Ours is the fury » death metal http://www.oursisthefury.com Notes from a rogue elitist. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:05:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Bohren & Der Club of Gore – “Black Earth” http://www.oursisthefury.com/2010/bohren-der-club-of-gore-black-earth/ http://www.oursisthefury.com/2010/bohren-der-club-of-gore-black-earth/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:44:01 +0000 Art http://www.oursisthefury.com/?p=649 It had to come from death metal. Of course. Smashing my palm into my forehead, I realise this: The link between Bohren’s crawl-paced, mortally alluring afterhours-jazz and death metal is obvious only in hindsight, but like many things – utterly impossible to connect before it’s actually experienced.

If one would ever wonder how a deserted, bleak but not bland, cityscape sounds like. Bohren’s, “Black Earth” is the answer. It might be the perfect soundtrack to the movie of You. If you ever wanted to wear a Fedora and ever play the part of private dick. Or secret lover. Or – just a plain old bad guy.

This is a record for those tired of highpitched BPM’s and formulaic, brainhemmorage-inducing lyrics. This is a record by a bunch of guys who grew tired of playing those grindcore guitars and took up jazz. Or maybe not. Maybe it still is death metal. With all its pace and characteristic instrumentation taken out of it, chained and slowed in order to be able to articulate itself. Perhaps, what Bohren plays, is the best damned death metal of all times. Full stop.

Bohren & Der Club of Gore, “Black Earth” at Spotify.
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore at Spotify – full listing.

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