Tuesday, 6 August 2019

LUCIENTE

Band: LUCIENTE aka Failed Suicide Plan
Genres: Punk / Hardcore / Post-Hardcore / Post-Metal / Crust
Related artists: ?.
Country: Erfert GERMANY
Years Active: 2007-present
Song: "Es ist ein Weinen in der Welt"
Album: "Über den Abgrund geneigt"
Year: 2019
For fans of: Trainwreck, Zann, Olam, Lentic Waters, The Ocean, Kalpa, Église, Nine Eleven, I Not Dance, Bökanövsky, Lakmé, Noise Trail Immersion, Takaru, I Am A Curse, Eaves and Perth Express.
Label(s): Self Released / TDD Records / Hey Hey Records / Frohike Records
This post's artist is from the May 2019 Mix. This is track #5.
You can download: the May 2019 Mix#5 right here or get the new June 2019 Mix#6 here.

Yet another LISTEN TO JESSE MOWERY review. So Jesse posted this German powerhouse in a group somewhere and I became instantly hooked, as the behemoth, crusty, post-hardcore/post-metal was very reminiscent of Trainwreck, Lentic Waters, Eaves and I Not Dance. I've only really delved into the newest record, 2019's 'Über den Abgrund geneigt', but upon listening to their first EP 'Failed Suicide Plan', second EP '3rd record', third EP 'Fragment' and first LP 'Luciente' are all excellent releases, comparable to the newest endeavor and worth your time.

The band's sound lies in melodic grooves woven into crusty, crushing hardcore/post-metal with vocals that dip in and out of shrieking and gutteral growls. Their EP 'Fragment' and first LP 'Luciente' show the band with their sound matured more than five years ago. On their latest record LUCIENTE most notably play with more vocal variety and stretch out the heaviness from both high and low, reminding me most of The Ocean and Kalpa. Opener "Es ist ein Weinen in der Welt" boasts fantastic swings with the screams and growling from 1:45, and those behemoth instrumentals don't hurt either. Title track "Über den Abgrund geneigt" packs another wallop after a brief, doomy intro - most specifically the ridiculous drum shifts after 1:45 and the subsequent climax. "Styx" was released as a single/teaser the year prior and is perhaps the most metal of their material, and it's pretty dang epic and shifts into Cult Of Luna territory before shredding hard. "Maschinengeheul" incorporates some metalcore murder riffs and is easily one of the best tracks on here, while finale "Acéphale" does a great job of obliterating the listener at the close.

I only just found out that their old material was released under the band name Failed Suicide Plan, and was changed for what I can only assume are obvious reasons.

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DISCOGRAPHY

2007 - Al Fredo split 7"

2009 - Failed Suicide Plan cdrEP

2011 - 3rd record EP (stream/buy here)

2013 - Fragment 7"EP (stream/buy here)

2015 - Luciente digitalLP (stream/buy here)

2018 - Styx digital single (stream/buy here)

2019 - Über den Abgrund geneigt LP (stream/buy here)

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(2019) LUCIENTE - "Es ist ein Weinen in der Welt" (from 'Über den Abgrund geneigt')

(2019) LUCIENTE - "Maschinengeheul" (from 'Über den Abgrund geneigt')

(2019) LUCIENTE - "Über den Abgrund geneigt" (from 'Über den Abgrund geneigt')


(2018) LUCIENTE - "Styx" (from 'Styx')

(2016) LUCIENTE - "Rabenschar" live @Fluff Fest

(2013) LUCIENTE - "Einsam Zweisam" (from 'Fragment')

(2009) LUCIENTE - "Frühling" (from 'Failed Suicide Plan')

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LUCIENTE additional links

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Sunday, 4 August 2019

***2019 OMSB mp3 Mix #8+9 (September)***

(((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain)))))
September 2019 mp3 MIX #8+9
 => ***DOWNLOAD HERE*** <=
https://mega.nz/#!YMMTHCAS!y2CxXNtm213tXuiqnLXEtS5lhzM98SQkUJ_XTt4_6pw
...and updates

Well holy shit that was busy. After the Zegema Beach Fest, I went on tour for almost three weeks, returned for a week and a bit, then left to Ontario to spend time with family and see New Friends Fest. So essentially I haven't posted much over the past two months but that changes today, as I'm back to nothing planned for the foreseeable future. Due to my excessive business I essentially lost a blog mix post, as there was nothing new posted July 1st, therefore this year there will be 11 blog mixes instead of 12. Does anyone actually care? Probably not, but I'll keep makin' those mixes.

ZAMPLER #13 - 'It's An Ugly Planet, A Bug Planet' cdr is now shipping with all order from both ZBR stores! Only 100 made and 30 are gone already.

Wanna hear some amazing news? Tarquin Jones will now be writing for (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain)))))!!! This is seriously momentous news for myself and should be for anyone familiar with his past work, including Reign Of Low, Death Of A Modernist, and as a content editor on SHEEPSxCLOTHING.

Tour was incredible and we've got a documentary coming out late summer/fall that I'm beyond stoked about, focusing on the Crowning/Swallows Nest Euro tour including random shit, Cry Me A River Fest, a bunch of Niboowin and Cassus, as well as bands from almost every show that we played. I imagine it will be similar to the Crowning/Frail Body tour video but longer and more extensive, and you can check out that video/post right here.
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Here's the tracklisting for OMSB mix#6 that was reviewed in June:

1) A PARAMOUNT, A LOVE SUPREME - "catastrophizing"

2) IN LOVING MEMORY - "Who You Enthrall"

3) GAMENESS - "Low Waves"

4) FLUORIDE - "hoax"

5) coming soon

from OMSB mix #5
1) LONG DISTANCE RUNNER - "The Downcast"

Album reviews:
EYELET 'The Howling in the Hall'

Much love,

Dave @ (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain)))))

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ZBR Store/Bandcamp

JAZZBRUNCH 'Jazzbrunch' EP

CARRION SPRING 'Carrion Spring' LP
JOLIETTE 'Luz Devora' LP
SWALLOWS NEST 'Swallows Nest' EP

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***Interviews/live shows/premieres coming up this month for sure:
- ELLE exclusive interview

- nada
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As always, on or around the 1st of every month, I will be posting a ZIP file with songs for the upcoming month with ALL specifics deleted from the tags, so unless you already know the band, there is NO information regarding each track.

During the following month, I will post reviews for those bands and link the tracks to the review so you can associate the two together. This way you can listen to a new song/band and have little-to-no bias. Below, I have re-posted the June mp3 mix that is used for this month's reviews.

OLD MIX
***2019 OMSB mp3 Mix #7 (reviewed in August)***
https://www85.zippyshare.com/v/pAFgCjBG/file.html
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The new OMSB mp3 Mix #8-9 contains more tracks than usual (9), including two from Tarquin Jones!:
*-* one of my all-time favourite bands...and I still haven't done a discography review, but that ends this month as their new LP comes out and it is INCREDIBLE
*-* incendiary Indiana hardcore/metal
*-* Vancouver grindcore vets
*-* unreal German blackened post-everything that reminds me of Hexis meets Hope Drone
*-* some of the darkest hardcore I've ever fucking heard

NEW MIX
NEW => ***2019 OMSB mp3 Mix #8-9 (reviewed in September)*** <= NEW
https://mega.nz/#!YMMTHCAS!y2CxXNtm213tXuiqnLXEtS5lhzM98SQkUJ_XTt4_6pw
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Any bands/labels that are interested in having their stuff reviewed, please email zegemabeachrecords@gmail.com: with "Open Mind Saturated Brain" as the subject. Please keep in mind that I don't review everything, just what jives with the blog. I will, however, listen to everything you send me. I would recommend emailing with an idea for a song/album premiere 2 months prior to that song/album release date for a much stronger chance at being reviewed on this blog. Bands that have already had their discography reviewed can also submit new albums for review if they include song/album premieres.
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Friday, 2 August 2019

***JAZZBRUNCH exclusive music video premiere & interview***

"An Invitation to an Enormous Disappointment"
exclusive music video premiere & interview
For fans of: Envy, Nionde Plågan and Respire


When Arvid from Vi Som Älskade Varandra Så Mycket sent me the masters for JAZZBRUNCH out of the blue, I was blown away. Hence my involvement in their debut 7" 'Jazzbrunch' which officially was released on August 1st. A week or two ago Captured Howls blog premiered their debut track/music video, and today I am stoked to bring you the second music video for the b-side "An Invitation to an Enormous Disappointment". Check it out below!

(2019) JAZZBRUNCH "An Invitation to an Enormous Disappointment" (from 'Jazzbrunch')
This second track begins with a semi-ridiculous piano intro that then flows very smoothly downstream with the post-rock instrumentals. 30 seconds in you'll hear Arvid's anguished screams, and by the one-minute mark that double-bass and epic post-hardcore take hold and, in typical Vi Som Älskade Varandra Så Mycket style, guide the listener through an emotionally charged minute before settling into a dark second-minute. The eerie, slow-build is reminiscent of late-era Envy and eventually fades out at 3:35, only to kick back in to that driving hook. It is definitely worth mentioning the exceptional use of keys in this song (as well as their other one), as at 4:40 shit gets climactic as all hell should probably be used as a movie soundtrack at some point. Hot damn, what a debut EP, and thanks for two music videos...cuz I love music videos!!!

ADDITIONAL LINKS & WHATNOT

Music video/review for "Idiocracy"

Looky here...

AN INTERVIEW w/JAZZBRUNCH
Jazzbrunch is a Swedish/American band. We are:
Sebastian Engström on drums, from Totem Skin and Vardagshat
Scott Ritcher on bass and piano, from Metroschifter
Arvid Ringborg on vocals, from VSÄVSM
Johan Angantyr on guitar, from VSÄVSM
Mark Shaw came up with the name and will play guitar if we continue, from VSÄVSM, Khayembii Communique and Song of Zarathustra

Arvid is answering questions

1 - Why the name Jazzbrunch?
Mark saw a poster about a restaurant serving jazz brunch (brunch with jazz music) and we thought it was funny and sounded like a terrible idea. Then we were joking about how it would be funny to have a band that played extreme music but had such a bourgeois name. This was years ago, so it was kind of a joke that stuck. 

2 - What were your collective influences on these two songs? Was there a theme or general idea that you were shooting for?
Me and Johan have been talking for years about doing something outside of VSÄVSM that is a little bit heavier and maybe in English. The studio where we recorded the new VSÄVSM 12” needed a few months to move, so we had an opening. 

We both really like Totem Skin and Sebastian’s drumming, so we reached out to him and he was interested. Then we asked our friend Scott, from one of my all time favorite bands Metroschifter, and he thought it sounded fun. Mark was also in, but had to move the weekend we went to record.

Johan started to write songs and then we worked together with the arrangements. Then we sent the demos to Sebastian and Scott. We all met up in a studio in Linköping where we recorded unrehearsed. It really is a studio project, but I kind of like that.

The initial thought was to play some kind of black metal, but that is probably not an accurate description of what came out. We write the way we do and you can totally hear a little bit of VSÄVSM in it. I really like how it turned out.

We like a lot of records Jack Shirley has been involved with, so we reached out to him to do the mixing and the mastering. Compared to our process with VSÄVSM this was really quick.

3 - You made two music videos for the EP, can you delve into those?
I had just digitalized an old VHS tape with videos of me and my friends trying to look metal in our early teens. It is both embarrassing and hilarious. We thought it was funny with a video of a bunch of kids trying to be metal to the music of some adults trying to play metal. When I was a kid we would make music videos of other bands’ songs, so this is actually footage from three videos: A Nirvana, a Metallica and an Alice in Chains song. This became the video for Idiocracy, but it really has no correlation to the lyrical theme.

I really only meant to make one video for the band, but when I found the old footage I had to do something with that. I had already planned the other one that became the video for An Invitation to an Enormous Disappointment. I thought it would be funny with someone in corpse paint doing mundane stuff like buying groceries and riding the bus. I developed the idea a little bit to have three separate stories: the nihilistic hobo kid, the boy in his rabbit suit with his rabbit and the sad, black-metal guy doing boring stuff. My girlfriend’s kid Gabriel is in the video and my friend Shervin aka The Persian Anaconda from Careless is also in it.

4 - Tell us about the dual lyrics for each song in the 7" jacket, cuz I think that's hilarious.
I played the songs to my girlfriend, who is American, and she could not hear what I was singing.  I asked her to write down what she heard and we decided to put her interpretations in the jacket. We thought it was really funny, especially since I sing in English.

5 - What is next for Jazzbrunch? Any shows? An LP?
We don’t know. This was thought of as a short project, but we all like how it turned out. Johan wrote three more songs right after we recorded that are killer, but our focus shifted back to finishing the VSÄVSM record. We are done now and it comes out in October, so maybe we will find some time to do more Jazzbrunch stuff.

Thanks for helping us put it out and I hope you all enjoy it!
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