Dec
14

Coalesce

Coalesce
[mp3]http://www.secondnaturerecordings.com/reborn/mp3/A%20New%20Language.mp3[/mp3]

A New Language
From Functioning on Impatience

In 1998, Coalesce released this, their second full length album. The music was typical of the band: loud, fast, hard, angry, and intentionally confusing. Its seven songs (spanning a mere, though blistering 20 minutes) were recorded in a whirlwind 3 days and released by the relatively new record label Second Nature Recordings. They turned to a “Matt Jones” (who, as far as I can tell, has disappeared into obscurity) for the album design. This was the greatest decision Coalesce ever made as a band.

The cover of Functioning on Impatience is nothing short of graphic design perfection.

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Oct
18

sunn 0)))

sunn o)))
[mp3]http://www.southernlord.com/press/sunnblackone/images/SUNN_It_Took_The%20Night.mp3[/mp3]

It Took The Night To Believe
From Black One

This album isn’t so much dark as it is totally devoid of any light of any kind whatsoever. You can officially mark the end of metal getting harder, louder, and faster. Black One sets the new gold standard in metal. Or should that be black standard? And, come to think of it, I’m not even sure this qualifies as “metal” at all. sunn 0))) (pronounced “sun“) manages instead to make music that simply feels like darkness itself. This is, without question, the most frightening album I have ever heard.

Black One is what dying in space sounds like.

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