#locrian

[sleepynoonradio]

My new track, with an unusual history. I began writing it on a plane to Hong Kong (thanks to M8's tiny size), then it quickly evolved into Iwato scale and Locrian mode and other madness, and then it just refused to let me go until I've finished it today. Welcome to Happy Valley!

[hyacinthguy]

Started using a style more like the design from the mlp movie. Also submitted this for art fight :)

https://artfight.net/~HyacinthGuy

Azya Lydia is the princess of music and represents the lydian music mode. Kyra Locria represents the locrian mode and is shipped with Azya.

[omegaremix]

Omega Radio for July 22, 2024; #381.

Abrams: “Pale Moonlight”

Burn It Down: “A Ghost Untied”

Bleed: “Killing Time”

Navre: “Late Night Drive”

Frail Body: “Devotion”

Sedona Crystal Bitch: “Smoke And Mirrors”

Monolord: “Bastard Sun”

Belzebong: “Goat Smoking Blues”

Wormsand: “Carrions”Smote: “The Opinion Of The Lamb”

Mascara: “Eleven The Fair”

Swarmer: “Foremast”

Tribunal: “Without Answer”

Seizures: “Of Indigo And Seven Crows”

Sect: “Lovers Of Live”

Eternal Red: “Recreate / Mutate”

Killer, The: “Holy Mother Of Street Wars”

Henret: “Funeral Pyre”

Rile: “Climb Out” + “Stone Tapes”

Locrian: “Utopias”

Hangman’s Chair: “An Ode To Breakdown”

Rosetta: “So Warm A Solitude”

Imminence: “Continuum”

So Hideous: “Yesteryear”

Sunrot & Bryan Funck & Emily McWilliams: “Gutter”

Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou: “The Valley”

Seasons Worn: “The Rose Chamber”

Deluxe metalcore, sludge, doom, and stoner.

[christiandegn]

Cenotaph to the Final Glacier - Drawing for Locrian

[rastronomicals]

11:18 AM EDT August 23, 2024:

Locrian - "Exiting The Hall Of Vapor And Light" From the album Return to Annihilation (2013)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Experimental Black Metal/Ambient

[nightsealeafrainwing]

It’s be really cool if there was a device that read your mood and translated it to music in real time

[jb2w2yloonaxezktor2xa2le]

what did locrian ever do to you. shes just a little silly like that

[flownwrong]

the strength a girl needs to not listen to new neubauten and new locrian one after another just because it's past midnight and they're already out, and go to sleep instead........ you can't imagine it

[radiophd]

locrian -- after extinction

[still-single]

The Holy Circle – Don't Disturb My Waking Dream LP (Anathema Editions / Deathbomb Arc)

Big huge second album from this Maryland-based dark heavy pop outfit, which tamps down all the more overt influences from their debut and follow-up EP and levels up on all counts. Their old signatures have become features – footholds – to their sound, and it stands to reason that they sound even more enormous in the process, with Terence Hannum's and Rob Savillo's fusillades of stadium emo/metal guitars muted behind fog while the simple, delay-riddled guitar melodies stay in front. Vocalist Erica Burger-Hannum gives a front-and-center performance of measured, pitch-perfect melancholy, right up where a lot of bands would've chosen to bury them for want of control. Walls of deep synths push forward and recede as solid masses, while drummer Nathan Jurgenson get to play Valhalla-level deliberations in these structures. These songs aren't anthems, they're not celebrating anything meaningless or trying to get you to do anything; they're like icebergs, a small chain of islands, the air flowing around them, really massive and slow and up higher than your neck can crane from the base. Music for the misunderstood and the spiritually burdened, designed to commiserate with you instead of pulling you out of the mire (that's up to you, you can stay in there as long as you like). If this was 1993, I'll bet Projekt woulda come knockin'. Right now all that matters is that you do it instead. (https://anathemataeditions.bigcartel.com) (https://deathbombarc.bandcamp.com/album/dont-disturb-my-waking-dream) (Doug Mosurock)

[dustedmagazine]

Locrian — New Catastrophism/Ghost Frontiers (Profound Lore)

Photo by Elena Volkova

Does it matter if Locrian is a metal band or not? Every genre down to the most minute subdivision has its grognards passionate about what’s in or excluded (and often, in making value judgments that arise thereof), but aside from them it’s unlikely many of us listen to music and then look up the precise stylistic delineation before deciding if we fuck with it. So, if the question is worth asking it’s not for gatekeeping purposes, but for what trying to fit the now-geographically dispersed Chicago trio into or out of the metal box tells us about their music and the way we hear it. And the appearance of New Catrosphism, their first record in seven years, and accompanying EP Ghost Frontiers is an especially good time to ask it, both because of that gap and because these two releases may be Locrian’s most grippingly abstract yet.

Of course, listening to New Catastrophism/Ghost Frontiers is also a good reminder that something can be abstract and powerfully visceral at the same time. As the opening drone scape of “Mortichnia” grumbles to life (especially on decent headphones), there’s a very active sense of presence, and a foreboding one. Locrian have long made the end of the world their subject; after several strong efforts as the duo of André Foisy and Terence Hannum, 2010’s J.G. Ballard homage The Crystal World saw Steven Hess complete the trio and resulted in the first of several works that feel less like art “about” the end than attempts to evoke the actual sound of it. 2022 has certainly been a year that makes one’s thoughts turn towards the apocalyptic, and after Locrian’s last records were the excellent albeit slightly more conventionally song-shaped efforts Return to Annihilation and Infinite Dissolution, the restless, hostile, primal noise on New Catastrophism’s four tracks is even more bracing. 

If the first 13 or so minutes of the album might have one reaching for more esoteric or novel descriptors (power ambient? blackened noise?), when Hess’s drums and Hannum’s blasted howl kick in partway through “The Glare Is Everywhere and Nowhere Our Shadow,” it’s pretty hard to avoid the m-word even though the sonic and emotional character of the track has shifted only slightly. Locrian aren’t the first to make a metal record with few if any riffs, here with some of the most notable guitar being a deceptively clean repeated figure pinging through the end of “Incomplete Map of Voids�� and an acoustic that makes the closing “Cenotaph to the Final Glacier” darkly pastoral before it succumbs to first sawtooth-edged fuzz and then a gradual flurry of digitized percussion. It’s the kind of thing that makes hard and fast rules for genre beyond “I know it when I hear it” feel vaguely silly. Ultimately what category you stick Locrian in doesn’t make their work better or worse (and certainly the band doesn’t seem that fussed), but if anything with the kind of one-way-tension-ratchet climax that “The Glare…” boasts doesn’t fit into the category of “metal,” our definitions may be too rigid. 

The 30-minute Ghost Frontiers EP included as a download with the vinyl release of New Catastrophism pushes the question even further. Two massive slabs of cycling, even more totalizing drone that can feel endless while the listener is in the midst of it, they’re packing even fewer typical genre referents than the album. And yet with a kind of negative grandiosity, by virtue of perhaps showing the aftermath of the breakdown New Catastrophism so stunningly depicts, the two tracks here might be even more harrowing. Whatever you want to call what Locrian does, both of these releases demonstrate aptly how well suited they are to the feeling of our current days, and how good it is to have them back. 

Ian Mathers

[hyacinthguy]

This is my oc Kyra who shipped with my main oc Azya Lydia. She represents the phrygian mode of music... however during my planned villain arc she will represent locrian. Her cutie mark was originally a cello, but I realized later that Octavia has that mark already. It will be a violin instead and I will find a way to make the mark a little more unique.

[imathers]

Top 40: Locrian — New Catastrophism

I reviewed this with the accompanying Ghost Frontiers EP, and it’s also excellent/the two really do go together. But for the purposes of this list I have a separate one for EPs and I was trying to cram as many things I love into it, so it kinda fell through the cracks, but it’s absolutely part of an amazing year from Locrian (after a bit of an inadvertent hiatus). As I mention in the review, Locrian make records that feel like the end of the world to me for over a decade now (I think I heard The Crystal World after a Stylus chum was talking it up, and I still remember the first time I played it), and I think New Catastrophism might just be their best record. And it and the EP could fit on one CD too, about 65 minutes total!

[rastronomicals]

10:57 PM EDT August 8, 2024:

Locrian - “Obsidian Facades” From the album The Crystal World (November 27, 2010)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Albums named after JG Ballard novels

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[sklira]

Chronoscapes | Locrian