Fungoid Stream

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Fungoid Stream
General information
origin Buenos Aires , Argentina
Genre (s) Funeral doom
founding 2003
Website www.orionmusicfurias.com.ar/fungoidstream
Current occupation
All instruments
 Joseph C.
singing
 Simon O.

Fungoid Stream is a funeral doom band founded in 2003 .

history

Simon O. and Joseph C. founded Fungoid Stream in 2003 in Buenos Aires. The initial idea came from Joseph C. He decided to found a Funeral Doom project and conceptually align it with HP Lovecraft . He asked Simon O., of whose enthusiasm for Funeral Doom and Lovecraft he knew, to take over the vocals. Since then, the duo has been operating as a studio project with sporadic album releases.

Work and effect

Discography
  • 2004: Celaenus Fragments
  • 2010: Oceanus
  • 2014: Prehuman Shapes
  • 2019: The Winds Among the Stars

Due to professional and private obligations as well as the maintenance of side projects such as the funeral and drone doom project Qhwertt by Simon O. or the dark ambient project Dormantgod Joseph C., the duo's albums were released every few years. The band did not release any other formats, such as EPs or splits , which are often used in Funeral Doom . For a long time, Fungoid Stream maintained a cooperation with Furias Records that had existed since 2004 . The musicians expressed a high level of satisfaction and a friendly family relationship with Furias Records. Only the fourth album, The Winds Among The Stars , was released in 2019 on the Russian label GS Productions .

concept

The band has been conceptually based on HP Lovecraft and the Cthulhu myth since it was founded . Lyric and design are consistently geared towards these reference points. All lyrics come straight from Lovecraft's work. The first two albums are poems by the author. For the third album, the band resorted to text passages from Cthulhu's reputation . Funeral Doom as a style would offer "with its dense sound" and an atmosphere described by Simon O. as "monolithic, colossal and immense" to create the option of "large and slow structures" that atmospherically correspond to the entities thought up by Lovecraft. The concept continues in the graphic preparation of the sound carriers. Neither lyrics nor illustrations of the band are included. Instead, the band presents graphic preparations for each piece, including fossils, constellations, keys or animals that are associated with the Cthulhu myth.

style

The music played by Fungoid Stream is described as atmospheric funeral doom. The sound of the band is "unmistakable". The music is dominated by the keyboard arrangements and drum programming . The singing is described as a dark growling . The electronic fabric of keyboard play, programmed drums and sampling aims at a natural sound. The tempo and artificial instrumentation vary between pieces. String arrangements, piano passages and choirs are generated artificially. Typical metal instruments such as drums, electric guitars and electric basses are rarely used. The booming guitar playing is still distinctive.

reception

The duo made their debut in 2004 with the album Celaenus Fragments, dedicated to Lovecraft's memory . It received positive international reviews. Bertrand Marchal praised Celaenus Fragments for Doom-Metal.com as an album of "religious", "mystical" and "hypnotic" power. In other reviews, reference is made to the conceptual framework and the band certifies that they succeeded in creating a credible “creepy atmosphere” that was worthy of Lovecraft's influence. In addition, the design of the accompanying material, which is consistently based on this concept, is emphasized as rounding off the entire work. The subsequent Oceanus appeared in 2009. The reception was extremely positive. Bertrand Marchal reviewed the album, again for Doom-Metal.com, and wrote that "the worst part of the album [is] that it has to end". Other reviews described it as a “strange” but “great album” that conveyed “a living presence of thoughts and visions”. Prehuman Shapes , published in 2014, also received positive feedback. It is "a slow, meditative and religious journey through the mind of one of the most bizarre authors that ever existed." The band added "some beauty to its" symbols that are full of fear and fear. "The result is music which is “fascinating”, “full of beauty” and “hard to describe”. The fourth album The Winds Among The Stars , released in 2019 via GS Productions , was hardly discussed and judged by Jon Carr for Doom-Metal.com as a rather boring and average album. It is "anything but bad," but "not a particularly pleasing experience".

Web links

Individual evidence

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  6. ↑ a b Bertrand Marchal: Fungoid Stream: Oceanus. Doom-Metal.com, accessed June 22, 2020 .
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  9. ↑ Undercraft: Fungoid Stream: Celaenus Fragments. Metalstorm, accessed June 22, 2020 .
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  11. ↑ Victimer: Fungoid Stream: Oceanus. Echoes Zine, accessed June 22, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Jon Carr: Fungoid Stream: The Winds Among the Stars. Doom-Metal.com, accessed June 22, 2020 .