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Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Campfire songs

Circle of Ouroborus - Mouldering leaves (mp3)
Circle of Ouroborus - Dimicatio (mp3)
Circle of Ouroborus is a new (formed one year ago) one-man-band from Finland. Now, here's a band that's something new in black metal. Seriously. Nice acoustic boyscout campfire songs with mystic, yet still positive feeling. I've heard the demo and full length, but the best tracks are on the split with Urfaust Without the image and raw production this wouldn't be called black metal. As I try to find something similar to compare with, I can come up with all kind of names, but none of them is a metal band. Circle of Ouroborus has a lot of dark folk touch a'la Current 93 (in one song there is even harmonica). Most of the songs on this split are acoustic and have primitive homerecording production. But as there a rock drums (most of the dark folk bands don't use them, you know), it also reminds Joy Division or some early punk/dark wave bands as Crisis for eample.
But the weirdest part is the vocal. It even might beat Urfaust. CoO uses only clean vocals and it's all delivered in very unique style. I don't know if this guy is able to sing in key, but he certainly is not doing it here. He doesn't follow the same notes as guitar, it seems that he wants to find some different harmony, but it all ends up in a strange dissonant melody.

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