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« on: May 10, 2009, 11:22:13 PM »

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Cobalt - Gin


I post and listen a lot of black metal. There is a lot of black metal that follows a very orthodox style, and their is a certain doctrine within the genre that few dare to break. The last big band to break these rules was Wolves In The Throne Room, with their "Green Metal", BM with environmentally centered ideals, mixing long ambient passages with bursts of harsh pure BM. 4 years after their first album, the metal community is still split over whether this new style of black metal is acceptable.

The latest band to dare to push the boundaries of the genre are Cobalt. Though their earlier works were fairly "pure", their latest opus, "Gin" defies those who would attempt to put them in one box, but blend so much that it is hard to describe their sound successfully. As what seems like an attack on black metal stereotypes, the album even includes a song called "A Clean, Well Lighted Place".

Bitingly misanthropic and nihilistic, the music sounds like a maelstrom of anger and rage, which is probably due, at least in part to one of the two members stints in Iraq, the second of which he is on now.  Cobalt do not make political music, nor do they write about religion. Their music is the embodiment of their life experiences, their emotions, and whatever the fuck else they want to write about.

The album uses mostly black metal style screamed vocals, with the odd bits of clean mixed in, mainly on the track "Pregnant Insect". The music brings to mind what russian circles would be if they were a black metal band. It is technical with lots of variations between heavy and soft, and flows wonderfully between sections.

My favorite track of the album, "Arsonry", is a perfect example of this. It blends their pure fury with softer, almost introspective accoustics, building up to a final barrage of powerful metal. The hateful lyrics throughout the song only emphasize the feeling it gives off.

Lets burn down forever,
Lets burn down our children together


Listen to "Arsonry":
http://www.metalmusicman.com/files/music/03Arsonry.mp3


The album as a whole is done to a level of perfection rarely seen these days. It flows wonderfully from beginning to end, it is well produced but not stifled in production. It is a boundary pushing album and a safe bet for best black metal album this year, if not the best album to come out this year (though i'm still holding out for new insomnium).

10/10

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« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2009, 11:38:05 PM »

Fixed your link-- I'll give this a listen at work tomorrow.
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« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2009, 11:40:06 PM »

it worked when i previewed it :X
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« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2009, 11:43:31 PM »

it worked when i previewed it :X

Your context was all good-- you just linked to a file called "03Arsonry.mp3" but the actual file was "03 Arsonry.mp3" (with a space), so I renamed the file on the server and removed the space.

You did everything right with the link, though.  Just a typo.
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« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2009, 11:59:43 PM »

WHEN WILL I EVER GET IT PERFECT!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!

oh well, theirs always will to fix it for me <3
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« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2009, 01:08:34 PM »

another thing i'd like to point out about this is that it is put out by profound lore, The Angelic Processes former label
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« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2009, 01:41:15 PM »

Just listened to this, it's okay, kind of reminds me of early Avenged Sevenfold for the vocals... but I never really liked them that much.  Not bad, but not really my taste.
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« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2009, 01:30:50 PM »

i love this band sooooo much. i've been listening to them non stop all month
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« Reply #8 on: August 10, 2009, 07:41:57 PM »

yyaaaaaay! lyrics posted on myspace!
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COBALT - "Gin" Lyrics
Since the booklet to "Gin", in true Cobalt fashion, didn't provide any lyrics, people have been wondering if we will be posting the lyrics online like we did with "Eater Of Birds".  Nonetheless, for those curious to get a further look within the destruction, violence, and excess that envelopes the lives of the duo that put their money where there mouth is, namely Phil McSorley and Erik Wunder, here we present you the lyrics to "Gin".
GIN
Theres blood in the air tonight,
Mammoth crawls under the ice,
Too slow to be measured in time,
Suicide painted on his eyes.
I want animal skins,
I want a house made out of it,
How much I want to crawl back inside my mother,
I want a house made out of her.

How I want to wear the blood of my father.

All the way down into the hotel basements,
Stuffing her mouth with my fingers,
This is why we're in love,
This is what I needed to show you.

Hemingway save me,
Hemingway save me,
Hemingway save me,
Hemingway get me really fucked up.

Together we chose not to believe,
You are my strung out queen,
You're too sad to come with me,
Coat your Tongue with another lie about me.

Your brother betrays you. 
Your friend kills you. 
Your woman is dead. 
The strong will inherit the earth.

I drink my,
I drink my GINNNNN!!!!!
Gin!
Gin!
Gin!
Gin!

DRY BODY
The Prophet is dead. And I can’t see.
The Prophet is there. But I can’t see.
The lost that are dead. Will set you free.
The lost that are dead. Will set you free…
Heeyyy…..

My neighbor is sad. I don’t know quite why.
He relies on the drink. To maintain a line.
There’s hives on my skin now. And my brow oh she bleeds.
My brow oh she bleeds now, now, now, now, now…

Heeyyyy…..

And I believe, And I believe, And I believe, I won’t believe.
And I believe, And I believe, And I believe, I won’t believe.
Roll off the grass, and let the insects breathe.
Roll off the grass, and let us, the insects, breathe
Roll off the grass, and the let the incest breed
Roll off the grass, and let us, the insects, breathe.

Catching the sun! Watching the sun! Worship the sun! Stare at the sun!!

ARSONRY
Cry at my feet; The god made of Man,
Drinking your face with my hands,
You were the one clinging to me,
There’s nothing but the sex you gave us both,
I was always stronger than you,
I’m burying your soul with my boots,
Walking away, fucking and drunk.

Remember ten minutes of your worst time for me.
The ocean was trying to swallow the land,
I don’t remember, the words never leave.
Those moments won’t... Fuck I forgot.

Lets burn down together.
Lets burn down our houses together.
Lets burn down forever.
Lets burn down our children together.

I'll spit on you again but I don’t know when,
I'll wait to see you outside the gates of heaven,
Now I could explain what I couldn’t back then,
The devil walk me away with a sympathetic grin.

Lets burn down together.
Lets burn down our houses together.
Lets burn down forever.
Lets burn down our children together.

Burn me down, shoot me in the chest,
Burn me down, shoot me in the chest,
Burn me down, shoot me in the chest,
Burn me down, shoot me in the chest,
Lets fuck one last time, In a burning bed.
Lets fuck one last time, In a burning bed.
Lets fuck one last time, In a burning bed.
Lets fuck one last time, In a burning bed.

STOMACH
I prefer sex when its an animal act,
Oh yeah.

So you sent me pictures of you,
Fucking someone else,
Progress, Incense,
Now we're getting somewhere.
Now that we've acknowledged,
That we're going nowhere,
I couldnt even pretend to care.

His eyes are lost, and his form is gone, 
His time was up and he lies in the fields,
In the banks of rivers and on the edges.
What I’ve seen you won’t see,
Urge to kill and love and hold and smash.
Stomach.

The power energy fucking huge holes,
in the face of the universe,
that bastard has nothing.
The power is here. 
The heart is in my crotch,
The powerful static,
Show me your insides,
Lets stick lies into each others skins.

His eyes are lost, and his form is gone, 
His time was up and he lies in the fields,
In the banks of rivers and on the edges.
What I’ve seen you won’t see,
Urge to kill and love and hold and smash.
Stomach.

So turn off your dusty stares,
Because we're all alone out here.
I couldnt even pretend to care.

I prefer sex when its an animal act.
Beast. Mammal.
Beast. Mammal.
Beast. Mammal.

PREGNANT INSECT
The red priest is giving me some pills,
Tonight we're climbing higher than ever,
Into your glass eyes.
Landfill breastmilk beast.

In the valley of lamps, Everyone's breaking their teeth,
The Cocaine wizard grinning, For us there is not sleep,
The inspiration comes from the ground.
When the sun came up we were coming down.

Stoned man the one who never sees the end,
The Armed wolves are pushing through your head.
Chewing at the spiral of flames between your legs,
I want this, this is why I have come.

Retarded children dance for the vomiting puppet,
Pull the mouth from your face to fuck it,
The floating statues dance for the vomiting children,
My windows are yellow, My bed smells like sin,
Eyelash and scourge the tears are going to come,
The air is filling with breathing and rum.
I smell you in my shit, on my pillow,
In the sand in the air, In the breath of whores.

I see animals on the horizon,
Ether flowers, stolen dramamine,
Kerosene, Dopamine, occasional codiene.
Suck the dead skin off your lips with me,
Bloated with your homesick pets,
Silhouettes of pregnant insects.

Sneak out of your skin with me,
I want this thing out of my body.
I raped your mind,
While you were sleeping.
Now shut up and swallow me.

TWO THUMBED FIST
So what in god’s name did it mean and why?
That bony old finger pointin’ down from the sky at you,
all alone!!

Dog made life for you
Praise this false sense of it all!

Peter thrice denied
His life’s most prized
Tax collector

So breathe a breath worth living
Squeeze the juices

of exhaustion.

Fire our mouths at the big ass
lies in the sky!!

I don’t believe them!!!

Seven peyote buttons
Six drinks in on strong rum
Touch the eyes of the living
Hump the netherworld hallway

Tribes of men,
Stared in to the sky
God’s revenge is one bad story

Close your watering eyes,
And drive your car into a tree,
Fall out of time with me.

Buried in the hills by the lives we once wished for.

No man!

Clench bad hands,
Making holes in palms
Shaped like fingernails,
Made by white knuckles

The way, the truth, and light is gone
And the dust you reflected recedes

Drop me dead and you’ll find me there
Without regret, nor tears, nor guts,
Just nothing!!!!

Don’t trust! Impulse!
Fist fuck! And Win!!!!

No man!
No man!
No man!
No man!
No man, save none, want none, smear god on their faces

Save me!
Damn me!
Drink me, in the ground, nail my story on their tables!

No dog!
No dog!
No Bog!
No dog!

No dog!
No dog!
No Bog!
No dog!

No dog!
No dog!
No Bog!
No dog!
No bog!
Bogdamn god!
 
A STARVED HORROR
God saved the races Who bowed.
Lets aim our arrows at the new sun,
We'll eat some poison with our bread.
I am the way to the city of woe.
Walk in silence down to the sea,
Our clothes smell like fire.
The way to the forsaken people.
Tusks growing out of our faces,
Humans dry humping races,
And land’s sugar is all over our teeth.

Tonight we'll drink purple wine and climb,
To the mountains uncrowned by stars,
We'll kiss women whose breath tastes like blood,
Reaching deep to feel the faces below the rocks.

Faithless priests old before their time,
Pull cold fish from the shady sea,
At night they drink their cloudy wine,
And quietly float back to sleep.
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« Reply #9 on: August 11, 2009, 01:48:30 AM »

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« Reply #10 on: August 11, 2009, 01:49:53 PM »

you mean +1000000!
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