Mark Egan - Beyond Words - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Mark Egan - About Now [COMPACT DISCS] date 05/20/2014

Grammy award winning bassist Mark Egan has teamed up with an all-star rhythm section with Shawn Pelton- Drums and Shane Theriot-Guitar. This powerful and elegant musical tapestry bridges contemporary jazz, R&B and Rock roots to create a captivating musical journey exploring highly adventurous interplay and soloing over multi layered orchestrations.

With their fourth studio album InchHulders RitualInch ('Ritual of the Huldra'), Slagmaur break the chains of repetition and nostalgia by rewriting the rules of black metal. This does not mean abandoning the foundations of the genre, which is already indicated by working with the 'inventor' of the 'Norwegian black metal sound', THORNS mastermind Snorre W. Ruch, as an additional producer. The band's founder, General Gribbsphiiser, rather unafraid and with reckless abandon mutates and warps the traditional formula through a host of subtle innovations and tweaks of the classic sound. Although InchHulders RitualInch continues, refines, and widens the daring stylistic balance of Slagmaur's previous works, it adds an extra dimension of sardonic mania to it's collection of sharp and vicious sonic instruments. Choice guest-contributions that include TAAKE vocalist Hoest, DIMMU BORGIR guitarist Silenoz, and MISTHYRMING frontman D.G., who cover three decades of Nordic black metal make a case in point. Slagmaur hail from Brekstad on the Fosen peninsula in the Trondelag region and are a part of the Trondheim-based 'Nidrosian black metal movement'. Although Gribbsphiiser started the band as a solo project, he already recruited fellow musicians during the recording of his first demo, InchSvinInch (2006). Slagmaur's black avant-garde debut album, InchSkrekk Lich KunstlerInch (2007), marked the premier instalment in the still-unfolding series, InchThe Art of OldermanInch. The following studio albums InchVon Rov ShelterInch (2009) and InchThill Smitts TerrorInch (2017) continued this story arc. InchHulders RitualInch is for those, who are seeking musical darkness, magic, and the relentless breaking of limitations from black metal. Slagmaur push forward among the select few that are leading the way to the future of the genre.