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James Hetfield
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ben folds five - Spin Magazine article, May 1996
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Formed ten years ago, DEATHSTENCH released three albums and many eps.. The "Massed in Black Shadow" album was a great obscure and dangerous one..The crown of their sacrifice was their collaboration with Bon Masters Phurpa. John Paul Whetzel and Darea Plantin spells behind this interview.
“Blood Moon Divination” was your latest release. It was released in a limited amount of copies and only in Tape format. Why this choice?
We have always preferred analog releases. We view physical copies as something that should be appreciated.. Let's face it, it's the 21st century, and people do most of their listening through some sort of streaming service. If they like it, they most likely pirate it. We understand this; Our physical releases are intentionally designed for coveting.
We put a great deal of energy into each release. In our past special editions, we have included ritual accouterments that correspond with each album, such as shards of human bone and incense we made specifically for the intent to conjure with the dead.
You have released three albums. Please tell us the concept behind each one and the process of the recordings…Each release turns out to more noisy and dark forms..
To be precise it's four albums, and numerous collaborations and splits. Our releases are not in any sort of chronological order, from conception to the final product takes its own time dependant upon the haste of that particular record label. We record basically the same for each album, building upon a structured theme. Our music is built on layers of sounds from instruments, traditional and otherwise, that we record with either handheld devices or microphones connected to an audio interface which we use to record our percussion and amps.
Each track on "Blood Moon Divination" is an audial ritual recorded and released during each specific Blood Moon in the tetrad cycle of blood moon eclipses of 2014-2015. Through that span of time, these celestial vibrations were available as they were being released on several streaming platforms, including Black Metal and Brews and Repartiseraren. A tetrad of lunar eclipses is extremely uncommon. This was only the eighth of such cycles in over two thousand years. We compiled them together for a physical album that we chose to release during the first exclusive total solar eclipse the United States had seen in over two hundred years. Eclipses, both solar and lunar, are considered to be very inauspicious events throughout the world. As an omen of war, the Talmud regards "If the face of the moon is as red as blood it is a sign that the sword is coming to the world."
"N.O.X." is a transcendent four track journey that starts out violently with the lo-fi black metal track OXEX DAZIS SIATRIS, Enochian for "Vomiting The Head of Scorpions" and slowly transforms itself into a less chaotic discord that concludes with the meditative piece "Mysterivm Tremendvm". N.O.X. or "The Night of Pan", is a mystical state that represents the stage of ego-death in the process of spiritual attainment. The Greek word Pan also translates as All, as he is a symbol of the Universal, a personification of Nature; both Pangenetor, "all-begetter," and Panphage, "all-devourer". Pan is both the giver and the taker of life, and his Night is that time of symbolic death where the adept experiences unification with the All through the ecstatic destruction of the ego-self. In a more general sense, it is the state where one transcends all limitations and experiences oneness with the universe.
"Nekro Blood Ritual", our second album, was designed specifically for its cassette release and is broken into two sections: Conjuration Rites and Burial Evocation. This album focuses on conjuring the dead and the desecration of human remains. This is by far our most atmospheric album; most of the tracks are rely heavily on field recordings and stygian synthesizers to evoke the abject darkness. These songs are reminiscent to the "Incantations in Dead Tongues" era of our work. There are only two conventional (for use of a better term) songs on this album, "Nekrobloodritual" and "Desecrating The Host" the latter being a harsh black funeral doom dirge for the departed.
In our debut album, "Massed in Black Shadow" we utilize all of our influences through the years. Incorporating elements of death industrial, dark ambient, doom, and black metal, and hideously transforming and conjoining them into a writhing mass of absolute filth, a sound truly all our own. The final track, titled “Bastards of the Black Flame” can be considered a motto to us, as it is exactly who we are. The byproducts of an unholy union between some of the most violent forms of music, in both sound and ideologies.
DEATHSTENCH collaborated with Phurpa. How did this Union take form? Are you interested in the theory of empiricism in Bon Religion?
In 2012 Alexei Tegin had discovered our music from our debut album and contacted us. Both Phurpa and ourselves operate with the same meditative qualities regarding our music. Although our sound derives from different spectrums, they coalesce quite vividly. "Evoking Shadows of Death" fuses our ultrasonic vibrations and harsh atmospheres with the harmonious chants and deep, droning reverberations of their tantric voice. These two tracks are designed to help the chod practitioner tap the power of fear. This transformation does not fall spontaneously, as grace, upon the listener: the practitioner must engage in the process. One must take steps to transmute through the aural plane and, through a process in which they must actively participate, requiring utmost concentration and mental stamina. This mystical experience is achieved, not bestowed.
Empirical reasoning has no place in esoteric practices and the occult. These objects are neither phenomena (empiricism) nor human constructs imposed upon the phenomena (idealism), but real structures which endure and operate independently of our knowledge, our experience and the conditions which allow us access to them. Some things cannot be reduced down to empirical measurements.
Thanatology and satanism are your basic influences. How do you define satanism and how death in your personal path?
Deathlore has always intrigued the both of us. There is absolutely nothing more final than Death. Every single one of us will die, as Death does not discriminate. Dying, death and how human beings respond to the inevitability of their mortality and cope with the reality of loss can be viewed from a wide range of perspectives. Our intent has never been to elaborate on our practices or rituals to any audience. Even the altars we allow you to see are set up specifically for public viewing. While they are still symbolic of what we would normally produce for our own rituals, the intent isn't there. It's merely superficial. Our personal altars and rituals will always remain clandestine, as all witchcraft should be.
“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.” ― Lao Tzu
I would like to hear your thoughts and if you are into the systems of O.N.A & Temple of the Black Light in theory and praxis as Traditional satanic approach you unveil through your works . Satanism is such an elaborate construct; Atheistic, LaVeyan, theistic, there are so many paths. Satan has always been symbolic with the quest for Knowledge, of opposition to arbitrary authority, forever defending personal sovereignty even in the face of insurmountable odds. Our path cannot be defined by one simple ideology.
We have absolutely no affiliation with these groups.
Does DEATHSTENCH ever perform live?
We are very selective in our live performances. The last show was in Portland, Oregon way back in 2015 when we opened up for MGLA, Weregoat, and Sempiternal Dusk. Alan Dubin (of Gnaw, Khanate) and Billy Anderson, whom we have long collaborated with, did a sort of dueling vocals approach to our fifteen-minute audial assault on an beyond-capacity crowd. This show was recorded by Mateo from Greysun Records who also released it on his label in 2018.
Necromancy is an Old Art Like Time.Ancient Greece had deep roots also in this Subject. Are you familiar with the Ancient Greek Mysteries?
Yes, we are familiar with some of the Chthonic mysteries highlighting mortality and the briefness of life, and the spirits of the blessed dead. Though, like most true paths of esoteric knowledge, not much is truly known about the intricacies of these rituals, having been sworn to secrecy and then lost to the Sands of Time. It has been suggested that communicants would drink Kykeon infused with the psychotropic fungus ergot which helped the initiate to reach a fuller understanding of their purpose in life and to shed their fear of death and this, then, heightened the experience and helped transform the initiate. The same can be said of the Huichol in Mexico, who eat peyote at the completion of long arduous pilgrimages in order that they may experience in the journey of the soul of the dead to the underworld. Death worship and eschatology are celebrated by all cultures throughout time, most with the use of hallucinogens.
I would like to hear your thoughts on these words: “This being true for the ordinary Universe, that all sense-impressions are dependent on changes in the brain we must include illusions, which are after all sense-impressions as much as “realities” are, in the class of “phenomena dependent on brain-changes.” ― S.L. MacGregor Mathers, Goetia the Lesser Key of Solomon the King: Lemegeton, Book 1 Clavicula Salomonis Regis
In contemporary education, the emphasis has been on the psychomotor and the cognitive, namely reading, writing, and arithmetic, at the expense of the affective, namely, the emotions, the sensual, the intuitive, and the imaginative. Priority has been assigned to the verbal-intellectual skills. Anything else tends to be shelved or boxed and put away as ephemeral, esoteric, or mystical, each of these terms being used in a pejorative sense.
Consider for a moment the human sensory system. To the scientific mind, the senses are perceived to act as a kind of data-reduction system. The problem with this concept of the senses is that we do not respond to all that is potential sensory input. Perception is quite a selective process, attending to only a small fraction of so-called reality.
To some extent, scientist or artist, everything we perceive is "illusory," since to perceive anything at all we must use our imaginative capacity for fantasy.
What can we expect from DEATHSTENCH in the near future?
We have a few albums waiting in the shadows including collaborations with Sektor 304 and LINEKRAFT, as well as another full-length album incorporating both Billy Anderson and Alan Dubin. Time is relative, and there are no promises as to when any of these releases will see the light of day.
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Tainá Bergamaschi (Crypta) Interview
Photographs from the Crypta official promo shoot, 2023 by @eromera On July 31st, CRYPTA guitarist Tainá Bergamaschi graciously took the time to answer some Cave Dweller questions before heading back out on tour. They talk metal, touring, and the band's new album “Shades of Sorrow” out August 4th on Napalm Records.
Read Christian's full interview with Tainá and find music videos and links to listen to and order Shades of Sorrow at the link below:
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Band Interview: Recorruptor
Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life bring you an interview with death metal band, Recorruptor.
Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life bring you an interview with death metal band, Recorruptor. 1. How did you get started as a band? The band was started by Dustin Cook in 2013 under the name Rotting Inside. After a couple years, the name changed to Recorruptor and became fully realized as a band in 2016. 2. How would you describe your sound? Death Metal, with a mix of old school sound with…
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Interview Exclusive: The Pale White
Interview Exclusive: The Pale White
Words: Julia GranthamPhotos: Trust A Fox Casually rotating between Instagram and Facebook one day -looking for anything music or gig-related that might excite me over The Christmas period- I spotted a poster for a Deja Vega gig, on a night I was free, but nowhere near my house in a town I’d never heard of called Darwen, in Lancashire. Annoyingly, living on the other side of The Pennines and…
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Three Sixes: "This record exceeded my expectations and they were set pretty high"
Three Sixes stormed back onto the scene with their blistering new release 'Welcome To The New World Order' which was released last month. Time for us to introduce the band to you through some poignant questions!
Three Sixes stormed back onto the scene with their blistering new release ‘Welcome To The New World Order’ which was released last month. The electrifying track serves as a rebellious anthem fusing thrash and industrial metal tackling the rising tensions of political unrest, economic instability, and social division. Time for us to introduce the band to you through some poignant questions! Hi!…
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Interview Promise down. Interview Promise down. Interview Promise down. De eerste vraag, hoe verliep het optreden op Roxyfest? Goh bagger hè. (Lacht). Nee het was heel plezant. Echt. We hebben ons rot geamuseerd sowieso. Het was heel plezant om te zien. Het was geen volle weideei, maar ja, dat is logisch op het middaguur en dan met dit weer. Maar het volk kwam dichter naar het podium terwijl…
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Band Interview Of The Day - Monkey Intrusion
If could introduce yourselves for us, who are you?Hi there, we are Monkey Intrusion from Trieste, Italy. The line up is composed by Enrico J. Goti at voices and guitars as well as Vincenzo Reina, then we have Marco Bertoli on drums and finally Marco Plesnicar on bass. How did you all meet?Vincenzo and Marco P. were school mates and actually formed their first garage band back in those days. Then…
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INTERVIEW: GENGIS KHAN (ITALY)
A fan of Manowar and Kiss, a lover of true heavy metal music with a warriors spirit, Gengis Khans leader Frank gives TheNwothm an insight into the world of the band!
A fan of Manowar and Kiss, a lover of true heavy metal music with a warriors spirit, Gengis Khans leader Frank gives TheNwothm an insight into the world of the band! TheNwothm: Hey there thanks for agreeing to this interview! Can you tell us your band name, who is in the band and where you are from Frank Leone: Hello , we are Gengis Khan, we come from Bologna Italy , this is Frank, leader of…
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ben folds five - printed photoshoot by Mikio Ariga
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A Cave Dweller Interview With Vexing Hex
Wise Blood Records is gearing up to release the sophomore album by Vexing Hex , a wonderful release that I feel will be The Best Occult Rock Album Of 2024. We will be doing a full review of the album, but to wet your whistle a bit, Tom Hanno of Tom's Reviews proudly and happily presents you with an inside look into the band, and their new music!
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Band Interview: Lieder Distortion
Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life bring you an interview with symphonic/opera rock band, Lieder Distortion.
Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life bring you an interview with symphonic/opera rock band, Lieder Distortion. 1. Hello! Thank you for taking the time to chat to us. First things first, tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got started. Lieder Distortion want to take classical music, written by Mozart, Schubert, Vivaldi and others and make them the way we wanted to hear them. When…
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