Vlürch - Cosmocide (2021)

Here's the new album! I'm really proud of it musically, since it's probably my most consistent album in terms of sound (with basically just one outlier) and I feel like it really works as a whole better than as individual songs. I also tried some new things, while doing some things I hadn't done in a while, and it just ended up being how it ended up being. The lyrics are by far the most political I've ever written (although not in every song), which is of course not everyone's cup of tea, but I just had to do some venting. So, yeah, there are a lot of leftist and anti-authoritarian lyrics on this album... and some other stuff.

1. Coronation

2. Apotropaic Atrocities

3. Blind Basileiolatry

4. Cancerous Chrysopoeia

5. Dignified Dogmata

6. Parastasis

7. Webs and Nets (feat. Jared Spry)

8. Over Clay and Blood, Flowers and Fire

9. Elusion and Somnia

10. Penetralia

11. Sanctum Sanctorum

12. The Dolour of Pomegranates

13. Crucession

14. Umbra

Click on song titles to listen on Youtube, or click here for the full album.

Free download on Bandcamp, as always. Also on Mediafire if you prefer that.

And now I'm going to ramble a little about the lyrics of all the songs. I'll keep it reasonably short, though:

"Coronation" is about, well, you know, the coronavirus. Mostly about how it'd already be over if politicians didn't care more about making money than saving people's lives, and how it's been used by authoritarians to pass bullshit restrictions that'll last long after corona while doing little to nothing to actually stop corona itself.

"Apotropaic Atrocities" is about people assuming the worst about each other, always picking the most uncharitable interpretation about everything, and how everyone is a part of society, etc.

"Blind Basileiolatry" started out being just about the Taliban, obviously against them. It kinda expanded and eventually ended up also generally being about how people justify and glorify violence, oppression, etc. with religion and nationalism and other bullshit... but also about how spirituality could be a force for good, if different religions got along and agreed to disagree.

"Cancerous Chrysopoeia" is just a song about the destruction of the environment, and how no matter what individuals do, as long as governments and big companies keep polluting, it's not going to stop getting worse. Might sound pessimistic, but I mean, I'm convinced rich assholes would keep killing the planet even if only for their own amusement.

"Dignified Dogmata" is about people who (pretend to) self-flagellate over every little thing they or their ancestors have ever done and who constantly give others shit for shit they or their ancestors have done, and who pretend to have an impeccable moral compass while at the same time being OK with all kinds of injustices as long as they don't get their hands dirty, and are narcissistic and high-and-mighty and all that stuff. You know the type.

"Parastasis" isn't political at all, it's mainly inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy (or at least the Inferno part of it... which I read once forever ago so I don't remember much), and generally about Hell in a kinda ambiguously erotic way? Or something like that, it's the most abstract song on this album as far as lyrics go.

"Webs and Nets" is mostly about cyberbullying and catfishing, with an angle like... go ahead and catfish me, I don't care if you're lying, and it's fine if you cyberbully me, you'd only be hurting yourself in the end; but also pretty explicitly about how it's still bad. Obviously I don't want to be cyberbullied or catfished, so it's mostly just edginess... but there's a little bit of truth to it, as in if it's very obvious trolling it doesn't really bother me, and I don't even want a real-life relationship so if someone was catfishing me, it wouldn't be that big a deal.

"Over Clay and Blood, Flowers and Fire" is just an anti-authoritarian song, with some stuff that isn't really obviously political but also some that's pretty obvious. It doesn't matter much what kind of economic policies an oppressive government has, and even less whether authoritarian individuals are right-wing or left-wing, because authoritarianism is bad. It may well be more effective than non-authoritarianism, but that doesn't make it good.

"Elusion and Somnia" is just an imaginary love song, or... not necessarily a love song, but a song about beautiful women. I'll admit it's inspired by real-life women, who I never even tried to date or anything, and in hindsight I'm almost certainly happier because I didn't. I don't mean that in a sexist way, it's not like I'd try to actually date a dude either. But writing weird lyrics about love and sex? Of course!

"Penetralia" is about priests molesting kids, obviously condemning it. I wrote the lyrics after it was in the news how the Catholic church in France had known about the stuff going on there for decades but kept covering it up, which isn't even surprising anymore but still manages to piss me off. It's not just Catholic priests, either, and it's like... maybe repressing your sexuality like that isn't healthy, and leads to shit like this? But the song is just a "fuck you" to priests who molest kids.

"Sanctum Sanctorum" is just an outro to "Penetralia". Originally it was one song, with the outro being just ambient guitar stuff, but I decided to add harpsichord, piano and organ and split it into a separate song.

"The Dolour of Pomegranates" is a song inspired by Salvador Dalí's painting Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening and the film The Colour of Pomegranates. So, yeah, it's kinda surrealist with some "symbolic" stuff as well, but also specifically about that post on Tumblr where someone thought pomegranates were gore. That post is something that I think about from time to time.

"Crucession" is, probably unsurprisingly, about priests. Yeah, again... but this one's about their conservatism, and more focused on Orthodox and Lutheran priests who pick and choose their bigotry specifically so that they can remain homophobic (while coming off as kinda homoerotic themselves with their passion for Jesus), and in some other ways adapting to the changing norms to appeal to people. Also how they're clown-like in a way, you know?

"Umbra" is about sleep paralysis, but in a way compares conservatism to sleep paralysis. It's not a necessary interpretation, though. Thankfully it's been a while since I've had proper full-blown sleep paralysis, but even the lesser form where there's no hallucinating sucks, and my literal first memory is of sleep paralysis.

You might wonder why I don't just publish the lyrics, but... nah. That's not something I want to do with most of my music even if the lyrics are meaningful, because it's still pointless and it's not like the lyrics are actually deep or anything. If you can make them out, you can, but if not, that's not detracting from the music. Unless you think it is, but in that case my music probably isn't your cup of tea anyway for the most part.

 

ANYWAY, if you listen to the album, I hope you enjoy it! If not, that's fine too. It definitely is my most "normal" and simple album, but at the same time my most "sloppy" so that can probably be offputting even for the few people who usually like my stuff haha.

Heave the Sun - Perditionism (2013)

I'm really proud of this album, especially because it's the most black metalish stuff I've ever done, although not just black metal. There are a few parts with clean vocals, so if you hate that, well, you don't have to listen those songs.

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01. Mouthful of Festering Goat Entrails
02. Putrescent Stench of a Tomb
03. Intracranial Tongue Swarm
04. An Industrial Abyss
05. The Lair of Inbred Devil Worshippers
06. Monolithopedion
07. Necrophilic Ritual of Black Death

So, if you like this album, tell your friends about it, post it in your blog if you have one, blah blah blah, etc. Obviously, no one will ever even download it, so I'm just wasting my time typing this here. But if you do like it, don't be ashamed of that. It's nothing to be ashamed of if you like my music! Ok, maybe it is, but whatever.

A blackcore song with wah wah

That title says it all; I made a blackcore (black metal + deathcore/mathcore) song that has some wah wah stuff. I'm really proud of the song, since, like, as far as I know, there hasn't been anything exactly like it before, since wah wah even in just black metal is pretty uncommon, as it is in deathcore and mathcore (ok, it's kinda usual in some mathcore, but you get the point). :P



...and I know, that name is pretty retarded, but well. It's not intended to be the most serious song in the world. The lyrics are about, well, you can probably guess from the name, a Satan-worshipping inbred cult who live in a sort of cave.

Paavo Väyrynen on kaunis + Ritual of the Pegasus

So, I didn't post about this before for some reason, probably because I forgot. It's the first song I've made with lyrics in finnish (excluding bands with other people where I wasn't the only person doing lyrics) and it's about Paavo Väyrynen, a finnish politician, and how he's supposedly beautiful and handsome, etc. which is obviously a joke. Anyway, it's pop/dance/whatever, some gay stuff like that. :P No one will ever like it, but that doesn't matter.


But yeah, I also didn't post about this new Heave the Sun track, which is named "Ritual of the Pegasus (by which the Megalith Tribes Embodied Droughts)", which is sort of like, well... something.

Smunctrum + film review: Sucker Punch + "art"

Greetings, people of... tortoisopotatia? I don't even know, but I've... uh, come back from, um, doing stuff. So, the big announcement is:

You might be thinking "What? What's Smunctrum?" and well, you have all reason to be confused or annoyed or whatever. But yeah, it's a new band. For the time being, yes, this is practically another solo project, although in the future it  won't be. And you know what's awesome? That other person is Nves. Yeah, that way underrated genius. This is the first song of something that will be epic in epic amounts.

Yeah, you're probably not convinced by it being epic, but well, let me explain: this first song doesn't have anything recorded by Nves, so yeah, it's not as epic as it would be if he'd have done some actual stuff to it as well. The reason he didn't? He's busy working on the new MAXD album, which I can't wait for... hopefully it'll be finished this year... or otherwise this Smunctrum thing won't really begin until next year, but oh well.

Anyway, when you see "experimental industrial rock/nu metal", that's the only way it can be put for now. I mean, there's a very simple groovy main riff that's been used in at least a thousand rock songs, hip hop beat-like drums, screamed vocals, clean vocals, rapping... wait a second, did I just say rapping? You know, I did, and it's true, and while I'm obviously not the best at that, with some little help by Nves, I managed to make it sound tolerable by using a shitload of effects (but that's not even very noticeable!). Of course, there's only one part near the end with rapping, unless you count the "keep your hands off, I'm on fire" parts as rapping. I don't, so it's just near the end. Anyway, the synth also is very basic, as is the bass, blah blah. It's a very simple song, okay? Don't let that misguide you into thinking it wouldn't be good. You know how usually I'm all self-hating? Notice how that's all gone? It's all because of the great Nves. Do I sound like a fanboy who's been given a ticket to heaven? If I do, well, you should understand. Anyway, yeah, well, there are deathstep-influenced parts, a psytrance-influenced part, blues-influenced parts, etc. and of course, I couldn't have succeeded at doing this entirely by myself; I mean, yeah, I technically somewhat did it all by myself, but Nves gave tips and stuff, helped with the concept, etc. and in songs that will be done later, well, he'll be involved in the actual making of the songs more than just that and the little effecting (if that's a word), which I, honestly, can't wait for at all. But I'm kinda worried how messy things might get if we both do "everything", you know, but well... that's a problem that will be at that time.

So, after this huge long rant, listen the song:


...but yeah, please "like" it, comment, favorite, etc. blah blah, if you think it's nice or cool or whatever. Also, go check out Nves' youtube account and subscribe to him and stuff: http://www.youtube.com/user/NvesX He's one of the reasons I kind of like sort of like the color pink, by the way, so that makes him even more epic. Although a lot of that is because of a certain Jack as well, but whatever. :P

Oh, and one more thing, although I'm a bit late to say it. The movie "Sucker Punch" kicks ass so much, or should I say, PUNCHES ASS I'm such a kid. But yeah, I just saw it last night, and while it was as epic as I expected it to be, it was a bit underwhelming in that it lacked an epic finale, like a moment of defining the epic stuff that went on in the imaginary/fantasy world/whatever. Oh well, it was still a huge movie, really awesome in pretty much every way, and Emily Browning is so hot... ❤ Anyway, I don't understand how critics claim it's misogynist or whatever; it seemed pretty much like the opposite, even considering how it ended and had a depressing undertone and overtone with non-depressing stuff layered in between. Just think of it this way: 99% of guys, even in action/fantasy movies, don't become as epicizedly great at almost everything so fast, etc. and seriously, overanalyzing movies isn't a good thing. But well, it was an awesome movie, that's all I can say, although the dragon thing was also a bit underwhelming, it could've been so much more epic if there had been an epic battle (lol, I love epic battles...) in small scale as well as the big scale, as there usually are in fantasy films. But you know, I'm not complaining. I wouldn't complain about a movie unless it really sucked gotta avoid pun gotta avoid pun gotta avoid pun ass, since everyone has their own taste.

I should've said "two more things", but since that "one more thing" was a reference to a repeated line in that movie, you know... anyway, so, yeah, this blog post won't end here:

I did this "abstract art" thing, although it's really crappy and stuff, but well. Lick it, it's a thumbnail.

Heave the Sun - Four-Dimensional Fractal Maze (newer version)

Well, I made this one a bit longer and better. Now I'm really proud of it, and I hope people like it. But please, put it to HD so it'll sound a lot better.