on the Aural Innovations site i made a mistake ... and i never make mistakes!

[Abra Cadabra]

On the Top 2014 Album lists @ AI
http://aural-innovations.com/blog/2015/01/aural-innovations-staff-picks-for-best-of-2014/

i on first impression wrote that the new Mayhem album "Esoteric
Warfare" was the biggest disappointing album of 2014. So over the last
few nights i have been listening to it and studying lyrics and cool
artwork.. its excellent and not really Blackmetal, but more in the
style (ALOT) like a band i never cared for, My Dying Bride (as for
Doom i am more a Cathedral/Candlemass fan), it has those slow whispy
echoey passages and sudden fast drumming and low whispy vocal growls.
The vocalist Atilla may be known to fans of Sunn O))) ... i like
Maniac the best in the 90s on vox but his "Grand Declaration Of War"
Mayhem LP is pretty much rubbish. The Live In Marseille 2000 2LP is
superduper and also the live Meliadum Capta Est LP, both featuring
Maniac on songs like "I Am Thy Labyrinth", "Chainsaw Gutsfuck" and
"Fall Of Seraphs" (GOD DIED WHEN THE ANGELS FELL!!!). The other
suicide Vocalist guy who blew his brains all over (the photo of his
corpse was used on the Dawn Of The Black Hearts LP) the swedish dude
from Morbid named something- Olin (AKA Dead) was ok. But back to
"Esoteric Warfare" the image of 1 central Telepathic brain in a
Trinity of goat horned Baphomets is pretty cool. The concept of the
album is indeed about Psychics ala "Veteran Of The Psychic Wars" and
"PSI Power". It is actually comfortably psychedelic and droney and you
can actually hear the lyrics. Different than old Mayhem. Its a cold
and ghostly album, and tracks like "Trinity" and "Psywar" is cool.
Alot like imagining in the 7th Samurai there are Seven people in
power, 12 people in 12 Monkeys, 3 psychic Amigos wandering a crashed
Psychic UFO maybe... far out SF concept. So forget the old Satan-nazi
thing Mayhem have hanging over them and think psychic doom drone
psychedelia... regards, Christian