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 Hidden God.
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 include: Balancing your ancestral path with the positive sides of modern technology & cultural redesign; magick, occultism, esoterica and world mythologies, brain-change, Discordianism, collective & personal liberation, transhumanism and theories of analytical psychology (especially those of C.G. Jung); the Cthulhu mythos as described by H.P. Lovecraft and fellow authors; plus divers more obscure topics.
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.
@Xavier: There seems to be no coincidences...and the 23 thing is my Discordian version of the Thelemite 93 greeting :)
As for the 'VITRIOL' lyrics, I guess they can be interpreted in numerous ways. For instance as referring to the Jungian individuation process using mostly Alchemical jargon: seeking the Hidden Stone or Self from the deep soil of the psyche, making the inner become the outer. Or taking the lyrics more literally so they would describe the work (great or small) of the occultist. Or your interpretation. These all appear to me to be very much the same thing - we're talking about a creator, overcoming the opposing factors, the act of creation and the created.
You are welcome. I was very young when Twin Peaks was on TV, it later become my second favorite TV show ever (LOST being my first favorite). After hearing this song and re-watching Twin Peaks, it all makes much more sense now, never as it did before. Just like when you read a book multiple times and learn new things when you read it again later. It is beautiful and one of the songs I can listen to over and over. I too think that otherwise the songs influence remains unconscious. Well to me, the first line of lyrics means something like this (to me) The Sower, who is the Grand Being who controls the controllers of the Universes that he created, that he ultimately holds the wheel, (the power of changing and controlling benevolently), to his Creations and their Creations. The Inner becomes the Outer... Creation is present in and out simultaneously, right now, I am the inner. Over time, I will become the Outer. Ahrimans grip will fade, etc, etc. It is like my previous belief of becoming One with Creation. Even if I am not exact on meaning, finding this has been a part of my plan. If you rearrange the letters in the name 'dale cooper' one of its anagrams is 'ordeal cope'. Perhaps just a coincidence. What does the 23, 23/23 in your comment stand for?
Xavier, thank you for the interest in 'Vitriol'! You may be right in pointing out the song's similarity to the Twin Peaks theme, at least when it comes to the bass line...we wanted to make an intentional nod to Lynch. But otherwise we think the song's influences remain unconcious.
Thank you for the song "V.I.T.R.I.O.L.". I am truly moved beyond words. I visited websites and studied the song for over an hour. I have greatly learned. I love this song very much and Im moving you to a high place on my top friends list. This song reminds me of "Twin Peaks(theme song)" Is there any known relation to it?
Greetings Aarni, We are very thankful to receive your friendship and suppot in Finland. We hope that you will enjoy our music. I find your music to be quite intriquing and complex. Be well, Brian
Greetings. A review of your record Tohcoth has just come out at http://www.abysszine.com/2009090002-aarni-tohcoth.html. Best wishes from the staff of ABYSSzine.com
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