Track Listings (7) - Disc #1| All Artists: The Body Title: All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: At A Loss Original Release Date: 1/1/2010 Re-Release Date: 7/27/2010 Album Type: Import Genre: Metal Style: Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 616822094327 |
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Product Description be prepared to look beyond the realms of traditional doom, or of conventional heaviness, because The Body are anything but traditional or conventional, and All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To Blood just might be the coolest, weirdest, most original doom record EVER. - Aquarius Records For 10 years the rumors have slowly spread from the Mid-South through the New England region of the United States of a group, known as THE BODY, declaring war on all they consider FALSE; through rituals involving solid state amplification and jolting percussion. Their latest addition to the arsenal against the contrived is All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To Blood. The duo has allied itself with the Assembly of Light Choir and members of bands as varied as Bonedust, Callers, Dead Times, Fang Island, Human Beast, Lichens, Made In Mexico, Otesanek, Trtrkmmr, What Cheer Brigade, & Work/Death on their latest. The opener sets the mood for the album. The beautiful and haunting sounds of the Assembly of Light choir kick off for almost seven minutes then breaks into the full force low end ugliness all the while the choir continues to harmonize along with it (a repeating theme on the album). Soundscapes (post-rock, noise drenched, percussive based, loops) form with baritone saxophone, sousaphone, guitar, piano, keyboards, moog, and more, mixed with THE BODY's typical stripped down live arsenal of drums, guitars, and vocals. A post-rock interlude leads to pounding distortion and inhuman wails. Songs drop in and out going from quieter moments of drum machine fueled rhythms with looped audio tracks to full out p*ssed off dirge. Finally closing the album is the 14-minute "Lathspell I Name You." Slow heavy builds lead to distorted chaos. Distorted chaos drops back to heavy builds. All of it drops out and leads to multi percussive blows with hints of noise always on top leading to Dubin-style screams with haunting harmonies and crashing cymbals. The story is about to end and it isn't going to be pretty. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsHard Colin Creitz | Silicon Valley, CA, USA | 08/12/2010 (5 out of 5 stars) ""All the Waters" is a difficult, rewarding extreme metal album. It's tempting to think of it as sampling the same zeitgeist as last year's Sunn O))) album "Monoliths and Dimensions" - like that album, "All the Waters" features a cast of dozens of musicians, giving it a "chamber metal" texture. But where "Monoliths" explored idioms from outside of the broad category of metal, with a particular emphasis on blues and jazz, "Waters" instead chooses to play with an expanded metal vocabulary. The looped sample, computer manipulations, and processed/synthy drums powerfully evoke and expand on Ministry's industrial metal work of the "Land of Rape and Honey"/"Psalm 69" era, and the distant, screeched, vocal performances and slightly clippy sound nod to black metal influences. And floating above the rocky base the genre's usual downtuned, droning guitars, there's the play of the sounds of an ethereal vocal chorus, didgeridoos, low brass, and electronic sounds, all crashing together with tectonic force.
This is the state of the art in metal slashism, a black/doom/industrial/chamber metal record, and will reward patient relistening with fresh frissons of dread and sonic vertigo. Highly recommended, it's the best album of 2010 so far. Track picks: "Empty Hearth", "Even the Saints Knew Their Hour of Faith and Loss"" |
