When the clock strikes midnight tonight, I will officially have entered the 29th year of my life. Another spirit journey formation anniversary, another reminder that I’m not getting any younger. So what do I have planned for my big day? Nothing. I’ll go for a run, I have to drive to the west side to pick up some materials for a top-secret Swan Fungus project that should pave the way for the future of this website, and then maybe some food and drink with close friends. No big deal. I think the real celebration will occur this weekend when my sister comes to town. She’s like a storm when she passes through.
Hey, it’s been a while since we’ve talked about Robedoor. Check out Christ’s Vipers.
Aquarius Records said:
“As much as we dug the Robedoor disc Hidden Ascension, reviewed a couple of lists back, our first exposure to this doomy duo, we were still a bit taken aback by how freaked out the AQ massive got over that disc. They flew out of here and ever since we’ve been having trouble scraping up any more copies of that way too limited disc. So we got in touch with the band and managed to get a bunch of another disc (as well as a collaborative lp reviewed slewhere on this list), Christ’s Vipers, released on UK label Chocolate Monk, and it should hit the spot for all you folks jonesing for more Robedoor.
Robedoor is the duo of Alex: slime, knives and distortion, and Notnotfun label head honcho Britt on fire, howls and cloaks…
Hmmm… but what does all that mean, sonically? Well, precisely what you might imagine. A blackened drone drenched world of slime and knives and fire, dense clouds of distorted howls, a thick cloak of fuzz and buzz wrapped around the proceedings like a thick, well, cloak!
Actually this is a lot prettier than you might imagine. That is if your idea of pretty includes tons of low end and a world of slom motion doomdrone. Four lengthy tracks, the first, a wash of huge rumbling bass riffs, ringing out and gradually spreading out into a shimmering black smear, above it all, some sort of melody is played out, hard to tell if it’s a synth or a guitar, or even a voice, but it wails all muted and muddy above the roiling blackness, the whole track a dirgey throb that sounds a little bit like caveman doom outfit Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg. The second is a cavernous, malfunctioning trawl through some wasted Wolf Eyesian industrial soundscape, lots of amp buzz and cord crackle, all manner of glitch and hiss drifting above dense black billows of subterranean sound. Track three is another intensely dark drift, a little more caustic than the first two tracks, this time with vocals, uQ78”
Robedoor
Christ’s Vipers
(Chocolate Monk, 2007)
MediaFire DL Link
01. Ruined Raptures
02. Stained Glass
03. Scared Scared
04. Dreamed Redeemer
