So, I've got the house to myself tonight
since the family already went downstate to the inlaws for Easter (I had to work today, but will take the train early in the morning to join them)....so it's BLACK METAL night at Laura's house.
As I've stated before, my family does not
understand my obsession with this music, so I'm fairly low-key about it when they are around.
Aaaanyway.....
speaking of low-key - it was a very low-key day at work today which I thought needed some perking up - so I bought (cold, i.e. had not even sampled) three new black metal albums on iTunes which I have been enjoying immensely.
Taake: Hordalands Doedskvad (2005)
Taake: Noregs Vaapen (2011)
fantastic song and video from this album: Nordbunget (complete with very nice nice bleak Norwegian landscape scenes
)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAIIbnrYC7Qand (finally! since I will see them this Friday) ....
Watain: Lawless Darkness (2010)
incredible live performance of Waters of Ain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXexYcPoKSc had never youtubed Watain till today and I'm like
- amazing...totally blowing me away. My favorite part of this very long song begins around 9:20 until the end.
Taake:
Watain:
I had a real epiphany today - that of ALL the musical genres I've ever listened to since I was a little kid - black metal is my favorite. Until today, I could easily say it was my favorite metal genre - but then I realized it's really my favorite, period....it's the strongest, most powerful, most meaningful music I've ever heard. I read a book last fall about how different people hear sound and/or music and how individual that is depending on so many factors having to do with one's brain chemistry, personality, personal history, tastes, and so on. All I can say is that certain sound qualities in black metal are so special and different than anything else when I hear it. So, the sound on it's own is really special already, but then when one adds the whole visual aspect of BM - which, when it comes down to it (in my mind anyway) - has extremely obvious fetishistic qualities
- it is an unparalleled combination of sound & vision.