HAIL SPIRIT NOIR Pneuma LP (GOLD) Greek black prog metal oranssi pazuzu Goblin

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HAIL SPIRIT NOIR Pneuma LP

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(Code666)
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***


DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
  The new 2014 vinyl edition of Hail Spirit Noir's killer debut of blackened prog, in gatefold packaging and issued in a hand-numbered limited edition of five hundred copies.
    Along with their latest album, the supremely infectious blackened prog epic Oi Magoi, we've now got the 2012 debut from Greek band Hail Spirit Noir in stock as well, where their brand of wild, Goblin-gone-necro prog first took shape. This six-song album resulted in one of the most unique sounding releases to come from the Code666 label in recent years, and between this and Oi Magoi, I gotta say that Hail Spirit Noir has very quickly turned into my favorite band on the label.
    At times much more like some weird, ghoulish prog rock band, Hail Sprit Noir's music nevertheless keeps a menacing, metallic vibe that often erupts into moments of spectacularly blackened aggression on their debut. Listening to this, I would never have guessed that this band featured members of Transcending Bizarre?, an obscure Greek outfit with a couple of extremely quirky albums that combine black metal and industrial with doses of almost Mr Bungle-style genrefuck. Their 2003 album The Four Scissors is the only TB release that I've stocked here, and I dug the band's ambitious and highly experimental music, but the stuff that they are doing in Hail Spirit Noir is entirely more focused, and manages to draw from some of my favorite sounds ever.
    On Pneuma, the band kick off their creepy hallucinations with the eerie violin-streaked rock of "Mountain Of Horror", setting the strange stage for Hail Spirit Noir's visions of otherworldly evil and Lovecraftian mutation, starting off with that creeping, bluesy rock groove before erupting into a delirious mixture of psychedelic Hammond organ, thunderous double bass, off-kilter dissonant riffage that veers out in Ved Buens Ende territory, and bursts of bizarre blackened thrash flecked with weird electronic effects. That dissonant guitar sound is woven into the more ominous riffs all throughout the album, and there's also some killer bass playing that brings a distinctly jazzy feel to much of the band's frantic attack. All of their songs have this delirious unpredictability, the singer's combining a scathing reptilian croak with dramatic clear singing that's almost reminiscent of Serj Tankian (System Of A Down) at times, and the songs are filled with passages of demented carnival organ and soaring dark rock hooks, vibraphones and folky acoustic guitars, more of those Eastern European violin melodies, haunting quasi-operatic parts, and lots of killer analogue synthesizer textures that give a lot of this stuff a definite Goblin-like vibe. There's a ripping motorik groove that opens up on "Against The Curse, We Dream", leading into one of the album's more ferocious passages of Hammond-smeared black thrash, and the ghostly psych-folk/death pop of "When All Is Black" blends lovely synth-strings with a smattering of dissonance before surging into another one of their mathy prog freak-outs. The surreal jazz-rock flourishes of "Into The Gates Of Time" lead into crazed kosmische synth flare-ups, motorik grooves and shrieking black metal that stretch out over the ten minute song, interspersed with passages of nocturnal forest ambience, and Pneuma closes with the awesome "Haire Pneuma Skoteino", condensing the band's proggy blackened sound into a three and a half minute spookprog anthem that is easily the catchiest song on the album.
    Another album I can't recommended enough if you're into blackened, proggy weirdness. These guys have managed to combine a raw blackened metal attack with sinister prog rock in a way no one else has done; you're going to want to check this out if you're at all into the similarly prog-heavy sounds of bands like Oranssi Pazuzu, Ihsahn, Imaginary Sonicscape-era Sigh, and Mëkanïk.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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