is one of my favorite bands as you may have seen if you looked at my profile (which is unlikely) or my playlist (which is also unlikely) but I would like to just say a few words about Sirrah, as I re-affirmed my love for their music when taking a shower earlier today (I have one of their CDs in my player in the bathroom, yes.) so, I figured I would write a small commentary.
Sirrah is one of the greatest black/doom metal bands that I have ever had the pleasure of listening to. They are a combination of deep, dark, sonorous male vocals, deep, growling, male vocals and very beautiful, ethereal/seraphic female vocals and a powerful series of musical accompaniment.
Sirrah is to this day, one of my favorite bands, being from Poland (apparently) they have only recorded two albums (to my knowledge) before suffering some sort of problems with their publishers and disbanding. These two albums were entitled "Acme" and "Did Tomorrow Come?". Acme is sort of a darker / gloomier album then Did Tomorrow Come? and contains much more of the style / genre of music that I particularily enjoy. Although I did like Did Tomorrow Come *nearly* as much as Acme, it did not contain the same ethereal yet powerful sound of the original album. One song makes the album however, a song entitled "Lash" that contains all the strength and power, plus the sort of ethereal, eerily dark and hypnotic sound.
Now, the question is, how did I hear of this European band? Well, That's quite a good question, because I imagine that most of you out there have probably never heard of them, nor of their music, nor of that particular type of music, it being sort of... dated at this point. It seems as if most of the way the music industry is going is one of a few ways. Pop (i.e. Brittney Spears and the like), So-called Rock / Metal (Blink 281, Lincoln Park, etc.) and Country Western (People who only wish they were as cool, or as good as Johnny Cash but all sound like they belong to the opposite gender.) Those three styles don't leave much for
*REAL* metal, because it seems these days that the majority of real metal is coming from Europe and that makes it distinctly more difficult for your average american to hear any of it. Unless of course you know (by very faint & slight association) Don Decker of Anal Blast, yeah, that bastard used to have a store called Nightfall in S. Minneapolis which I occasionally frequented, but alas, it's no more from what I understand. And No, I didn't hear of Sirrah from that. In fact, I did hear Sirrah, one late night on a 'Local' radio station, KFAI (Fresh-Air Radios, whose programming changes hourly (for the most part)), and you can go to their website by clicking the green-eyed floating skull.
The Root of all Evil was playing one night, in the middle of a summer in like 1996 or something to that nature (I believe I still lived with my dad (gasp)) in my little jail cell-sized bed-room and I used to record (on saturday nights from 1am to 6:66am) the Root of all Evil radio show on crappy black memorex tapes in my crappy Emerson stereo system that I had sort of re-wired so that instead of it using its 2 original speakers, I had it hooked through something like 8 speakers that were nailed up along the walls and hanging from the rafters and so forth.
Either way, I still have that crappy black tape, which first introduced me to several bands like:
Sirrah,
Theatre of Tragedy,
The Gathering,
Tiamat,
Opeth,
Old Man's Child,
Dimmu Borgir,
Sundown, and so on and so forth.
I had heard of
Bathory a long time ago, more like 1992 or so when I was in high school as a youngster, thanks to an
EVIL Nederlander who roomed with my good high school pal. Thanks be to that.
Anyhow, now that i've paid my respects and tribulations to these bands, I would like to say one thing:
METALThanks. Keep listening (And buying, not downloading mp3s you fags) to the METAL.
\Koltur
Well, what can i say, I imagine that this isn't really important for me to post here, considering i have another more, important and 'real' site, quite frankly..
