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:Mastery - Barbaric Usurpation Of The Hypereonic Black Metal Throne :
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: Rip Date....: 2013-12-23 :
: Store Date..: 2011-06-00 :
: Artist......: Mastery :
: Album.......: Barbaric Usurpation Of The Hypereonic Black Metal :
: Label.......: tUMULt :
: Genre.......: Black Metal :
: Cat. number.: None :
: Website.....: http://www.tumult.net :
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: Source...: CD :
: Encoder..: LAME 3.98.4 with preset V0 :
: Quality..: 249kbps / Joint Stereo :
: Tracks...: 13 :
: Size.....: 221.64Mb :
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: How can you resist a hyperbolically boastful black metal :
: title like Barbaric Usurpation Of The Hypereonic Black Metal :
: Throne? tUMULt continues to dig deep into the Bay Area black :
: metal underground, after introducing the rest of the world to :
: such USBM luminaries as Weakling, Leviathan, Draugar and :
: Crebain, now prepare yourself to bow before the mighty Mastery. :
: Another one man band, known (not so) simply as Domignostika, :
: who also does time as vocalist in local corpse painted horde :
: Pale Chalice, as well as being the one man behind the only REAL :
: one man black metal band (as in he plays guitar and sings while :
: playing blast beats with his feet) Pandiscordian Necrogenesis, :
: and who had previously played bass and sung for the late great :
: Horn Of Dagoth (which also featured members of Crebain and :
: Kerasphorus), Mastery is Domignostika's long running project, :
: which over the last six years released 5 extremely limited cd-r :
: demos, all of which are collected here, remastered, and widely :
: available outside of the Bay Area for the very first time. :
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: Barbaric Usurpation Of The Hypereonic Black Metal Throne? A :
: serious claim of musical supremacy? A tongue in cheek poke at :
: the constant battle for supreme grimness and kvltness, or :
: taking the piss? Hard to tell, but considering the sheer :
: brutality and relentless buzz of Mastery's frenzied black :
: onslaught, we're leaning toward that title being a serious :
: claim. After a strange, ambient intro, a sort of John :
: Carpenter-ish bit of creeped out synthscapery, Mastery launches :
: into the most recent demo, from 2009, the simply titled 'I' :
: (all the tracks here a confusionally titled with Roman :
: numerals), a frantic, frenzied freak out of swirling chaotic :
: black buzz, a sound that at first blush sounds like some :
: bastard hybrid of Inquisition and Vondur and Ocrilim. Six plus :
: minutes of relentless gnarled buzzing, the vocals a sinister :
: beastly croak, the drums a furious buried blast, but it's the :
: guitars, insanely tangled and twisted, not so much riffs as a :
: continuous serious of constantly mutating rapidfire runs, with :
: much of the 'riffing' sounding more like multiple guitars :
: maniacally soloing, spitting off pick harmonics and jagged :
: squeals without ever looking back. Minus the drums and the :
: vokills, this could definitely be some sort of avant :
: experimental guitar record, but as it is, it becomes a demented :
: slab of blurred, blown out, frenzied and fucked up black metal :
: weirdness. The second track is way heavier on the low end, but :
: no less flipped out, the riffing impossibly hyper, once again a :
: swirling chaos of gnarled blackness and nearly psychedelic :
: abstract avant shreddery. Mastery is total berzerker black :
: metal, rooted in the tradition of true grim blackness, but :
: filtered through Mastery's cracked perception, transforming :
: this into something beyond true, a droned out and damaged, :
: outsider blackness, that sounds pretty much unlike almost any :
: other black metal. Sure on the surface, it's blast and buzz, :
: but as you sink into these extended black sprawls, the songs :
: seem to unfold, and expand, buzzing blackness that blossoms :
: into something wholly other, in such a way, that one has to :
: fight the urge to try and figure out how these songs work, or :
: how they're arranged, they sound almost improvised, but they're :
: impossibly dense, and the arrangement, however esoteric, seems :
: to be structured, but in some way that out pitiful human brains :
: can not hope to comprehend. :
: :
: Of course the newest demo is the most polished, but the older :
: demos, for what they lack in polish, they seem to make up for :
: in sheer whatthefuckness, demo four is another series of black :
: blasts that twist and turn, and mutate before your ears, a :
: glancing listen will reveal some of THEE fastest and most :
: furious BM you may have heard, but again, the riffs seem to be :
: constantly twisting and turning, the vocals to, hateful and :
: harsh as befitting BM, but also completely baffling and utterly :
: alien. But demo 3, a single 33 minute epic is something else :
: entirely, with much of the record being made up of glitched :
: out, harrowing black ambience, crunchy and distorted, with :
: howled raspy vox, when the guitar do kick in, the buzz and :
: drone, with the drums sounding almost electronic, looped way :
: down in the mix, the sound weirdly hypnotic, before slipping :
: into something slightly more black, and then back into some :
: creepy ambience, before launching into a long stretch of blown :
: out black majesty, which like much of the record, as much to :
: offer upon deep listening, revealing all manner of hidden :
: melody, lush textures, and most notably some strange strange :
: riffs, this track in particular, though adding a super :
: mesmerizing trancelike element, which is in fact present :
: throughout all the demos, in lesser measure. :
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: The second disc is made up of the first two demos, and thus :
: finds Mastery at their (his?) most traditionally black metal, :
: but again, it's all relative, so while much of this disc is :
: spent chugging and blasting, raw and grim, all brittle buzz and :
: brutal blast, the twisted sounds that would come to define :
: Mastery's baffling sound begin to surface, strange gnarled :
: riffs, some cool drum/guitar interplay, plenty of wild tangled :
: squiggle guitar weirdness (especially on the first track of :
: demo 2), which mixes in maniacally shredding guitars with more :
: of that tranced/droned out atmosphere, not to mention some of :
: the most anguished vokills yet, the whole collection finishing :
: with the downright doomy final track from the second demo, a :
: crumbling super distorted death march, with somehow even MORE :
: anguished vocals, a woozy, washed out, blackened plod, that :
: explodes in the final two minutes for one final burst of :
: blasting, maniacal, demoniac blackness. :
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: CD 1/2 : :
: 1. Demo 5 - Intro 1:24 :
: 2. Demo 5 - I 6:30 :
: 3. Demo 5 - II 6:29 :
: 4. Demo 5 - Outro 0:25 :
: 5. Demo 4 - I 1:54 :
: 6. Demo 4 - II 4:37 :
: 7. Demo 3 - I 32:51 :
: CD 2/2 : :
: 1. Demo 2 - I 15:13 :
: 2. Demo 1 - I 19:36 :
: 3. Demo 1 - II 4:03 :
: 4. Demo 1 - III 5:36 :
: 5. Demo 2 - II 8:40 :
: 6. Demo 2 - III 8:48 :
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