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Aeternal Flux II

A blog about the avant-garde and underground music scene in Hobart, Tasmania (nipaluna, lutruwita) and parallels elsewhere. Also incorporating film/literary discussion, other reflections on contemporary culture. WARNING: Discussion of films and novels over five years old may contain SPOILERS. Any contributions and comments are welcome.

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April 23, 2021

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CODEX SERAFINI - THE IMPRECATION OF ANIMA

July 10, 2023

Codex Serafini have found an appropriate home for their first full-length album release. Riot Season, an independent label based in England’s Black Country region, provides an outlet for musicians that share a similar spiritual intensity with the mysterious Brighton-based psych rockers. They’ve shared a stage with Japanese neo-psych superstars Acid Mothers Temple on at least one festival date. Mahti, another labelmate, features members of legendary Finnish avant-rock group Circle. The more raucous elements in their sound have a parallel in Shit and Shine whose 2004 noise rock mantra Ladybird Riot Season has re-released in an anniversary edition. In a manner fitting for such eminent company, The Imprecation of Anima sees a broadening and deepening of the mystic energy Codex Serafini has demonstrated on their previous Halfmeltedbrain EP releases Invisible Landscape (2021) and Serpents of Enceladus (2020). The album’s four, longish suite-like tracks evolved out of ...

ENSEMBLE 1 - DELAY WORKS

April 28, 2024

Ensemble 1 is an avant rock duo from Brighton, UK, specializing in the exploration of digital delay-based phrasal repetition and heavy, cyclical rhythms. Guitarist Joe Potts and drummer/bassist/composer Tom Way operate on the border line between math rock and prog metal, navigating a Venn zone of intersection teeming with the fractal curlicues of minimalism and durational elements of modern composition. Psychedelic swirls in the mixture tap into a venerable echo guitar heritage, occasionally suggesting an unlikely aesthetic union of Achim Reichel & Machines and Meshuggah. It’s an intoxicating mix that’s hypnotic from beginning to end of the three, lengthy tracks - ranging from nearly 10 minutes to over 23 – that comprise Delay Works , the duo’s latest release on Halfmeltedbrain Records. Opener ‘Distorted Fades’ is an invigorating statement of intent, an avant-metal power drive enriched with the rotational propulsion of 6/8 time. Overlapping layers of extended tec...

ANOCHT-KLAVIER KRIEGER-STRIBORG AT ALTAR, 1/7/23

October 15, 2023

This concert provides rewarding insights into the fruitful intermingling of genres that occurs on metal’s experimental fringe. Anocht and Klavier Krieger, two artists from Melbourne, join Tasmanian underground legend Striborg for a series of one-man performances where the theatrics and bleak themes of black metal meet dark ambient textures and mutant synth pop. Anocht initiates proceedings with strategies inherited from Blue Sabbath Black Cheer’s noise metal scene, layering ear-splitting shards of feedback guitar over a low ominous pulse. His 30-minute set is a feverish trail of amorphous themes that shares atmospherics with the dank, tomb-scented exhalations of Gnaw Their Tongues and Abruptum. Tortured vocalising over synth tritones and chitinous squeaks gives way to an even more dour sequence of delay accumulated guitar riffs collapsing into a swirling fog of distorted moans. Klavier Krieger’s set begins with isolated, echo-drenched beats, opening space that will be gradu...