Maze Of Cako Torments - Nuli Med Salhathaz demo II 1996
1) Intro
2) Ratom Ase?
3) Me Vhatav Tvalebs
4) Niavi Gavs Cechils
5) Dabadebuli
6) Kalaki Opiumis Simarshi
7) Usikvdilo...? Bred
8) Outro
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Today's post is another contribution sent by a reader, thanks to him and Billy Warminster, whoever he might be, credited for the rip in the info text included with the files. I know this demo, probably the very same rip, has already been posted in for example brother Raf's (excellent) blog, but since I sought it for so long I decided to post it anyways. So this is the second (I think) demo of the Latvian oddball project Maze Of Cako Torments whose third tape you find here. See that text for a little more background babble on this. Unfortunately no proper scan of the covers, just a photo which I think is taken from Metal Archives. Looks like it had pretty neat covers.
All of the song titles are... not sure if that's Latvian or just gibberish but incomprehensible anyways. UPDATE: I was informed that the titles (and possibly lyrics) are in Georgian! Thanks for the info and sorry about the gibberish bit to possible Georgian readers. The intro+6 tracks+outro combo is quite lenghty, over 37 minutes which is easily enough for album length. It doesn't sound like an album, though. Obvious demo sound but very clear and it feels a little less murky than the 3rd demo but this might be due it being a dub of whatever generation. The overall sound combined with the drum programming makes this effort sound more like industrial black metal, so calling the project such might be justified if one had only heard this demo. There are some synths used for mostly background and the atmosphere gets quite manic at times, like on "Me Vhatav Tvalebs". But not all tracks are either mechanical or maniacal churning, there are more "casual" atmospheric moments like the beginning of "Niavi..." or "Dabedebuli" which gets quite frantic in the end but in an interesting and again different way. Ok, enough talk. You've probably already downloaded this or rolled your eyes, sighed and decided to wait for another post and nothing I'll type here will change anything. Recommended if you like unusual black metal based material.
I love the weirdness of this stuff. Always liked this one and the Yellow Water one. Someone will have to explain the name to me though.
VastaaPoistaThanks for the post.
@kingpossum:
VastaaPoistaIt was originally the intriguing band name that caught my eye, though I'm not going to try to explain it. At least not while sober. As always, you're welcome!
The get those lagers and vodka down so we can have the name explained...
VastaaPoista@kingpossum:
VastaaPoistaNo can do sir, I'm a working man this weekend. How about another post instead? Comin' up shortly!
God damn, this guy's instrumentation is so bizarre, but it's not like arbitrary noodling passed off as "experimental" music; rather its structured like a more-or-less formal metal album.
VastaaPoistaIt's so well organized I get the feeling it was made by someone with prior experience in death/black bands or more likely with mastering CD-quality albums ca. mid 80's to early 90's.
My theory is, one day, he was either stranded somewhere without his instruments or was just bored, so he decided to make a metal album with almost none of the classic instruments we associate with the genre (guitar, bass, drums, etc.)
Usually when someone cobbles together something like this--heavy music with keyboards or sampled percussion/strings as opposed to the real instruments--it ends up falling into shitty scene kid grindcore obscurity; the idea that someone was able to do something like this roughly a decade before the advent of fruity loops, let alone do it this effectively fascinates me.
@anon:
VastaaPoistaThanks for your interesting comment. Note that this is his second tape under this monicker, there's apparently a demo called "Dabalibula" released in 1995.
In a way your theory of him being "stranded" might be sort of true, as far as I've understood discussing this project with some of the Skyforger people at Hammer this summer, this was a Russian guy living in Latvia at that time doing this all by himself. I don't know if he did or had participated in any other music projects, there's not a whole lot info around and back at Hammer we were pretty hammered by the time we talked about this.
You did listen to the "Demonic Songs..." tape too, did you?
@Anonyymi sanoi:
VastaaPoistaBrilliant comments! Thanks for the post. Do check out the Demonic Songs for Yellow Water demo as Mr. Velkaarn suggests if you get the chance.
Very odd -- but not random -- stuff indeed.
The language (and alphabet) used on this tracklisting is Georgian.
VastaaPoista@anon:
VastaaPoistaGeorgian? All right, thanks for clearing that up, going to update the post now. Wonder if he was Georgian rather than Russian then?