Master Warjomaa - Intuition, cries from the crypt, Xothian kantele, the piping of that accursed flute Comte de St-Germain - Sensation, alchemical processes and keys to secrets Doomintroll - Feeling, sense of fashion and percussionism Mistress Palm - Thinking, errors of musical execution, inferior songs, sub-par sound
Influences
Black Sabbath, Camel, Piirpauke, Van Der Graaf Generator, Candlemass, Gong, Alien Dream, Hawkwind, Alan Parsons Project, Robert Anton Wilson, Austin Osman Spare, Philip K. Dick, Aleister Crowley, Nietzsche, Hakim Bey, Carl Gustaf Jung, Wilhelm Reich, Rabelais, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Hermann Hesse, Carlton Mellick III, John Dee, Väinämöinen, Timothy Leary, Ramsey Dukes, Peter J. Carroll, Phil Hine, Grant Morrison, Christopher Hyatt, Edward Kelley, Risto Santavuori, Timo Heikkilä, Copros the God of Caca, Veltto Virtanen, Antero Alli, Terence McKenna, Dadaism, Surrealism, the helpful voices in my head who like to claim being my HGA
Sounds Like
shit or shinola, depending on the listener's current reality tunnel and state of consciousness...
Some sources have described Aarni's music variably as 'almost orthodox doom metallish Lovecraftian-Jungian Kalevala avant-bard', 'progressive doom metal', 'Yanni with distorted guitars', 'savantgawd submusic', 'primitive black metal', 'underground progressive rock', 'shit', 'space doom metal', 'repulsonic metametal' and 'original as fuck'. The band itself occasionally uses terms like 'Chthonic Hybrid Musick', 'Antinomian Music', 'Maybe Music', 'Noise For Futants', 'Functional Music', 'Dream Torrent Music', 'Bizarro Musick' or 'Musical manure for the mind' or preferably no description at all. Sound confusing? Join the club!
Aarni strives to avoid using needless amounts of traditional song-structures, homogenous parts and other such widespread and boring conventions in its music fnord. Aarni aims for comfortably unpolished results using a mixture of bad and good playing. Probably the band functions as therapy to its unsuspecting members.
Some of the themes in Aarni's music may be A) Balancing your tribal/racial heritage with the good sides of modern technology & globalisation; magick, occultism, esoterica and world mythologies, brain-change, Discordianism, collective & personal liberation and theories of analytical psychology (especially those of C.G. Jung) B) Finnish folklore and paganism as the band views them C) The Cthulhu mythos as described by H.P. Lovecraft and fellow authors and D) Topics not included in the above categories.
Aarni's superintelligent lyrics take form in the language believed most suitable for the song's subject: usually in English, Classical Latin or Finnish and occasionally in French, Ancient Egyptian, Hebrew, German, Enochian, Glossolalic, Ouranian-Barbaric, et cetera.
Auditory releases so far: different demos in 2001 and 2002 ev, split CD with Umbra Nihil (2002 ev), debut full length CD 'Bathos' (2004 ev), second full length CD 'Tohcoth' (2008 ev) and CDR-EP 'Omnimantia' (2008 ev). Also appearances on various compilation and tribute albums. Aarni currently concentrates on their third full length CD ‘Lovecraftian’ as well as other, unrelated material.
Hello Aarni Yes, every time I leave the coffin I do not forget to lubricate all the hinges. Your music is great and all influences also! Best greetings!
Nice "Sigillum Dei Aemeth" reference ;-) Just had a chance to visit it in Dec 08 at the British museum - delighted to find someone bright enough to know who Dr. Dee is..
I dig your music - you're like the Finland soul brothers to Gates of Light ;-)
Thanks for the add! Wow, i can't believe...Aarni! I love your albums...and Quinotaurus is my favourite song, but also VITRIOL is wonderful. I listen it everyday! =) +Yuka+
