Loro's - Dream(s)

Now that I have some insight as to what to post, here's some underrated post rock.

At first I wasn't too exited about this release. Gave it a whirl and I threw it somewhere deep down my hard drive. Then one "spring cleaning" day I came around it again and to my surprise I found this album (or EP, whatever) to be quite exhilarating.

Loro's (whatever that means) is a small band from South Korea and they have about 600 listeners on last.fm. Not that quite known but they did release their debut album recently called Pax. I didn't like Pax very much but this EP, as I mention before, is something just right up my alley. I'll be posting Pax probably in the future as I give it a more thorough listen.

It starts fairly easy and uplifting as most post rock albums begin. Judging by that you might go and say, like I did, "oh great, another guitar wanking fest". Verily I say onto you, thou is mistaken! It quickly grows in detail and texture. Sounds start to bend with piano and an acoustic guitar and it goes further and further. As this little EP goes for more and more time things become attached to it. Vocals, violin and so on, all kinds of crap. That's what I enjoy so much about it. There's a bit of everything that's good about post rock in here and it doesn't go enough long to bore you. It's what I like to call: balanced out music.

It's a nice little voyage that goes for about half an hour. Definitely check it out if you're into post rock and similar.

Download.

New Deathspell Omega coming out in november.

Fuck yeah! It will be released on November 8th in Europe. For those of you who live in the US it would probably be a good idea to know that Ajna isn't their distributor anymore. Season Of Mist took the job. This is probably because the scale of distribution is too big for Ajna this time.

The album will be called Paracletus. It is also the last part of the trilogy (first being SMRC, second FAS).

This is how the cover will most likely look:

Speculations on my behalf:

- what does the title mean and what will the album be about?

From what I researched Paracletus is some sort of advocate or lawyer in a religious context. It's a Greek word and is fairly difficult to explain. If we look retrospectively the SMRC album was about relation between God and Man. Kenose being the appendix of SMRC also covered that theme to some extent. I didn't do much research about Kenose so I can't say much. Fas was about angels and their revolt against God. The appendix of Fas was Chaining the Katechon. Katechon was/is someone/something that keeps the antichrist from manifesting. Paracletus then could be about the Antichrist or the devil himself. Not to mention that on the cover is something that looks like it's going to murder the cosmos. And it has 7 heads?

- how will it sound?

Probably in a direction that FAS took but hopefully we won't get a FAS clone. Since they have Mikko Aspa on board with them I'm sure he'll provide a lot of non-metal music in the album  and since his forte are noise and similar atonal genres I'm fairly certain it will contain a lot of chaotic noisy/ambient intervals between their common black metal arrangements. Katechon to me seemed a lot calmer and far less atonal compared to FAS so I'm guessing this time around the songs won't be screaming all over the place like The Shrine Of Mad Laughter for example. It will be more brooding and darker since it (again I speculate) deals with a far more darker and sinister being than mad angels stricken with jealousy.

- since the trilogy is going to be concluded, will they split up after that?

I highly doubt that! There are so many themes to cover in religion and the occult so there's plenty of material to work with. They have proven (to me at least and probably to a lot of you people as well) that they are highly creative and innovative people so I'm sure they will continue to surprise us with more releases every few years and I hope they will not stagnate (or do a live show, that would kill everything :< ).

What are your thoughts about this whole thing? Are you looking forward to it?

I'll be buying it the moment it comes out and preferably in some pretentious elitist limited format. :3