Sunday, June 7, 2009

Raate

Finland's Raate is easily one of the best active Black Metal bands around. I have seen these guys compared to Burzum, and while some of the tones and structures are similar to Varg's work, Raate have taken the influence and injected enough dour Finnish ethos to create something thoroughly their own, mystifying and dark. Here I present their first CD Halki Kuolleen Maan.... Genius.

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21 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 7, 2009 at 7:02 AM

    Yet another gem I wouldn't have found on my own. Thank you.

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  2. Thiago BehrndtJune 7, 2009 at 8:03 AM

    what a great music. i lost all good black metal from this decade, thanks for bring it over.

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  3. AnonymousJune 7, 2009 at 9:51 AM

    20 Seconds in and I'm sold. Thank you as always master.


    -jabladav

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  4. AnonymousJune 7, 2009 at 10:03 AM

    LINK IF YOU WANT TO BUY. I JUST DID:


    http://www.van-gbr.de

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  5. AnonymousJune 7, 2009 at 11:32 AM

    i don't know dudes. this utterly shameless burzum worship. cool over though..

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  6. Roger CamdenJune 7, 2009 at 12:59 PM

    we all know the drill

    you say burzum
    I say download

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  7. n.June 7, 2009 at 1:36 PM

    i know you like comments, but i've never left one. i've been reading the hearse for a year now, so i guess that makes me an asshole. anyways, just wanted to say thanks for all the really great music you've given me. hopefully it won't take me another year to comment again.

    btw, my coworker is a guy named erik whitaker who used to live in san francisco (he now lives in seattle). he says he used to know you or he met you or something, and he says hi if you remember him.

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  8. chrisJune 7, 2009 at 3:12 PM

    thanks again

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  9. AesopJune 7, 2009 at 3:30 PM

    Yes, I know Erik well. Give him my best.

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  10. SabinJune 7, 2009 at 9:06 PM

    this is the perfect end to a perfect day

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  11. HelmJune 8, 2009 at 6:06 AM

    Downloading this just on the strength of the cover art. Will report.

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  12. AnonymousJune 8, 2009 at 8:48 AM

    Wow - I've listened to this three times in a row now. I fucking love it. thanks again!

    john / milwaukee

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  13. ECWJune 10, 2009 at 11:30 AM

    Remarkably good. There are some similarities to Burzum, sure, but the buzz is different here, somehow more delicate, cleaner shine, melancholic. Thanks for this.

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  14. HelmJune 11, 2009 at 8:06 AM

    I enjoyed this, and the subsequent LP release. I am not certain for its staying power, but having had a Finnish friend of mine translate lyrics, it might be the case that this is going in the to-buy list.

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  15. GRK.June 12, 2009 at 3:00 AM

    Not heard of this duo 'til today. Thangyew!

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  16. Dennis DreadJune 12, 2009 at 2:16 PM

    Brilliant artwork! Is the toddler dragging a plague rat on a leash? A turd? This was a great gift injected into my Friday, Aesop. May I suggest Lugubrum for slightly similar Burzum-esque strangeness? I'd suggest the difficult-to-find debut LP for starters: 'Winterstones'.

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  17. AesopJune 12, 2009 at 2:38 PM

    Yes, Lugubrum is a favorite of mine.

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  18. schultzzzJune 13, 2009 at 6:15 AM

    Fuck! Thanks Aesop! This is some of the best fake-burzum I've heard in a while. It's not so hypnotic or cold as the real thing, but they got the finger-picking bits and the just-the-guitar atmospheric bits, which most fake-burzums forget about.

    Great choice!

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  19. e normousJune 13, 2009 at 10:01 AM

    How come the little kid gets to have clothes and the less small one not?

    "Winterstones" is good, btw, although I'd say it has a different sort of atmosphere to Burzum.

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  20. e normousJune 13, 2009 at 10:03 AM

    wait - is the big kid trying to jam some sort of tail up his ass?

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  21. AnonymousFebruary 27, 2011 at 11:02 AM

    The artwork is definitely by Finnish symbolist painter Hugo Simberg (1873-1917). Check out his works, they are magnifiscent.

    I wonder why no one has bothered to point that out.

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