{"id":676,"date":"2010-07-01T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horus.cz\/WordPress\/?p=676"},"modified":"2011-04-15T05:58:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T03:58:04","slug":"a-review-from-spirit-of-metal-webzine-february-19-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.horus.cz\/WordPress\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"A review from Spirit of Metal Webzine (February 19, 2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Musterion <\/strong>is made up by Simon AA K\u00f6lle of Sweden. He is known from before \tfor his efforts in the band Za Fr\u00fbmi.<\/p>\n

The Black Lodge <\/em>is really one in a kind!<\/p>\n

I must say that I never really get scared in films.<\/p>\n

Horror never does anything for me…In fact it usually ends up being funny.<\/p>\n

However, I can say that the only time in my life that I have ever been \tscared while watching a film happened when I was a kid. When I listened to \tMusterion <\/strong>for the first time in my headphones it was dark outside my house \tand it was raining. And guess what!? I felt scared. Maybe not like when I \twas a kid but something hit me as creepy beyond normal black metal or dark \tambient music. I loved the feeling!<\/p>\n

The album consists of 15 tracks in which Simon and his cohorts thrash around \tin the tried-and-untrusted formula of \u201cdark music.\u201d<\/p>\n

The album is inspired by David Lynch<\/a> and the role known as special agent \tDale Cooper<\/a> played by Kyle MacLachlan<\/a>.
\nAlso inspired by H. P. Lovecraft<\/a>, William S. Burroughs<\/a> and Jerzy Grotowski<\/a>. \tThe last one I do not know of but the others are all kind of heroes to me.<\/p>\n

The music is mostly instrumental even though sometimes people talk, screem \tand do other strange sounds.
\nThere are moments of sanity, when you can detect the theme, but Musterion \tsoon descends again into the anarchic noise which bedevils the best in dark \tambient and black metal. Simon AA K\u00f6lle seems to be the instigator of much \tof the weirdness: pouring all kinds of effects into mix.<\/p>\n

The results sometimes sound chaotic (which only a few times is to much for \tme), sometimes brilliant!<\/p>\n

Blending elements of ambient music, minimalism, gentle rhythms, spoken word, \tfield recordings and melodic fragments, Musterion<\/strong> manages to somehow bring \ttogether disparate ideas in ways that not only make musical sense, but echo \tthe paradoxical nature of film as well.<\/p>\n

Trapped – In The Black Lodge II <\/em>(part of in an opus that create the red \tthread on the album even though it is only 5 songs out of 15) mixes a \thaunting vocal sample–complete with vinyl ticks and pops\u2014with a soft wash \tof orchestral darkness, gradually layering snippets of varying lengths of \tthe vocal sample, resulting in a kind of magical confluence.<\/p>\n

Simon AA K\u00f6lles use of modern technology is so organic that when a soft, \tpiano pattern blends with the sound of engines on The Arm, Trapped, Unknown Kadath, Tower of Koth<\/em> and Release<\/em> it makes perfect sense. In \tmany ways genious!<\/p>\n

Yang Tul<\/em> is something that should be considered as drone ambient but \totherwise typical drones are out of the question. Film soundtracks are often \tpresented as short and discrete sound bytes, but the beauty of The Black \tLodge<\/em> is that it\u2019s a more-or-less continuous 70 minutes of music, with its \town emotional and narrative arc. It\u2019s not necessary to understand the \toccasional snippets of dialogue to appreciate the general melancholy that \tpervades.<\/p>\n

Simons visual approach to the music and his innovative ability to combine \tthe most contradictory of sounds prevent it from ever becoming ordinary or \tcommonplace.<\/p>\n

This is an album for those who have an eclectic and open-minded approach to \twhat they call \u2018black metal.\u2019<\/p>\n

This is already on my CD\u2019s of the decade buy without hesitation!<\/p>\n

Note: 20\/20
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

Irma \tS. Mandel<\/strong>
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