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In episode nine, we discuss the eclectic melding of black, death, and doom metal with neoclasssical etchings in W.A.I.L.’s second volume, the flesh-mincing hardcore in TETELESTAI’s debut EP CRVSH SVTVN, and the unsettling doom infused post-metal tale of Omelas as articulated by Third Island.
Thank you so much for listening and your continued support. Let us know what you think about each of these releases below. Please feel free to leave us some album suggestions for future episodes. Episode 10 will be delayed about one week as Connor is traveling out of the country.
1. W.A.I.L. - Wisdom Through Agony Into Illumination and Lunacy, Vol. II
Genre: Eclectic Blackened Death Metal
Label: Triumphant Transgressions
From: Finland
Album Description (per W.A.I.L.’s Bandcamp page):
“The album’s main idea builds on a seeming dualism, on a representation of how the concept of W.A.I.L. includes a whole scale of both negative and positive aspects. Instead of making a strict distinction between the two – for example stating that good and evil are independent and stand-alone entities – we try to show how everything is interconnected. The dualistic illusiveness springs to life from our mind’s attempt to make sense of All; in other words, a lot depends on which side of the coin we’re looking at, or which aspect of our name we’re representing at a given time. Things that appear contradictory and entirely different are, in the end, just the flip sides of the same coin, and therefore parts of a big oneness, which reveals itself through all seeming disparities….”
2. TETELESTAI - CRVSH SVTVN
Genre: Hardcore / Heavy
Label: Self-released
From: Omaha, NE
Band Description (per TETELESTAI’s website):
“We spent a good portion of our time striving to create & discover a new sound, a DNA. While working together a new kind of synergy, we kept what we were creating underground, until now, and come up to the surface with a veteran sound. Like some sort of knowledge, hidden for a time from human grasp, we hope that hearers will appreciate the time spent forging unknown. // Desolation is upon the heads of the enemy. // We are two. Mimic no one. None’s equal.”
3. Third Island - Omelas
Genre: Post-Metal / Doom / Stoner
Label: Self-released
From: Limerick, Ireland
Album Description (per Third Island’s Bandcamp page):
“This album’s concept follows the story of “The Ones Who Walk Away From The Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin. The story presents the ideal Utopian society, where people are certain to prosper definitely into the future, so long as they are happy not to question the methods behind their City’s success. There are some who cannot take the success of the City so simply, and who choose instead to seek out the secrets deeper within. The answers, however, are often worse than they are prepared for, and leaves the people with only two choices – to live silently with this knowledge or be exiled into the Mountains, a place from where no-one has ever returned.”
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