Widerwertig/Trager rostender Maschinerie/Negation Records/2014 Full Length Reviw

  This  is  a  review  of  another  recording  from  Widerwertig  with  the  music  this  time  going  for  more  of  an  instrumental  black  metal  sound  with  the  album  being  released  in  2014  by  Negation  Records  and  called  "Trager  rostender  Maschinerie".

  The  album  starts out  with  a  distorted  and  melodic  sounding  depressive  black  metal  sound  which  also  brings  in  elements  of  experimental  rock  and  all  of  the  musical  instruments  sound  very  powerful  sounding  and  after  a  couple  of  minutes  solos  and  leads  are  added  into  the  music  along  with  some  fast  parts  and  blast  beats.

  When  the  album  goes  into  other  songs  the  music  goes  for  mostly  an  instrumental  black  metal  sound  with  no  vocals  being  utilized  this  time  around  along  with  a  mixture  of  slow,  mid  paced  and  fast  parts  as  well  as  adding  in  elements  of  old  school  and  raw  sounding  black  metal  along  with  a  crust  punk  edge  and  after  awhile  there  is  a  brief  use  of  clean  playing  before  returning  to  a  more  heavier  direction  and  on  the  last  track  elements  of  post  rock  are  added  into  the  recording.

  With  this  album  Widerwertig  stay  away  from  vocals  and  go  for  more  of  an  instrumental  black  metal  sound  while  also  adding  in  melody  and  elements  of  experimental  rock  and  crust  to  create  their  own  sound  for  this  recording.

  Song  lyrics  are  all  absent  from  this  recording  with  the  music  being  all  instrumental,  while  the  production  has  a  very  raw  and  heavy  sound  where  you  can  hear  all  of  the  musical  instruments  that  are  present  on  this  recording  along  with  a  couple  of  the  tracks  being  very  long  and  epic  in  length.

  In  my  opinion  this  is  another  great  sounding  recording  from  Widerwertig  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  instrumental  black  metal,  you  should  check  out  this  recording.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "Cutting  Ouroborus"  and  "Vualkhorna".  8  out  of  10.

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Widerwertig/Lobotomie/2011 Full Length Review

  Widerwertig  are  a  band  from  Germany  that  has  been  featured  before  in  this  zine  and  plays  a  very  experimental  form  of  depressive  black  metal  with  elements  of  punk  rock  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  self  released  2011  album  "Lobotomie".

  The  album  starts  out  with  a  very  lo-fi  and  raw  black  metal  sound  along  with  some  blast  beats  and  a  few  seconds  depressive  screams  kick  in  along  with  a  mixture  of  mid  paced  and  fast  parts  and  after  awhile  melody  is  added  into  certain  parts  of  the  recording.

  When  we  get  more  into  the  album  elements  of  punk  rock  are  mixed  in  with  the  more  raw  and  depressive  black  metal  parts  of  the  recording  and  at  time s clean  guitars  are  added  into  the  music  briefly  before  returning  to  a  heavier  direction  and  on  one  of  the  tracks  the  bass  guitars  sound  very  powerful.

  With  this  recording  Widerwertig  played  a  more  raw  and  depressive  form  of  black  metal  and  while t hey  do  bring  in  a  small  amount  of  punk  and  experimental  elements  they  did  not utilize  them  as  much  until  later  releases,  but  this  is  a  very  great  sounding  depressive  black  metal  recording.

  Song  lyrics  are  written  in  a  mixture  of  German  and  English  and  cover  dark,  depressive  and  philosophical  themes,  while  the  production h as  a  very  dark,  raw  and  primitive  sound  to  it  along  with  some  of  the  tracks  being  very  long  and  epic  in  length.

  In  my  opinion  this  is  another  great  sounding  recording  from  Widerwertig  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  raw  depressive  black  metal,  you  should  check  out  this  album.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "SolEIA"  "TraumA"  and  "Senerade".  8  out  of  10.

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Widerwertig Interview

1.For those that have never heard of you before, can you tell us a little bit about the band?

We are three guys with three instruments. That means there is one instrument per guy (guitar, bass and drums, a very special constellation). We started making music four years ago and produced three albums, two of them are already available and one is in production and will be released in a few weeks. During the time in which we were writing our first album, we were two guys, but then a third guy appeared. Fortunately he has not disappeared until now.

2.How would you describe your musical sound?

We try to build up a dark atmosphere to destroy this atmosphere with other elements (punk, psychedelic, sparkling unicorn fights ...) in order to produce something bizarre. For us, it is important to mix very deep feelings with elements which might seem to not fit in totally.

3.What are some of the lyrical topics and subjects the band explores with the music?

Sometimes we take passages from books (burroughs, nietzsche, freud..), sometimes we could not resist the urge to write about meaningless philosophical topics. There are also songs we just tried to imitate animal sounds (dying pigs, screaming goats..) The new album will have no vocals.

4.What is the meaning and inspiration behind the name Widerwertig?

It is a wordplay because in germany "widerwärtig" with the letter "ä" is the german word for "disgusting". "Wider" means something like "against" and "wertig" refers somehow to "values". We know it is not possible to be against social values, it is just a try to stand for a critical view on morality (the only problem is, the more you are outside, the more you are inside). Therefore you can´t reduce our philosophy to nihilism, but if you want to, you can reduce it to sparkling unicorns.

5.Has the band done any live shows or is this a studio project?

We had a few live shows in our area. Because of our upcoming album release we plan some other shows.

6.The new album came out on Negation Records, can you tell us a little bit more about this label?

It is a recently founded label to support the local underground scene. There are a few other projects which release there, also some black metal projects like "Flagellant". The label has no focus on a specific genre.

7.On a worldwide level how has the feedback been to your music by fans of black metal?

The eastern hemisphere seems to like our music, especially the chinese one. The russian black metal community has been teared apart into the ones who like us and the others who do not. today there is a big war between them and we hope no one gets hurt because of our music. In the future there will be another big war about if this statement is true or not.We would like to get more feedback from america, because there are great bands.

8.Are there any other musical projects besides this band?

In the past there was the project "miriquidi eremit", a mixture of post rock and punk. We also make music together in other constellations and perhaps there will be releases in the future. For example there will be a split beat tape from "cap farewell" and "onkel jutter king".

9.What direction do you see your music heading into on future releases?

We will stick to our way of permutating our style slightly while we are always trying to approach our idea(l) of music.

10.What are some bands or musical styles that have influenced your music and also what are you listening to nowadays?

The bands which influenced our music are still the bands we are listening to today. there are bands like "paysage d'hiver", "Gris", "Bone awl", "Porcupine Tree", "Pyramids", "Randy Newman", "Wu-Tang-Clan", "Beach House" and "Aphex Twin", the usual stuff.

11.Outside of music what are some of your interests?

Searching for food in trash cans, fighting homophobia, thinking about the structure of social existence, truck driving, physics. We also like to sleep in the woods and drink alcohol.

12.Any final words or thoughts before we wrap up this interview?

We like racoons and we hope to see some soon. There are not many in germany but they become more. And finally we want to thank god for all that oxygen in the air around, because without all that oxygen we believe we would probably suffocate very slowly which certainly would mean a painful death... We want thank you for your interest in our music and for this interview.

We apologzse that it took so long until we answered!

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Widerwertig/Sinepmaskok/Negation Records/2013 Full Length Review

  Widerwertig  are  a  1  man  band  from  Germany  that  plays  a  mixture  of   orthodox  and  depressive   black  metal  and anarchist  punk  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  2013  album  "Sinermaskok"  which  was  released  by  Negation  Records.

  "Intro"  starts  off  with  some  slow  black  metal  guitar  riffs  and  drums  to  bring  an  introduction  to  the  album.

  "Quallenhybrus"  which  is  also  the  first  official  song  on  the  album  opens  up  with  slow  black  metal  guitar  and  bass  riffs  along  with  some  drums  and  punk  style  clean  singing  and  after  awhile  the  guitar  riffing  starts  utilizing  melody.

  "The  Abvention  Of  The  Goats"  begins  with  clean  guitars  before  getting  heavy  and  adding  in  drums  and  punk  style  vocals  and  then  the  music  goes  into  a  more  raw  and  fast  direction  along  with  some  blast  beats.

  "Hieroglyph"  opens  up  with  heavy  and  dark  sounding  guitar  riffs  and  then    the  bass  guitars  and  drums  kick  in  along  with  vocals  a  few  seconds  later  and  a  few  seconds  later  melodies  start  coming  out  of  the  guitars.

  "Kofmans  Tod"  kicks  in  with  slow  and  dark  sounding  guitar  and  bass  riffs  along  with  some  drums  before  adding  in  vocals  as  well  as  melody  into  the  guitar  riffing  as  well  as  speeding  up  to  a  mid  paced  direction  at  times.

  "Tiefe  Tannen"  hits  it  off  with powerful  sounding  bass  guitars  and  drums  before  getting  slightly  heavier  along  with  some  melodic  guitar  riffing  and  leads  before  going  into  a  fast  black  metal  direction  with  the  vocals  remaining  closer  to  punk  and  then  the  music  slows  down  and  adds  clean  guitars  in  certain  sections  of  the  song  and  towards  the  end  there  is  a  brief  use  of  guitar  leads  being  utilized.

  "Mnemosyne"  is  brought  in  with  dark  and  depressive  sounding  guitar  riffs  and  drums  before  going  into  a  more  fast  and  raw  direction  along  with  bass  guitars,  drums  and  vocals  and  then  alternating  between  mid  paced  and  fast  parts.

  "Trichter"  is  introduced  with  drum  beats  before  bass  guitars  and  melodic  guitar  leads  kick  in  and  after  a  couple  of  minutes  power  chords  from  the  guitars  kick  in  and  the  music  goes  into  a  faster  direction  for  a  few  seconds  before  focusing  more  on  mid  paced  parts.

  "TraumA"  makes  its  way  in  with  soft  clean  guitar  playing  and  a  minute  later  heavy  and  melodic  guitar  and  bass  riffs  along  with  some  drums  kick  in  along  with  some  high  pitched  depressive  black  metal  screams  and  a  few  minutes  later  the  music  speeds  up  a  bit  and  adds  in  blast  beats  before  returning  to  a  slower  direction  and  then  alternating  between  fast  and  slow  parts  and  the  song  closes  with  clean  guitars.

  "Vespera"  has  its  start  with  acoustic  guitars  and  drums  and  a  few  seconds  alter  heavy  and  melodic  sounding  guitar  riffs  kick  in  which  also  lead  to  some  depressive  black  metal  screams  and  powerful  bass  guitars  and  halfway  through  the  song  there  is  a  brief  use  of  fast  playing  along  with  some  blast  beats.

  "Outro"  closes  the  album  with  some  slow  guitar  and  bass  riffing  along  with  some  drums  and  then  speeds  up  a  bit.

  "Cutting  Ouroborus"  which  is  also  the  bonus  track  begins  with  distorted  black  metal  guitar  and  bass  riffing  along  with  some  drums   and  then  goes  into  a  more  fast,  raw  and  primitive  direction  along  with  some  blast  beats  and  then  slows  down  as  well  as  adding  melody  into  the  guitar  riffing  before  speeding  up  again  and  the  song  is  all  instrumental.

  Song  lyrics  are  written  in  a  mixture  of  English  and  German  and  cover  dark  themes,  while  the  production  has  a  very  dark,  raw  and  primitive  sound  to  it  while  you  can  still  hear  all  of  the  musical  instruments  that  are  present  on  this  recording  along  with  some  of  the  songs  being  very  long  and  epic  in  length.

  In  my  opinion  Widerwetig  are  a  very  great  sounding  mixture  of  orthodox,  depressive  black  metal  and  anarchist  punk  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  this  musical  genre,  you  should  check  out  this  project.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "The  Abvention  Of  The  Goats"  "Mnemosyne"  "TraumA"  and  "Cutting  Ouroborus".  RECOMMENDED  BUY.

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