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SALAZAR´S LAW (3)

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At the beginning of chapter 5, "Faustian Arts: The Triumph of Instrumental Music over Oil Painting" of his Liber Semitarum, Relgneps Razalas states that: "In the last decade of the 20th century, three bands were formed that began to use dissonance as a primary symbol, not as an ornament or decorative element, which was the way in which (with exceptions such as Gorguts ) it had been used until then. To dissonance was added a compositional element that had also been used in a secondary way until then: texture seen as atmosphere ." Wassily Kandinsky,  Composition VI Deathspell Omega and Blut aus Nord , both bands of French origin, revolutionized the way extreme metal is conceived at the beginning of this century with two trilogies of albums that shook the foundations of the style and forced the rest to take a position. In turn, the Australians Portal , released their albums simultaneously during the first and second decade of this century as a response of Death Metal

REVERORUM IB MALACHT - The Holy Grail of Speculative Metal

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Reverorum ib Malacht is one of the bands that is taking extreme metal to unexplored territories due to the extreme experimentation to which they subject all the elements that make up their music. They are a perfect definition of what Speculative Metal is. All the sound parameters of his compositions are approached from a new perspective by applying Salazar's Law so that "an entirely new sound world" emerges (Salazar, "Fundamental concepts in the history of music", 2004:210).  https://speculativemetal.blogspot.com/2024/04/salazars-law-2.html Reverorum ib Malacht delves into unknown regions within the genre where each parameter is subjected to limitless experimentation : - The guitar riffs that are the basis of any metal band are absent in a good part of their compositions or their role is secondary, ceding the main role to the drums and the textures and atmospheres. When the guitars have more prominence, they are usually focused as samplers, as textures, with

DEATHSPELL OMEGA - Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice (listening guide)

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  0. Introduction “Our work is structured like the Roman god Janus: facing both the past and the future.” HASJARL “Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice” is the link between the first Deathspell Omega and those to come from Kenose. This album is the bridge between that first style where the band pays tribute to the classics of the genre and the style that they will adopt from this release and for which they are famous within extreme metal, a very personal, very original style, of a quality that cannot be has been matched by no other band within the genre. The band deploys several resources here that will be the basis of their aesthetic from now on. This album is the farewell to the old style, and the herald of what is to come: the birth of a new sonic paradigm that will change the history of metal forever. 1. First Prayer The track consists of an extensive riff-arpeggio. It is one of Hasjarl's most original and striking characteristics on the guitar: performing long riffs with f

DEEP FOG (Textural Metal)

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 "...anything that was subject to the impermanence of its essence, its transitory nature, anything on the edge of extinction..."                                                                                                    My work is not finished yet, ,   Thomas Ligotti  Metallicum Proverbia -  Inat-se-Ragen Versículo 28: “ The past is umpredictable" " its depth is unfathomable ” FORWORD Between 1800 and 1850, the United Kingdom (and, above all, London), was responsible for almost half of the world's sulfur dioxide emissions. These emissions radically transformed the city's landscape, causing the haze of pollution to cover everything for hours and days... and that deep fog affected, among other things, how light was perceived: objects changed, being affected by the lack of definition. Everything tended towards white, a Faustian color that evokes liminal and ethereal worlds where reality lies hidden. Joseph Mallord William Turner , one of the greate