Khlyst
| Khlyst | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Drone Doom , Dark Ambient |
| founding | 2004 |
| resolution | 2006 |
| Last occupation | |
Drums, percussion |
Tim Wyskida |
Guitar, sampling, programming |
James Plotkin |
singing |
Runhild Gammelsæter |
Khlyst ( Russian whip or Chlysten ) was a multinational drone doom project initiated in 2004 .
history
Khlyst was founded by the drummer Tim Wyskida from Blind Idiot God and the guitarist James Plotkin from OLD after the termination of the joint project Khanate with the Thorr's Hammer singer Runhild Gammelsæter in 2006. After the release of an album in 2006, an appearance in New York City and a live DVD documenting this appearance in 2008, the project was shut down.
The trio recorded the debut album Chaos Is My Name around the turn of the year 2004/2005. The two Americans Wyskida and Plotkin recorded their part in New York, while the Norwegian Gammelsæter recorded the vocals in Oslo. While Plotkin provided technical support for the recording in New York, Gammelsæter was supported by Jørgen Munkeby from the Norwegian band Shining . The recordings were then mixed by Plotkin and released in October 2006 via Hydra Head Records . The mostly improvised album polarized the reviewers. It received completely negative ratings from critics like Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic . The Decibel magazine called it even as a comedy album of the year. Other reviewers praised the album as "impossible to fathom, fascinating, but never boring or predictable" and the project as the "new name in the drone".
On November 2, 2006, the group got together and played their only concert during the CMJ Festival in New York's Lincoln Center . The concert was recorded and released as a limited DVD in 2008 via Hydra Head Records and aRCHIVE.
style
The music is mostly attributed to drone doom as well as different facets of post-industrial , especially the dark ambient , with influences from the avant-garde . Accordingly, comparisons to Aghast , Sunn O))) , Diamanda Galás , John Zorn and Khanate are used to describe the music. Often reverberated , the singing is presented as " screaming , howling and guttural screeching ." The guitar playing is described as “harrowing and tormented” as well as experimental and disheveled. Drumming is also considered to be disheveled and unstructured. Accordingly, the album Chaos Is My Name is described in a review written for the webzines Mescaline Injection :
“There are no riffs or chords in the strict sense. The bass serves [...] to prepare a breeding ground for tonal hell. The drums act beyond common norms and should be understood more as an accompaniment to the sound structures. There is no regular or well-known standard beat , no easily comprehensible beat , [...] but there is an additional contrast to a singer [sic!] Who screams, yells, yells, yells and whines so disgustingly and ugly suffers that when listening to this musical apocalypse one only has to think about the fact that this music just sounds terrifyingly strange. "
Discography
- 2006: Chaos Is My Name (Album, Hydra Head Records)
- 2008: Chaos Live (Live-DVD, Hydra Head Records / aRCHIVE)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Staff: Khlyst: Chaos Is My Name. Invisible Oranges, January 1, 2007, accessed June 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Phil Freeman: Runhild & Lasse. Burning Ambulance, accessed June 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Khlyst: Chaos Is My Name . Ed .: Hydra Head Records. 2006.
- ↑ a b c Max Deneau: Khlyst: Chaos Is My Name. Exclaim !, February 15, 2007, accessed June 4, 2018 .
- ^ A b Eduardo Rivadavia: Khlyst: Chaos Is My Name. Allmusic, October 2006, accessed June 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Rahn: Khlyst: Chaos Is My Name. (No longer available online.) Dead Tide, archived from the original on June 16, 2018 ; accessed on June 4, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Khlyst: Chaos Is My Name. Nocturnal Cult, accessed June 4, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c Matthias: Khlyst: Chaos Is My Name. (No longer available online.) Mescaline Injection, February 10, 2010, archived from the original on June 16, 2018 ; accessed on June 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Larissa Glasser: Khlyst: Chaos Is My Name. Metal Storm Inside, accessed June 4, 2018 .