Regular readers are familiar with my
ongoing love affair with I, Voidhanger Records. Their latest offering
comes from Todesstoss an avant garde metal band who operate on the
fringes of reality to say the leas. There is something strangely
twisted about their new record, the almighty and wonderfully fucked
up gem that is Ebne Graun.
Coming in at 46 minutes long this is a single song masterpiece that
winds its way into your heart an crushes the listener with earier
vocals, devastating growls and a sort of through composed magic that
will leave you coming back trying to unpack all that it represents.
Todesstoss
are a bizarre listen to say the least. Their sound takes no end of
weird twists and turns, creating cringy moments and invoking
destructive chord structures but also remaining distinctly
otherworldly. Ebne Graun maintains
a certain sense of the unreal, the melodic lines barely conform to
western harmony and the song itself is a sort of spacey exploration
of all that heavy metal can be. While a sense of forward motion is
maintained throughout don't doubt for a second that Todesstoss are
unafraid to meander. Ebne Graun is
in many ways a highly romantic twisting and turning sonic adventure
that will make you want to only dig deeper into the strange worlds
that the band seems to so easily conjure up.
There
is something inside all of us I think that wants to embrace the
utterly bizarre. There is something that teeters forward and then
falls back, that crunches and then winces. It's the sort of inner
pain that we all have to come to terms with, a sense of being the
'other' that Todesstoss embrace. This isn't music for normal people
or people who might have even once had normal tastes. Rather Ebne
Graun is a record that forces
you to sit down and dream, to figure out your own twisted reality and
dissect a sound none of us can truly understand.
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