Arabrot- The Gospel (2016)
Arabrot- The Gospel (2016)
By: Ghost Writer
With legal
problems concerning a supposed sexual offense, Michael Gira seems to be facing
a turbulent year, Gira seems to be slowly but firmly becoming a major influence
on today's metal and avant garde acts, is just a matter of checking Norway's
Arabrot newest The Gospel in order to know that some people in Scandinavia have
been heavily listening to Gira's Swans.
The title
track is a definite call for war, it has a bit of Bauhaus school of post punk
darkness, but it's also a descend into hellish territories, slowly getting into
Gira's domains, Arabrot main man, and apparently only actual member Kjetik
Nernes has been working in pretty chaotic sound waves here, I Run is quite a
trip travelling in a parallel fashion through the worlds of ugliness and beauty,
and Nernes triumphal run is evident creating a truly dense dynamic of musical
creation, adding touches of drama and epic instrumentation that at this precise
moment seems to make his musical project untouchable.
On Tall Man
Nernes again plays with musical possibilities, adopting at times the sound
fullness of Nine Inch Nails production wise, but adding personal touches into a
project that can be as universal as extremely loud heavy metal, or as
reflective as Kjetik wants it to be, here going gor the throat marrying superb
melody with headstrong mammoth beats.
While
Faustus is mainly an exercise on atmospherics, with ascending intensity but
really ending nowhere, Ah Feel seems to pay homage to the mighty Washington
State giants The Melvins (a powerful early influence very noticeable on the first records by Nernes) with its monumental monolithic drums and venomous
spewing vocals, but on And the Whore is this City, Nernes again plays well his
cards bringing us another great song evocative of the best of the post punk
era.
Arabrot, or
Nernes, as you wish to call it plays The Gospel just the way it should be
played, isba devastating record with powerful playing, is still a little bit
derivative from Nernes influences, but to be fair, it is also showing great
promises as Nernes proves his enormous talent to introduce memorable desperate
melodies inside the cathartic and chaotic music he likes to create, a wild card
that seems destined to get better with each new recording.
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