Aarni

Questa é veramente una delle migliori band finlandesi.

Ho ascoltato solamente Bathos, che vergogna.
Penso che dedicherò attenzioni al nuovo EP. Da come l'hai descritto, Doom, DEVE essere un amore.

:: :: LIBER LIX AARNI vel Pnakodementia :: ::

Sweetmorn, day 41 in the season of Chaos, 3176 Anno Mungi.

Hola Cthulhu! Welcome to Liber LIX Aarni, the fifty-ninth (go look up the Gematria) edition of the official Aarni newsletter, bringing thee some of the latest news on the band and in-depth emanations from Aarni's infamous metal god/retard Master Warjomaa!

:: M.W.'S WORDS ::

Darling cultist,

Long time no shit. So:

1) We have finally completed arranging, recording and premixing the instrumental 'Celephaïs', which features nylon-string acoustic guitars, a grand piano, the flute as well as various synths and samples as usual. It may be the most serene tune Aarni has done to date and is intended as a soothing intermission amidst all the pnakomadness on the new album Lovecraftian. We also think that it functions pretty well as a soundtrack to its pertinent HPL short story, as do the other tracks on the album.

Next Aarni will concentrate on the pnakotic non-radio friendly song 'Azathoth', which starts out something like a reprise of our huge hit 'Reaching Azathoth' but quickly (d)evolves into something different yet remotely similar. For the song I very carefully randomly detuned my "stunt axe" aka the cheapest 7-string guitar I could find in the nethermost Doominvalley vaults, so that every string sounds charmingly discordant and microtonal compared to its neighbour. Naturally I play quite a lot of open chords (with distortion) on this Erich Zannian guitar while overusing the whammy bar. In this fashion we recorded two rhythm guitar tracks for the song, which manage to mostly coincide with the tune's tempo but not very much with each other. Furthermore the song features a virtuoso kazoo performance by an Italian artiste, just one of the many talented guest musicians appearing on Lovecraftian...

I just calculated that the album likely clocks somewhere over 60 minutes and possibly features nine tracks, many of which for some reason are just three to four minutes long, perhaps to minimize the sanity-draining effect on the listener or merely to avoid boredom. Luckily there are also songs of more decent length and sanity loss, ranging from five to 20 minutes. This is after all supposed to be doom metal of some description. Actually "metal elements" seem not omnipresent as a number of tracks lean mostly toward the soundtracky and ambient, but at least thou canst hear guitar on every song if that's any consolation. This we have done in order to lick the arses of people who like Lovecraft but do not like "metal". Can such a combination exist? Discuss.
Anyway...to paraphrase Abraham Lincoln: people who like this sort of thing will probably find this the sort of thing they like.

2) This year of Our Lady 3176 should see a number of releases featuring Aarni: Lovecraftian is currently slated for Autumn, while a certain Cthulhoid feature album ought to come out much sooner. Also a split release is possibly in the works. More of these once we get clearer dream transmissions.

Rant:

3) Some readers may have noticed Aarni's recent tendency to use the second person singular pronoun of the English language in communications. A quaint archaism in order to come across as posh, or something more nefarious like an indication of a demented decision to start making "beauty-and-the-beast" chart metal?
Neither, we can assure thee! It's just because our Sirian overlords told us to do so and also because it seems exceeding strange to us that alone(?) amongst Western and Eastern languages, English should have dropped such an important personal pronoun and its verb endings from common usage. While we know the historical excuses for this travesty, it seems unbecoming of a so-called civilised modern tongue to be unable to make distinctions between the singular and the plural. English grammar and syntax have been dumbed down enough from its roots without this additional silliness. To avoid confusion we think one ought only say "you" when addressing more than one individual and not as a sort of impolite (implying distance between the speakers) politeness. Now dost thou see why Aarni has embraced this practice?

Moving on to the usual commercial items:

4) Probably still some of those fashionable Aarni t-shirts left in Epidemie Records' webstore, so go get one and cover up thy blasphemous nakedness if thou wilt.

5) A few autographed Rising Of Yog-Sothoth: Tribute to Thergothon 2CD's available from us for a measly 8 euros inside the EU; 10 euros for the rest of this noisome planet. Costs include shipping via Air Mail. As an added tr00 d00m feature, the double album comes in a standard CD jewel case.

6) Shouldst thou feel the urge, Omnimantia EP, the Double Demo and the Aarni/Umbra Nihil split album can still be purchased via the Aarni webshite. As a bonus we can on demand even throw in one or several unreleased Aarni hit songs. Previous full legths Bathos (remastered) and Tohcoth available as mp3 albums from The Ground and as plain old CDs from Firebox and Epidemie Records and their distributors.

Non necat gutta,
Magister Warjomaa

a parità con i nightwish però.