Feral Aeroplanes
May 30, 2016 8:35 PM Subscribe
Norway's Virus make weirdness and dissonance surprisingly catchy and groovy, an uneasy truce between jazz and metal resembling a mixture of Talking Heads and Voivod. Stereogum offers a couple of looks at upcoming new record Memento Collider. "There’s Crzal's [of Ved Buens Ende, Aura Noir, Satyricon, and more] cool, controlled vocal, sometimes backed by a wistful maybe-theremin. There's clean-ish guitar that’s fringed with the fry of radiation. There’s the equally hooky and knotty basswork provided by Plenum, a returning member whose other gig, Manimalism, is one of the more interesting projects to surface lately. There’s Einar Sjursø’s subtly massive drumming, perfectly providing the right snap to every rise and fall. There are nearly eight minutes of grooves patiently fighting over the title of 'that groove.'"
For deeper digging:
Carheart
The Black Flux
The Agent That Shapes The Desert
Oblivion Clock
Virus' musical predecessor Ved Buens Ende - Written In Waters
Aura Noir - Black Thrash Attack
Dødheimsgard - 666 International
A bit of backstory on injuries that ended Crzal's drumming career.
For deeper digging:
Carheart
The Black Flux
The Agent That Shapes The Desert
Oblivion Clock
Virus' musical predecessor Ved Buens Ende - Written In Waters
Aura Noir - Black Thrash Attack
Dødheimsgard - 666 International
A bit of backstory on injuries that ended Crzal's drumming career.
I like this, too.
The image used in the first video, The Black Flux, is a manipulation of the photograph "Young Farmers" by German photographer August Sander. It was previously used as the cover image of Richard Powers 1998 novel "Three Farmers On Their Way To A Dance". Taken in the summer of 1914, the photograph depicts three young men who likely had no idea that within weeks they'd be sent to fight in the trenches in World War I. I don't know why the dogs' heads, but, hey. Neat.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 4:31 AM on May 31, 2016 [2 favorites]
The image used in the first video, The Black Flux, is a manipulation of the photograph "Young Farmers" by German photographer August Sander. It was previously used as the cover image of Richard Powers 1998 novel "Three Farmers On Their Way To A Dance". Taken in the summer of 1914, the photograph depicts three young men who likely had no idea that within weeks they'd be sent to fight in the trenches in World War I. I don't know why the dogs' heads, but, hey. Neat.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 4:31 AM on May 31, 2016 [2 favorites]
Wow. Seriously, like, wow.
Amazing stuff. I love bands that play clever, complicated stuff that appears effortless. I hear so many bands I love in this (Confessor, Krakatau, Jesus Lizard, I could go on), synthesized into something new.
They're almost like an ECM math rock band.
posted by the matching mole at 7:00 AM on May 31, 2016 [1 favorite]
Amazing stuff. I love bands that play clever, complicated stuff that appears effortless. I hear so many bands I love in this (Confessor, Krakatau, Jesus Lizard, I could go on), synthesized into something new.
They're almost like an ECM math rock band.
posted by the matching mole at 7:00 AM on May 31, 2016 [1 favorite]
This is... ...good.
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