... a la Celtic Frost - "Danse Macabre" or Sarcofago - "Recrucify"
Who started this trend? And does it crop up anywhere outside of BM (&, subsequently, doom)?
― bernard snowy, Sunday, 27 July 2014 16:10 (eleven years ago)
"Triumph of Death" is another early one that comes pretty close to what I'm describing here, despite including some more 'conventional' passages
― bernard snowy, Sunday, 27 July 2014 16:12 (eleven years ago)
dunno about the unmarked time part, but Beherit are the kings of this, since they mix their vocals SO LOUD over the music
as for the timing part, I guess Abruptum's "free improv noise" bm might be relevant here?
― the tune was space, Sunday, 27 July 2014 16:38 (eleven years ago)
How about this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB68Te4v4Ys
― ultros ultros-ghali, Sunday, 27 July 2014 17:25 (eleven years ago)
Origins: Ramayana monkey chant? Stravinsky's Les Noces? The Uruk-hai music from the fellowship of the ring OST?
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 27 July 2014 18:19 (eleven years ago)
that Kayo Dot is in the right general neighborhood, but the vocals seem more "recitative" than "expressive"—I'm looking for real scenery-chewing stuff... regardless of whether he turns out to be the originator, Tom Warrior is definitely the gold standard here
― bernard snowy, Sunday, 27 July 2014 18:32 (eleven years ago)
Should maybe clarify that I am not expecting to find entire albums full of this trope (again, that would be doom), but the short interludes (separate track or not) where it seems like the singer told the drummer, Hey, just play some slow tom-rolls & cymbal swells & follow my lead
― bernard snowy, Sunday, 27 July 2014 18:42 (eleven years ago)
Trelldon
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 07:41 (eleven years ago)
Trelldom that is. Scenery chewing is what Gaahl does.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 07:42 (eleven years ago)
Belketre - "Hate". Hard to even classify this as singing, but black and minimal it is. Especially black
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh1A93c-Qog
― Dominique, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 04:07 (eleven years ago)
Metal is kinda debatable here - they sound like they're wandering in a weird zone between jazz, prog and outright free noodling - but I would guess this was almost definitely the result of hearing Celtic Frost's "Danse Macabre."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXHu_Ev0d3E
― oblique blasphemies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 07:47 (eleven years ago)
Belketre are one of my favourite recent discoveries.
― i'm elf-ein lusophonic (imago), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 08:40 (eleven years ago)
Did Moëvöt have vocals? It's been at least five years since I listened to them. But Les Legions Noires are kinda up in this "style"...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFpccqBlyrI
― oblique blasphemies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 08:59 (eleven years ago)
Necromantia is on the busier side, musically, but definitely acceptable to these ears in its open-ended structure & its use of diabolical cackling
― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 21:08 (eleven years ago)
Belketre, "Hate" = more or less on-target, although songs with *multiple* sources of grunting/groaning/screaming overlaid eventually take on a different character--less focused, more atmospheric (I know "Danse Macabre" does this as well, & that's one reason why I decided to change the thread title from "Black metal songs dominated by a vocalist emoting in unmarked time &c")
― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 21:22 (eleven years ago)