Beats and yelling shorts, 27th May 26

Möhrkvlth: Gwenojennoù An Ankounac’hOut 5th May on Antiq Sickly sweet post hardcore rendered in black metal form. Every riff geared toward emotional catharsis, achieving nothing as a result given the fact that no room is left for conflict, tension, strife, contrast. The total lack of patience demonstrable in the melodic signature of modern black metal is perhaps indicative of a general lapse in attention spans across metal’s listener – and by extension creative – base. An ethos unwilling to grapple with the ambiguity offered by atonality and chromaticism. When not remixing alt/indie chord sequences into black metal technique there is a tendency to leap headfirst into endless dissonance in the hope of catching a stray essence of artistry via a one-dimensional hostility to the very possibility of meaning. Here we see the former impulse indulged in the extreme, to the point that any recognisably black metal chord clustering – ‘Va c’heriadenn’ for example – is predictable to the point…