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The Obelisk: In Conversation With Yakuza’s Bruce Lamont

Posted on Monday, July 19th, 2010

JJ Koczan of The Obelisk recently conducted an interview with Yakuza‘s Bruce Lamont about his visions of the changes the world is about to undergo, how Yakuza came to work with Profound Lore, and just how great it is to scare the crap out of yuppies. A few excerpts from the chat follow below.

The Obelisk: Give me some background on the meaning of the album title. Is there a narrative or a theme running through the songs that the title Of Seismic Consequence represents?

BL: Yeah, a variety of themes. It seems there are a similar number of coincidences occurring the past couple of years, loose interpretations of end of the world scenarios. Just with the whole Mayan calendar thing, 2012 and all that, amongst a lot of recent environmental catastrophes and whatnot, it all seems to be happening within the last couple of years, more so now than ever before, and there’s all these warnings within history saying we’re in this period where something’s going to occur. So a lot of the lyric themes and topics revolve around that, but I was thinking more of it as metaphorical, in a sense, more where we’re entering into an age of epic transformation, into something beyond ourselves. Something I don’t think we can fully comprehend yet. Something is going to occur in this lifetime that’s gonna be a big change, in history. Something bigger than even, say, the cultural shift in the 1960s.

I think that was a burp in regards to what is going to happen with evolution. I can’t really pinpoint it either, there’s just hints of what that may consist of. The advancement of technology, the way the earth has been reacting to us and what we’ve done in the last 100 years. All that combined. That’s what was running through all our minds collectively as a band when writing the music, when working with the lyrical themes and everything like that. That title, which Jim texted me one night, very late, and said, Of Seismic Consequence, and I said, “Perfect. Perfect. Yes.” That’s where it comes from.

The Obelisk: What do you think it is about the present that’s different from past eras that would allow these events or this cataclysmic thing to occur?

BL: Good question. It just seems like everything’s happening all at once, or it’s building up to something. It’s a culmination of things. Like I said, it’s environmental, it’s social, it’s political, it’s everything. Technology. All these things are coming to a point, and I think something’s gonna happen. I’m leaning more towards a positive transformation, as opposed to something terribly wrong and negative and catastrophic. We’re already seeing, in the grand scheme of things, catastrophes.

I obviously don’t consider the Gulf Oil Spill a small catastrophe — because it’s not, it’s very big – but on a worldly scale, there’s this belief that maybe half of some sort of landmass is going to fall into the sea and millions of people are going to die. I’m not quite of that mindset. I think all of this that’s happening now is going to come to a head and with that, we’re going to either move onto some sort of enlightenment thing. I’m not trying to get into some spiritual thing, but something beyond ourselves may occur sooner than later.

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Castevet: Red Star Sans Chastity Available For Download (Stereogum Premiere)

Posted on Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

There’s something mentally purifying about New York City trio Castevet’s muscular, aggressive blend of progressive black metal, genre-stretching / time-shifting hardcore, ink-dark ambiance, and raw, soul-sick emotion. It’s like vintage Unsane bleeding into Leviathan. (Someone should line Castevet up for the next Rorschach reunion, invite Deadguy along, too.) Last month ...read more

Yakuza: New Song Available For Streaming (Stereogum Premiere)

Posted on Saturday, June 26th, 2010

“Be That As It May”, a brand new song from Yakuza, is available for streaming HERE, courtesy of Stereogum.  The track comes off the group’s latest album, Of Seismic Consequence, which has been released via Profound Lore. Continue reading:  Yakuza – “Be That As It May” (Stereogum Premiere) – Stereogum.

Album of the day: Yakuza – Of Seismic Consequence

Posted on Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: Yakuza are a critic’s band. Certainly for as long as I’ve been reviewing albums, I’ve been saying of the Chicago outfit, “They’re doing really important things, it’s only a matter of time before the public catches on.” Century Media probably felt the same way when ...read more

Album of the day: Hooded Menace – Never Cross the Dead

Posted on Monday, May 31st, 2010

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: Fuck me, this is heavy. One has certain expectations when one hears the words “Finland” and “death / doom” in the same sentence, given that the land of a thousand lakes is the same one that gave us Thergothon and Skepticism (funny how that nickname ...read more

Album of the day: Apostle Of Solitude – Last Sunrise

Posted on Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from HellrideMusic.com: Those of you that are into real two-fisted Doom Metal, the ‘no beatin’ round the bush’, ‘misery and woe of this mortal coil’ variety, those whose Doom Metal proclivity is of the Godzilla-stomp-on-your-cerebrum genus, will most certainly find the godhead in Apostle of Solitude’s newest collection ...read more

Album of the day: Worm Ouroboros – Self Titled

Posted on Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Livingly pinched from The Obelisk: As over the course of this decade San Francisco has become a hotbed of neo-artsy metal, it’s not surprising that the aughts should end with a release like the Profound Lore debut from the trio Worm Ouroboros. It’s been called chamber metal because of its ...read more

Terrorizer’s band of the day: Altar of Plagues

Posted on Friday, January 8th, 2010

Find out why our good friends over at Terrorizer picked Altar of Plagues as band of the day: Irish act Altar Of Plagues may have formed in 2006 but it wasn't until a live stint in London with Wolves In The Throne Room that we fell madly in love with ...read more

Album of the day: Amesoeurs – Amesoeurs

Posted on Monday, December 21st, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Pitchfork: Profound Lore has been knocking down the walls of black metal for a while. Label acts Caïna, Cobalt, and Wrath of the Weak alloy the genre with others, puzzling purists and delighting critics. Amesoeurs are the imprint’s greatest challenge to categorization. This French band surveys black-clad ...read more

Album of the day: Cobalt – Gin

Posted on Saturday, December 12th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Prefixmag.com: It’s so common that it’s become an archetype in black-metal circles: the solitary auteur, locked up in a dark room, creating hostile, atmospheric death music that’s anti-everything. Anti-god, anti-world, anti-self. Cobalt are different. They’ve got two such auteurs in vocalist/lyricist Phil McSorley and everything-elsist Erik Wunder. ...read more

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