Lurker of Chalice

[Demilich]

no, Acid Mothers Temple makes too much music

 

[Chromatose]

no, Acid Mothers Temple makes too much music

a lot of those jap bands are crazy like that though, putting out several releases a year and whatnot

but yeah.. it's TOO MUCH

 

[Thanatopsis123]

Wrest makes too much music.

How could it be too much if it's all awesome?

 

[MFJ]

guess I'm just sick of morbid boo-hoo USBM

agree to disagree. If it's your thing, then I'm sure there will be plenty more to come.

 

[Ellestin]

This stuff isn't being discussed enough given the fact that it's food for an upcoming RC essentials re-run. Here's the album review from Aquarius Records. That's what I call nailing the point

For those of you who just skim the list or only read the first few sentences of reviews, let us get your attention real quick. Lurker Of Chalice, in case you didn't realize, is the work of one WREST, aka SF black metal overlord LEVIATHAN. Paying attention now? Good. let's proceed. Lurker Of Chalice has existed in one form or another for several years now, but outside a cassette or two this is the only recorded evidence and man will it blow your mind. Originally conceived as a less black metal, more experimental musical outlet (and possibly inspired by Leviathan / AQ faves Benighted Leams) Lurker Of Chalice is constructed from lots of black metal parts as might be expected, but lot of very un-black metal bits as well: arpeggiated post rock guitars, martial percussion, simple propulsive krautrock rhythms, swirling droning ambience, strange haunting vocals, obscure found sounds and samples, doomy slow motion dirges, reverb drenched, almost sun dappled melodies over creepy warbly soundscapes, warm thick keyboards, heavily strummed steel string guitars, rich throaty crooning, super overblown distorted guitars, all smeared into a warm fuzzed out, dreamy and melancholy, mostly midtempo blackened doomscape. Occasionally, Lurker blasts into full on black metal, like on the second track "Piercing Where They Might", but even in a BM context, things are beautifully way off kilter, rumbling bizarrely affected vocals, dizzying riffs that swirl and slither and make it impossible to focus, huge jangly guitars over miltaristic snare drums and warbly Michael Gira like vocals. So weird. But so perfect. Imagine Leviathan and Benighted Leams and the Swans and Ved Buens Ende, all somehow mixed into some darkly evolving, gothic tinged expanse of moody metallic melancholia. This is maybe the best sounding record Wrest has made which is saying a lot. And it's definitely the weirdest, and most certainly the saddest. The whole record is dripping with intense emotion, minor key and slowly stretching toward some bleak future of broken promise and crushed spirit. From slowly evolving, almost cinematic instrumentals to massive and majestic dirges to woozy effect drenched post rockisms to ultra bleak ballads to damaged black metal crush, Lurker Of Chalice evokes total and utter misery, a musical invocation to the lost and alone, wandering in search of hope, under the suffocating black cloak of night, crushed beneath a starless sky and adrift in a soulless universe, exposing every raw nerve and dark corner of Wrest's twisted musical soul. So fucking good!

 

[Ellestin]

I intend to bump this as long as it takes for this album to receive the attention it rightfully deserves from you buttlovers!!! :hotjump:

Piercing Where They Might

Granite

 

[Thanatopsis123]

Great album but I don't think it's about to make any big waves in RC man.

 

[Reign in Acai]

The mood exuded herein despoils the majority of tepid shortcomings displayed by Wrest's peers. Been spinning it religiously over the past two weeks. Such a shame that there's four albums worth of material that will never see light. If only this cat can score himself another girlfriend to act as a muse. :-/

 

[Ellestin]

actual yousendit links from way back ITT people

they don't work though, I checked.