(((O))) Year: 2017
With CSMA having just released a new album, possibly their most accessible (although I use that word advisedly!) yet we thought it would be a great time to get Chrissie to talk about some of the albums that have influenced her.
Guido Segers caught up with “horror film freaks who love to play crazy rock’n’roll” Possessor from London.
I’m intrigued and I hate to say that a band has actually made me enjoy something “groovy” but they did it.
The always present, visceral, sheer force of Prurient has not wained. This is one to crank up louder than you would normally dare. Edge yourself a little closer to the realities of Fernow’s confrontational live experience and split those ears of yours.
All in all, its just what you would expect from an Autopsy release, just with a few little twists and turns along the way.
Blut Aus Nord continue to be a band who push boundaries and obliterate conceptions within the black metal genre and throughout the ten tracks of disharmonic horror on ‘Deus Salutis Meae’ they continue to shape and shift their unsettling reality.
Flat Worms debut sneeringly thrills with buzzsaw guitars, overspilling feedback, and Indie punk energetic overdrive.
This is easily one of the best split releases of 2017, with two bands at the pinnacle of their abilities.
An intriguing experimental electronica album that goes different places but always comes back to the source.
Funeral Chant’s demo has a lot going on within its cobwebbed and blood-stained coffin lid. Displaying a multitude of styles and a considerable amount of musicianship… The songs are generally fast paced and thunderous with catchy riffs and plenty of solos.
‘Alma | Baltica’, is the product of a band hard at work redefining their sound and whilst the resultant record might not be a high-point of their catalog in itself, it does indicate both a willingness to experiment and a promising direction for future development.
If tonight was anything to go by, Hookworms are back and ready to ascend to even greater heights than before.
Here they sound like a fresh gasp of air, much like Appetite For Destruction or Is This It? did. Here we may find another zeitgeist happening.
Like those genius chefs of high gastronomy who pair two ingredients that on paper should not work, and yet produce perfection on a plate that has clarity yet depth, the split between Sutekh Hexen and Hissing contrasts but ultimately complements one another to form an essential piece of vinyl.
Ironically, at that point there were so many different bands – not everyone had gone down the path of sounding like Darkthrone, looking like badgers and posing in the woods with sticks. It was already quite expansive back then. Anyone that was of any note sounded completely different.
Yet another interesting addition to the growing list of new Australian psychedelia. One for those very late nights / early mornings.
What I particularly like is how the abstract lyrics work very well for the theme of the record, the seasonal changes. This also helps in bringing folk music closer to the roots, since most of these old songs would have been highly ritualistic and bound up with traditions.
‘Cutting Pieces’ is an unruly listen, and morphs and mutates out of your peripheral view.
Status QuoEventim Apollo, London, 08.12.2017 Photos by Editor Please do not use the photos without the photographer’s permission.
