{"title":"Haunter","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"thrinodia","title":"Thrinodia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThrinodia\u003c\/em\u003e was recorded in 2016 at home and remixed and remastered during the plague summer of 2020. It is the first of three full-length records by Texas-based band \u003cstrong\u003eHaunter\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe album features a blend of black metal, death metal, and doom metal influences, creating a unique and atmospheric sound. Songs like \"\u003cem\u003eGhost in the Corner\u003c\/em\u003e\" and \"\u003cem\u003eVeil of Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e\" showcase the band's ability to craft haunting melodies and intense, aggressive riffs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHaunter\u003c\/strong\u003e is known for their dynamic songwriting and powerful vocals, drawing listeners in with their raw emotion and energy. \u003cem\u003eThrinodia\u003c\/em\u003e is a must-listen for fans of extreme metal looking for something fresh and innovative.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chaos","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50752313819467,"sku":"2228387","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_8eb3aa04_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1730725143"},{"product_id":"tripolar","title":"Tripolar","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs collaborative projects often do, 33 has in time found a more fixed form, a kind of structure that turned it from a loose collection of collaborators gravitating around founders Bill John Bultheel and Alexander Iezzi into something resembling more of a traditional band. Not that there is anything conventional in their creative process tho, nor in the music itself… Nontheless Tripolar - their second album and first for Haunter - seems to take them closer to song territory than ever before. The (progressive) graduation of multi-instrumentalist Cem Dukkha and vocalist\/clarinet player Ivan Cheng from collaborators to full-time members has brought 33 to a more refined awareness of their possibilities as a creative unit, although their compositional process has retained a high level of spontaneity and musical madness. Tripolar was in fact assembled by editing hours of improvisation that Bultheel, Iezzi and Dukkah recorded with no specific endgame in mind. The sessions saw them exchange a variety of acoustic, electronic and electric musical instruments: percussions, guitars, strings, piano, hurdy gurdy, synthesizers and even CDJs as a tool of live sampling manipulation. By molding the pieces into what they are now, the band managed to concoct some beautiful vignettes of contradictory mental and emotional states, as sonically playful as a renaissance fair happening within a broken timestream. Cheng’s lyrical and vocal contributions helped them coalesce even further into proper songs, adding a melodic presence that’s at once seductive and uncanny. But vocal duties are often ceded to guests, namely Danish pop-neoclassicist Astrid Sonne, Kenyan metal guru Lord Spikeheart, Irish goth raconteur Olan Monk and Japanese body-poet Golin.The amount of different sounds arranged into each of the tracks produces a unique sense of awe and bewilderment, a testament to the incredible talent and craft the musicians have employed into putting together such a broad range of influences and approaches into a coherent and extremely effective musical journey. An equally erratic thematic thread seems to run through all the tracks, one ultimately preoccupied with mental health and its ramifications. Without turning the project into a concept album, 33 and their collaborators have sprinkled it with references to personality disorders and mental conditions that are all too relevant to the contemporary age, reflecting on the lineage of human inner life. A wide display of lyrical and musical tools is employed to explore these themes, ranging from Sonne’s expressionist depiction of ADHD in the opener, to Cheng’s queer-themed reinvention of an Irish murder ballad in closing track ‘Babymusicc’. Tracing lateral trajectories for introspection, Tripolar is not only highly captivating, but it ultimately sounds esoteric in the best possible way: progressively revealing layer after layer of incredible aural magic, its true meaning living in the form and in its manic scope of energies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haunter","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":56530160550219,"sku":"R7403-8565","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/33_tripolar_covercopy.jpg?v=1771258426"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/haunter.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}