Telepathic With The Deceased - Xasthur

Entrance into Nothingness (314 words)
by Burning_Darkness - written on 29/01/10, updated on 29/01/10 (Very useful, 26 readings)
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US one-man black metal project X Xasthur s third full length Telepathic With The Deceased sadly isnt a black metal concept-album about odious TV charlatan, -sorry psychic - Derek Acorah, but is instead another slab of dissonant and relentlessly miserable ethereal black metal very much in the same (frozen) vein as its predecessor The Funeral of Being . Once again, we get fuzzy, decrepit and ice-cold guitars hovering over a mist of freezing dissonance and ominous, monotonous and thudding programmed drums, alongside murky and ethereal screams that rise up from way down at the bottom of the mix. The songs on Telepathic With The Deceased alternate in tempo between ominous ...

Funeral Of Being - Xasthur

Warped black metal from another realm. (308 words)
by Burning_Darkness - written on 11/06/09, updated on 23/01/10 (Very useful, 35 readings)
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Xasthur is a US black metal project, masterminded by Malefic, who is soley responsible for vocals, drums, guitars, songwriting and production. Typical of Xasthur s output, "The Funeral of Being" is a piece of hypnotic, depressive, distorted black metal, which combines fuzzy shoegaze riffs and a crudely programmed drum machine with keyboard-sampled chanting/droning voices and Malefic s distant, washed out and incomprehensible screams to evoke an ethereal, otherworldly atmosphere devoid of all life. The production is characteristically atrocious, with everything sounding as if it was recorded on a dictaphone in a bucket of water in the room next door, but here ...