“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Monday, August 1, 2011

Black Metal Shoegaze

Oh this sounds very right. Tyler Phan just commented on my post on Buddhism on this genre, hitherto unknown by me. Though I had always thought that Wolves in the Throne Room had a certain majestic sparkle...anyone got any suggestions?

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

I just discovered this: "IoNiZeR - New Global Disorder LP" Sounds like dark Buddhism running around in dying recording software. Beats and drones that do not sooth, yet point to .....

See:
http://dustedwax.org/dwk097.html

http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/2011/08/black-metal-shoegaze.html

(Free download and/or stream)

zareen said...

Check here for a few possibilities:

http://www.metal-archives.com/search/advanced/searching/bands?bandName=&genre=black+metal+shoegaze&country=&yearCreationFrom=&yearCreationTo=&status=&themes=&location=&bandLabelName=

Anonymous said...

Swedish band Lifelover
http://www.lifelover.se/

Black metal emo shoegaze. Really good stuff!

Karl said...

not shoegaze, not sparkle, but ultra Lovecraftian "avant-garde" BM: Portal from Australia. the singer wears a giant grandfather clock on his head. check their side project Impetuous Ritual also. the opening track is a vast, dark, brooding monstrosity.

Portal - http://youtu.be/emrBZZtGFgI

IR - http://youtu.be/EC6IAtPM20Q

"Wermhole to reapus nova"

blacoe said...

sunn O))), godspeed you black emperor, tombs, time to burn, year of no light

TvorekSolitude said...

Dark side of of ecological black metal from Ukraine.
All members of the band have grown on the lands that symbolically reflect the reality of our days - ancient forests, swamps and rivers are surrounded by three nuclear power plants, one of which exploded in 1986, leaving a rotting scar on the face of all planet.
Devastated villages, chased animals, mutilated temple of nature, which dozed peacefully for thousands of years, wandering shadows against the starry sky — there is no place to escape from this, except inside. Nature is inside us, we are inside of the nature.
The debut album Morok is a scream — as an evidence of frustration, as a result of this hopeless escape.

http://www.facebook.com/AgrussOfficial

Charlie said...

The Nameless Wretch. they are not so much Buddhist influenced as much as they are vedic, but still... spiritual. http://rustyhack-sawrecords.bandcamp.com/album/what-worth-is-a-man-if-he-cant-be-haunted

Bn said...

This are my favorites bands of Black Metal Shoegaze Alcest, Lantlos, Enslaved, Lergrev, Ulver