Virus - The Agent That Shapes the Desert

*Year : 2011

*Country : Norway

*Genre : Avant-garde Rock/(Black?) Metal

Tracklist :

1.The Agent That Shapes The Desert
2.Continental Drift
3.Chromium Sun
4.Red Desert Sand
5.Intermission: Furnace Creek
6.Dead Cities Of Syria
7.Where The Flame Resides
8.Parched Rapids
9.Call Of The Tuskers

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Total playing time : 43.12

Comment:

I would describe this music as a complex and delirious mental monologue. This record consists in: dissonant, eerie guitars; monotonous, grandiloquent, maleficating and really strange vocals; great and varied jazzy drum with a terrible groove. It's deeply black metal without sounding like black metal. Finally, I would note the presence of Garm (Ulver) on the last track.

The Agent That Shapes the Desert in 3 words:  Psychedelic & Demoniacal Orgy

For fans of: Ved Buens Ende (very similar), Fleurety, Voivod and Ulver

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