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I
may
be the only one to think that the freaky sounding
psychedelic guitar in this album recalls Peter
Frampton’s 70’ s vocoder indulgences, but through the
seven and a half minutes that it takes for the first
track to get over its Star Wars laser shooting blackness
I could not shake the chorus of “Show Me the Way” off my
head. I kid you not, not sure what these muchachos
endiablados were doing, but whatever that crashing sound
is, it sure sounds like laser swords clashing in a
clanky 70’s sci fi air space. It’s a wicked aura that
Mexican underground duo Funereal Moon produces,
distorted and smeared not only by a lo fi crappy
recording, but also by the rudimentary nature of bedroom
claustrophobia. The whole thing is washed by background
grunts and an electric guitar played with
mongoloid-level skill. Now that I think about it, this
is kind of cool.
Funereal
Moon are a Mexico City based ambient/experimental black metal
group. The album in question includes four new songs recorded in
2007 and five tracks taken from their 1996 Grim Evil EP.
The song that I reference in the first paragraph is “The Last
Prophecy” and it belongs to their newest material. Their noise
is very much in the vein of Blut Aus Nord, where heaviness – and
to a degree proper playing - is implicit and eerie sounds
effectively reflect the band’s perverse ideas.
The five
songs from the Grim Evil EP underline an interesting
point; these cabrones malparidos were as fucked up a decade ago
as they are now. Funereal Moon didn’t just jump into the weirdo
train. “Witchery” is strange; it may be an intro but it may just
be Funereal Moon being their bizarre selves. The vocals sound
like an old troll reciting a prayer with a mouthful of cake.
Randomly, drums shoot off for about three seconds only to
disappear. No guitars in sight. The four tracks that follow
reveal a band with both a lo fi straight forward black metal
style; “Obscure Dominion” is straight up normal, a fuzzed up
razor sharp average 80’s guitar sound with gargling vocals, but
more interesting is “The Lust”, a pornographic venture into
ambient black metal via moans, groans and morose organ. Nope,
not that organ.
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