Heute in der Zukunft (also später 😄): #NNMM 🖤 🖤 🖤

Hab gehört, es gibt noch viele Tickets.

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Abhorrent Expanse – Enter the Misanthropocene Review

By Dear Hollow

How experimental is too experimental? That’s the question Chicago’s Abhorrent Expanse posits. It’s clear from the title: Enter the Misanthropocene enters to play jazz and fuck shit up, and “Bitches Brew” is on its final notes. When the Lord of the Promo Pit designated the quartet as “death-drone,” I was intrigued and gobbled up rights. It was clear from the jump that Abhorrent Expanse was not the death metal act with a mammoth guitar tone I had hoped, but an improvisational free jazz quartet that decides to do extreme metal sometimes, with death metal, grindcore, and, yes, drone metal making short-lived appearances. Pushing the boundary between extreme lofty experimentation and outright nonsense, Enter the Misanthropocene is a sophomore effort that will take you to an abstract and uncompromising world – or straight to the medicine cabinet for an aspirin.

Abhorrent Expanse has a solid lineup, including caliber from Zebulon Pike, Celestiial, Obsequiae, and The Blight – even if its sound feels entirely convoluted. Following the controversial debut Gateways to Resplendence, Enter the Misanthropocene is largely the same, but its scope is larger, significantly reducing its drone content in favor of jazzy noodling, grind intensity, sprawling ambiance, and deconstructed death metal jaggedness. The drone that exists within is a short-lived sprawl that pops up periodically, giving a more abstract feel than its predecessor’s “dissodeath meeting drone metal in a dark alley behind the Kmart” vibe. Forty-eight minutes of whiplash-inducing tonal and tempo shifts, off-key twanging, random stoner sprawls, and an undeserved love for improv awaits – and I need a nap.

Say it with me: improv is bad. I get the whole avant-garde approach that John Zorn would drool over, that an improvised performance is a “never see it the same way twice” kind of deal, but that doesn’t mean it’s good. As we’ve seen with typically good bands like Neptunian Maximalism or Bunsenburner, relying on group chemistry instead of thoughtful songwriting to create a singular experience hardly pans out – and Enter the Misanthropocene is no exception. Moments of avant-garde clarity in which the instruments align shine in the twitching obscure grind (title track, “Assail the Density Matrix,” “Dissonant Aggressors”), short-lived minimalist drone (“Praise for Chaos,” “Dissonant Aggressors,” “Ascension Symptom Acceleration”), haunting ritualism (“Waves of Graves”), and ambient calm (“Kairos”). Death growls are sparse. Enter the Misanthropocene is so free jazz and avant-garde it forcibly drags nonconsenting listeners into what seems like obscenely high art…

…Or incompetent musicianship. Much of Abhorrent Expanse’s sound is rooted in utter nonsense, and one that often gets played really fast. While there’s certainly artistic discomfort aplenty to be found on this record, in which I can see some merit (“Waves of Graves,” “Drenched Onyx”), these are scattered moments among what sound like the plonks and twunks of a novice fiddling with a new guitar at Guitar Center. Atonal noodling and off-beat drumming accounts for the majority of its forty-eight minute runtime, sounding entirely random. The drone-doom moments feel off-beat and misaligned (“Praise for Chaos”), some ambient moments are so subtle and minimalist that they just cover John Cage’s 4’33” for a bit before eventually becoming audible (“Nephilim Disinterred”), and by the end of the ten-minute closer “Prostrate Before Chthonic Devourment” you might feel like you’ve been through a prostrate exam.

The promotion around Abhorrent Expanse relies on similarities to dissonant acts like Portal and Imperial Triumphant – but in order to do that, they’d actually have to write some songs first. Gateways to Resplendence was challenging and avant-garde but anchored to a respectable degree; Enter the Misanthropocene is a leaf on the wind, being blown by one avant-garde gust to another with no semblance of gravity to save it. Its high-art status is a divisive issue, as the directionless noodling can be seen as either a challenging piece of art or four dudes who don’t know how to play their instruments. But isn’t that the nature of art itself? Abhorrent Expanse holds a mirror to art itself, making us question what is drivel and what is erudite – through the improvised off-key noodling of someone who has arguably never picked up a guitar before.

Rating: 1.0/5.0
DR: 9 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: Amalgam Music
Websites: abhorrentexpanse.bandcamp.com
Releases Worldwide: August 15th, 2025

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#LeSacreDuSoleilInvaincu
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Gracias a las fantásticas novedades de #Bandcamp, me encuentro con el genial #nuevodisco de queridos y viejos amigos

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Ja sitten se toinen tuore julkaisu, eli Neptunian Maximalismin Le Sacre Du Soleil Invaincu, prameassa kolmen lätyn laatikossa, oheispaidalla tietenkin. Aivan heittämällä upein uusi bändilöytö viimeisen viiden vuoden ajalta; tyylinä jotakin dronen, doomin, etnon ja jazzin välimaastosta, eli erikoismusalinjalla mennään vahvasti (joskin yhtyeen baritonisaksofonistin ollessa tauolla jazzin osuus on tällä julkaisulla mielestäni huomattavasti vähäisempi). Täydet suositukset.

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Nightflight: Neptunian Maximalism 𓁹♆𓁹 Raag Raudra Todi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYZLkCFAup0

Das neue Album „Le Sacre Du Soleil Invaincu (LSDSI)“ von NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM, das 2023 in der Kirche St John’s on Bethnal Green in London für das Judgment Hall Festival aufgenommen und von James Plotkin fachmännisch gemastert wurde, ist eine monumentale Reise, die eine transformative Erfahrung in den Mauern der Kirche einfängt und Architektur, Energie und Klang dank einer hypnotischen Mischung aus verstärkten Drones, klassischer indischer Musik und roher spiritueller Energie verschmelzen lässt.

Der Hörer wird auf ein beruhigendes, langsames Abdriften in eine neblige Dämmerung mitgenommen, wo hypnotisierende Melodien mit dem Schock schwerer, aber schimmernder Drones verschmelzen. Aus einem schwarzen Loch auftauchend, kündigen die düsteren Glocken der Surbahar eine bedrohliche Reise in eine Nacht an, die vom Zorn kämpfender Geister heimgesucht wird, wo unerbittliche Kriegstrommeln gewaltsam gegen vampirische Gitarrenleads kämpfen und sich schließlich in einem schleichenden Groove auflösen.

Es ist ein barmherziges Lamento mit immerwährenden Noten voller Liebe und Gnade, das den Zyklus bis zu seinem Ende begleitet.

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I will play at Le Botanique, Brussels, April 9, with Neptunian Maximalism. The first part of the concert will be a reunion of the original band. In the second, we’ll be playing tracks from our new album, devoted to a rendition of an Indian raga in drone metal mode.
https://botanique.be/en/concert/neptunian-maximalism-2025

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