Underground metal grew in part because it was unselfconscious. Its bands expressed notions both idiosyncratic and subconscious, so it was evocative at a level below the rationalizing mind. Mekigah attempt to resurrect that observational weirdness with a Godflesh, post-metal, and doom metal hybrid.
The bass leads each song, prowling heavily over mechanical drums with a bit more swing than Godflesh used, while post-rock single-note reverb-heavy rhythm leads ring out at a low pace, building harmony. Vocals rasp in the background more as a sonic texture than discernible language.
A seemingly arythmic accompaniment of keyboard sounds and feedback noise frames the dominant instruments in layers, muddying the clearer digital piano sounds that deliver final themes after layered cycles collide and wear down.
Songs build in the duration of different overlapping loops with frequent variations on themes except for bass, creating an enduring tension of ambiguity, at which point the internal conflict plays out and exhausts itself, dropping into a final theme in echoing keyboards.
Tags: Ambient, Doom Metal, Industrial, mekigah, post-metal
“i glued my balls to my butthole again”
is the best song on youtube right now, and was created by A.I.
“and was created by A.I.”
so was Watain :/ and Dark Funeral, and Kvlt ov Azazel, etc…
First Dark Funeral and Watain albums are pretty good… even Casus Luciferi has its moments, but after that, meh…
Dave Parland was a legend (RIP) for creating that “infernal” guitar tone – best heard on early Necrophobic of course.
Or: Is it? – MEGIKAH – it’s like: “Führer befiel -we follow!” -as long as you don’t care what to do with your time and where the trip is actually going to! Apparently, it either opts for the intimidatingly loud but goes all glacially nowhere in particular, it overdoes the blatantly numb skull tribal drumming that used to be associated with red skins’ otherness in 1950s Western movies indicating ‘otherness’ or -as a default options- goes for the oh-so-scary ambient noise stuff with a soft core.
Doctors’ orders: pls try Italian “AD NAUSEAM’s doom-laden but utterly metallic and truly scary : 57:08 min long ‘Imperative Imperceptible Impulse’
– Disclaimer: I own no equity or stock in their production – I just find their output a true head-cleaner and often listen to it…
It will turn your grass into ass!
Boring “opened two YouTube videos at the same time” conman tier “music”. Why can’t people write riffs anymore?
risk before riffs