OMBMBW I - Necktarium

OMBMBW?  Yes indeed. Welcome to Not For Resale's One Man Black Metal Band Week!!! Why am I doing OMBMBW? Because I'm on holiday that is why.  Good ole' scheduled posting. It's quite an easy thing to do, OMBMB'ing, right down to being a simplifiable cliche. Hell, I've even tried it. There's a lot of generic sounding stuff out there with people simply replicating some homogenated version of a consistent sound between a lot of these individual practitioners, but when it's done right it should drop you into a primal euphoric trance induced state of higher being as elegantly as the most ancient and learned of texts.

In the morning you'll get someone you may not already know, in the afternooon it will be someone who should need no further introductions.


So, here we go:

To start it off I have Necktarium of Rawalpind, Pakistan - a hotbed of Asian Black Metal,as you will soon discover. He lists his influences as the following:

Dreams
Fog
Astral Projections
Oceans
Blurred Vision
Sleeping Pills
Romance
Valium
Dreampop
DejaVu
December
Ambiance
Hospitals
Shoegaze
Lonliness
Blur Dreams


So expect an early morning comedown sound, that is mid-paced, less harsh and more melancholic (but not spit 'depressive' - one of the few genre terms I aggressively dislike).

Ante Meridium is a beat driven misty morning run through the Pakistani pine forests, while Sweet Pale Fingers is a sundown meditative ambient piece.  Both totally indebted to Burzum for inspiration, but brought up on the slops of a fiercly humid environment insteadof an icy cold one (Varg's early years notwithstanding).

The two tracks he has are free to download from MySpace: www.myspace.com/necktarium