Here’s a swift look at two news stories that popped up earlier in the
week in case you missed them.
Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore has joined the black metal ‘supergroup’ Twilight.
Yes, you read that right. The band helmed by Nachtmystium’s Blake Judd have
left Southern Lord and found a new home at Century Media to record their third
album, the follow-up to 2010’s Monument To Time End. The line-up will again
include Leviathan’s Wrest on drums, Krieg’s Imperial, Sanford Parker (Minsk), Stavros
Giannapoulos of The Atlas Moth, and Judd hopes to see ex-Isis mainman Aaron
Turner return to the fold too.
Moore’s arrival at the band is definitely a shocker as none of us could
see that one coming, but when you consider the evolution black metal has
endured in the last decade or so, particular for USBM, an event like this was
inevitable. It will be noted as another turning point for black metal and one
that’s sure to piss off one or two purists in the process.
While on the topic of evolving black metal, France’s one time black
metal figurehead Neige, the herald of Alcest, has announced that the band are
already working on their fourth studio album after January’s radiant record Les
Voyages De L'Âme. In an update posted on Alcest’s Facebook page, Neige stated
that we “can expect something different from Alcest's previous releases”.
Continuing: “I don't think there are any metal music elements anymore, though a
lot of very intense parts and dynamics are still there.”
Each Alcest album has taken a consciously drastic step away from metal
and album number four continues that trek. Most interestingly the band will record
early next year in Iceland, namely Sundlaugin, the studio owned by Sigur Ros.
Neige promises guest appearances on the record… so, a Sigur Ros collaboration
of some kind?
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