
*Artist: Voidcraeft
*Album: Aversion [ep]
*Year: 2013
*Genre: Black Metal/Blackened Death Metal
*Country: Germany

*Format: mp3@VBR255kbps
*Size: 41MB
Tracklist:
1. Expressions of Cruelty
2. Descend
3. Of Light
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Total playing time: 22:01
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.
Overall I was still stuck somewhere between black metal and blackened death metal.
I continued to use the lower pitched vocal style of the previous release in these tracks.
Inspired by novels by Charles Bukowski, I also drank quite a bit while I was working on some of these but I think it just slowed me down.
The slow open hat hits I heavily used during blast beats on all previous releases sounded increasingly artificial to me so I got rid of those.
On top of that I heavily altered the drum configuration in general and tried to get rid of the over the top stereo sound.
Despite all that I became increasingly disillusioned with the use of drum machines and the unnatural sound of it.
In fact I nearly ended up buying some acoustic percussion for future releases but in the end I did not go through with it.
I thought it was too much of a hassle to deal with in combination with my current lifestyle.
Now that I am listening to the entire thing I must admit that it is not as terrible as I thought.
Just a few days ago I was all set on making really outlandish ambient/drone/black metal/death metal without any drums because I dreaded the synthetic/non-organic components so much.
Such a move would definitely alienate a lot of people, even myself.
I suppose I will find out soon enough.
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