Voidcraeft - Verbal Carrion [ep] (2014), Experimental Black Metal Options

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*Artist: Voidcraeft

*Album: Verbal Carrion [ep]

*Year: 2014
*Genre: Experimental Black Metal
*Country: Germany (IMG:http://metalarea.org/forum/style_images/flags/Germany.png)
*Format: mp3@VBR271kbps
*Size: 50MB

Tracklist:
1. Verbal Carrion 25:15
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Total playing time: 25:15

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Extended info

Description from http://voidcraeft.svart.nu/:

Voidcraeft is my latest one-man musical endeavour.
Instrumentally and vocally it is somewhat atypical black metal, flirting with blackened death metal.
The lyrical themes deal with emptiness, alienation, suffering, violence and the human condition in a rather abstract way.

In my early days I was primarily influenced by raw black metal like Darkthrone (primarily Under a Funeral Moon and perhaps Transilvanian Hunger, they haven't made anything resembling black metal in close to a decade now, though) and Katharsis (of Norma Evangelium Diaboli fame).
In the past ten years the two artists I consumed the most and returned to over and over again are avant-garde black metal legends Deathspell Omega and Australian experimental (blackened) death metal pioneers Portal.
Other bands worth mentioning are Nightbringer, Black Witchery, Diocletian and Antediluvian.

I have been accused of trying to gain publicity by dropping some big names but mind you, I never claimed that my music would appeal to people who are fond of some of the aforementioned artists.
In fact, I feel largely unable to imitate the style of the artists I admire the most (i.e. Deathspell Omega and Portal).
I just think it helps with putting the music into context and gives you some insight into what motivated and inspired an artist in their creative process.

Ideologically and lyrically I would like to distance myself from themes that embrace theism, satanism or other supernatural beliefs in an affirmative way.
As a firm atheist, I disapprove of such content and I will not make my music a vessel for anything like it, despite their prevalence and popularity within the black metal scene.

Things got a little out of hand with this release.
I had just finished Emil Cioran's "A Short History of Decay" and I had this strong urge to fit all the material I had extracted from it into a single track, to preserve its uniformity and its purity.
As it turned out, the lyrics were so long that I repeatedly had to lengthen the whole thing just to fit it in.
Even at over 25 minutes the piece is verbally [sic] crowded by my standards.

Several people who reviewed the material prior to its release seemed really bothered by the sheer length of the single track.
I never quite understood such objections and it has never bothered me except in cases where the good parts of a track are concealed between some boring ambient parts.

Just as I predicted last month, Cioran did not fail to deliver and I am already in the progress of finishing another one of his works, "The Temptation to Exist".
I am not overly motivated to make more music right now but I suppose the addiction will kick in again at some point.
This release was a bit of a tour de force.
The experience of making music is more rewarding for me with shorter tracks because it generally takes me far less than a month to finish a track which I then get to enjoy.

This time the cover art has no deeper meaning.
It was a fairly spontaneous and also messy piece.
My feet are currently covered in splatters of Chinese ink.

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This post has been edited by DarkHorde: Sep 8 2014, 10:31:16

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Спасибо за знакомство с группой! Очень и очень неплохой материалец!

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Опять этот странный товарищ. Выдает миники и называет их альбомами. По материалу - быстрый, зубодробильный блек