Can’t really recall where I got that picture from. I’m naming it the ‘Weedick-bear’, just so a good enough reference can be made to the said picture. And what Mr. Weedick is reminding me about (with his handsome attire, green cock and all) is about uncanny music.
Does uncanny means original? Maybe. Maybe it just means being excessively creative, more so than the average underground-Joe. All I know is some underground bands really are as uncanny as you can ever get, to the point of being highly unnerving and I just freakin’ love it when they are so.
Take the Italian Black Metal anomaly, Necromass for example. Their 1994 debut ‘Mysteria Mystica Zothyriana’ is anything but orthodox or mainstream. It sounds as baffling and unnerving now as it was when I first heard it in ’94. This shit is sick and haunting without even pretending to be so.
As if that wasn’t weird enough, the underground had also spawned Singaporean Eternal Oath. While their two demo tapes have shown signs of weirdness, their 1998 cassette EP ‘Ar Est Celare Artem’ just put the whole weirdness things to a completely new level....
Sure, there are those ‘normal’ Black metal parts, but then there are also those “Mr. Weedick has a flower up his ass” moments that are just too weird to describe. We’re talking weird clean vocals and an assortment of even weirder keyboard tunes here, plus an out-of-the-blue, freaky choice of South East Asian traditional musical instruments (i.e. goddamn Indonesian bamboo angklung, for crying out loud).
Can’t think of a better soundtrack for a big black bong or Mr.Weedick’s decapitation.
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