times. To me this is proof he is a troll... I urge any Windir Fans to send the following message to metal-archives.com, sputnickmusic.com and rateyourmusic.com demanding they delete his account...
"There is a troll going around posting shitty reviews of a great Metal Band (Windir). He is using stupid bullshit criticism to trash any and all cd's by the band. He is going around multiple sites copy and pasting his reviews to those sites. He has posted reviews of Windir's albums to multiple sites using different names for each. For Rateyourmusic.com he is knwon as "rusted Idiot", for sputnickmusic.com he is known as "hyperbore" and for "metal-archives.com" he is known as "Cthonicisms". He posts mean reviews that try to say that windir's music sucked (It didn't) and trolls the fans of the music in many of his reviews calling them man children and worse. I urge you to perimently delete his account, he is mocking the review process to trash a dead metal legend. Do something about idiots like this, don't let them ruin Valfar's (windir's founder) Legacy. Attached is a review he made for Windir's second cd Arntor...
What most obviously separates this music from the heights metal can achieve in its greatest moments is its aesthetic of mood. Whereas metal is most commonly known as angry music, this is mostly happy. Not expressive of the joy of conquest common to power metal, or the appreciation of beauty common to certain niches of black metal, but simply HAPPY. These tracks sound more like drinking songs than anything else, which relegates them to occupying the same conceptual space - mindless, bouncy expressions of having a good ol' time, without a care in the world, because nothing needs to be taken seriously anyway. By expressing this aesthetic and being a metal album, it fails massively.
Composition continues to be simplistic, as in the band's previous output, although there are obvious occurrences of ambition sprinkled in. "Svartesmeden Og Lundamyrstrollet" at least attempts to develop itself linearly, eventually rescinding its irritatingly goofy lead hook for an atmospheric transition that is punctuated by the appearance of an arpeggiated couple of chords before gradually leading back into that main hook for a sincere, if trite, attempt at a conclusion. The ridiculously overlong-for-its-content "Saknet" takes a similar approach by moving its atmospheric section towards the end of the track, providing a lead-out that would close the album on a tolerable note if not for the following final track that, aside from its possibly being the worst song here, is also jarring in its overindulgent intensity that would be better placed at the beginning of this work.
As before, Windir's primary compositional approach here is to layer lead hooks comprised of overly dichotomous notes over two- or three-chord drawn-out rhythm riffing. Although there is some improvement in this album's desire to be expressive, with interstitial "heavy" riff sections to space out the songs a bit and occasional more dynamic uses of the rhythm section, it remains a boorish affair overall that is only made worse by Windir's full adoption of being mind-numbingly light. What little there is to like here is drowned in sappy melodies that carry nothing beyond their face value, and sound more like Disney music than anything else. This is the kind of metal that is not metal, and as such even mopey one-dimensional teenage pop is better than this. At least that has the decency to decline pretending to be something it's not. Windir is children's music made for adults, and as such this will be popular with man-children and nobody else.
People like this should not be allowed to post reviews! Where is your integrity. They trash a DEAD musician's music after his death, not just any musician, but a musician with tons of talent, and you let it happen? Where the fuck is your integrity! You have no integrity you stupid fucks! Immediately correct your mistake by banning the account of the user! It's the only way to fix the mistake YOU CAUSED!"
http://www.metal-archives.com/users/Chthonicisms
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/user/Hyperbore
http://rateyourmusic.com/~RustingIdiot
"
Most folk metal bands use intentionally stupid sounding happy folk melodies on folk instruments over average to bad guitars without adding atmosphere to it at all. When I first discovered Windir I was listening to a lot of Wintersun and Ensiferum. The happiness of such bands was something that was getting to me. I wanted to hear new folk metal bands. A website got me into Windir and Mithotyn. Over a period of 6 months I had gotten into 21 new Folk Metal bands and 2 new black metal bands. Windir was the best of all of these and no other band came even close to them.
Windir did things differently.... Instead of using happy folk melodies gotten from folk music, Windir tried using dark sinister sounding Norwegian hymn melodies and played them on guitar and accordion, the instrument they were originally played on. This created dark sounding melodies, something I value a lot. Happy melodies piss me off. On top of that haunting keyboards were used throughout the songs to add dark atmosphere to them, something no other folk metal band even attempted...
A few months later I discovered This idiot who was posting shitty ass Windir Reviews like the below review of Windir's best cd.. "arntor"...
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/42976/Windir-Arntor/
This fucking idiot has spammed the following shitty reviews of Windir albums over the following sites... metal-archives.com (cthonicism), Sputnickmusic.com (hyperbore), rateyourmusic.com (Rusted Idiot) and maybe even more (I haven't checked)... The guy even made fun of Valfar's death on his review of Windir's second demo. He is a shitty reviewer who only gives "brutal" metal good reviews. Good atmospheric metal like this gets shitty reviews minus a few. But it seems he has spammed his shitty windir reviews all over the these review sites and none of them even care. The lack of integrity they show is ridiculous to allow total trashing of bands music as an official "review".
On the review of Artnor this idiot posted on sputnikmusic, he kept on trolling posters who protested the review by reposting his rating and made fun of them several times. To me this is proof he is a troll... I urge any Windir Fans to send the following message to metal-archives.com, sputnickmusic.com and rateyourmusic.com demanding they delete his account...
"There is a troll going around posting shitty reviews of a great Metal Band (Windir). He is using stupid bullshit criticism to trash any and all cd's by the band. He is going around multiple sites copy and pasting his reviews to those sites. He has posted reviews of Windir's albums to multiple sites using different names for each. For Rateyourmusic.com he is knwon as "rusted Idiot", for sputnickmusic.com he is known as "hyperbore" and for "metal-archives.com" he is known as "Cthonicisms". He posts mean reviews that try to say that windir's music sucked (It didn't) and trolls the fans of the music in many of his reviews calling them man children and worse. I urge you to perimently delete his account, he is mocking the review process to trash a dead metal legend. Do something about idiots like this, don't let them ruin Valfar's (windir's founder) Legacy. Attached is a review he made for Windir's second cd Arntor...
Review Summary:
On its second LP, Windir cements its identity once and for all, but in
so doing proves itself to be devoid of any but the most banal of merits.
What most obviously separates this music from the heights metal can achieve in its greatest moments is its aesthetic of mood. Whereas metal is most commonly known as angry music, this is mostly happy. Not expressive of the joy of conquest common to power metal, or the appreciation of beauty common to certain niches of black metal, but simply HAPPY. These tracks sound more like drinking songs than anything else, which relegates them to occupying the same conceptual space - mindless, bouncy expressions of having a good ol' time, without a care in the world, because nothing needs to be taken seriously anyway. By expressing this aesthetic and being a metal album, it fails massively.
Composition continues to be simplistic, as in the band's previous output, although there are obvious occurrences of ambition sprinkled in. "Svartesmeden Og Lundamyrstrollet" at least attempts to develop itself linearly, eventually rescinding its irritatingly goofy lead hook for an atmospheric transition that is punctuated by the appearance of an arpeggiated couple of chords before gradually leading back into that main hook for a sincere, if trite, attempt at a conclusion. The ridiculously overlong-for-its-content "Saknet" takes a similar approach by moving its atmospheric section towards the end of the track, providing a lead-out that would close the album on a tolerable note if not for the following final track that, aside from its possibly being the worst song here, is also jarring in its overindulgent intensity that would be better placed at the beginning of this work.
As before, Windir's primary compositional approach here is to layer lead hooks comprised of overly dichotomous notes over two- or three-chord drawn-out rhythm riffing. Although there is some improvement in this album's desire to be expressive, with interstitial "heavy" riff sections to space out the songs a bit and occasional more dynamic uses of the rhythm section, it remains a boorish affair overall that is only made worse by Windir's full adoption of being mind-numbingly light. What little there is to like here is drowned in sappy melodies that carry nothing beyond their face value, and sound more like Disney music than anything else. This is the kind of metal that is not metal, and as such even mopey one-dimensional teenage pop is better than this. At least that has the decency to decline pretending to be something it's not. Windir is children's music made for adults, and as such this will be popular with man-children and nobody else.
People like this should not be allowed to post reviews! Where is your integrity. They trash a DEAD musician's music after his death, not just any musician, but a musician with tons of talent, and you let it happen? Where the fuck is your integrity! You have no integrity you stupid fucks! Immediately correct your mistake by banning the account of the user! It's the only way to fix the mistake YOU CAUSED!"
http://www.metal-archives.com/users/Chthonicisms
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/user/Hyperbore
http://rateyourmusic.com/~RustingIdiot
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Stupid Fake Music Review Site bashes Great Metal Artists with tons of shitty Critical Reviews...
So I was searching for Australian metal Bands when I came across a list of Australian bands. The list was posted on a rather bad site for metal. The site is rateyourmusic.com. The site is a crowd review site and one that sucks. It is filled with idiots who write bad reviews by the hundreds for awesome cd's... There are tons of idiot trolls giving good metal bands cd's shitty reviews there... Underground bands such as Windir (my favorite folk/metal hybrid band), Valtari and Be'lakor (two underground Australian melodeth bands). Part of the purpose of this post is to expose these trolls as the idiots they are. On the site there are tons of shitty reviews written by trolls for every artist. Not a single artist cd's get's any higher than a 3.7 out of 5 due to this. A perfect album gets a 3.5 due to all the shitty idiots giving it 2 and 1 star reviews. They factor into the reviews so much that nothing can get a good review there, no matter how good it is.
Checking the "reviews" Of At the Gates's Slaughter of the Soul CD. In the first 10 pages of reviews there were 13 2 and 1 star reviews alone. All were written by trolls who hate melodic death metal because they are idiots. One of The Trolls who bashed Be'lakor's awesome music (which I just got into on spotify), simply wrote a 1 star review claiming it was crappy "generic melodeath", which it isn't... It's progressive doom metal inspired melodeath. Imagine a mix of amon amarth/dark tranquillity with elements of opeth, insomnium and other bands thrown in. That's what Be'lakor sounds like. They write fantastic music and yet they score a crappy 2.5 out of 5 on the site by all the stupid melodeth haters... Someone else whined that Be'lakor wasn't progressive and also whined that the only progressive elements are piano's which isn't the case. I came across tons of time and tempo changes and softer passages as well as long song lengths and concept albums too... Fuck him. But what really pisses me off is the one idiot on the site who abuses the stupid site's ridiculously stupid rules to write shitty reviews that take apart everything about an artist to bash it for stupid reasons...
Enter "RustedIdiot".
RustedIdiot is a moron who bashed Valtari's Awesome 1 man band melodeth project by whining about it's production and said none of the songs were anything but generic melodeth. Think that is bad? Well It gets worse... Because he ripped my favorite folk/viking metal band to shreds. Yes That is Windir.
Windir wrote Blackened folk metal with very dark haunted melodies and keyboard passages. They started as a 1 man band ran by a guy from norway who called himself Valfar before he Died... They based the folk aspect of their music on melodies from Norwegian hymns. These are dark accordian based melodies that sound absolutely nothing like all the other folk music heard in folk metal (which is usually happy or cheesy in some way). These melodies sound dark and sinister.
Windir's music was so far removed from black metal AND folk Metal alike that it needs a new subgenre to represent it's awesome dark sound. The band created that subgenre "Sognametal". It's in the void between black metal and folk metal but isn't either one of those really.
That didn't stop the fucking idiot RustedIdiot for bashing Windir for the following stupid reasons:
-"Faux Aggression"
-Use of an admittedly awesome Arpeggio Riff
-Folk Melodies being used (claiming even the darker folk melodies windir used are cheezy and crappy)
-Claimed every song sucked and every song gets worse than the previous one on the windir cd "1184" (complete BS, The Final Song is the best one, I enjoyed them all, fuck him!)
RustedIdiot is very similar to a fucking idiot on youtube named DWTerminator. He is similar in so many ways that I think they are the same person but I cannot prove it without some real evidence (which as a person without IP address info I cannot do sadly).
They both do the following things:
-Trash bands/video games (in dwterminator's case) by writing stupid overcritical reviews.
-Use a scale where every level of quality ("good", "excellent", "bad") has a lower number than it normally should, for example they both give good albums/games a 2.5. This is done to piss of people who like a certain artist by giving them a lower score than you would expect. Because 2.5 would be bad on most people's eyes.
-They both harass and call fans of the stuff they are "reviewing" idiots to piss them off. Dwterminator did this in a Skyrim review, RustedIdiot did this in a review of a Windir Cd I liked. (I forgot which one).
I looked at all the reviews RustedTurdburglar give 4 and 5 star reviews and found out he is a "true norwiegan black metal" and "brutal" death metal nut. People like this bash anything that has melodies because it's not "BR00TAL!". They fucking suck. Good music needs melody to be good. Just because it has melody does not mean it's cheesy. This guy took the best damn sounding folk/metal mix in metal (the least cheesy of them all!) and bashed it for being cheesy. He is a fucking turdburglar.
This is what happens when idiots who make stupid crowd-reviewed sites like rateyourmusic.com allow absolutely anything and everything in a review, and don't punish reviews for stupid shit like this.
Do NOT use sites like this to judge music. I'd rather use encyclopedia metallium's reviews (with their tons of fanboys giving bands 100% reviews) and stupid bad reviews ruining albums reception over a site that allows tons of stupid critics to post reviews bashing a cd for stupid fucking reasons muddling the score so bad because 30% of the reviews are 1 star reviews by stupid "BR00TAL is best assholes".
Fuck them!
Checking the "reviews" Of At the Gates's Slaughter of the Soul CD. In the first 10 pages of reviews there were 13 2 and 1 star reviews alone. All were written by trolls who hate melodic death metal because they are idiots. One of The Trolls who bashed Be'lakor's awesome music (which I just got into on spotify), simply wrote a 1 star review claiming it was crappy "generic melodeath", which it isn't... It's progressive doom metal inspired melodeath. Imagine a mix of amon amarth/dark tranquillity with elements of opeth, insomnium and other bands thrown in. That's what Be'lakor sounds like. They write fantastic music and yet they score a crappy 2.5 out of 5 on the site by all the stupid melodeth haters... Someone else whined that Be'lakor wasn't progressive and also whined that the only progressive elements are piano's which isn't the case. I came across tons of time and tempo changes and softer passages as well as long song lengths and concept albums too... Fuck him. But what really pisses me off is the one idiot on the site who abuses the stupid site's ridiculously stupid rules to write shitty reviews that take apart everything about an artist to bash it for stupid reasons...
Enter "RustedIdiot".
RustedIdiot is a moron who bashed Valtari's Awesome 1 man band melodeth project by whining about it's production and said none of the songs were anything but generic melodeth. Think that is bad? Well It gets worse... Because he ripped my favorite folk/viking metal band to shreds. Yes That is Windir.
Windir wrote Blackened folk metal with very dark haunted melodies and keyboard passages. They started as a 1 man band ran by a guy from norway who called himself Valfar before he Died... They based the folk aspect of their music on melodies from Norwegian hymns. These are dark accordian based melodies that sound absolutely nothing like all the other folk music heard in folk metal (which is usually happy or cheesy in some way). These melodies sound dark and sinister.
Windir's music was so far removed from black metal AND folk Metal alike that it needs a new subgenre to represent it's awesome dark sound. The band created that subgenre "Sognametal". It's in the void between black metal and folk metal but isn't either one of those really.
That didn't stop the fucking idiot RustedIdiot for bashing Windir for the following stupid reasons:
-"Faux Aggression"
-Use of an admittedly awesome Arpeggio Riff
-Folk Melodies being used (claiming even the darker folk melodies windir used are cheezy and crappy)
-Claimed every song sucked and every song gets worse than the previous one on the windir cd "1184" (complete BS, The Final Song is the best one, I enjoyed them all, fuck him!)
RustedIdiot is very similar to a fucking idiot on youtube named DWTerminator. He is similar in so many ways that I think they are the same person but I cannot prove it without some real evidence (which as a person without IP address info I cannot do sadly).
They both do the following things:
-Trash bands/video games (in dwterminator's case) by writing stupid overcritical reviews.
-Use a scale where every level of quality ("good", "excellent", "bad") has a lower number than it normally should, for example they both give good albums/games a 2.5. This is done to piss of people who like a certain artist by giving them a lower score than you would expect. Because 2.5 would be bad on most people's eyes.
-They both harass and call fans of the stuff they are "reviewing" idiots to piss them off. Dwterminator did this in a Skyrim review, RustedIdiot did this in a review of a Windir Cd I liked. (I forgot which one).
I looked at all the reviews RustedTurdburglar give 4 and 5 star reviews and found out he is a "true norwiegan black metal" and "brutal" death metal nut. People like this bash anything that has melodies because it's not "BR00TAL!". They fucking suck. Good music needs melody to be good. Just because it has melody does not mean it's cheesy. This guy took the best damn sounding folk/metal mix in metal (the least cheesy of them all!) and bashed it for being cheesy. He is a fucking turdburglar.
This is what happens when idiots who make stupid crowd-reviewed sites like rateyourmusic.com allow absolutely anything and everything in a review, and don't punish reviews for stupid shit like this.
Do NOT use sites like this to judge music. I'd rather use encyclopedia metallium's reviews (with their tons of fanboys giving bands 100% reviews) and stupid bad reviews ruining albums reception over a site that allows tons of stupid critics to post reviews bashing a cd for stupid fucking reasons muddling the score so bad because 30% of the reviews are 1 star reviews by stupid "BR00TAL is best assholes".
Fuck them!
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