Wednesday 30 June 2021

Vlürch - 地獄的心象風景 (2021)

Some time ago, I decided that someday I'd make a proper death metal album. I'd also decided that I'd make an album with lyrics entirely in Japanese. Well, this album is technically neither of those things, since it's not entirely death metal and not all of the lyrics are in Japanese, but it's close enough that I feel like those goals are fulfilled. Doesn't necessarily mean I won't set one or both of those goals for myself again, and actually sticking to it 100%, but I don't think that's very likely to happen.

01. 暗み
02. 死屍累々たる修羅場
03. 万華鏡地獄の回転木馬
04. ピエログロ
05. 肉傀儡
06. 人間の繭
07. 虹光身
08. 膿の海の生み

(Click on song titles to listen on Youtube, or click here for it as one video.)

 

This album had a lot of "firsts" for me; the first album with actual bass on all tracks, the first album with five-string bass (but not on all tracks), the first album with sanshin (but only in three tracks), the first album where I recorded guitars directly to my interface without pedals (except for compression and noise gate), the first album where the process of making songs was more "traditional" rather than just recording random shit and mashing it together, and I imagine the first album I can actually call metal without pissing somebody off.

...unless it's still not metal enough thanks to the weird psychedelic parts, the random jazz part and synth bit in the third track, the borderline nu metal-ish fourth track, the entirety of the seventh track and the fact that it's not released physically because everybody knows it's not metal unless it has a limited cassette run of 666 copies signed with blood.

Anyway, it's a free to download on Bandcamp, just like all of my stuff. Also on Mediafire if you prefer that.