Composed and recorded Easter 2016.
Howdy! My name is XTIAN, I am a surrealistical artist guy from Melbournia. This be a blog of my arts, a sort of "what's new?" with regards to everything from collages to music to film. I make a lot of stuff (mostly collages though. Do you? Get in touch.) WARNING: some of this gear may be NSFW. For more of my stuff see www.gadzooxtian.com .
Showing posts with label black metal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black metal. Show all posts
Sunday, March 27, 2016
Time for some sexy blasphemy...
Easter (blasphemous black metal) is back.
Composed and recorded Easter 2016.
It's not everyone's cuppa...
Composed and recorded Easter 2016.
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Some political shennanigans
I made these very quickly, so they're no masterpieces, but feel free to re-use them, no copyright.
One of these people is a Hellspawn maniac - the other one sings in a Metal band.
If you follow Australian domestic politix, this makes sense.
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
+3 Broadsword interview
I got interviewed by FOREVER SLAIN online metal zine.
Check it:
http://foreverslainzine.com/2015/03/interview-3-broadsword-black-metal-from-australia/
Check it:
http://foreverslainzine.com/2015/03/interview-3-broadsword-black-metal-from-australia/
No false metal here
Thursday, January 22, 2015
New music - THE BERMUDA PENTAGRAM
Ladies and Gentlefolk, I am proud to present a new genre in music:
Huh?
A collision of surf rock and black metal if you will. Now let me point out for purists that this is not trve kvlt black metal, this is necro metal - harsh, gritty, but nought to do with Satan(ism). These are songs of the horrors of the deep blue, of the tropics, of the Tiki gods, cannibals, etc.
So without further ado, Behold!,
THE BERMUDA PENTAGRAM
The debut Ep, Seventh Son of the Seventh Sea (yes, a Maiden reference [know your metal, click HERE ]) contains 5 epic tracks of surf-rock boogie colliding head-on with dark blastbeats and hideous ghost shrieks. Make no mistake - this album is dancey AND br00tal.
A collision of surf and hard rock/ metal is not so new. The Dead Kennedys have hooked it up with punk/ hardcore, Trey Spruance has attached it to EVERYTHING ever (Mr.Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3), and there's Zorn's Naked City. I would also like to doff my hat to THIS - something The Bermuda Pentagram does not sound like, but is a big fan of.
How is TBP different? I'm a fan of surf rock, more of modern stuff (eg: Hawaii Samurai , The Tomorrow Men), but I find whenever bands try to conjure up shark attacks or UFOs - well, it just ain't creepy enough. That's where metal is king, so why not go there? And since it's all about tremolo, why not go for the homerun and aim for Black Metal, or at least the necro sound? (Know your metal, click HERE.)
Enter The Bermuda Pentagram - five times as mean and dangerous as the Bermuda Triangle, with party vibes and deadly shark attacks, headshrinkers, and even Ku, Hawaii's god of War!
Catchy surf riffs, beeping Hammonds, blastbeats and shrieks - you've not heard nothing like it, and this is just the beginning.
Tell EVERYONE!!!
\m/ Death to false metal!! \m/
IMPURE NECRO SURF METAL.
A collision of surf rock and black metal if you will. Now let me point out for purists that this is not trve kvlt black metal, this is necro metal - harsh, gritty, but nought to do with Satan(ism). These are songs of the horrors of the deep blue, of the tropics, of the Tiki gods, cannibals, etc.
So without further ado, Behold!,
THE BERMUDA PENTAGRAM
A collision of surf and hard rock/ metal is not so new. The Dead Kennedys have hooked it up with punk/ hardcore, Trey Spruance has attached it to EVERYTHING ever (Mr.Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3), and there's Zorn's Naked City. I would also like to doff my hat to THIS - something The Bermuda Pentagram does not sound like, but is a big fan of.
How is TBP different? I'm a fan of surf rock, more of modern stuff (eg: Hawaii Samurai , The Tomorrow Men), but I find whenever bands try to conjure up shark attacks or UFOs - well, it just ain't creepy enough. That's where metal is king, so why not go there? And since it's all about tremolo, why not go for the homerun and aim for Black Metal, or at least the necro sound? (Know your metal, click HERE.)
Enter The Bermuda Pentagram - five times as mean and dangerous as the Bermuda Triangle, with party vibes and deadly shark attacks, headshrinkers, and even Ku, Hawaii's god of War!
Catchy surf riffs, beeping Hammonds, blastbeats and shrieks - you've not heard nothing like it, and this is just the beginning.
Rock out HERE
Grab a T-shirt HERETell EVERYONE!!!
\m/ Death to false metal!! \m/
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
The Return of +3 Broadsword: "thee Monstrous Compendium"
It's been 7 years since I first released +3 Broadsword's "666 Sided Dice" (title suggested by A Demon Sheen of "The Horn" ), a rough-as-guts black metal album with a purely Dungeons&Dragons theme. The idea was obvious: without D&D where would black metal be? So why not have a purely D&D themed black metal band? (Coz BM is about Satan , you tool!)
Anyhoo, as the entries below illustrate, people dug it, which is kinda neat.
Fast forward 7 years, and I've finally finished the follow-up:
thee Monstrous Compendium.
An improved, more epic sound, maybe better song-writing too, seven brutal and epic tales from the realms of fantasy.
Click HERE to stream it while you read the track-by-track breakdown.
1. At the gates of The Temple of Elemental Evil
An atmospheric instrumental opening track that sets the mood of epicness and darkness. It is also a nod to old man Burzum, who used the AD&D image on his debut album cover, thus establishing a clear connection.
BEFORE
AFTER
2. thee Monstrous Compendium
A fast and brutal track about the Bestiary/ Tome which contains the descriptions of so many of the monsters, freaks and beasts of the realms of D&D fantasy. A friend of mine had one years ago, we used to love flicking through it. The Beholder Beast was by far my favourite - a floating, snarling eyeball beast!
The song also contains two amazing one-take improv (!) guitar solos by A Demon Sheen, layered on top of each other.
Here's the book:
Here's the video for the song:
4. (Eye of ) The Beholder
And we're back to the Beholder Beast. The one on the cover of the Compendium. Look at that fucker! All eye and all teeth! Motherfucker!
I love the lack of drums on this song, the almost droning melody, the gritty vocals, and then boom-boom-boom "Look into my eeeeeeye!"
5. Majesty
Another instrumental and it almost doesn't belong here. I mean who thinks of Kings and Queens in the lands of D&D? Its monsters, wizards and warriors, no? Well, yeah, but who runs these giant kingdoms you giant nerd? And how epic ARE these giant kingdoms? Dassright! So here's an instrumental celebration of the majesty of Majesty.
Truth be told the song just did not turn out as epic as I would've liked, but its still a doozy.
6. Roll the Dice
I want this motherfucker of a song to be nailed to the forehead of every motherfucker who buys a D&D manual of any kind. Anyone who ever plays this stupid game should have a copy of this song.
Its fast, its furious, its catchy, its an instruction and a celebration, a battlecry, its a total WIN!
7. thee Monstrous Compendium (instrumental version)
A Demon Sheen's amazing guitar solos get an airing here as we revisit the song without me screaming all over it. They were just too good not to be heard good and proper.
8. (hidden track: Thornspawn Chalice by Isengard)
This is an incomplete song, which is why its a hidden track. Its one of my all time fave BM songs by that ultra-genius Cap'n Fenriz.
The original song is just magnificently epic and brutal, and the vocals - fuck me, nothing like it before or since. I donno how drunk Fenriz was when he put those screams down, but they're unprecedented and unsurpassed. Chills!
Well, I wanted to cover it, but realised I had nothing to add and didn't wanna change it in any way, which begs the question - then why bother? BM Karaoke? We already get retards doing that on those TV karaoke shows.
So here's a rough, shitty instrumental take, badly played and unfinished, a doff of the hat, a bow to the Master, nothing more.
Okay, if you didn't click the link before, here it is again, stream or better yet BUY this bad boy.
ALBUM
Check out the video for the title track HERE.
Buy the official T-shirt HERE.
The Monstrous Compendiuuuuuummmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyhoo, as the entries below illustrate, people dug it, which is kinda neat.
Fast forward 7 years, and I've finally finished the follow-up:
thee Monstrous Compendium.
U R scared now
An improved, more epic sound, maybe better song-writing too, seven brutal and epic tales from the realms of fantasy.
Click HERE to stream it while you read the track-by-track breakdown.
1. At the gates of The Temple of Elemental Evil
An atmospheric instrumental opening track that sets the mood of epicness and darkness. It is also a nod to old man Burzum, who used the AD&D image on his debut album cover, thus establishing a clear connection.
BEFORE
AFTER
Heil Dungeon Master Varg Vikernes!
2. thee Monstrous Compendium
A fast and brutal track about the Bestiary/ Tome which contains the descriptions of so many of the monsters, freaks and beasts of the realms of D&D fantasy. A friend of mine had one years ago, we used to love flicking through it. The Beholder Beast was by far my favourite - a floating, snarling eyeball beast!
The song also contains two amazing one-take improv (!) guitar solos by A Demon Sheen, layered on top of each other.
Here's the book:
Pink eye!
Here's the video for the song:
- for some reason I can't embed it... :-(
3. Conjuring
THIS is what I believe black metal should sound like. I mean hats off to the founding fathers for creating an amazing musical genre (and quite a philosophy with it, but I'm talking more about the music here), but I always thought Abruptum's idea of dark musical chaos was more on the money. Bordering on the edge of music and things just falling apart. Bands like Gnaw Their Tongues, Furze, The Axis of Perdition (though not strictly a BM band) and some other bands I can't think of off the top of my head get it right. So here's a painting in sound of mad chaos magicians dancing around a fire in the middle of the night.
Run away traveller!
4. (Eye of ) The Beholder
And we're back to the Beholder Beast. The one on the cover of the Compendium. Look at that fucker! All eye and all teeth! Motherfucker!
I love the lack of drums on this song, the almost droning melody, the gritty vocals, and then boom-boom-boom "Look into my eeeeeeye!"
5. Majesty
Another instrumental and it almost doesn't belong here. I mean who thinks of Kings and Queens in the lands of D&D? Its monsters, wizards and warriors, no? Well, yeah, but who runs these giant kingdoms you giant nerd? And how epic ARE these giant kingdoms? Dassright! So here's an instrumental celebration of the majesty of Majesty.
Truth be told the song just did not turn out as epic as I would've liked, but its still a doozy.
6. Roll the Dice
I want this motherfucker of a song to be nailed to the forehead of every motherfucker who buys a D&D manual of any kind. Anyone who ever plays this stupid game should have a copy of this song.
Its fast, its furious, its catchy, its an instruction and a celebration, a battlecry, its a total WIN!
7. thee Monstrous Compendium (instrumental version)
A Demon Sheen's amazing guitar solos get an airing here as we revisit the song without me screaming all over it. They were just too good not to be heard good and proper.
8. (hidden track: Thornspawn Chalice by Isengard)
This is an incomplete song, which is why its a hidden track. Its one of my all time fave BM songs by that ultra-genius Cap'n Fenriz.
Worship Him
The original song is just magnificently epic and brutal, and the vocals - fuck me, nothing like it before or since. I donno how drunk Fenriz was when he put those screams down, but they're unprecedented and unsurpassed. Chills!
Well, I wanted to cover it, but realised I had nothing to add and didn't wanna change it in any way, which begs the question - then why bother? BM Karaoke? We already get retards doing that on those TV karaoke shows.
So here's a rough, shitty instrumental take, badly played and unfinished, a doff of the hat, a bow to the Master, nothing more.
Okay, if you didn't click the link before, here it is again, stream or better yet BUY this bad boy.
ALBUM
Check out the video for the title track HERE.
Buy the official T-shirt HERE.
The Monstrous Compendiuuuuuummmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
I been bootlegged !!!
Okay, so I put out this black metal album under the moniker "+3 BROADSWORD" in 2007. It's all about Dungeons and Dragons, its tongue-in-cheek... except D&D was/ is a huge influence on BM... The cover of the first Burzum album was an illustration from a D&D manual (The Temple of Elemental Evil, I think)... So it's kinda legit. Innit?
Anyways, my friend AD macHINE told me he's found videos for some of the songs on youtube, so after some investigating, here's a bunch of links I found to bootlegs, etc of this here album - and some other musical projex of mine as well! Holy shit!
Bootleg etc links for +3 BROADSWORD:
Official site: http://uscds.bandcamp.com/album/666-sided-dice
bootleg 1: http://wtfamilisteningto.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/3-broadsword-666-sided-dice-2007.html
bootleg 2: http://judgedredddreams.blogspot.com.au/2011/02/3-broadsword-666-sided-dice-2007.html
I'm big in Indonesia: http://gelappekat.blogspot.com.au/2009/04/black-metal-bands-list-part-i0.html
Official recognition, Pt1: http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/groupe-groupe-Plus_3_Broadsword-l-en.html
Official recognition, Pt2: http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/album-groupe-Plus_3_Broadsword-nom_album-666_Sided_Dice-l-en.html (a rating of 18/20!!!)
Official recognition, Pt3: http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/%2B3_Broadsword/3540257015
Bootleg fan video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCRnmncs3kU
Bootleg fan video 2:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM14BHSdJGUvcIca4uBbcoQ/videos
Bootleg fan video 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWEvg8VLons
Anyways, my friend AD macHINE told me he's found videos for some of the songs on youtube, so after some investigating, here's a bunch of links I found to bootlegs, etc of this here album - and some other musical projex of mine as well! Holy shit!
Bootleg etc links for +3 BROADSWORD:
Official site: http://uscds.bandcamp.com/album/666-sided-dice
bootleg 1: http://wtfamilisteningto.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/3-broadsword-666-sided-dice-2007.html
bootleg 2: http://judgedredddreams.blogspot.com.au/2011/02/3-broadsword-666-sided-dice-2007.html
I'm big in Indonesia: http://gelappekat.blogspot.com.au/2009/04/black-metal-bands-list-part-i0.html
Official recognition, Pt1: http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/groupe-groupe-Plus_3_Broadsword-l-en.html
Official recognition, Pt2: http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/album-groupe-Plus_3_Broadsword-nom_album-666_Sided_Dice-l-en.html (a rating of 18/20!!!)
Official recognition, Pt3: http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/%2B3_Broadsword/3540257015
Bootleg fan video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCRnmncs3kU
Bootleg fan video 2:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM14BHSdJGUvcIca4uBbcoQ/videos
Bootleg fan video 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWEvg8VLons
Bootleg links for Fat Little Bastard:
Bootleg links for St.Kurten:
Bootleg links for k1ll 7h3 hum4n5:
Bootleg links for Demonist:
Now sing along:
FAME! I'm gonna live faw-re-vrrrrr....!
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