One Starving Day - Atlas Coelestis CD
- Artist: One Starving Day
- label: Beta-lactam Ring Records
- Year: 2010
- Format: CD
- availability:
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Description
To be issued in a custom designed full color book bound sleeve as an ed. of 500 copies.
In the celestial map of metal, there is, of course, a Big Dipper (Metallica),; but there is also the rare and mysterious Scutum (One Starving Day). OSD?s obscure place in the Heavens makes for an interesting study. Almost a sort of Metal-In-Opposition, OSD?s progressive/avant-garde tactics pit the glottal plosives of black metal against cosmic atmospherics. The star compound thus formed exhibits some characteristics of the martial brutality of early Swans, with the cinematic aromas of Mogwai, suspended in an Arcturus/Isis matrix. Rasped vocals make appearances throughout, but only at intervals against beds of spacey electronics, pummeling guitars, tribal thunder, swelling strings, free-from freak-outs and minimalist drones. Which, maybe, doesn?t really make it metal after all - just a unique and visceral spectral explosion at the edge of the galaxy.
