I saw these guys recently on the tour to promote this record and my jaw hit the floor. Excellent stuff, the bass player's fingers moved so fast I almost got cross eyed watching. In a recent interview, the guitarist describes how he flew to Pittsburgh on his birthday and sought out the guy who runs $20 Spin records, gave him a rough mix of this and told him it would be a dick move not to put this record out.
_DJ UNWASHEDMETALSHIRT
If you don't know about the black metal churning out of Iceland at the moment, it is high time you start paying closer attention.
_DJ FJORDFUCKER
I spend a solid amount of time and energy working to stay current with what music is being made that strikes me as vital. Aoratos is a new black metal entity from the U.S. from the same horde that gave birth to the acts Akhlys, Nothbringer, and Bestia Arcana. I love records by all of those groups and consider this to be one of the most potent circles in black metal today. Earlier this year I did a deep dive into old school death metal. This music really made me want to gravitate away from guitar centered music that is made using a digital audio workstation. Still, here came this record by Aoratos. The drums sound like a typwriter set to a grid on an average out of the box consumer grade laptop software. Still... their sound beckons me inward. Refusing to recognize this music as vital just because of its digital cleanliness would be like ruling out the use of computer generated imagery in visual art. Going beyond the surface qualities of the music and its execution reveals a dark art at work. This record has arresting guitar work and vocal delivery, as well as innovative song structures. It's solid stuff that I find to be greater than the sum of its parts. People are now saying MSG isn't actually bad for you at all.
_DJ Duck Sauce
i have loved this album more than half my life at this point. dj intelligencer may still have my cassette copy that i bought when i was a young teen in the 90s. i think i bought it on a whim, since they were on the same record label that helmet was on before helmet got a major label deal and ended up on mtv. it turned out i liked tar a lot better. they played alluminum guitars. they were recorded by albini. it turned out that one of them worked at albini's studio. this record is every bit as much about the sound and the atmosphere as it is about the songs. cold dark abrasive sharp and heavy. for me it holds up in a major way. it came into my head out of nowhere not long ago. it was hard to find online but i found it. nearly forgotten to the ages, this gem. those who know, know.
_DJ Alibi
dreamy summer jams
_DJ Mink Nun
I have this band's debut full length uploaded to this site. I could have just left it at that, but I wanted to include this one because the band progressed quite a bit, with vairied song structures an stranger riffs, all the while never sacrificing heaviness and aggression. Track five has this riff that slows down drastically from the top to the end of the phrase and then repeats several times and I love it.
_DJ Alibi
