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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Kaotic chunks of unknown origin

Bakbakwalanooksiwae - Le grand khan rouge (mp3)
Blasphemy - one of the rawest and oldest black/grind groups came from Canada. I know nothing else about the tradition of Canadian blackmetal, but it seems that some of the most bizarre acts in nowadays BM are coming from this country. Bakbakwalanooksiwae is certainly one of them, a truly enjoyable experience of unbelievable mindfuck. First thing that caught my attention was of course the name - it means "Great Cannibal at the North End of the Earth" in native american mythology. And it's said that the victims of this creature become cultureless and languageless in it's belly .
This is one-man-project of Trepas from Quebec, created in 2002. He calls his music "chaos ritual black metal". There is only one split album with a band called Antikriist. (Release of a demo "Freudian black metal" has been canceled. The reason for that is unknown to me, but I just had to mention it, because of the really cool title.) I have heard only two songs, these are available on Bakbakwalanooksiwae's website. But these tracks convinced me, that this band must be the weirdest thing ever happened in BM. At least my imagination can't get any further. It's monotonous and massive and psychedelic wall of noise dominated by very low frequencies. The sound is slightly reminiscent to some goregrind bands, but I don't know, it's not actually metal. It isn't experimental industrial noise either. It's hard to describe, because there simply isn't anything to compare it with. If somebody who has never heard any metal or rock music, but still would try to make it in a very extreme way - maybe that's how it sounds. Strange looping rhythms sound like somebody is beating together wooden sticks. Ridiculously low tuned growling vocals. I guess most of the music is made with computer, because it just sounds so unearthly, still it lacks the typical sterile and anonymous touch, which comes with computer music. There aren't any melodies or even guitars, but some sort of repetitive chunks of unknown origin. This description as "chaos ritual BM" might be the right place to look for answers, because the dadaistic mysticism of chaos magic is strongly present here. There isn't much going on in this music, it's about being stuck in just one strange state of mind, but it still makes me more than happy, that somebody has the guts to do something so unorthodox in black metal.

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