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Song of the Day

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Nightbridge - Forlesen

Here I stand before the nightbridge Rising stone to midnight sky and Here ancestral vestiges they lie Far beyond you and I and Now this essence Now this question Soul of every question itself Here I stand before the nightbridge Here I leave behind this shell

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(357) Best of Independents 2024

Disciples! Just in time for Valentines Day - the top 40 selections from all of the 'Independent Music Special' artists from 2024! And don't you fret - there's also some bonus tracks dug up (deep) from the DotW Archives! Enjoy!

Disciples!Just in time for Valentines Day – the top 40 selections from all of the ‘Independent Music Special’ artists from 2024! And don’t you fret – there’s also some bonus tracks dug up (deep) from the DotW Archives!Enjoy!Set One:0:00:00 DotW Intro – Marty Wilson0:00:03 Striker (Canada) Best of the Best of the Besthttps://strikermetal.bandcamp.com/0:03:19 The Outfit  (USA) Big…

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album art for Forlesen's Black Terrain and Hierophant Violent, painted by Benjamin A. Vierling

[dustedmagazine]

Divide and Dissolve — Systemic (Invada)

Photo by Su Cassiano

Divide and Dissolve continues to provoke, even if some of the questions are becoming a bit familiar: Can instrumental music express a politics? Is there anything intrinsically subversive in the fact of women of color making heavy music? Is doom metal the right (sub)cultural space for indigenous-identified women wishing to promulgate a socially conscious, anti-colonial agenda? Systemic doesn’t provide any evidence or assertions that will settle those issues, even as the band’s public-facing discourse and promotional chatter strike ever more righteous rhetorical stances. This reviewer is down for the politics. The music is a more complicated proposition.

Doom metal is conventionally possessed of feeling tones that seem suited to Divide and Dissolve’s project: misery on tectonic scales, anger that smolders and simmers and then erupts into sudden conflagration. Other bands have coupled that tonal range with left-leaning socio-political messaging; for recent examples, see Forlesen’s ecologically minded folky doom, or Mordom’s application of glacially paced bum-out music to the problematics of dope addiction. Even more relevant are many of the records released by the Body over the last fifteen years — see especially No One Deserves Happiness (2016) or many of the cover songs compiled on Anthology (2011). Somehow the political content of the Body’s music is both more and less didactic than what Divide and Dissolve has succeeded in articulating, and certainly it’s a lot more compelling, aesthetically and ideologically. 

That’s not so damning a criticism, given the Body’s excellence, which is tough for any band to compete with. But it’s worth noting. Divide and Dissolve gets most didactic on Systemic with “Kingdom of Fear,” which includes a spoken word performance from poet Minori Sanchez-Fung. Over the band’s cool drone and occasional stirs of noise that evoke Earth’s more recent work, Sanchez-Fung intones, “In the kingdom of fear, a shadow hovers over my cover of leaves and violets,” and later, “I have pleaded to consult the chorus of night, to hold the strands of moon that tether me to beauty and let me rest.” The language isn’t straightforward enough to stir politicized passions, and while the images sustain a reading that underscores women’s productive powers, they collapse into an earth-mother symbolics that feels dated and a little soft, when a more militant response seems necessary to confront the injustices attending our current conjuncture. 

The record is better when the music does the talking, as it usually does for Divide and Dissolve. “Indignation” commences with a couple minutes of woodwinds, interlaced and gesturing toward symphonic textures, performed by Takiaya Reed. The inevitable, deafening entrance of Reed’s guitar sounds simultaneously like explosion and collapse, which is not easily done, and which is a fitting sonic complement to indignation: the emotion moves toward the world with aggressive rage, and also back into the person feeling indignant, who insists on the overriding validity of her feeling, her ideas, her sense of fairness. That’s the sort of interest that Divide and Dissolve is capable of generating. 

Of course, none of that relative complexity controls what a listener might tend to feel indignant about. Tune into the various permanently outraged talking heads on The Daily Wire, for instance, and you’ll hear a whole lot of indignation: Matt Walsh’s moronic (and always creepy) reactionary chatter about the status of the noun “woman,” or Candace Owens’ latest bit of semi-coherent clickbait (this reviewer was particularly grossed out by her defense of the cause of the American Confederacy on putative social class terms). Perhaps doom metal would not be the first choice to soundtrack those bits of rightwing bilge — but I can hear Moonsorrow’s insipid, Viking-obsessed, musical muscle-flexing whenever Walsh or Josh Hawley start yip-yapping about masculinity. 

But that’s me. Music’s nonrepresentational access to feeling may be its most distinct and its most powerful aesthetic property. In that aforementioned promotional chatter, much is made of Divide and Dissolve’s investment in the unifying power of non-verbal communication, and the undervalued extent of that non-verbal communication’s presence in our lives and experiences. But the non-verbal is still socially constructed and patently representational. See the recent transformation of the thumb-to-forefinger “OK” sign into an emblem for white power, which occurred through the functionality of social media-driven symbolics. Divide and Dissolve make heavy music, and these are indeed heavy times. To intervene effectively, the heaviness may need the iterative and representational power of the verbal. And when it’s invoked, that language may need to be political, focused and forceful. 

Jonathan Shaw

[chorusfm]

Albums in Stores – Jan 26th, 2024

If you hit read more you can see all the releases we have in our calendar for the week. Hit the comments to access our forums and talk about what came out today, what albums you picked up, and to make mention of anything we may have missed. A Sudden Burst Of Colour – GalvanizeAbyssius – AbyssiusAlkaline Trio – Blood, Hair, And EyeballsdiscussAlmost Dead – Destruction Is All We KnowAny Given Day – LimitlessBib – BiblicalBlood Red Throne – NonagonBright & Black – The AlbumCaligula’s Horse – Charcoal GracediscussCarnal Savagery – Into The Abysmal VoidChatham County Line – HiyoCognizance – PhantazeinCommand – ResverCourting – New Last NameDead By April – The AfflictionDead Poet Society – FissionDissimulator – Lower Form ResistanceDream State – Still DreamingDrip Fed Empire – RevolutionistDusthouse – This, Is LosingExocrine – LegendEye Flys – Eye FlysFalse Tracks – Hymn For TerrorFrank Carter & The Rattlesnakes – Dark RainbowFrank Carter & the Rattlesnakes – Dark RainbowFuture Islands – People Who Aren’t There AnymoreGhost Atlas – Dust Of The Human ShapeGoth Babe – LolaGruff Rhys – Sadness Sets Me FreeGuhts – RegenerationHIRAES – DormantHearts & Hand Grenades – Where I BeginHeave Blood & Die – Burnout CodesHellman – Born. Death, SufferingInquisition – Veneration Of Medieval Mysticism And Cosmological ViolenceJunta – JuntaKaonashi – The 3 Faces Of Beauty: A Violent Misinterpretation Of Morgan MontgomeryKaty Kirby – Blue RaspberryKill The Thrill – AutophagieKnoll – As SpokenKula Shaker – Natural MagickLotus Thief / Forlesen – Split EPLucifer – Lucifer VLyrical Lemonade – All Is YellowManticora – MyceliumMega Colossus – ShowdownMilitarie Gun – Life Under The SunMonoscopes – EndcyclopediaMountain Caller – Hypergenesis: Chronicle IIMoving Boxes – The Things We Leave BehindNew Model Army – UnbrokenNewDad – MadraOlhava – SacrificePACKS – Melt the HoneyRHÛN – Conveyance In DeathRepulse Reprise – EquilibriumScarlet Rot – Scarlet RotSleater-Kinney – Little RopeSlower – SlowerStatic-X – Project: Regeneration, Vol. 2The Boltons – Fading EstateThe Fauns – How LostThe Gems – PhoenixThe Infernal Sea – HellfenlicThe Oldest House – A Worm Through TimeThe Smile – Wall Of EyesdiscussThe Stage Of Dreams – The Duality ConflictThe Throwaway Scene – On Death & DyingThe Umbrellas – Fairweather FriendTorres – What An Enormous RoomdiscussTy Segall – Three BellsdiscussUltra Lover – Faith Healer // Absolute FutureUnsouling – Vampiric Spiritual DrainVicarious – EsoteriaVipassi – LightlessVitriol – Suffer & BecomeWhitechapel – Live In The Valleysilent solace – Catharsis --- Thanks to helloiamzach for providing additional contributions to this week’s list. You can check out and support his weekly music podcast It’s Not A Phase or follow him on his socials. --- Please consider becoming a member so we can keep bringing you stories like this one. ◎ https://chorus.fm/albums-in-stores-today/albums-in-stores-jan-26th-2024/

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Benjamin A. Vierling, cover art Hierophant Violent by Forlesen, 2020 → https://bvierling.com/album-covers

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Forlesen - Black Terrain

I, Voidhanger Records

2022

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Artwork by Benjamin A. Vierling Forlesen - Hierophant Violent (2020) Doom Metal

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"Nightbridge" by Forlesen - From "Hierophant Violent" (2020)

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Eeuwige Ram - Fluisteraars

Nightbridge - Forlesen

I'm Afraid To Follow You There - Ultha

Black River - Black Bile

Khurum - KAUAN

By Virtue of A Promise - Sweven

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(308) Independent Top 40 Vol. 1 - January 2024

Disciples!!Here we go – the new ‘Independent Music Special’ format: The ‘Independent Top 40!’ This will kick off 2024 in style, with 40 hand-picked tracks released (re-released, etc.) from the month of January. So buckle up, turn it up, and live it up!\,,/ d(> _ <)b \,,/ BLOCK ONE: 0:03 LastWorld (Australia) https://linktr.ee/lastworldartist Destiny 3:57 Tainted Saints (USA)…

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Forlesen. Hierophant Violent. 2020. Hypnotic Dirge Records. Canada.

Benjamin A Vierling

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"When someone is forlorn it means that they not only feel miserable but simultaneously desolate because they also believe they are alone. Forlorn is a very old word in English, and in fact it comes from the Old English word forlesen and means 'to lose completely.' Synonyms for forlorn all have fairly sad meanings: disconsolate, pessimistic, despairing, despondent, abandoned, depressed, desperate." Via

[dustedmagazine]

Forlesen — Black Terrain (I, Voidhanger)

Black Terrain by FORLESEN

Black Terrain is the massive second LP from Forlesen. Grandly doomy, occasionally blackened, always epic in scale and ambition: this is the sort of record that locates its interest and produces its affects by skirting the edge of melodrama. That’s hard territory to work effectively. The big emotions that can result — by turns thrilling and lugubrious — are often in tension with an ostentatious variety of self-regard and potentially hammy sonic spectacle. Some bands that attempt this sort of thing collapse under their own weight, rendering their theatricality either tedious or risible, or both. If Forlesen understands the dangers of their aesthetic gambit, the band doesn’t exercise much restraint. Their instincts to pile on more sound and more stagey gesturing happily (or grimly, as the case may be) result in music that’s hugely bummed out and rousingly satisfying.

The players likely come by their skills with handling and shaping a blood-and-thunder sound through experience. Beth Gladding, appearing here as “Bezaelith” (yep), has sharpened her terrific vocal and rhythmic chops with Lotus Thief and an instructive stint with Botanist, an act that also thrives in relation to musical and visual theatrics. Her bandmates are identified only by stage names (Petit Albert, Ascalaphus, Maleus — an entertaining if sort of irritatingly fey array) and claim musical relations to the above-mentioned bands and to Kayo Dot, another project whose histrionics are notorious. 

The best songs on Black Terrain are the long, doom-based compositions that bookend the record, “Strega” and “Saturnine”; both are close to twenty minutes in length, and both are melodic and strangely lush. When “Strega” gets heavy (and it does), the song remains anchored to Gladding’s gorgeous voice, which can simultaneously soar and evoke earthiness. The band also has a sharp sense for when to foreground the more esoteric instruments in its repertoire — esoteric for a metal-identified band, at any rate. See the smart, atmospheric use of harmonium and glockenspiel (supplied by Bay Area scene star Leila Abdul-Rauf) in the long opening passage of “Saturnine.” The song’s closing section of passionate lead guitar heroics is all the more effective, given the deliberate, unconventionally arranged build. 

Some listeners will be put off by the romantic sensibility of Forlesen — mutterings of “maudlin” or “post-metal” (yeesh) are not entirely unfair. But this reviewer asserts that the band’s is convinced by the songs they have made, and the sound is convincing. If you can groove with the dramatics, Black Terrain is stirring, gripping stuff. 

Jonathan Shaw

[ghostcultmagazine]

October 28, 2022 Brant Bjork – Bougainvillea Suite (Heavy Psych Sounds) Buzzherd/Pale Horseman – Split (Self-Released) Clamoris – Opus Limbonica (Inverse Records) Dead Cross – II (Ipecac Records) Defleshed – Grind Over Matter (Metal Blade Records) Deicide – Crucifixion – The Early Years (Dissonance Records) Devil’s Witches – In All Her Forms (Majestic Mountain Records) Devinial Verdict – Ash Blind (Transcending Obscurity Records) Devin Townsend – Lightwork (InsideOut Music) Dimmu Borgir – Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia Re-Release (Nuclear Blast Records) Dr. Acula – Dr. Acula (Silent Pendulum Recprds) Faetooth – Remnants Of The Vessel (Dune Altar Records) Fit For A King – The Hell We Create (Solid State Records) Forlesen – Black Terrain (I, Voidhanger) MindAhead – 6119 Part 1 (Rockshots Records) Noctem – Credo Certe Ne Cras (MNRK Heavy) Psychonaut – Violate Consensus Reality (Pelagic Records) Royal Hunt – Dystopia Part 2 (NorthPoint Records) Silver Phantom – Crimson Cabaret (Uprising Records) Sodom – 40 Years At War – The Greatest Hell Of Sodom (SPV/Steamhammer) Them – Fear City (SPV/Steamhammer) DIY bands and labels: message us on our website to get added to our future lists and NMF posts: https://ift.tt/1raefPL Shoutout to some good labels: @Century Media Records @NuclearBlastVEVO @NuclearBlastUSA @Ripple Music @Metal Assault Records @Unique Leader Records @InsideOutMusicTV @Napalm Records @SpinefarmRec @SpinefarmUS @Pelagic Records @MetalvilleTV @Mighty Music @Metal Blade Records @HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS RECORDS @RidingEasy Records @Seeing Red Records @Blues Funeral Recordings @Rise Above Records @Triple B Records @UNFD @Fearless Records @Hopeless Records @Bridge Nine Records @Deathwishinc @Fat Wreck Chords @Epitaph Records @Ipecac Recordings @Neurot Recordings @threeonegrecords @Cruz Del Sur Music @Sumerian Records @Atomic Fire Records @Season of Mist @Upstate Records New York @Tankcrimes @Trepanation Recordings @Roadrunner Records @Sub Pop 💻 Omar Cordy (https://www.instagram.com/ojcpics​​) 🎤 Keefy (https://ift.tt/JBP7YcE) 🎵 Fahad Syed (https://www.instagram.com/fahanzi​​). Gear we use: (These are affiliate links and Ghost Cult makes a small profit from a sale) Set up A: Sony A7 III - https://amzn.to/3tQm422 Tamron 17-28 - https://amzn.to/3ePrlTd Tamron 28-75 - https://amzn.to/3fqCjgY Desview Mavo-P5 Monitor- https://amzn.to/33LlTub Manfrotto Befree Travel Tripod - https://amzn.to/3hxbL0e Set up B: Canon 80D - https://amzn.to/3ye8WqV Sigma MC-11 - https://amzn.to/3brZdU2 Sigma 18-35 - https://amzn.to/3tLlEd7 Tokina 11-16 - https://amzn.to/3bty9Uk Feelworld T7 Monitor - https://amzn.to/2Re9hta Audio: Sound Devices MixPre-3 - https://amzn.to/3tKkJd2 Gearlux XLR Mic Cable - 3 Pack - https://amzn.to/3w3zN6Y Deity D3 Microphone - https://amzn.to/3tRa6W2 Fifine Usb Mic - https://amzn.to/3w8JHEG Lighting: YONGNUO YN600L - https://amzn.to/2QkNrn5 YONGNUO YN300 Air - https://amzn.to/2QjN5gu Dfuse Softbox - https://amzn.to/3uQq4AN Aputure MC - https://amzn.to/3oirFgx NanLite PavoTube II 6C - http://bit.ly/NanLitePavoTubeII Lightstands - https://amzn.to/3uSBl3x 5 in 1 Reflector - https://amzn.to/33KHdjo DIY bands and labels: message us on our website to get added to our future lists and NMF posts: https://ift.tt/1raefPL Audio: Sound Devices MixPre-3 - https://amzn.to/3tKkJd2 Gearlux XLR Mic Cable - 3 Pack - https://amzn.to/3w3zN6Y Deity D3 Microphone - https://amzn.to/3tRa6W2 Fifine Usb Mic - https://amzn.to/3w8JHEG Lighting: YONGNUO YN600L - https://amzn.to/2QkNrn5 YONGNUO YN300 Air - https://amzn.to/2QjN5gu Dfuse Softbox - https://amzn.to/3uQq4AN Aputure MC - https://amzn.to/3oirFgx NanLite PavoTube II 6C - http://bit.ly/NanLitePavoTubeII Lightstands - https://amzn.to/3uSBl3x 5 in 1 Reflector - https://amzn.to/33KHdjo #preview #sneakpreview #newmusicfriday #newmusic #rock #metal #deathmetal #stonerrock #stonerdoom