PICTURE ANN

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"Mountains, Myth & Murder", the fourth full-length incantation by the Danish experimental metal act PICTURE ANN, is available for download and streaming on Bandcamp and Soundcloud. Musically and lyrically, the album covers quite a lot of ground and yet the main themes associated with PICTURE ANN, namely longing and loneliness, are always at the forefront and course through the veins of this cursed thing at all times. Forlorn melodies, hypnotic riffs, awful synthesizers, and a total lack of production; it is all there for the taking. It will ruin your day and leave you somewhere terrible, but is that not what we all want and desire anyway?

While the trilogy ("Mountains", "Myth", and "Murder") is a moody and haunting exploration of the German expedition to Tibet in 1938-1939, other tunes explore the nameless guilt that is present in Edgar Allan Poe's timeless writings ("Dystopian Logic"), the Royal Conspiracy theory in relation to Jack the Ripper ("The Abberline Diary That Never Was"), and the soothing effect of listening to Marianne Faithfull's nicotine-stained voice on a melancholy night in June while mending old wounds ("Gasmask Ballet – The Extended Cut"). All songs were composed, recorded, and left un-mixed by J.N. on stormy nights.

Tracklist:
1. Anna Liked Dying Places
2. Mountains
3. Myth
4. Murder
5. In Cipher
6. Dystopian Logic
7. The Abberline Diary That Never Was
8. Wolves I Knew
9. Gasmask Ballet – The Extended Cut


https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf0lcLIard2OHF5s_JK5MZpqYwDGGmMr5

 

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PICTURE ANN "Blindness and Insight" single out now!

The 2016 Halloween release by the experimental outfit that is PICTURE ANN, this 2-track single contains two of the most dynamic and strangely beautiful tunes ever produced by the band:


https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf0lcLIard2NvslYtbfFzIrAn4VQ9oWG7

 

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Two brand new PICTURE ANN EPs entitled "Katarsis" and "Imperial" were released digitally today. You can download them for free via Bandcamp:

"Imperial":

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf0lcLIard2NAd8XCiL_t1TJQbRXGjo9N

"Katarsis":

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf0lcLIard2OyHbFqb5q6hm7sYxRatPHu

 

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Featuring the vocal talents of Morfeus (Dimension F3H, Viper Solfa, ex-Mayhem, ex-Limbonic Art), "Murder (VoxRemix)" is the strangest and most compelling musical ritual by PICTURE ANN to date. This tune will haunt and possess you!







Released March 17, 2017
Music and lyrics by J.N.
Vocal arrangements by Morfeus
Mixed by Morfeus and J.N.

 

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New album from the experimental Danish metal entity: "The August Client"

Picture Ann is back with a brand new studio album that is as haunting and morose as ever. It consists of two compositions that revolve around hypnotic, melancholic, and repetitive motifs and yet they are riddled with nuances, layers, and dark textures.

J.N.: “The perfect soundtrack to either those long, lonely nights of yours that you so detest or an epic walk in the mountains. Either way, this is one album you do not want to miss out on. While the floating and ambient-like title track possesses an otherworldly vibe, the 31-minute long tune that is "Builders" is a strange and unsettling journey through different musical ideas and concepts relating to sacrifice, longing, and greatness.”

The album was released digitally via Bandcamp and YouTube on Friday the 25th of August:




"The August Client" tracklist:
1. Builders
2. The August Client

All songs by J.N. (2015-2017)
Mixed and recorded at Orlok Studios in Bergen, Norway
Cover photo by J.N.
Cover art by G. Owen Wears

 

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PICTURE ANN «METASTASIZING ANGEL» OUT NOW!

Rarely have PICTURE ANN sounded as organic and dynamic as they do on "Metastasizing Angel", the January 2018 digital single by the ever-elusive masters of experimental black metal, minimalistic rock, and strange, unsettling ambient music. This is dark, cinematic rock at its finest!

 

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Its Wild Beauty by the experimental Danish ambient/rock entity is available on Spotify, iTunes, Deezer, Amazon, Bandcamp, etc. on November 2



Picture Ann was spawned back in 2009 with the aim of composing and recording lo-fi metal/ambient/minimalistic rock music rather intuitively and on the spur of the moment. Raw, unfiltered crap, really. The first Picture Ann album entitled Blaspheme 2009 was released by 9th Meridian Records in June 2010 followed by an EP entitled Cinema Screen Sadism. Following the release of a Picture Ann/Sagntid/Vornoff split CD consisting of mostly unreleased material in August 2013, the full-length assault entitled A Bone Case for Papery Skin was unearthed digitally in March 2014 while the third album, The Darkness Had Texture, followed suit in January 2015. Yet another haunting album saw the light of day in 2016 (Mountains, Myth, and Murder) with a string of EPs following in its wake. 2017 saw the release of the epic The August Client while this 2018 compilation titled Its Wild Beauty contains the remastered versions of two different EPs originally released back in 2017 as well as an exclusive and rather trippy bonus track.



J.N.: “The hypnotic and trance-like quality of “Its Wild Beauty” ought to make it the perfect soundtrack to either those long, lonely nights of yours that you so detest or an epic walk in the mountains. While “Trade”, “Invasion”, and “Conquest” were essentially inspired by the TV series “Vikings”, the title track is a homage to Bronte's literary classic “Wuthering Heights” with the remaining three cuts (“Katarsis”, “Passage”, and “The Speer Cathedral”) being of a rather more introspective nature and focusing primarily on guilt.”



The album is out via Bandcamp on Friday November 2:





Stream the album via Spotify and YouTube:



https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf0lcLIard2OjpDW4An8PtdYgYRYZnVhw



Its Wild Beautytracklist:

1. Its Wild Beauty
   
   
2. Trade
   
   
3. Invasion
   
   
4. Conquest
   
   
5. Katarsis
   
   
6. Passage
   
   
7. The Speer Cathedral
   

All songs by J.N. (2015-2018)

Mixed and recorded at Orlok Studios in Bergen, Norway

Cover photo by C.N.

Cover art by G. Owen Wears