From the website:
Angelblood
Labia Minora
New York ; Tokyo, NY ; Japan: Printed Matter, Inc. and Captain Trip Records. 2003
Synopsis: On Angelblood’s new CD, Labia Minora, musical styles and influences mesh and collide in a simultaneously jarring and hypnotic sonic netherworld of hope and despair. Gnarled chants and incantations alternate with ethereal floating singing, conjuring the images and emotions of pagan ritual, blood sacrifice and the quest for redemption. Crunching rhythm guitars and bass pierced by screaming leads form the dark heavy metal undertow of the album’s sound. This is set to repetitive melodies with something of an earthy folk bent, creating a unique, swaying, dirge-like atmosphere – only to be disrupted by the blistering drums and the chainsaw drill of the speed metal reprise, the growl of the hunter-wolf, the bellow of the slain beast. The epic final cut balances on the edge of dissonance and noise, the croon of the sister-brethren, the blood of the slaughtered pig.
Angleblood is Lizzi Bougatsos (vocals), Rita Ackermann (vocals), Brian DeGraw (bass), Dave Nuss (drums) and Anders Nilssen (guitar). On Labia Minora special guest Mick Barr (of Orthrelm and Chromtech) plays guitar.
Angelblood was formed in the year 2000, and has played internationally in both music and art venues. Labia Minora is their third CD. In addition to being a band, Angelblood is also a performance art group, whose dark motifs and ritualized actions match the concerns of the band. Finally, Angelblood also creates collaborative art works, distinguished by a combination of distinctive drawing and edgy collage.
In all of its various incarnations, Angelblood is characterized by a raw, almost desperate approach to art and life, realms which, in the Angleblood ethos, are indistinguishable. It is this rebellious attitude of refusal and iconoclasm, coupled incongruously, yet sincerely, with a sense of pathos and reverence, that sets Angleblood apart from the monotonous drone of monolithic culture.
Category: Audio CD
Cover: Paperback
Process: offset-printed
Color: color
Edition 1000
Signed: Unsigned and Unnumbered
― maria b (maria b), Friday, 23 January 2004 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)
two months pass...
four weeks pass...
So this brings me to a question I wanted to pose to ILMers. I was looking at the Fusetron catalog recently, and thought about ordering one of the NNCK side project albums. What would people recommend, Angelblood or Egypt is the Magick #?
― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)
This group sounds awful, but Mick Barr is on it, so I have to buy it. Damn.
― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)
the time I saw them with Mick, they were pretty awesome. Anyway, they're a billion times better than Egypt is the Magick #. Ugh, ugh, ugh.
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)
i bought "labia minora" and it's their best yet. BEST YET. that dude with the guitar totally doesn't wank them up, he rocks it. great picture on the inside, with nuss looking like he did in angkor wat.
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Saturday, 8 May 2004 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)
yeah, Bambi is aging well
I agree it's kickass - especially the one that goes "BURN ME UP IN HEE-ELLLLLLLL!!!!!!"
one friend suggested that he'd like them more if they were sincere black metal freaks from Wisconsin instead of NYC art stars playing the role, but it sounds authentic enough for me.
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 8 May 2004 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)
"egypt is the magick # are great. in 20 years everyone will be dissing angelblood like they're the fucking 1910 fruitgum company - and worshipping egypt like they're the OHIO EXPRESS."
by that metric i can only hope that my band ends up as the U.S. 69....
― duke goodbody, Saturday, 8 May 2004 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)
three weeks pass...