experimental trance-enducing black metal, feedback appreciated

[the phoenix]

In theory these twelve songs will constitute my first album. If you like this kind of music, get them here first, for free at that. Think any particular ones should be removed from the album, being sub-par compared to the rest? Any overall criticisms? I'm going to make a cover and a booklet for the CD case, and maybe a short spoken-word intro.

Some songs are harder to 'understand' than others, especially tracks 6, 8, and 10. I made all the songs with my voice, no instruments. Great for tripping, or just a normal weed high. Great for meditation if such is your style. I still need to cut off the end of track 2 that's just dead silence, of this I'm aware.

When I do the CD case design, I'll be careful to gear it's feel towards the target audiences I'm marketing to, namely people interested in black metal, meditation, spirituality, progressive avant-guard music, drug use, and original abstract (artsie?) stuff.

1. Purge
2. Nostalgic White Noise
3. Pride
4. Vengeance
5. Burning
6. Cosmos
7. Orange Rewave
8. Humble
9. Ting
10. Rising
11. Morbid Siren
12. Naked Satan

Thanks for the feedback, I really do appreciate it. This is the only place I can get feedback from a black metal-esque crowd, or even a metal croud in general. I'd also appreciate recommendations as to what labels might be most potentially interested in this kind of music. Perhaps this forum/site is sponsored by or affiliated with certain labels?

 

[no country for old wainds]

Oh no way am I getting involved this time. *closes the window*

 

[Henrik Main]

The first track sounds like a bee swarm gone wild.

 

[Lyle]

I would say this not only revolutionizes black metal, but it is in fact transcendental.

 

[Cythraul]

absolutely remarkable...

 

[the phoenix]

A fact I should have mentionned, is that the band name is Transcix, which I devised as a permutation of 'transcend'. It is ultimately transcendent music, as in my opinion true black metal has always been and should continue to be. Yet I find the aspect of transcendence is lost in so much contemporary black metal, in favour of Satanic evil which misses the point that true Satanism is also transcendent.

Black metal is in opposition to Christianity, and fundamentally I agree with this stance. But I regard Christianity as the perversion of something otherwise essentially great. For those interested, two excellent articles that explore this idea come from Knowledge of Reality magazine: Christ and the Kundalini and Modern Idolatries.

Similar to the ancient government tactic of fabricating trivial problems to keep the masses from exploring the more profound ones, is the way Christianity perverts religious and mystical teachings to trick anti-Christian movements into denouncing the essentially noble truths that lie clouded behind Christianity. And whereas contemporary black metal is often full of justified hate against religion, it umbrellas all religion into one distorted category and ultimately fights against Truth more than fallacy and does damage in the long run.

The transcendental aspect in black metal curbs anti-Christian hatred by properly directing it, and by portraying in itself the noble Truths that modern Christianity clouds. Ultimately, true Christianity is about transcendence, about finding the divine through the physical, and not about blindly worshiping the physical as the church would dictate. Little of this 'true' Christianity remains today, but can be found elsewhere in, for example, gnosticism.

Black metal, in my opinion, should point through transcendence to the spiritual truths that modern Christianity largely hides behind misinformation, especially that misinformation hiding and distorting the feminine aspect of the divine (i.e. the power of creation/maya, the masculine force being infinite creative potential in all-pervading Nothingness...but I use the terms 'feminine' and 'masculine' loosely).

Anyways, I really take the kind feedback appreciatively to heart. I haven't yet gotten very much feedback, and sometimes I wonder if this type of music has hope of catching on.

 

[Edgecrusher]

what's your live show gonna be like? are you gonna be on stage air-guitaring and air drumming?

 

[DE]

edit: no really this is a joke right

 

[the phoenix]

lol, it's no joke, go smoke a joint

 

[DE]

it's like a cross between a formula one race and a beehive oh god this is terrible

 

[no country for old wainds]

Oh no way am I getting involved this time. *closes the window*

ever

 

[the phoenix]

GoD I think you just contradicted yourself.

 

[no country for old wainds]

The phoenix I think you are an extraordinarily good troll.

 

[anonymousnick2001]

OMG this is the fucking greatest thing I have ever seen or heard

 

[the phoenix]

The spiritual adept puts on a good show to dazzle the croud and conduct his real business subliminally, but alas I'm merely a troll who's said too much.

 

[anonymousnick2001]

I don't follow...

 

[the phoenix]

I was speaking to GoD, I posted just a minute after you. I'm glad you enjoy my music. Seems like people either really like it, or really don't.

 

[10293847]

"Seems like people either really like it, or really don't."

Which is the best one could hope for. The only thing worse is no reaction at all.

 

[the phoenix]

Actually the best would be that everyone likes it, and the worste that nobody likes it. Fuck I'm a troll.

 

[Christie_fell]

Tr00 tr0llz never claim to be one, sir.