thraed of mesarthim

idk, feel like they need their own thread at this point. new album is... their best yet? it's hard to tell https://mesarthim.bandcamp.com/album/the-density-parameter

thank you for reminding me I still need to spend some serious time w/ this album

i think spottie would love this band if he hasn't heard them yet

there's a new one! always feels like a little present from the heavens

https://mesarthim.bandcamp.com/album/coma-wall-e-p

lmao this is so fucking fantastic

no morse code surprise this time? or would the ticking in the beginning mean something?

Mesarthim has changed their profile picture on March 12th...

https://www.facebook.com/mesarthim.official/

I don't get the significance

they're still active + maybe there's something new on the way?

That new logo (here as well: https://mesarthim.bandcamp.com/ ) must mean something (they previous clues & the secret album were all morse code) though: there are lines missing, the number of dashes... But what?
Maybe they're telling us where to look for something? Maybe it's a release date?

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/0015864387_10.jpg

https://mesarthim.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-condensate !

omg I just finished listening to the Drab Majesty song again, what an awesome segue

GHOST CONDENSATE

hell yes

second half of this, at least at work which is the worst place for paying attention to music, seemed WONDERFUL

Jeff Treppel just now raving about it on Twitter. Clearly a sign.

They're one of the first four acts in Bandcamp's vinyl pressing program:

https://mesarthim.bandcamp.com/campaign/ghost-condensate

i'm pledging! hell yeah

whoever they are they were very sweet and thoughtful interview subjects (through email lol)

alas the Cdn shipping is bound to be brutal, doesn't seem like it's going to have much trouble hitting the goal anyway

would get the great filter/type iii on vinyl in a heartbeat, this needs more listens

pledged! got the poster, too. :)

i would love to know what scott seward and/or Siegbran make of this music

Yeah this new one is good stuff.

Since lhotr.org, the original url that was hidden in the morse code at the end of The Density Parameter doesn't work anymore, I guess we can talk about it?

It sent you to this, which they seemingly uploaded in 2016 - https://lhotr.bandcamp.com/releases

And it's great! In an early Mesarthim kinda way (you immediately hear it's them but also how much they've evolved since then)

https://mesarthim.bandcamp.com/album/the-degenerate-era

aw damn I wish brad was here for this

Listening! Already sounds more...terrestrial than their usual output. Intriguing!

yes there are riffs that do not sound beamed in from another dimension

not sure I like it tbh

yeah, it's the same, but different

Nothing against these guys but I have no idea why they deserve their own thread ahead of worthier active metal bands such as [redacted].

They're kind of sui generis?

xpost I didn't know you liked https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Redacted/3540391300

hmm, the latest track has turned into a slightly underwhelming remix of the end of The Great Filter

Their forays into mid 90s symphonic trance kitsch kinda ruin the stately cosmic mood for me and their Heroes of Might Magic III synth lines are often too crude and winky to be thoroughly hYpNoTiC. If we're sticking to the same astronomical turf, I prefer Progenie Terrestre Pura.

Anyway, I usually like their stuff well enough while it's playing so I'm a graysayer more than a naysayer.

oooh, morse code at the end again.

.--. .-.. .- -. . - / -. .. -. . / -.. . - . -.-. - . -..

I feel like they may sound different because they're using different recording software or microphones or something but the music is pretty much as great as ever imho

another one!!

https://mesarthim.bandcamp.com/album/planet-nine-e-p

!!!!!

they're evolving/playing with their own format a bit + some of the riffs are variations from earlier songs. I still love it though

I think I prefer this to the new full-length

me too

https://mesarthim.bandcamp.com/album/vacuum-solution-e-p

the first song is... are they taking a shot at the charts?

MUSEarthim amirite

Starting the campaign for next year's Eurovision slot.

this is Chapter 1 of Phase 2 according to their facebook post - was Phase 1 "showing metal fans that dance music exists" and Phase 2 is maybe the other direction?

https://mesarthim.bandcamp.com/album/clg-j02182-05102

and again, it's something fascinating to do with cosmology - https://astronomy.com/magazine/weirdest-objects/2015/08/18-galaxy-cluster-clg-j02182-05102

woooooo!

https://mesarthim.bandcamp.com/album/anthropic-bias-single

there's morse code at 41 & 54 seconds but I'm too stupid to get it (HEETU and HEAU ?)

and 30 seconds from the end there's ARRIVAL

... which turns out is going to be the next album

https://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/arrival

the cover image was only released days ago - https://in.mashable.com/science/48554/nasas-hubble-space-telescope-captures-awe-inspiring-view-of-lagoon-nebula-4000-light-years-away

... what are we supposed to do with the morse information this time? (it's an old Russian camera)

I love this band and the new one is just as cosmic as expected though some of the heavier parts makes its way into Deafheaven's transitional stuff, kinda.

I’ve been playing this pretty much nonstop and I absolutely love it. My favourite is ‘Arrival Pt 6’. Does anyone know what the Morse code spells out? By the way, I love the Morse code breakdown in that song!

FYI for anyone wondering: it's after 58 seconds (and again a bit later in the track) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ta-lfOmDmQ

the beep beep beep morse code is KONVAS AVTOMAT, the camera used to make the first images of Earth from outer space

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konvas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gherman_Titov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_2

but what are the guitars doing? are they playing another morse code at the same time?

I think they’re doing a breakdown to the rhythm of the Morse Code itself. Note that the guitars even ‘stutter’ (through delay/programming) to keep in time with the beeps.

I absolutely love it though. Thanks for translating it, by the way.

posted 17 weeks ago and now I find out: they're playing live in London in September

https://www.instagram.com/mesarthim.official/p/C2M2Sb4JxzG/

https://mesarthim.bandcamp.com/album/departure-single

It's pretty good!

so I'm at the first non-festival show Austere is going to do, and I'm wearing my Mesarthim shirt. I buy the two exclusive Austere shirts and it's Tim! He points at me and goes: nice shirt!

... I still don't know if they're Mesarthim and I can't go to London next weekend. Damn.

I should go ask, shouldn't I

Rather!

my chance may have gone, it's no longer them at the merch stand

so yeah, I didn't get another chance - the show was great and the fact that he pointed out my shirt was suspicious enough :)

They did their first live show today ... we still don't know who they are, then.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackMetal/comments/1fgnhqm/mesarthims_live_debut/

and this is what they played: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/mesarthim/2024/electric-ballroom-london-england-b5571aa.html

wooooot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=647hQRFko9s

yeah, I'd say that drummer is about as talented and enthusiastic as Tim Yatras from Austere :-)

no idea about the other members though

facepalm - the singer (with the beard) is Paulo Bruno from Thy Light, imho

so, in short, my bet is that Mesarthim is Paulo & Tim :-)

ok, scrap that, the drummer isn't Tim, he doesn't have a beard. Singer is still Paulo from Thy Light though

Conclusion: they’re all clones

that would make even more sense than my theory

10 year anniversary edition of Isolate on vinyl called Isolate X with a second LP, Mesarthim tracks covered by labelmates like Germ, Midnight Odyssey, Mare Cognitum:

https://www.facebook.com/avantgardemusiclabel/posts/pfbid02DWuX8SJDS9RB1fuUQdD2f7u9gjkXaPzJMkdxocesRDQu8srCpECCDNyHWHEkFKqRl

several of the covers on Avantgarde's YT channel