AERONAUT / SWAMP FLOWER RHYME - split LP Metal

AERONAUT / SWAMP FLOWER RHYME - split LP MetalAccording to the biography, both sides of this dark ambient split contain the banjo, which immediately grabbed my attention. The banjo is not a very common instrument in the dark music scenes but, as you might know, black metal band Taake threw a brilliant banjo solo in his song 'Myr'. And if he can do that, all dark music producers can do that. I might probably do that too on one of my upcoming Misantronics releases, who knows. But for now, I'll just

Of the 10-song set

subterranean ballad Olivia’s Eyes an almost decapitated duet details criminal instincts

the record etc) and see how the original source material morphed and changed as it manifested in these different modalities

and crushing music by devoting all attention to creating mammoth-sized riffs

The entire second side of this is devoted to this treated guitar becoming more and more indistinct and distorted until you are left with a one toned techno-ish noise accompanied by hi end swoops of radio crackle

The film and soundtrack are an experimental 'journey' to explore sonically and visually the nature of 'journey and mountains'

They’d make up melodies together

with recordings captured in the forests and caves of rural Quebec

a rock-n-roll Chimera (the kind that breathes fire) shake us with their self-titled LP

” he says

the record captures not merely Crowley at the apex of his songwriting  powersbut also the creative lava that can flow when two perfectly aligned musical minds come together

and patience