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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

About black noise

Black noise is the most radical and openminded subgenre in black metal. Don't mistake it with just awfully noisy and fast black metal. The main difference is that black noise is mostly based on free improvised compositions. I think the stimulus of doing it, is to get some kind of experience in the vein of kaos magick rituals - searching for higher conscious by clearing the mind from conventional thoughts and acting illogically ( there's a good example - destroying something you really need or love - let's say, throwing your TV out of the window, is a simple act of kaos magick).
There are bands like Vibracathedral Orchestra, No Neck Blues Band, Kemialliset Ystävät etc. - so called new psychedelia movement in nowadays experimental rock music. And there are drone/sludge bands like Earth, Khanate, Sunn O)) etc. in doom metal. Black noise is a parallel phenomenon of those things in black metal genre. Unlikely to countless sludge and new psychedelia bands, pure black noise is still very hard thing to find. A lot of alternatively thinking metal groups have done experiments in this field (even in Estonia there was a death metal band Rattler, who made some very psychedelic noise compositions in their concerts in the middle of the nineties), but bands who are fully dedicated to black noise are quite rare . Preserving the oldschool traditions has always had it's value and that kind of fundamental changes are probably not easy to come.

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