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Threepenny Apocalypse in the haunting chair, while the moon ferries colors to the world of dreamlapse dead.
Favorite track: Faking Gold & Murder Pt. 1.
Third earth shattering outing for Vincent De Roguin (Shora), Stephen O'Malley (Sunn0))), KTL) and Daniel O'Sullivan (Guapo). For Faking Gold and Murder, the core trio is joined by percussionists Nicolas Field and Alex Babel, as well as renown guitarist Alexander Tucker and the inimitable David Tibet. Faking Gold is Æ's heaviest outing, driven by a weighty low end and the full fury of Babel and Field's free-wheeling drums. The trio's electronics, guitar, Rhodes, and organ ride the waves of sound in a tightly-controlled blare, leaving plenty of space for Tibet's declarations of the mystical and supernatural. Tibet is on top form here, rising out of the tempest at just the right moment, almost plain-spoken in places - grounding the squall at times, voicing the apocalypse at others.
"Brooding, primeval, dark alchemical epics are full of a ferocious intensity, sounding more like a starlit night being ripped open by lightning than a musical group. Intelligent and primal, like a dæmonic workshop, battering up Pandemoniums and dreaming of gold and murder, Æthenor are spectacular."- David Tibet
credits
released January 26, 2017
Vincent De Roguin
Daniel O'Sullivan
Stephen O'Malley
Anok Pe David Tibet
Nicolas Field
Alexandre Babel
Alexander Tucker
Recorded in Geneva, London, and Preston 05-08
Mixed at Anti-Establishment
Recorded and Produced by Antti Uusimaki, Daniel O'Sullivan, Vincent De Roguin, and Colin Potter
Mastered at Swift, London
Texts by Anok Pe David Tibet
Artwork by Nicola Todeschini and Vincent De Roguin
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Mocking Solemnity, Death Becomes You, and For Whom the Bell Tolls are great. SUNN O))) certainly don't do cover versions in the way other bands do, for sure! I wonder what Cliff Burton would have thought of it...? The four collaborations with Masami Akita/Merzbow aren't my thing, but if you are into it then you can find further collaboration on CroMonolithic Remixes for an Iron Age.
"Time marches on..." Master of Alchemy
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«Soudain l'homme se réveille
au milieu de la nuit
il est saisi par le malaise
et écoute malgré lui
le silencieux vacarme de l'angoisse
le bruit qui ne fait pas de bruit
le silence qui hurle à la mort
dans le grand coquillage de la nuit (...)»
(Jacques Prévert, Soudain le bruit) Ol64
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