I'm gonna give both albums another listen or so before I weigh in "officially", but my initial feelings...
Lord Mantis have a great sound to listen to for a track or two at a time. There's a feeling of constantly impending catastrophe, liking the singer is heralding the end of the world, while the band is building tension, but after a while even with the constant dynamics it gets kind of monotonous. Like I said, for a song or two it's fantastic but I felt myself fading after a while.
And Briks was right about Khanate not for being for casual listening. Luckily I was laying down in the dark, so I was in the right frame of mind for it. I'm generally not much for drone, and I'd usually just be bored by this band but I was surprisingly into them this time. The sparse music combined with the harrowing vocals certainly invoked a unique atmosphere at least. Will be kind of hard to rate, cause while I was intrigued by their oddness I don't know how much I actually enjoyed the music.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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