Ashdautas "Shadow Plays of Grief and Pain" LP Mayhem Burzum

$

100

Ashdautas-Shadow Plays of Grief and Pain LP 
Ixiol Productions (US)   Description:  When I visited Hospital Productions (which now has a webshop, so you don’t have to trek to New York anymore to partake of its goods, though many items remain exclusive to the physical store), I asked proprietor Dominick Fernow for a recommendation. Without hesitation, he gave me Ashdautas’ Shadow Plays of Grief and Pain (Ixiol, 2005). He described, earnestly and with physical gestures (including probably some invisible oranges), how Ashdautas had the harshest, most anguished vocals he’d ever heard. These were strong words from someone whose livelihood is abrasive sounds.

Sure enough, the vocals of this Long Beach band are extremely, extremely distressed. My initial reaction: laughter – but laughter’s mirror is madness, and in headphones, these vocals can be quite chilling. Yes, they’re over-the-top and sometimes resemble a terrible bout of constipation, but they’re memorable, nonetheless.

Despite the lo-fi production, the material is hardly primitive. Jazzy chords and modern classical dissonance abound, though subsumed under blackened strategies. The greasy bass work and copious pick slides reek of punk. Dissipated blastbeats and vocal reverb, which turns the shrieks into falling meteors of pain, combine for a “tunneling” feeling. Songs shift through oblique peaks and valleys, as themes resurface from the murk. Skilled musicians slumming in necro realms? Perhaps.

Supposedly a new EP called Where the Sun Is Silent… is due out soon on various media on Full Moon Productions and Northern Sky/Hospital Productions. Until then, Shadow Plays is available in the US from Ixiol and Ars Magna, and in Europe from Dis-order.

Year/Label/Number: 2005/Ixiol Productions/IXP 001 (US) (Original Press) (Pressed on clear with Black Splatter wax)

Limited to /100 copies
  Conditions:   Jacket/Sleeve: NM
  Vinyl: NM

Track Listing:

A1
Intro

A2
Entourage Of Apathy

A3
Lightless Horizon

A4
Veiled Wombs... Smashed Like Glass

A5
As The Vile Must Digress

B1
The Death Of Remorse

B2
And You Will Shed Tears Of Scarlet

B3
Tremble As Your Heaven Falls

B4
Eyes To A Headless Procession
there is a bit of glare from the camera in the photo, its not a defect in the cover.......   All Items listed in the auction are LPs unless otherwise stated.  

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• wol = writing on label
• wobc = writing on back cover
• promo stamp = usually gold embossed notice on jacket

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