Murmur - Murmur
While this band’s previous LP, 2010’s Mainlining the Lugubrious, had some tenuous connections to Black Metal, the self-titled follow-up goes off into the deep end almost immediately. This is Progressive Post-Black Metal at its worst (or best, perhaps, depending on your musical preferences). Murmur might have started out as a standard Black Metal band back in 2007, when they formed, but this isn’t Black Metal anymore. Hell, I’m hesitant to even call this racket “Metal” at all. The song structures are weird, the music is overly complicated and every track on this album is clearly written for the subset of fans that wants to listen to music for the technical nuances. When I listen to music, I’m not analyzing the songs for weird timings, highly experimental tonal arrangements or creative picking techniques. I don’t mind some technicality or progressive structures, but this was just painful to hear. It actually made Dream Theater and Fates Warning listenable in comparison. Any band that can do that immediately earns a spot on the list of nominees for the coveted Iron Cock Award for Most Masturbatory Musical Release by a Supposedly Black Metal Band. At the moment, Murmur is the only band on the list, but the year is young so other contenders may arise to challenge them for the giant black iron dildo of shame. If you want evil Black Metal that shreds your soul and leaves you torn and maimed forever, you should stay as far away from this record as humanly possible. Unless you’re a masochist in the musical sense, you’re not going to want to waste your time on this crap.
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Koji Kabuto said:
I had to hear how bad this is for myself. Holy hell, you are far too kind to it. This is one of the worst excuses for music I’ve ever heard. The guys in this band should commit ritual suicide.
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