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Album of the day: Pharaoh Overlord – Lunar Jetman

Posted on Sunday, February 5th, 2012

Lovingly pinched from The Inarguable: The Repetition is a difficult beast to wrangle. From the premier of Steve Reich’s Music for Eighteen Instruments, the new wave of post-modernity screamed “excessive minimalism” in praise of its stylistic progenitor. Of course, not many people could perfectly emulate Reich’s pulsing, shifting, harmonically dense style, opting for a more pure, hypnotic, unfortunately monotonous route of execution.


That isn’t to say the monotony is inherently bad, however, twenty-minute krautrock epics which never stray from one single bassline sort of peeves me, which is the exact problem I’ve had with the rest of Pharaoh Overlord‘s discography. These Finns, who share members with the critically acclaimed Circle, recorded some great ideas, but ‘Devastators” 9 minutes and 33 seconds of one singular classic heavy metal riff seemed a little off. I was a little apprehensive when approaching Pharaoh Overlord’s new record, named after the classic video game Lunar Jetman, though the inclusion of a seasoned member of Faust definitely piqued my interest.

I really am glad I gave this album a fair chance, as Lunar Jetman shows immense growth in the Pharaoh Overlord camp. Moving away from their “consistent, hypnotic repetition” route of execution, Lunar Jetman follows the example set forth by the Reich-ian school of thought. As layers of sound are stacked on top of the repetitive base, it begins to shift under the weight, and upper echelons follow suit as they begin to buckle under the sheer weight of sound above them.

Eventually, you arrive at an entirely different conclusion. This sort of transformation is always a treat, especially given the trance-inducing nature of the music (and perfectly embodied in the two-part ‘Cave of Hair’); you snap out of it and find yourself in different surroundings. Looking down, you’ll notice I imbued this album with the all-encompassing “krautrock” tag, but don’t expect your standard Neu! or Amon Duul (one or II, take your pick) thoroughfare

Continue reading: The Inarguable: Pharaoh Overlord – “Lunar Jetman” (2012) [SIGE/Ektro Records].

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Slussenanalys (Featuring Jussi Lehtisalo on guitar): Himlen mot helvete Video Released

Posted on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

Himlen mot helvete, the new video from Slussenanalys, featuring Circle‘s Jussi Lehtisalo on guitar and Tuomas Laurila (drums), can be seen below. Culled off  their debut full-length, Aquila Helvetos Asfaltos, Slussenanalys proves that the most Swedish noise rock of today comes, surprisingly, from Finland. The vivid images of decadence portrayed in ...read more

Album of the day: Death Trip – Pain is Pain

Posted on Monday, January 2nd, 2012

Praise for Death Trip’s Pain is Pain from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: When we travel, record shopping plays a huge part in our planning. We’re guessing the same is true of many (most?) of you. Not only do we typically have various stores we want to check out, we also ...read more

Death Trip: Two Tracks Posted On Soundcloud

Posted on Thursday, December 8th, 2011

Finland’s Death Trip have released two tracks, titled ‘Chainsaw Goddess‘ and ‘Death Trip’ (culled off  Pain is Pain – The Complete Death Trip 1988-1994), on their Souncloud pages. Death Trip is as uncompromising as it is hypnotic – an intense concentration of distorted guitars in the spirit of The Stooges, The ...read more

Circle: Video Interview With Jussi Lehtisalo

Posted on Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Sami Sänpäkkilä conducted an interview with Jussi Lehtisalo of Finand’s Circle. You can now watch the chat below. Jussi Lehtisalo is the founder of Circle and he runs Ektro Records. In addition he plays in groups such as Pharaoh Overlord, Ektroverde, Steel Mammoth and Rättö ja Lehtisalo just to name ...read more

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