Trumpet of Amdusias

Violet Cold is an experimental AI simulated music project from 40°22’37.7″N 49°50’51.6″E. It is also one of the weirdest, coolest musical things I know of. Across something like 50 albums in the last eight years, Emin Guliyev has forged his own sonic world. Build out of whatever strikes his fancy, from ambient, noise, house, drum and bass, jazz, classical, folk, shoegaze, sludge, crust, powerviolence, post-rock, post-black metal and depressive black metal, Violet Cold is a towering rebuke to every supposedly "prog" band out there. This my friend, is how you prog. This is how you avant-garde. This man has trained computers to write better metal than the sum total of all Guitar Center part-time employees combined. Best described as "Militantly Anti-Fascist Astral Black Metal Dream Pop" this album takes yet another step into the musical (and political) future I hope we one day all inhabit. I am particularly impressed with the "Daft Punk as a post-metal band...

  I've recently written about the other project of Jaketeme Odo, Osso & Madeira . He has become one of the most important voices in opposition to the fake-populist kleptocracy of Jair "I wish I was a Chicago economist" Bolsonaro. On this album he lays out his thesis: In 2021 Brazil is going through one of the worst moments in its history. A racist, authoritarian and hygienist government has abandoned the population and now it is us for us. This album is a way to help families abandoned by the genocide who runs the country. Part of the amount collected in this album, will be donated to institutions that have been doing a wonderful and humanitarian work to help families that have nothing to eat and also people on the streets in a situation of vulnerability. I thank all of you who always support me and in this album in particular, I thank Pablo and Sangre de Muerdago for existing, making my days better and also for the authorization for me to cover Soterrado ...

  In 1886, workers gathered in Chicago to protest in support of limiting working hours to 8 per day instead of the usual 12-14. A bomb was planted by capitalists, which exploded and began a panic that was later smeared as a riot. The police, as American police always do, began shooting. They killed eleven people, and in doing so, kick started the modern labor movement. Every May 1st we pay homage to these martyrs of labor by downing tools for a day, to honor their sacrifice and to flex the muscle of the only class that has ever built anything. Today is for reminding the capitalist class and their boot-licking sycophants that they need us, but we have never needed them. What better way to kick off that day than with some French anarchist black metal cut up artists making an album about work and it's uselessness to modern people? This album is anarchic in all meanings of the word. "We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make e...

  2013 was a weird year. The US Government gave up on holding anyone accountable for the 2008 financial crash and the home loan scandal, Americans shrugged their shoulders at rampant drone strikes on civilians, Republicans tried to rig an election in a major city and suffered no consequences, right wing terrorist attacks reached a level where they joined mass shootings, extrajudicial police killings of marginalized people, and endless foreign war as mere background noise to the American experience, and the whole country kind of woke up to the fact that running an entire political party on HOPE sorts of ends up with a NO WE CAN'T feeling. Somehow, I don't remember exactly how, an album by a Canadian band called Anti-Freeze crossed my path. Lo-Fi, harsh, raw, angry as fuck. A perfect soundtrack to the collapse many could smell on the air but wasn't quite on top of us yet. A second and third album followed, chronicling the continuing slide of America from idiotic HOPE to simm...

  For good or bad, black metal is somewhat obsessed with certain topics and lyrical themes. Forests, demons, paganism vs christianity, Germanic/Norse mythology - these are all well-trod ground in the land of the GRIMFROST bands. What is not so common, is black metal bands that take a critical look at or stance towards industrialization, capitalism, modernity, or modern life at all. Odraza sort of began a strain of critical urban theory in black metal, if you want to call it that. In addition, their music is informed by their very urban existence. Other bands like Biesy and Malencontre work in the same vein. Wesenwille continues this strain, and makes a second solid album of what I think of as Urban Black Metal in the process.  This is explicitly anti-capitalist music, and while it flirts with some unsavory interpretations of Nietzsche, it is a refreshing departure from the standard black metal tropes. II: A Material God by WESENWILLE