Lovingly pinched from Lurker: Botanist sounds and reads as an insect choir to the noblest aspects of garden couture. A menagerie of luminescent hymns that consistently veers toward the edge of insanity. Picture spindled-legged beings hanging on precipice cliffs of rose thorns, guzzling nectar, imbibing wares and decorating the quaint beauty of a flower with a raison d’etre. Anyone who has ever felt an affinity for the minute elements of nature, the incessant hype of an insect or the fleeting beauty of the garden flower will find Botanist and the Verdant Realm mesmerizing.
Finding melodies in the unseemly chaos of Botanist on first listen is an otherworldly experience. Monochrome buzzing and textured fragments of dissonance reverberate across the sonic palate. What is initially interpreted as wildfire gimmicks or sheer insanity on the creator’s part develops into glistening sections of clandestine beauty and transcendent release.
The Suicide Tree / A Rose From The Dead (double disc release) is a 40-piece movement cocooned in a shell far removed from anything thus far attempted under the ‘black metal’ moniker. Part of me shudders at the idea of labeling this black metal. The development of sound, vocal delivery and aesthetic feel of the release are undeniably black in scope. However, the instrumentation and ideas present far transcend this overtly limiting tag into pockets of sound vacant from my repertoire.
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