The harrowing quality of these passages was enhanced through a kind of call-and-response exchange between two vocalists - one with a frighteningly massive roar, as deep as oceanic trenches, and the other who sounded like a soldier undergoing a battlefield amputation without anesthesia. Predominantly, they generated an explosive sense of utter destruction through blast waves of highly distorted roaring noise. On Archaeaeon, they created utterly riveting and viscerally powerful atmospheres in two ways. The frequently martial air of the drumming (and even the riffing) is part of the explanation, but the music also captures what I imagine to be the chaos and frightening destruction of a brutally mechanized battlefield. They have taken death metal to places where it has rarely been - unusually violent, ugly places.Īs I perceive it, Mitochondrion is 100% devoted to the creation of atmosphere. Mitochondrion’s music is often labeled “war metal” (definitely not to be confused with pagan “battle metal”), and I can understand why. (more after the jump, including the second piece of art and Mitochondrion music. I came to Archaeaeon much later, and found it equally compelling, though different in some respects from Parasignosis. I first discovered Mitochondrion through their second album, Parasignosis, which got a Profound Lore release in January of last year. Of course, I still don’t own a turntable, but I think just about any news concerning Mitochondrion is worth repeating, perhaps especially when the news concerns Archaeaeon. According to the band, this special vinyl release will include the full lyrics in proper order, song descriptions, lyrical meanings, and a brief history of the album.Īrchaeaeon was originally self-released by the band, but Dark Descent picked it up last August for re-issue as a CD, following a re-master of the music by Colin Marston ( Krallice, Dysrhythmia, Behold… The Arctopus), and now we’ll have the vinyl. He created it for a new double-LP version of Mitochondrion’s 2008 debut album, Archaeaeon, which will be released by Dark Descent Records. The artwork above was created by Jeremy Hannigan (who’s also the vocalist of the doom band Funeral Circle). Over the last few days I saw two pieces of art that caught my attention, in part because the art is great and in part because both pieces relate to Mitochondrion, whose music has left wounds all over me that won’t heal.
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