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The Crystal World

by LOCRIAN

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Alice M.
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Alice M. Unique, to say the least. My only complaint is the absence of the second part in the digital version, but I guess there's a reason for that. Dunno.
Choco Latte
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Choco Latte You can't label 'The Crystal World' properly. Is it ambient? Electronic? Noise? Drone? It's an Alice in Wonderland scenario. You just have to fall in and let it take you away. Favorite track: Obsidian Facades.
Christøph Trvm
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Christøph Trvm Locrian are a rare breed, utterly disturbing on one hand, in a bizarre way calming at the other. The Crystal World is fascinating, dark and shimmering. Favorite track: Elevations and Depths.
FLESH MECHANIC
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FLESH MECHANIC Haunting melodies colliding with mysterious noise. More experimental than the latest Locrian releases. Favorite track: The Crystal World.
Max
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Max A tangerine dream of dooming drone, progressively extending further and farther downwards. Favorite track: The Crystal World.
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Awaken the same terrors Triumph of elimination Profound echoes Eyes which do not see Forms in light The source of terrors City of towers
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Barren pantheon Derelict concrete Dormant forelands Pools of shadow Vanishing thrones Pyres rekindled from the dust Penitent sentinel At night's end
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The advent of extinction On attenuated breath Scorched Littoral drift and end emic thoroughfares Overwhelmed An axis displaced
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The onset of an era of isolation Salt deposits, glaciers retreat Submerged wanderings toward infinite torrents of cataclysms A harbinger of elevations and depths (never before known) Infertile migrations Spoken of only in eons Perpetual stasis

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A marked change had come over the forest, as if dusk had begun to fall. Everywhere the glacé sheaths which enveloped the trees and vegetation had become duller and more opaque. The crystal floor underfoot was occluded and gray, turning the needles into spurs of basalt. The brilliant panoply of colored light had gone, and a dim amber glow moved across the trees, shadowing the sequined floor. At the same time it had become considerably colder.
The Crystal World, the third studio album from Locrian, is an epic journey. Titled after JG Ballard’s 1964 novel that tells the story of a physician who specializes in leprosy sent to a remote African outpost to discover a jungle that is slowly crystallizing and encroaching upon everything it touches. Disc one comprises six tracks while disc two consists of one extended piece, Extinction, that picks up on the intensity of disc one and sustains it for close to an hour. On The Crystal World, Terence Hannum, and André Foisy, are joined by Steven Hess (On, Pan American, Ural Umbo) on percussion and electronics. Hess’ contribution pushes Locrian deeper into the abyss of despair rendering a sound that is darker, bleaker, and engulfing than any of the group’s previous releases. Locrian continue the conceptual trajectory of blackened drone that the group initially embarked on during their first studio album Drenched Lands (2009). Masters of layering, The Crystal World finds the group manipulating tones and textures that transport the listener to an apocalyptic wasteland. At times, the layers are serene and somber, at other times they are chaotic.
The Crystal World is Locrian's essential release, finding the band creating a sound all of their own. A sound that evades simplistic analogies to black metal, power-electronics, noise, or other categories. This is the album that will stun fans of the bands previous works with how far the group has come from their early releases.

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released November 25, 2010

Locrian (2010)
André Foisy | Terence Hannum | Steven Hess

Copyright MMX Locrian and Utech Records
Recorded by Dave Whitcomb, Chicago IL, USA
Mastered by James Plotkin
Artwork by Vberkvlt

www.utechrecords.com

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LOCRIAN Chicago, Illinois

Locrian was formed in late 2005 by André Foisy and Terence Hannum. Allmusic has described the band as an ”eclectic mixture of black metal, electronics, drone and noise rock”. The band have identified krautrock and '90s death metal as influences as well. ... more

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