Genre-Black Metal/Industrial/Avant-Garde
The Ichneumon Method (And Less Welcome Techniques)http://www.mediafire.com/?e2mlmfm0ymz
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Alright, where to start with this band. I was first recommended them by Luke from the band Primitive Graven Images . We were talking about the band Blut Aus Nord, and he happened to bring this band up. I had never heard of them before, but from what he said it sounded like it was right up my alley. I had a bad head cold the first time I heard them, and when I tried listening to them, all I got was ear static (so to speak), but the parts I could hear weren't good enough of a representation. I kept on listening to them on multiple occasions, and it just sounded totally chaotic, and it was only until I downloaded their discography to my mp3 player and gave The Ichneumon Method a good solid listen that the music really started to make sense.
The first time I gave them a listen, they had a distinct Silent Hill sound to them, and being the SH fan I am that's what kept me listening. After I checked their metal archives page, I discovered that lo and behold, they base a lot of their lyrical themes around the series.
Now on to the sound. They have a very chaotic and dissonant sound, almost to the point where it comes full circle and isn't actually chaotic and dissonant at all. They use a ton of Silent Hill samples, and other samples from movies like Jacobs Ladder and Session 9 (both influences for the SH series). The music itself paints a very bleak picture, and it's one of those bands where you'll see something different in your mind every time (at least for me), whether it be a junkie struggling to overcome a crippling heroine addiction while in the grasp of a deep and seemingly unrelenting hallucination. You may be taken to an abandoned hospital with seemingly no exit or entrance, and complete darkness on either side of you as you navigate it's labyrinthine corridors, with a grotesque slime/moss/mould growing on the walls from years of neglect, decrepitude, and delapitation. Or a far off dystopian future, with smog so thick the sky is perpetually covered in a filthy green/brownish haze, crumbling buildings covered in a film of rust and dirt. One listen of this band may even take you to Silent Hill itself.
I give this band a 5/5 rating, but it's definitely the kind of music you need to listen to in the dark with headphones on with your full attention, that's when the music is at it's most rewarding. This is definitely NOT for everyone, and it's a very visceral, surreal, mind bending,disturbing, and at times borderline torturous experience. It's bands like this that really push the boundaries of music and dare to create something fresh and exciting. I'm really looking forward to what these guys create after Urfe. It can't be described by words alone, you have to listen to it and interpret it yourself.
~Trauma
The first time I gave them a listen, they had a distinct Silent Hill sound to them, and being the SH fan I am that's what kept me listening. After I checked their metal archives page, I discovered that lo and behold, they base a lot of their lyrical themes around the series.
Now on to the sound. They have a very chaotic and dissonant sound, almost to the point where it comes full circle and isn't actually chaotic and dissonant at all. They use a ton of Silent Hill samples, and other samples from movies like Jacobs Ladder and Session 9 (both influences for the SH series). The music itself paints a very bleak picture, and it's one of those bands where you'll see something different in your mind every time (at least for me), whether it be a junkie struggling to overcome a crippling heroine addiction while in the grasp of a deep and seemingly unrelenting hallucination. You may be taken to an abandoned hospital with seemingly no exit or entrance, and complete darkness on either side of you as you navigate it's labyrinthine corridors, with a grotesque slime/moss/mould growing on the walls from years of neglect, decrepitude, and delapitation. Or a far off dystopian future, with smog so thick the sky is perpetually covered in a filthy green/brownish haze, crumbling buildings covered in a film of rust and dirt. One listen of this band may even take you to Silent Hill itself.
I give this band a 5/5 rating, but it's definitely the kind of music you need to listen to in the dark with headphones on with your full attention, that's when the music is at it's most rewarding. This is definitely NOT for everyone, and it's a very visceral, surreal, mind bending,disturbing, and at times borderline torturous experience. It's bands like this that really push the boundaries of music and dare to create something fresh and exciting. I'm really looking forward to what these guys create after Urfe. It can't be described by words alone, you have to listen to it and interpret it yourself.
~Trauma
excelent blog!
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