Ephel Duath – “Pain Necessary to Know”
Some people want to hear something in-your-face weird, anti-song-oriented, and deliberately made to challenge your tolerance for nonlinear structures. If you think that you are one of those people, you are about to find out whether you are for real or not. Jazzy mellow guitar, then jazzy drumming, then wacky guitar sounds, annoying space technology-type of sounds. Then there are mellow pauses of bass and faint guitar, jazz guitar sounds, funky bass, stop/start. Mini drum solo, stop/start, silence, mellow guitar, and then finally senseless screaming, now the lounge mellow rock and yelling converge. Several stop/start moments, the yelling and the music don’t fit, but they keep trucking anyway. Another pause, mellow, spacy guitar and non-riffs are spewed out; the yelling seems to jump into this thing at random. The yelling followed by pauses and mellow soundscapes is common. The guitar breaks into very brief jazz solos, bells ring, more bells, and then silence. At any rate, this is called “Few stars, no refrain and a cigarette” and “Crystalline Whirl”. Do you know what the radio sounds like when you are flipping through all the stations? Well, this will give you a similar sensation, except that in this case all the stations play tripped out jazz, mellow jazz, jazz rock, jazz metal-core. Weird stuff. Are they trying to make the most ridiculously annoying album ever?