Nil Admirari

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Having actually gotten to see this song live minus the choir, I can, in fact, confirm that living through it is similar to witnessing a satanic birthing ritual. The buildup of the organ, droning wall of guitars and fallen angelic voices decrying the heaven which forgot them all leads to Attila Csihar’s inhumanly robotic exclamation of “Megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért”, the longest hungarian word, speaking on one’s inability to be desecrated. Desecration by what, exactly? We don’t know. All I can imagine is being at the center of a podium with a hooded figure standing above me, waving a bony, clawed hand mere inches from my body. Each toll of the bell a punctuation on the final moments of my life.

Honestly, pretty much any of Sunn O)))’s output could work here. But I feel that Big Church represents them at their most experimental, as well as their most digestible. If you’re feeling particularly frisky, peruse their fine output for some chilling dark ambient and black metal drones.

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David Tibet and Current 93 are very well known for their interest in the occult, unsettling poetry dominating most of the lyrical content in their body of work. The Starres are Marching Sadly Home is the third part of “The inmost light” trilogy, which used a series of repeated words, phrases and sounds as part of the central theme. The trilogy began on a lush but tense note, and ended in the middle of the woods surrounded by the folds of reality tearing apart with the swaying of the breeze with Starres.

While less strictly musical, it is an exemplary track that I always bring up when referring to the power of audio above all else when creating an unsettling atmosphere. Everything from the way Tibet chants to the echoing of a vinyl record looping constantly through an open window at the edge of the forest. The way the forest breathes with a low-key chorus and the wood of trees unseen creak from pressure and decay. A the very end, a motherly voice assures us everything will be okay with a gentle lullaby. But there’s no love to her voice. It’s almost taunting the listener in a way, reassuring them of their hopelessness in the situation.

Happy Halloween, everybody.

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Episode 19 is now subtitled and available!

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So with Tenchi going full Makoto Mizuhara, some hijinx are sure to come next week. I imagine we’ll be getting some callbacks to Universe’s bikini contest episode. Dare I say we’ll see Nagi show up to take first place again? Also glad to see the Guardians show up today. We haven’t seen anything relating to them up to this point, so #TeamRyoOhki can still hold out hope!

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The only similarities between the two campuses are green roofing on part of the campus and the inclusion of a suspended walkway. They may be going for a romanticized, “this is this campus in the future” version since they have robots and all.