mourner
The immeasurable bleakness and the great ambience stayed as the backbone of Throane. What shows the development from the predecessor to this one is the impressively improved sense for dynamics. Also, the vocals can contribute much more to the emotions evoked. And it's very heavy. I recommend listening to this on some good headphones and quite loud. That's the way I found it most shattering.
Favorite track: Et Tout Finira Par Chuter.
The second full length from Throane is the most fully realised vision of enigmatic photographer/illustrator/designer Dehn Sora (BLUT AUS NORD, ULVER, DEATHSPELL OMEGA).
One of the most stunning trips of the year, Plus une Main à Mordre (“No Hand Left to Bite”) seeks balance between the struggle and the letting go, passing from chaos to quiet in revelatory circular motions.
Like Sora’s visual art, his music possesses a hypnotic, almost hyperreal singularity: ultra-modern meditations crisply rendering the esoteric as familiar and the everyday as phantasmagoria. This is a record of cities as tombs, of failing industry, corroding capitalism, fractured lives, divided peoples, isolationism and lack.
The album is marked by greater confidence in its ferocity and frightening clarity of purpose in its harrowed ambience; finding kinship with greats such as SWANS, BLUT AUS NORD, BREACH and GODFLESH in hues of grey Doom, Post-Black Metal, Post-Hardcore and darkest Industrial.
Produced - as 2016’s lauded debut Derrière-Nous, La Lumière - by Samuel Vaney (CORTEZ, MUHD), the mix is haunted by primal screams, submerged intimations of speech and disembodied voices lost in a magma of filth, effluvia and strange beauty. Drums are performed with brutalist precision by Gregoire Quartier (CORTEZ).
The concluding title track opens up to feature guest vocals from Sora’s close friend Colin Van Eeckhout (AMENRA), Sylvain (INCIVIL TRAGEDIA) and fellow graphic designer Valnoir who join in unison as if a sect, hidden in graffiti tunnels communing misremembered echoes of love, looking beyond the human for commonality as towers erupt in conflagrations of psychic disillusion.
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released October 20, 2017
Written, performed, recorded by Dehn Sora. 2016/2017
Produced by Samuel Vaney. Drums by Gregoire Quartier.
Mixed and mastered by Samuel Vaney at Lead&Sulfur Studio, Switzerland.
Percussions recorded by Franck Neuman.
Vocals on Plus une Main à Mordre :
CHVE Recorded by Tim de Gieter, MuchLuv Studio, Brakel, Belgium.
Valnoir, Incivil Tragedia Recorded by Dehn Sora, Barrelsement, France.
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The album description mentions an “emotional apex.” That’s really the difference between Stare and the band’s previous albums. Ulcerate was always supremely technically proficient. I just didn’t care all that much. Their growth has come from making music you will feel. Metallurgical Fire
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Swirling guitars, furious drums, vocals that at the same time howl from infinite distance and are right up in your head; everything put into dissonant form with the help of unconventional songwriting. This album is my personal key to the icelanding black metal madness that I've ignored for way too long! Lukas Kaufmann
Tokyo band contrast black metal's brutal complexity with shoegaze's abyssal grandeur, resulting in an LP that feels crushing, yet infinite. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 24, 2022
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《 Heureux les pauvres en esprit, car le Royaume des Cieux est à eux. 》
— Évangile selon Matthieu, verset 3, chapitre 5.
Armez-vous d'outils conceptuels pour aborder Deus Salutis Meæ si cela vous chante mais ils ne serviront à rien. Cet album fera de vous, que vous le vouliez ou non, un simple d'esprit. Le black metal industriel dissonant est une agression sonore qui laisse sans voix ; les répétitions font entrer dans un état second ; les cris sont barbares.
Mais pas de Royaume des Cieux... Jordan Vauvert