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		<title>PURE NEW YORKER (BLACK) MEHTUL</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mick Barr and his colleagues have returned a year later with another chunk of complex metal for us to chew on. By now, everyone who would care is familiar with these guys. Internet forums have been ablaze now for about a year with people arguing about their TRVENESS or KVLT status or any of the other nonsense the kids like to talk about.

Let's just cut straight to the facts. Clocking in at a whopping 77 minutes, this is not an album you can properly digest in one listen. Mick Barr is still utterly absurd on the guitar, engaging in all sorts of finger gymnastics as he furiously molests his fretboard and tremolo picks his way down the River Styx. Ken McMaster, the bassist, takes over some of the vocal duties, his bellowing voice standing in contrast to Barr's tortured yelps.

Dimensional Bleedthrough is similar to its predecessor, but also pushes the experimental aspects of Krallice even further. For every "typical" Krallice song like the title track, there's something different like the drone metal of "Intraum." The closer "Monolith of Possession" is an exhausting near 19-minute monster that combines everything interesting about Krallice into one movement. The ending of this song approaches noise in its overwhelming force.

Black metal --as much as I love it-- is a genre that produces a large number of ridiculous characters, and many of its followers are too hung up on dumb shit to really enjoy the core art form. Is Dimensional Bleedthrough black metal? Perhaps not in traditional sense, but who cares? It's a damn fine record regardless of what genre you want to toss it in.

Dimensional Bleedthrough is out now on Profound Lore.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoberlander.wordpress.com&blog=798066&post=351&subd=theoberlander&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Axe Has Fallen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Converge "Axe to Fall" (2009, Epitaph)

It has been a bit of a wait, but new Converge finally arrived on my doorstep a few weeks ago.  Mr. Postman dropped off a nifty little package that contained the latest from the Massachusetts hardcore/metal/noise/whatever-the-fuck-else legends, Converge.  Even complete retards can bet their overflowing drool cups that "Axe to Fall" is some seriously mean shit.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoberlander.wordpress.com&blog=798066&post=345&subd=theoberlander&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bloody Fuckin&#8217; Panda Summon Me Some DOOM</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloody Panda / Summon (Profound Lore, 2009)

Bloody Panda is a band that has been ripping shit up for about a minute, so not too many people know about them. Rolling out of a secret New York underground sarcophagus constructed by the shadow government financed and founded by the Rockefellers in 1930, Bloody Panda's droning funeral doom is as black as midnight on a moonless night. Their second full-length album Summon  is out now on Southern, so you should go buy it.  Buy a copy for your friends, too.  It doesn't matter if they don't like metal. 

These are crushing death rattles from the caved-in chest of a goliath.  In desperation, blackened wings sprouting from the back of the shunned god, the straying feathers raining down plague and pestilence on man.  These grim waltzes drag unrelenting tension like ten tons of rock being hauled by a lone man with a rope tied to his waist.  Much like the 1980s New York electric death marchers Swans that precede them, Bloody Panda excels at crafting harrowing walls of low-end guitar destruction and evangelistic doomsaying.  The intensity never wavers even on songs like the 21-minute "Miserere," where the unconventional, possessed howls and shrieks from Yoshiko Ohara claw their way through macabre keyboards and foundation-shaking guitar chords.

Summon builds upon Bloody Panda's debut Pheromone, taking their ferocious-yet-somber doom expressions to even greater heights. The doom genre may be an increasingly crowded place these days, but Bloody Panda is in a tier of their own.  Highly recommended.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoberlander.wordpress.com&blog=798066&post=340&subd=theoberlander&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And Now for Something Completely Different&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pulling Teeth "Paranoid Delusions/Paradise Illusions" (2009, Deathwish Inc.)
This is quite a way to cleanse the palate after blogging about psych-drone for the better part of two weeks.  Although I haven't been digging a lot of the more recent offerings from Deathwish, I still have tons of love for the label and many of the bands that call it home.  Pulling Teeth is an interesting case.   I've always liked the band, but I've never really felt like they were reaching their potential-- until now.  On "Paranoid Delusions/Paradise Illusions" Pulling Teeth puts all of the pieces together to become so much more than just another hardcore band with Slayer solos.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoberlander.wordpress.com&blog=798066&post=330&subd=theoberlander&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Natural Snow Buildings &#8220;Daughter of Darkness:&#8221; Part Five</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At last we have reached the end of our long journey.  Now five tapes deep, only two sidelong pieces remain of this once intimidating box.  The duo comprising Natural Snow Buildings, Gularte and Ameziane find closure in these final optimistic movements.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoberlander.wordpress.com&blog=798066&post=325&subd=theoberlander&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Natural Snow Buildings &#8220;Daughter of Darkness:&#8221; Part Four</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somehow I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.  After four hours of arctic climbs and dances with the dead, we are entering the final stirring movements of Natural Snow Buildings' almost indescribably epic "Daughter of Darkness" box.  Two roughly half hour pieces comprise cassette four, which unsurprisingly takes us in a completely different direction than anything we have heard up to this point.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoberlander.wordpress.com&blog=798066&post=318&subd=theoberlander&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Natural Snow Buildings &#8220;Daughter of Darkness:&#8221; Part Three</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We reach the halfway point of this titanic album in today's post.  Cassette three of "Daughter of Darkness" is the darkest portion of this box encountered up to this point.  Unlike tapes one and two, tape three consists solely of two sprawling pieces, a trend that will continue for the remainder of "Daughter of Darkness."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoberlander.wordpress.com&blog=798066&post=311&subd=theoberlander&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Natural Snow Buildings &#8220;Daughter of Darkness:&#8221; Part Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome back for part two of my exploration into the latest hyper-dense release from Natural Snow Buildings, "Daughter of Darkness"  The second tape in a mythical beast greater in stature than the icy peaks climbed on cassette one.  If you're planning on spacing out to this one, make sure you have plenty of time to spare-- the first piece alone extends beyond forty-three minutes.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoberlander.wordpress.com&blog=798066&post=308&subd=theoberlander&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Natural Snow Buildings &#8220;Daughter of Darkness:&#8221; Part One</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Natural Snow Buildings "Daughter of Darkness" (2009, Blackest Rainbow)

Pressing play on "Daughter of Darkness" is like standing at the bottom of a massive summit where the only certainty is how the journey begins.  Clouds flock to the sides of the mountain as if it were sharing great secrets of the Earth long kept to itself.  The top of the mountain is but an abstract concept in our mind.  You wonder if you have the determination to see this through to the end.  To say "Daughter of Darkness" is a staggering piece of work is to denigrate the sheer mystery and majesty of the music held within.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoberlander.wordpress.com&blog=798066&post=301&subd=theoberlander&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pure Powerviolence: Crossed Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's no secret to readers of this blog that I love hardcore punk.  Naturally, this means I am fond of many of its offshoots as well.  One of these is powerviolence.  For those of you not familiar with the genre, powerviolence is is a style of hardcore punk that tends to be much more visceral, sharing a number of similarities with the grindcore genre.  Powerviolence bands typically produced songs that were very brief and chaotic.  It was not uncommon for these bands to incorporate elements of crust and sludge as well.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theoberlander.wordpress.com&blog=798066&post=290&subd=theoberlander&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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