Nadja

[Thanatopsis123]

Has anyone heard this band? I was just at the Aquarius Records site and stopped to read one of their little reviews when I saw an album cover that looked cool. As usual, they sold me with the review before I even heard a sample.

Quite possibly the heaviest Nadja record yet, this is a serious slab of spaced out, acid fried, FX drenched doom, all wrapped in thick swirls of soft fuzz, and dense clouds of blurry buzz, a monstrous caveman plod through a thick, smeary sonic storm. It's like Godflesh wrapped in My Bloody Valentine filtered through some Wolf Eyes, or the Swans covered by the Jesus And Mary Chain, remixed by Tim Hecker. Or even Mogwai's Young Team run through a bank of effects pedals and played back at 16rpm. Heavy and pretty, punishing but strangely serene.

You can listen to two whole albums streamed on their label's site.

http://www.alien8recordings.com/releases/168/Touched
http://www.alien8recordings.com/releases/63/Truth-Becomes-Death

 

[Demilich]

I foolishly passed up the opportunity to catch this band live a few weeks ago with Six-Winged Seraph. I was really tired, and told him I might go put probably wouldn't. Shoulda gone.

I've heard samples from their new release and a couple of songs from Bodycage, but that's all. I plan to buy some of it when I have money and happen to remember about it.

 

[MajestikMøøse]

I haven't heard Nadja, but I've heard Adian Baker's solo stuff, and it's pretty damn awesome.

 

[Thanatopsis123]

Does music such as this transition well to a live setting? I've read before that Jesu isn't so great live and as Aquarius says, this is more Jesu than Jesu.

 

[Dev]

Ellestin loves them. "Skin Turns to Glass" & "Truth Becomes Death" especially. I don't like Jesu at all but live they were really good. Huge huge sound.

 

[Russell]

I have Bodycage - it's a good CD, but has been gathering dust for quite a while now.. For me it just didn't last very long.

 

[Six-winged Seraph]

I have bodycage, and saw them live a few weeks ago, they were amazing!

 

[Demonspell]

I've heard some of their material, it is reminiscent of Jesu at their heaviest...and the descriptions on the Alien8 pages (of course, infernal hails to them for providing full-length streams) are just as enticing as the Aquarious writeup...

 

[Ellestin]

I have "Skin Turns to Glass", "Touched" and "Truth Becomes Death", which are all pretty much mindblowing orgies of droning dirt with some majesty in it, while quite different from one another in terms of general flavour. I wouldn't push the Jesu comparison too far though. I dislike Jesu.