2011/04/17
Reviews
Avant-garde metal reviews the Zweizz, Virus & Ulver show @ Koko, London.
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Avant-garde metal reviews the Zweizz & Joey Hopkins album.
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Avant-garde metal reviews the Zweizz & Joey Hopkins album.
2011/02/25
Black Strobes
03 Black Strobes by zweizz
Zweizz & Joey Hopkins «Black Strobes»
Guests:
Vocals - Torgny Knutson Amdam
Guitars - Filip Roshauw
From the 2011 album «Zweizz & Joey Hopkins» released throug Jester Records / Neuropa
Zweizz & Joey Hopkins «Black Strobes»
Guests:
Vocals - Torgny Knutson Amdam
Guitars - Filip Roshauw
From the 2011 album «Zweizz & Joey Hopkins» released throug Jester Records / Neuropa
2010/12/25
2010/12/11
Zweizz on tour with Ulver
Mar 22: Ulver, Virus & Zweizz, Koko London, UNITED KINGDOM
Mar 26: Trabendo Paris, FRANCE
Mar 27: Incorso Rotterdam, NETHERLANDS
Mar 29: Matrix Bochum-Langendreer, GERMANY
Mar 30: Substage Karlsruhe, Baden-Würt, GERMANY
Mar 31: Z7 Basel, SWITZERLAND
Apr 2: Madonna dell'Albero Ravenna, -, ITALY
Apr 3: Szene Vienna, AT
Apr 6: k17 Berlin, GERMANY
Apr 7: Majestic Bratislava, SLOVAKIA (Slovak Republic)
Apr 8: Beatpol Dresden, DEU
Apr 9: Biebob Antwerp, BELGIUM
Mar 26: Trabendo Paris, FRANCE
Mar 27: Incorso Rotterdam, NETHERLANDS
Mar 29: Matrix Bochum-Langendreer, GERMANY
Mar 30: Substage Karlsruhe, Baden-Würt, GERMANY
Mar 31: Z7 Basel, SWITZERLAND
Apr 2: Madonna dell'Albero Ravenna, -, ITALY
Apr 3: Szene Vienna, AT
Apr 6: k17 Berlin, GERMANY
Apr 7: Majestic Bratislava, SLOVAKIA (Slovak Republic)
Apr 8: Beatpol Dresden, DEU
Apr 9: Biebob Antwerp, BELGIUM
2010/12/09
A tiny avant-garde metal manifesto
A tiny avant-garde metal manifesto – post the banalization of genre blending
(Version 1.0)
I. What the fuck is «avant-garde metal»? The term has been subject to much debate. Is it just another subgenre of metal? If so, «avant-garde metal» is a contradiction in terms. Tails are getting increasingly longer, and insufficient taxonomies do not serve our common understanding of the complexity of phenomena.
II. Avant-garde metal is a strategy. It stems from genuine love for metal music and culture. We who love metal, do not want our metal stale – bereft of vision, ambition, hope, reflection, craftsmanship and imagination. And we certainly do not want it to be impotent or infertile!
III. Blending genres is so fucking nineties. It takes a dimwit to be impressed today with the concept of mixing progressive rock, psychedelia, jazz and black metal. SERIOUSLY! Fleurety did that in 1995, and we were influenced by among others Celtic Frost's 1987 (!) album «Into the Pandemonium». (Note: This does not entail that those who mix progressive rock, psychedelia, jazz and black metal (or whatever) do not sometimes achieve stunning results even today. Examples abound.)
IV. Knowing that genre blending is the new mundane, we must search for other ways to implement our avant-garde metal strategies.
V. Metal – as all forms of music – is wrapped in plastic. That is the way we love it. Thus the physical format is a Gesamtkunstwerk spanning text, images, music, production, typography, design and most certainly many other branches of the arts. This is assumed to be taken as granted. We must therefore seek to holistically integrate every possible parameter in our artworks to make sure the total is qualified «avant-garde» – and that it may justly be categorized as such.
VI. Clearly the parameters in the most dire crisis with regards to metal today are text and visual presentation. The musical parameter is in a crisis too, but there appears to be little to be done with it. With no wars of relevance in our time, we are not able to reap the benefits of arms race. (Yes, I am talking about the amplification of the guitar and the propagation of tape recorders – to name just a few examples.) The technological progress in the field of sculpting new sounds is painstakingly slow, and we cannot allow ourselves to wait for researchers and venture capitalists to catch up with us.
VII: The so-called Web 2.0 has revealed a shocking lack of ambition among younger artists. We, the veterans, the adults, must take responsibility when the new generation fails our proud tradition of incessantly working for the vigour of (extreme) metal!
VIII: The new generation must strive to prove the falsity of point VII.
IX: We must look to reinvent what concepts may be expressed through metal. We must be willing to go to great lenghts to do so. We must be prepared to try every possible style, method and personal degradation to further the progress of the music we so deeply love. If admitting that Jesus Christ was a pretty awesome dude serves our purpose, we must never hesitate to do so.
X: A good manisto is always cocky and ballsy. Cock And Ball Torture is a mediocre grindcore band. Literal cock and ball worship, however, is the superhighway to the future.
(Version 1.0)
I. What the fuck is «avant-garde metal»? The term has been subject to much debate. Is it just another subgenre of metal? If so, «avant-garde metal» is a contradiction in terms. Tails are getting increasingly longer, and insufficient taxonomies do not serve our common understanding of the complexity of phenomena.
II. Avant-garde metal is a strategy. It stems from genuine love for metal music and culture. We who love metal, do not want our metal stale – bereft of vision, ambition, hope, reflection, craftsmanship and imagination. And we certainly do not want it to be impotent or infertile!
III. Blending genres is so fucking nineties. It takes a dimwit to be impressed today with the concept of mixing progressive rock, psychedelia, jazz and black metal. SERIOUSLY! Fleurety did that in 1995, and we were influenced by among others Celtic Frost's 1987 (!) album «Into the Pandemonium». (Note: This does not entail that those who mix progressive rock, psychedelia, jazz and black metal (or whatever) do not sometimes achieve stunning results even today. Examples abound.)
IV. Knowing that genre blending is the new mundane, we must search for other ways to implement our avant-garde metal strategies.
V. Metal – as all forms of music – is wrapped in plastic. That is the way we love it. Thus the physical format is a Gesamtkunstwerk spanning text, images, music, production, typography, design and most certainly many other branches of the arts. This is assumed to be taken as granted. We must therefore seek to holistically integrate every possible parameter in our artworks to make sure the total is qualified «avant-garde» – and that it may justly be categorized as such.
VI. Clearly the parameters in the most dire crisis with regards to metal today are text and visual presentation. The musical parameter is in a crisis too, but there appears to be little to be done with it. With no wars of relevance in our time, we are not able to reap the benefits of arms race. (Yes, I am talking about the amplification of the guitar and the propagation of tape recorders – to name just a few examples.) The technological progress in the field of sculpting new sounds is painstakingly slow, and we cannot allow ourselves to wait for researchers and venture capitalists to catch up with us.
VII: The so-called Web 2.0 has revealed a shocking lack of ambition among younger artists. We, the veterans, the adults, must take responsibility when the new generation fails our proud tradition of incessantly working for the vigour of (extreme) metal!
VIII: The new generation must strive to prove the falsity of point VII.
IX: We must look to reinvent what concepts may be expressed through metal. We must be willing to go to great lenghts to do so. We must be prepared to try every possible style, method and personal degradation to further the progress of the music we so deeply love. If admitting that Jesus Christ was a pretty awesome dude serves our purpose, we must never hesitate to do so.
X: A good manisto is always cocky and ballsy. Cock And Ball Torture is a mediocre grindcore band. Literal cock and ball worship, however, is the superhighway to the future.
2010/11/11
Fleurety «Evoco Bestias» out in December
The song Summon the Beasts off our upcoming 7" «Evoco Bestias» is streaming at the Fleurety Myspace page.
FLEURETY «EVOCO BESTIAS» 7" EP
Artist: Fleurety
Title: «Evoco Bestias»
Label: Aesthetic Death Records
Format: Vinyl 7"
Cat. No: ADEP 003
«Evoco Bestias» features the first new material by Fleurety since 1998. It will be released in December 2010 through Aesthetic Death Records.
Fleurety is a band from Ytre Enebakk, Norway. They have been hailed as one of the originators of the style that has lately come to be known as avant-garde metal, a status earned through their albums «Min Tid Skal Komme» (1995) and «Department of Apocalyptic Affairs» (2000) – plus the EP «Last-Minute Lies» (1997).
«Evoco Bestias» features two songs – Summon the Beasts and Animal of the City. Together they serve as a powerful evocation of the feral spirit in man.
As well as founding members Alexander Nordgaren (guitars, bass) and Svein Egil Hatlevik (vocals), the recording features Andreas Barsleth (drums) and Ayna B. Johansen (vocals).
«Evoco Bestias» was recorded at Crystal Canyon Studios, Oslo in 2008, with the assistance of Tore Ylwisaker.
«Evoco Bestias» is limited to 666 copies. The cover artwork has been made by Trine & Kim Design Studio. The record is pressed on heavy duty grey vinyl.
This release is the second in a series of new Fleurety recordings only available on vinyl. The next release «Et Spiritus Meus Semper Sub Sanguinantibus Stellis Habitabit» can be expected in 2011. The first record in the series, «Ingentes Atque Decorii Vexilliferi Apokalypsis», was released in 2009.
For more info, go to http://aestheticdeath.com/home.php
FLEURETY «EVOCO BESTIAS» 7" EP
Artist: Fleurety
Title: «Evoco Bestias»
Label: Aesthetic Death Records
Format: Vinyl 7"
Cat. No: ADEP 003
«Evoco Bestias» features the first new material by Fleurety since 1998. It will be released in December 2010 through Aesthetic Death Records.
Fleurety is a band from Ytre Enebakk, Norway. They have been hailed as one of the originators of the style that has lately come to be known as avant-garde metal, a status earned through their albums «Min Tid Skal Komme» (1995) and «Department of Apocalyptic Affairs» (2000) – plus the EP «Last-Minute Lies» (1997).
«Evoco Bestias» features two songs – Summon the Beasts and Animal of the City. Together they serve as a powerful evocation of the feral spirit in man.
As well as founding members Alexander Nordgaren (guitars, bass) and Svein Egil Hatlevik (vocals), the recording features Andreas Barsleth (drums) and Ayna B. Johansen (vocals).
«Evoco Bestias» was recorded at Crystal Canyon Studios, Oslo in 2008, with the assistance of Tore Ylwisaker.
«Evoco Bestias» is limited to 666 copies. The cover artwork has been made by Trine & Kim Design Studio. The record is pressed on heavy duty grey vinyl.
This release is the second in a series of new Fleurety recordings only available on vinyl. The next release «Et Spiritus Meus Semper Sub Sanguinantibus Stellis Habitabit» can be expected in 2011. The first record in the series, «Ingentes Atque Decorii Vexilliferi Apokalypsis», was released in 2009.
For more info, go to http://aestheticdeath.com/home.php
2010/08/25
Evoco Bestias
Fleurety «Evoco Bestias» 7" EP, featuring the first new material from Fleurety since 1998 will be released this autumn through Aesthetic Death Records.
More info to follow within short.
2010/07/16
the lyrics for "no clue" from zweizz & joe hopkins as sung by carl-michael eide
the lyrics for "no clue" from zweizz & joey hopkins as sung by carl-michael eide
No Clue
soft, strong, and disposable
two corpses, everything's fine
more fun than you can imagine
not sure when I started thinking this way
beating stars that nobody else wanted to illuminate
giver of breath and bread
the world is changed
Summer ends now; now, now
that taste of myself
sing a thing as everybody rings it, only louder
from the activity of the mind
whoever did this waited until the last second
No Clue
soft, strong, and disposable
two corpses, everything's fine
more fun than you can imagine
not sure when I started thinking this way
beating stars that nobody else wanted to illuminate
giver of breath and bread
the world is changed
Summer ends now; now, now
that taste of myself
sing a thing as everybody rings it, only louder
from the activity of the mind
whoever did this waited until the last second
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