ENDLESS DISMAL MOAN - Lord of Nightmare Reissue
Hessian Firm
I am not a fan of Japanese Black Metal. Now I've got a couple of SIGH CDs but overall I saw them as being weird just for the sake of it. ENDLESS DISMAL MOAN from Japan were not weird. The past tense is important because this one man Japanese Black Metal band, the one man being Chaos 9 (aka: Takuya Tsutsui) is dead. He killed himself in 2008 using a gun. So much for those strict gun laws in Japan. Pictured below is what he looked like.
My first thought while listening to this was imagine Kabooki theater meets Wes Craven. In other words the whole atmosphere Chaos 9 produced on this his debut full length from 2006 is horrific. The tremolo picked riffs are savage as well icy cold and cruel. There's keyboards which add in a symphonic element. The drum work is actually programmed which surprised me because they sound organic. Finally Chaos 9's vocals are a cross between a the shrieks of banshee and a blood curdling vampire bat / human hybrid.
This is a sickening six song release that will have you liking every second of it while the music destroys your mind or it will be something fun to play to piss off friends or neighbors. I'd choose the latter always because my neighbors are assholes especially the one right nextdoor. Otherwise this is not something that would fit in my wheelhouse.
But if you're a fan of Japanese Extreme Music then this is a second chance to pick something up by an artist who unfortunately decided to take his own life a few years after it was originally released. You might even consider this a masterpiece. Nuff Said!
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LISTEN HERE:
https://endlessdismalmoan.bandcamp.com/album/lord-of-nightmare
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