I just got their newest CD, the limited double CD edition the other day (how's that for great grammar!
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It is one of the strangest and most disturbing albums I've ever heard. ALmost all of the songs are very slow, with dark melodies using a riffing style similar to the single note melodies in Morningrise. There are 66 tracks on the first CD, many of which are radio noise of someone switching stations, or a s background noise at certain points, and sometimes with voices speaking over it.
To top it off, it's a concept album, about a guy who can't identify with himself, and shelters himself from the world, getting in touch with his past, and distancing himself from his sanity. As he grows insane, the only thing that accompanies him is a radio broadcast...Very scary stuff. When I listen to it, I almost feel like it's happening to me.
Musically, it's more a cross between New Ulver and Old Katatonia, than anything else I can think of, although there seem to be a few Morningrise style riffs.
Has anyone else checked out this album?? It's defintiely a grower, and definitely an interesting musical/aural experience. I reccomend it to fans of the avant-garde.
Oh, and the sickening painful cries of their older singers are gone.....It's much more normal on this album (too bad...
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)It is one of the strangest and most disturbing albums I've ever heard. ALmost all of the songs are very slow, with dark melodies using a riffing style similar to the single note melodies in Morningrise. There are 66 tracks on the first CD, many of which are radio noise of someone switching stations, or a s background noise at certain points, and sometimes with voices speaking over it.
To top it off, it's a concept album, about a guy who can't identify with himself, and shelters himself from the world, getting in touch with his past, and distancing himself from his sanity. As he grows insane, the only thing that accompanies him is a radio broadcast...Very scary stuff. When I listen to it, I almost feel like it's happening to me.
Musically, it's more a cross between New Ulver and Old Katatonia, than anything else I can think of, although there seem to be a few Morningrise style riffs.
Has anyone else checked out this album?? It's defintiely a grower, and definitely an interesting musical/aural experience. I reccomend it to fans of the avant-garde.
Oh, and the sickening painful cries of their older singers are gone.....It's much more normal on this album (too bad...
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