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Can you believe that this is a formula in Adobe illustrator?

Вы можете поверить что это формула из Adobe illustrator?

[metalcultbrigade]

Vektor - Terminal Redux. 06/05/2016.

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Blood Incantation: Absolute Elsewhere (2024)

There aren't too many absolutes left in this crazy world, but one of 2024's absolute musical certainties appears to be the critical supremacy of Blood Incantation's third long-player, Absolute Elsewhere, and I, for one, agree that it's entirely deserved.

Though they formed over a decade ago, Denver, Colorado-based Paul Riedl (vocals, guitar), Morris Kolontyrsky (guitar), Jeff Barrett (bass), Isaac Faulk (drums) have multi-tasked with numerous parallel bands over the years, most notably funeral doom/thrash coffin-raiders Spectral Voice.

And, despite its rather misleading moniker, Blood Incantation is arguably their most sophisticated endeavor; dedicated to crafting adventurous fusions of advanced progressive metal and brutal old-school death metal, behind evocative sci-fi scenarios that would make space metal pioneers Voivod proud.

However, unlike countless contemporary metal-nauts who rely on their elders for inspiration (I'm looking at you, Vektor), Blood Incantation have forged a surprisingly fresh mélange of space metal hallmarks, old and new, for Absolute Elsewhere. (*)

The album consists of two, side-long suites sub-titled 'The Stargate' and 'The Message,' each broken down into three contiguous parts, or 'Tablets,' so the pyramids and obelisks that grace the gatefold cover art's alien landscape really set the stage for what's to come.

And that's a masterfully orchestrated clash of musical styles and dynamic extremes, as "The Stargate - Tablet I" shifts nimbly from cascading leads over sinister power chords, to a quasi-reggae-groove, before returning to metallic fury led by Riedl's fearsome, "if a black hole could talk" roar.

"Tablet II" is an instrumental featuring seminal Kraut-electronica greats Tangerine Dream (**) that gradually adds classic prog- and psych-rock elements (cue the synth-flute!) on its way to "Tablet III's" renewed metallic muscle, amid tribal percussion and other foreign genre splicings.

To better experience all three movements in toto, may I suggest checking out this surprisingly elaborate, 20-minute music video illustrating the 'Stargate' concept.

Over to side two and one could say that "The Message" offers more of the same, except that the lyrics turn inward to philosophical matters and that Tangerine Dream gives way to the influence of Pink Floyd (***), but that's simply not fair given Blood Incantation's continued quest to combine intricate sonic extremity with surprising immediacy.

So trust me when I say that "The Message - Tablet III" will keep you riveted throughout its eclectic, imaginative eleven-plus-minutes and leave you asking for more from a band that, as someone accurately commented, "gets better with every hair that falls out."

In sum: coming at a point in time where almost everything in rock and metal has already been done, and there are simply no stones left unturned under the Sun, Absolute Elsewhere offers an awe-inspiring, cosmic-scale achievement from Blood Incantation.

Like all absolutes, this one's absolutely essential.

* Which, incidentally, is named after an obscure mid '70s prog-rock side-project led by Yes and King Crimson drummer Bill Bruford.

** Or at least its present iteration led by Thorsten Quaeschning, who apparently took the reins after the 2015 death of Tangerine Dream founder Edgar Froese.

*** Complete with signature somnambulant vocals à la David Gilmour from German multi-instrumentalist and singer Malte Gericke (a.k.a. Mors Dalos Ra and Mordra Von Kaldesstein), I believe.

More Space Rock & Metal: Alchemist's Tripsis, Blue Aside's The White Staff Burned by the Blue Sun, Enslaved's Monumension, Hawkwind's In Search of Space, The Heads’ Mao Tinitus EP, Lowrider's Ode to Io, Lunar Chamber's Shambhallic Vibrations EP, Neil Merryweather's Space Rangers, Monster Magnet's Dopes to Infinity, Los Natas' Ciudad de Brahmam, Nocturnus' The Key, Orange Goblin's Frequencies from Planet Ten, Oranssi Pazuzu's Valonielu, Pink Floyd's A Saucerful of Secrets, Ramases' Space Hymns, Rush's 2112, Sigiriya's Return to Earth, Sons of Otis' SpaceJumboFudge, Spaceslug's Lemanis, Tangerine Dream's Zeit, UFO's UFO 1, UFOmammut's Snailking, Ulthar's Cosmovore, Vattnet Viskar's Settler, Vektor's  Terminal Redux, Voivod's Nothingface, Yuri Gagarin's Yuri Gagarin, Zemial's Nykta.

[improvewithtutorials]

I know that not many are interested in vector and/or Adobe Illustrator. But in case you are and ever consider creating some comic-like look for something, check out this tutorial. It is indeed super easy and you can create some really nice looking patterns with it.

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Zuckerschädel mit Rose und Blättern Vektor

Totenkopf-Tattoo #Zuckerschädel #Rose #Blätter #Vektor #meisterhaftes Schattieren #ausgefallene Grenzen #weißer Hintergrund #Louis Rhead #Jim Mahfood #Cartelcore

[alexblack1306]

It's me! 💛

[rastronomicals]

7:48 AM EST December 1, 2024:

Vektor - "Ultimate Artificer" From the album Terminal Redux (May 6, 2016)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Technical Thrash

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Scraptech Vektor

231C1B / 4C6946 / 4FA703 / 76D300 / FF5902

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Some digital work from a few years ago, half vector and half mouse drawing, because I made these covers when I didn't have a tablet yet. There was a prompt for summer scenes, so here they are. One with a sunset (Indian summertime), one during the night.

[identifyingmetalbandsinposts]

Vektor

Progressive Thrash Metal

[haveyouheardmetal]

Pictured: Black Future, released in 2009

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Vektor - Activate (Single). 02/04/2021

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Vektor: Black Future (2009)

When everything was over but the shouting (and the lingering tinnitus), the thrash revival of the '00s yielded just a few distinctive bands and a bunch of diligent disciples (Havok, Warbringer, Power Trip, etc.), largely content to mimic their 1980s idols.

In other words, these were all well-intentioned, unquestionably talented young groups (and some reunited old ones) that brought welcome enthusiasm and high energy (and a click track) to the form, but hardly an ounce of innovation.

Why, I even tried to label the entire scene "nu-thrash" in a few of my reviews of the time, but I guess that didn't stick -- maybe next time around!

However, Vektor were one of the exceptions to this state of affairs, as they skillfully merged incredible technique with progressive songwriting, often performed at ludicrous (think DragonForce) speed and shaped by Voivod’s obsession with science fiction.

What's more, all of these ambitions were amazingly brought to fruition on the Tempe, Arizona (later Philadelphia-based) group's first long-player, Black Future, which earned a bunch of 'Best of 2009' lists 15 years ago, including this one I penned for Loudwire.

Even if one takes into account that Vektor had been honing these sounds and songs for the better part of a decade, the high caliber of invention and execution, metallic force and melodic nuance, found in blistering highlights like "Oblivion" and "Destroying the Cosmos" is a wonder to behold.

Sure, you'll need a textbook to decipher "Deoxyribonucleic Acid" (it's a molecule that contains the genetic instructions for developing organisms) and a robust science fiction library to get the most out of the title track, "Asteroid," and other cuts here, but that should go without saying.

And Vektor weren't just building epic compositions for the hell of it (that would come later), because ten-minute-plus excursions like "Forests of Legend" and "Accelerating Universe" are cumbersome but not illogical, instrumentally proficient but surprisingly memorable.

Indeed, though "Dark Nebula" relies on the same, serpentine, jazzy chords that Denis 'Piggy' L'Amour (R.I.P.) made famous, Vektor by and large staked a solid claim as the Canadian space cadets' heirs apparent, not their clones apparent.

All in all, Black Future isn't perfect but it's still what French speakers like our Voivod friends (and haughty rock critics such as I) would call a "tour de force"; only marred, in my opinion, by David DiSanto's infrequent departure from hoarse croaking to ear-piercing squeals.

Unfortunately, the band's next effort, Outer Isolation, disappointed, its successor, Terminal Redux, fared only a little better and a subsequent band bust-up put Vektor in suspended animation, where, a few singles notwithstanding, they still remain today.

But at least they added some much needed adventurousness and imagination to the Third Millennium thrash revival with the time-and-space-absorbing (in a good way) interstellar sonic explorations of Black Future.

More Vektor: Outer Isolation, Terminal Redux.

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Minimalista crossmotor illusztráció fehér háttérrel

Terepbicikli Grafika #klipművészet #motokrossz #minimalista #fehér háttér #művészet #illusztráció #kerékpár #kosz #tervezés #vektor