Voidcraeft - Negation Made Flesh (2014), Black Metal (D) Options

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*Artist: Voidcraeft

*Album: Negation Made Flesh

*Year: 2014
*Genre: Black Metal
*Country: Germany (IMG:http://metalarea.org/forum/style_images/flags/Germany.png)
*Format: mp3@VBR245kbps
*Size: 72MB

Tracklist:
1. The False Image Of Life 07:34
2. Emissary Of The Void 08:59
3. A Flash Of The Absolute 07:17
4. In The Bliss Of Stagnation 08:29
5. Flight From Men 07:59
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Total playing time: 40:20

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Extended info

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

Voidcraeft is my latest one-man musical endeavour.
Instrumentally speaking, it is somewhat atypical black metal with an emphasis on dissonance.
The lyrical themes deal with emptiness, pessimism, renunciation, suffering and the human condition in general.

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.

It has been three months since the last release and there have been a lot of changes since then.
Definitely for the better.
First, I stopped using a drum machine and hired a proper drummer for this release.
So, many thanks to Chris Balch (Nostril Caverns) from Canada for putting up with my long, erratic songs.
The subject of drum machine use had been very painful for me for years and I felt like this change finally enabled me to make somewhat "authentic" music.
This is also why I was able to make a full-length album instead of the usual 20 minute releases.

Since I was very pleased with his work I originally intended to keep him around for future releases.
However, I was unexpectedly given access to a rehearsal room with a decent drum kit and a proper microphone setup for recordings.
I started frantically practising the drums for 1-3 hours every single day and have not stopped doing so since then.
Now, Chris has been playing the drums for a long time and it will likely take me at least 5 years of regular practice to get close to his level but I decided to play the drums myself on future Voidcraeft releases.
I just have a strong desire to make everything myself and since Chris plays the guitar, too, I am sure he can relate.

As for the music, most of the release (other than the drums) is quite similar to Faceless Epoch.
I reused the strange microtonal tuning for the first three tracks.
However, the fourth and the fifth track feature my traditional tuning (D2 G2 C3 F3 A#3 D#4 on the guitar, D2 G2 C3 F3 on the bass) which I had last used on Verbal Carrion.
These two tracks also deviate in other ways.
I reduced the BPM from 173 to 163 and started using a new, cheap condenser microphone for vocal recordings (t.bone SC 440).
I used to make all vocal recordings at home but since I moved to a new place, closer to where I work, this is no longer possible.
These were the first recordings I made in the new rehearsal room I now have access to.

Lyrically, this release heavily drew from good old Emil Cioran (The New Gods, All Gall is Divided, Drawn and Quartered, Anathemas and Admiration).
This is my fourth release featuring material from his writings.
Actually, I recently put up a framed picture of Cioran on the wall behind my workstation at home.
I also put up a print of an icon of St. Anthony the Great on the wall behind the mattress on the floor I have been sleeping on for the past eight years.
The latter was motivated by his frequent appearances in "The Sayings of the Desert Fathers" by Benedicta Ward, a book featuring sayings attributed to early Christian ascetics who lived in the desert in Egypt.
I wrote down many memorable quotes from that one, my favourite one being:
"There are three things I hold to be fundamental: poverty, asceticism, flight from men".
I can already picture myself having to explain to somebody why I am in possession of framed pictures of a former Romanian fascist and a Christian saint, even though I vote for a democratic socialist party while also being an atheist.
As Cioran would have said, "A life full of contradictions is so much richer and creative".
Other sources worth mentioning are the amazing essay "The Last Messiah" by Peter Wessel Zapffe and, to a lesser extent, some of Alan Watts' writings on Zen Buddhism.

As for the cover art, it breaks my tradition of drawing everything myself.
While it is still very minimalist, I plagiarised most of it from scans of a 1901 edition of the Catholic Vulgate Bible.
I love the look of movable type and European woodcuts.
I even thought about setting up a printing press of my own at home, using historical movable type letters.
The font used is actually a reconstruction of the 18th century Caslon font made from historical sources.

As for the future, I am currently very motivated to make more music and I already purchased plenty of new hardware, including a new notebook and a Tascam US-1800 for drum recordings.
I also bought a Rode NT1-A condenser microphone for future vocal recordings.

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This post has been edited by Абигор: Sep 20 2014, 04:46:25

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