Drudkh made the news recently signing to French metal label, Season of Mist. However, this is a band that's been around since 2003 and has quickly risen to the top of the legendary Ukrainian black metal scene (home of such hordes as Hate Forest and Nokturnal Mortum). Today, I'm talking about my favorite of their albums, Кров у Наших Криницях (translated into English as Blood in Our Wells - translations will just be in brackets as they're listed on Wikipedia from here on out).
Drudkh have always been a sort of unusual band, mixing atmospheric black metal with more traditional elements of metal, like harsh, almost proto-death metal style vocals, guitar solos and occasionally riffs more reminiscent of Bathory than of Burzum. The lack of constant blastbeats is also refreshing. The result is at once heavy, cinematic, and utterly mesmerizing.
The first “real” song, “Борозни Богів [Furrows of the Gods]” goes more places in its 8 minutes than some black metal bands go over the course of an album. “Коли Пломінь Перетворюється на Попіл [When the Flame Turns to Ashes]” starts with a folky intro and then suddenly your face is being melted off by an awesome guitar solo. From there, it's the blackest of the black atmospheric exploration with the occasional ray of hope shining through. “Самітність [Solitude]” starts off sounding more like the soundtrack to an epic battle before entering more depressive territory, with Roman's vocals tearing angrily through. “Вічність [Eternity]” is a faster song. The opening riff and guitar solo kill, and then the vocals come in. This one has a really strange melody to it for black metal. Almost upbeat, but not quite. The last track, “Українська Повстанська Армія (Ukrainian Insurgent Army)” is a slower, but shorter song, clocking in at just over 5 minutes. It's really not the most interesting track on the album, but it's a fitting closer.
This comes as a highly recommended black metal classic. Check it out.
A bit more in depth than I used to. Generally things it would probably be frowned upon for me to post over at W♥M, for various reasons (for example, bands' political affiliations, real or imagined).
Currently writing up a review of Drudkh's classic, Кров у Наших Криницях.
Who is going to be the next American Idol?
To be fair, not a single one of the winners of American Idol has had a legitimate music career to speak of so far. So I'll go out on a limb and say someone with no real talent or personality will win the next competition, but it won't really matter. I bet they'll also pack it with ugly chicks to try and cash in on the whole Susan Boyle thing.
Hope you dig it, though.
This one actually came to me and was done in about 10 minutes.
Meaning it's probably subject to change a bit.
How would you monetize Twitter?
Y'know how they have a fuckload of people on there who seem to only be there to sell you shit? They should allow users to pay a small fee to send a van full of mercenaries to those peoples' houses, kidnap them, and make them listen to an electronic voice reading e-mail spam for 2 weeks for every update they've posted. They will be fed only Viagra and cheap Canadian cough syrup.
Which of your birthday parties was your favourite one?
Submitted by Jack Yan.
This year's was probably the best, believe it or not. There's nothing quite like just getting trashed with a few of your closest friends and some guys you just met at the bar a few minutes ago.
Either that or the one where I played laser tag and made everyone my bitch (I captured the enemy base like 4 times). I was pretty much on fire, that day. Then everyone proceeded to kick my ass at Soul Edge (the precursor to Soul Calibur for those who don't remember it) a few times. And, of course, we consumed a ton of soda and shitty pizza.
Today is Limerick Day. Share a limerick please!
I saw an old man at the store
with his hand up the ass of a whore
he rattled his finger around in her sphincter
and found it was covered in sores.
Best I could come up with off the top of my head.
