Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Hatred

Draugar is a bizarre one-man Black Metal band from San Francisco. From Which Hatred Grows was Draugar's first full length release. A bit clumsy and meandering at times but I think this adds to the general uneasiness that sets Draugar apart from the scores of generic, corpse-painted tykes who insist on making black metal in the forests of their bedrooms as if they were characters from a fucking Maurice Sendak book.

22 comments:

  1. Maurice Sendak.... shit dude! That got me laughing this morning. Thanks much.

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  2. that's a pretty ridiculous cover, though

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  3. Man, I love this stuff. All those fucked up keys.

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  4. does anyone have "weathering the curse" or "realizations obscured"? the only other one i've found is "silence and suffering"

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  5. not to mention Tim is a great tattoo artist-DR. PHIBES

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  6. Umm does this mean hatred grows from his nostrils?

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  7. this shit is awesome!

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  8. Nick, Weathering The Curse was released on Moribund and should be easy enough to find. I have the older demos, but they don't move me like this album.

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  9. Thanks for the comment!

    Been following Cosmic Hearse since you started it, but just now got onto Blogspot myself.

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  10. deeyamnnn! Black Room Bed Metal guys got served by Aesop.

    I think that quote of yours should be passed around by everyone who ever had their time wasted by a bad drum machine and a squeaky little girl masquerading as a satanic dude.

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  11. some day i hope to have my own bed room Black metal band, i won't be masquerading as some satanic bed master, but i have aspirations that my retard art will make the hearse. Thanks Aesop

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  12. If it's retarded enough it will.

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  13. hey, whenever I would set up to record in that bedroom, I wasn't just where the Wild Things were, I WAS the Wild Things. Shit, I got a boner just thinkin' bout them good ol' days.

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  14. Speaking of Draugar, do you have the “Destroyers from the Western Skies (As Night Devours the Sun)” comp on Killzone records (2005)? Been trawling all over for it...

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  15. Is that the Judas Iscariot tribute?

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  16. you can find that comp at the Dark Horizon webstore: http://secure.mycart.net/catalogs/catalog.asp?prodid=4491909&showprevnext=1

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  17. No not Judas Iscariot tribute, it was comp of West Coast Black Metal with Drauger, Leviathan, Xasthur and others.

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  18. Oh, never knew of it. Will seek it out.

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  19. Oh, i think the western skies means the Western hemisphere actually. Cobalt, Teratism, and Kult of Azazel are not from the West Coast.

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  20. what other bands are like this style of black metal, other than leviathan ans xasthur?

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  21. Check out Necrite:

    http://cosmichearse.blogspot.com/2008/05/necrite.html

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  22. That Necrite screams! "Destroyers from the Western Skies" is posted on metalarea.org, that one-stop-shopping zone in Siberia somewhere...

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