| 1. Birth |
| 2. Waterhells |
| 3. Drown Symphony |
| 4. Into the Underwhirls |
| 5. The Bleeding Lap of Undines |
| 6. Blue Thrones |
| 7. All Statues Leave Their Stones |
| 8. It's A Fool's World |
| 9. Old Golden Blizzard |
| 10. Within the Sunstorm |
| 11. Through Neptune's Broken Nets |
Editorial Reviews
Product Description
The Concept draws a weird Journey beyond the Shores of Time. Six sunken Fishermen have angled the Waves of the Great Sea into the Crystal Dams of this CD. Extreme avante-Black Metal! A trip into new metal! Beyond all bridges . ...a man awakes drifting in the nowhere of the sea. all thoughts erased in shapeless moments. no memories of anything shadow his mists. all horizons are crammed with water, but not a drop to drink. no future or past, no ships or islands are touching the edge of the sea. wherever he watches and however he moves, there are just endless waves and skies and this heavy pulling downwards. after untimes of drifting without ever stranding a silent swarm of unreal voices slowly ascends. all around they rise and nowhere. from all shielded angles they murmur their call. the fevers grow louder and suddenly he realizes that they whisper his name from deep below - and there he sinks and sinks... THE MIGHTIEST AVALANCHE OF THE ALPS WILL RAM YOUR STEREOS SOON!
I can't really say I can think of a single Korova/Korovakill song I've ever heard that I liked the first several times I heard it, but somehow they strangely seem to stick with me and grow on me until the albums stay at the top of my list of favorite CD's.
The only comparison I can draw to this band would be to Voivod- experimental, avant-garde extreme heavy metal concept albums with odd stream-of-consciousness lyrics telling strange and often indecipherable stories bordering somewhere between apocolyptic science-fiction and cryptic fairy tales. Often the music on this album would be familiar to fans of Emperor or Mayhem, but there are some very strange atmospheric and electronic parts all through it leaving this band in its own dimension.
A bit of warning... the vocals are likely to give many listeners unfamiliar with this band or Korova a bit of trouble... along with the familiar death and black metal shrieks and growls come "clear" vocals and "spoken passages" that are delivered in a sort of voice that might be delivered by a hysterical madman through an accent so thick you could break it down with a chisel and hammer and build an imposing and impenetrable Transylvanian castle from it- my first reaction was "what the HELL is THAT?", followed by a smirk and a chuckle as I started to reach for the skip button, before it began sounding rather eerie and my skin began to crawl... as I said before, these guys take some getting used to....
If you end up liking this, I might also recommend Korova "Dead Like an Angel" (essentially the same band, similar sound, but a bit more electronic and less easy to describe), Voivod ("Killing Technology", "Nothingface", "The Outer Limits", and many others... Voivod was among the earlier thrash metal bands, probably an important influence on death metal, and similarly hard to classify and "get into"- not too much else sounds quite like them....), and Madder Mortem ("Mercury", "Deadlands"... an aggressive Norwegian band with a female vocalist that, for a change, doesn't sound like an opera singer. Madder Mortem, like Korova, play a style of music that is hard to pigeonhole easily. These two bands might be thought of as "Not Gothic Metal", an attempt to co-exist in the same space as that tired and formulaic subgenre while relying on as few Gothic Metal cliche's as possible- or at least twisting them so far out of the original familiar shape that they actually sound fresh for the first time in a decade or more! For the most part, I think they succeed nicely.)
The Concept draws a weird Journey beyond the Shores of Time. Six sunken Fishermen have angled the Waves of the Great Sea into the Crystal Dams of this CD. Extreme avante-Black Metal! A trip into new metal! Beyond all bridges . ...a man awakes drifting in the nowhere of the sea. all thoughts erased in shapeless moments. no memories of anything shadow his mists. all horizons are crammed with water, but not a drop to drink. no future or past, no ships or islands are touching the edge of the sea. wherever he watches and however he moves, there are just endless waves and skies and this heavy pulling downwards. after untimes of drifting without ever stranding a silent swarm of unreal voices slowly ascends. all around they rise and nowhere. from all shielded angles they murmur their call. the fevers grow louder and suddenly he realizes that they whisper his name from deep below - and there he sinks and sinks... THE MIGHTIEST AVALANCHE OF THE ALPS WILL RAM YOUR STEREOS SOON!
Waterhells,KorovaKill
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ASIN: B00005AK9X Release Date: 2001-02-14 |
Tracks:
- Birth
- Waterhells
- Drown Symphony
- Into the Underwhirls
- The Bleeding Lap of Undines
- Blue Thrones
- All Statues Leave Their Stones
- It's A Fool's World
- Old Golden Blizzard
- Within the Sunstorm
- Through Neptune's Broken Nets
Album Description
The Concept draws a weird Journey beyond the Shores of Time. Six sunken Fishermen have angled the Waves of the Great Sea into the Crystal Dams of this CD. Extreme avante-Black Metal! A trip into new metal! Beyond all bridges . ...a man awakes drifting in the nowhere of the sea. all thoughts erased in shapeless moments. no memories of anything shadow his mists. all horizons are crammed with water, but not a drop to drink. no future or past, no ships or islands are touching the edge of the sea. wherever he watches and however he moves, there are just endless waves and skies and this heavy pulling downwards. after untimes of drifting without ever stranding a silent swarm of unreal voices slowly ascends. all around they rise and nowhere. from all shielded angles they murmur their call. the fevers grow louder and suddenly he realizes that they whisper his name from deep below - and there he sinks and sinks... THE MIGHTIEST AVALANCHE OF THE ALPS WILL RAM YOUR STEREOS SOON!Customer Reviews:
A strange album from a strange band........2004-10-28
I can't really say I can think of a single Korova/Korovakill song I've ever heard that I liked the first several times I heard it, but somehow they strangely seem to stick with me and grow on me until the albums stay at the top of my list of favorite CD's.
The only comparison I can draw to this band would be to Voivod- experimental, avant-garde extreme heavy metal concept albums with odd stream-of-consciousness lyrics telling strange and often indecipherable stories bordering somewhere between apocolyptic science-fiction and cryptic fairy tales. Often the music on this album would be familiar to fans of Emperor or Mayhem, but there are some very strange atmospheric and electronic parts all through it leaving this band in its own dimension.
A bit of warning... the vocals are likely to give many listeners unfamiliar with this band or Korova a bit of trouble... along with the familiar death and black metal shrieks and growls come "clear" vocals and "spoken passages" that are delivered in a sort of voice that might be delivered by a hysterical madman through an accent so thick you could break it down with a chisel and hammer and build an imposing and impenetrable Transylvanian castle from it- my first reaction was "what the HELL is THAT?", followed by a smirk and a chuckle as I started to reach for the skip button, before it began sounding rather eerie and my skin began to crawl... as I said before, these guys take some getting used to....
If you end up liking this, I might also recommend Korova "Dead Like an Angel" (essentially the same band, similar sound, but a bit more electronic and less easy to describe), Voivod ("Killing Technology", "Nothingface", "The Outer Limits", and many others... Voivod was among the earlier thrash metal bands, probably an important influence on death metal, and similarly hard to classify and "get into"- not too much else sounds quite like them....), and Madder Mortem ("Mercury", "Deadlands"... an aggressive Norwegian band with a female vocalist that, for a change, doesn't sound like an opera singer. Madder Mortem, like Korova, play a style of music that is hard to pigeonhole easily. These two bands might be thought of as "Not Gothic Metal", an attempt to co-exist in the same space as that tired and formulaic subgenre while relying on as few Gothic Metal cliche's as possible- or at least twisting them so far out of the original familiar shape that they actually sound fresh for the first time in a decade or more! For the most part, I think they succeed nicely.)
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