Speculative Metal

 "Deterritorialization is the movement by which one 'leaves' the territory. It is the operation of the line of flight." (Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus) INTRODUCTION What is "territory" in extreme metal? - Territory consists of conventions: riffs, block structures, established sections (intro - riff - verse - solo - bridge - outro). Territory is any element within a composition that has a function, a place, a proportion... in a logical and balanced form. Zdzisław Beksiński DETERRITORIALIZATION: A PROCESS In A Thousand Plateaus (1980), Deleuze and Guattari distinguish between two types of space: smooth space—open, continuous, and non-hierarchical; and striated space—organized, metric, structured. This distinction, originally spatial, can be applied to music—and, in particular, to Extreme Metal—as an opposition between the fractal and the modular in order to describe a phenomenon that has gone unnoticed: deterritorialization in Extreme Metal. In tr...

With the release of Kenose in 2005, Deathspell Omega confirmed the trend they had started with SMRC. Dissonance as the basis of extremely complex and extensive compositions, the likes of which had never been seen before on the scene, made all eyes turn to them. Here begins a true revolution in Extreme Metal with a band that composed with unparalleled mastery and whose legion of imitators and followers has only grown since then. Hyper-riffs, speculative melodies, polymorphic rhythms, rhizomatic structures, hyper-complex narrative architecture... A sound and aesthetic discourse that will know no limits... Kenose I A drum pattern serves as the basis for an arpeggiated guitar riff that is repeated 4 times in a vast formal structure. The repetitions add variations to the guitar, which adds details to its harmonic skeleton, complex but subtle. In the percussion, the changes are more noticeable and evident with an excellent handling in the development of the resources used: the drummer builds...

  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...

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