ORANSSI PAZUZU Valonielu LP Finnish psychedelic black metal hawkwind enslaved

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ORANSSI PAZUZU Valonielu LP

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(20 Buck Spin)
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
  Now in stock on limited gatefold vinyl, and back in stock on digipack CD.
   Oranssi Pazuzu's first album Muukalainen Puhuu was an instant new favorite when it first came in to C-Blast, a rather unique sound from this Finnish band that saw them combining their intense obsession with 70's-era space rock and the harder fringes of prog rock and krautrock with their primal black metal roots. I listen to a lot of prog-influenced black metal, but that album ended up transcending the black metal form and became something that was still quite unearthly and evil sounding but more like some mutant blackened space rock than true black metal. The vibe of that stuff was in some ways reminiscent of the Zeuhl-influenced blackthrash weirdness of Mëkanïk's Der Mëkanïk Grooves album, the blackened heaviness and malevolent atmosphere becoming infused with the electronic textures and trancelike tempos, evolving into something new. On their third album Valonielu, now released in the US by 20 Buck Spin (making it the first release of theirs that we've had easy access to), Oranssi Pazuzu have taken that sound of theirs even deeper into the cosmos, while retaining that potent black metal streak, the album's more vicious moments evocative of the raw frostbitten black metal of early Darkthrone being sucked into an interstellar vortex, the band encrusted in black frost shining with starlight. Few black metal bands have managed to incorporate the classic space rock of bands like Hawkwind and Pink Floyd without diluting the inherent coldness and violence of their music, but the cosmic demons in Oranssi Pazuzu have nailed it with this album.
   Album opener "Vino verso" offers an initial taste of the sort of heavily hypnotic trance-metal delirium that Oranssi Pazuzu lock themselves into, the looping, elliptical riffing and pummeling drumbeats becoming a chugging mantra beneath the soaring spacey synthesizers, washes of astral drift and surges of Hawkwindian electronics beginning to course across the band's mighty necro-groove. But it's on the following song "Tyhjä temppeli" that the band really starts to cook, bringing out lush echoing guitar licks and smears of atmospheric slide guitar over a propulsive, churning rhythm, the krautrocky momentum building within a shadowy atmosphere of gothic drama, vague shades of the Nephilim in their dark metallic psychedelia. Then there's the monstrous groove that the band carves out of "Uraanisula", moving like some infernal slow-motion cruise missile for nearly twelve minutes, the rhythm section locked in a driving, criushing motorik backbeat, scathing gargling devil-shrieks lingering over the lurching sludgy heaviness, slipping down deeper into those seemingly endless malevolent space-rock passages, whirring bleeping synthesizers flitting from speaker to speaker, until it finally builds into a crushing prog freakout of tangled off-kilter time signatures and crazed bleeping keyboards and violent blackened screaming, some insane fusion of Zeuhl-style prog rock and Scandinavian black metal, complex and aggressive and hateful. There's shorter forays into lugubrious tribal rhythms and narcotized Goblin-like synthesizer creep laid out over slow tympani-like rhythms ("Reikä maisemassa"), and "Olen aukaissut uuden silmän" shifts effortlessly between frenzied blackened blasting and a super sinister motorik pulse, slipping from rabid violent speed into an infernal spacey post-punk groove. The fifteen minute closer "Ympyrä on viiva tomussa" starts off subdued, creepy, traces of wah-deformed acid guitar curling through the ether above chiming stray synth notes and subdued tribal drumming, but then later surges into crushing metallic majesty, it's coiled riffage and shambling heaviness enshrouded in cosmic effects and swooping synthesizers, lush symphonic strings joining the fray in its final moments. There's much to love here...   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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