Author Archives: Dæv Tremblay

Grammatical Nazism on Title Capitalisation in Music

by Dæv Tremblay

Here’s my coming out. I’m a grammar nazi! I’m not the best at it – English is only my second language -, but I can be irrationally rigid on mistakes made in text, and feel offended when people leave a few of them through. I’m also a fairly regular offender of my own rules, as I hate – HATE! – to read what I just wrote in order to find minute errors to correct. I don’t have the time nor concentration to do this, the first draft is almost always the final draft. What even is this introduction? It strayed … Read more

OSR: June 26th, 2016

by Dæv Tremblay

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Triple Sun, often stylized as “°°°”, is an atmospheric, sludgy post-rock band, and they released their album, The City Lies in Ruins, on May 13. It’s a really good album with vibes of avant-garde music all around, although it lies more in the emotional than the technical department. Consider listening to it for some more ambient and laid back jams, although still retaining some heaviness.

Guitarist, keyboardist and composer David Maxim Micic just released The Stock Challenge | Vol. 1, a two-song EP (three if you count the instrumental version of Wallflower). The idea behind this release… Read more

OSR: June 20th, 2016

by Dæv Tremblay

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Let’s start this one with Dr. Zilog‘s Unknown Command. I’ve got to say that this one is much better than any of their previous albums. I knew the project with Vulgar Fractions, and it was pretty good for a while, but the gimmicky nature of it made it intolerable to me after only a few listens. Same goes for that other chiptune project, Unraveller. However, I feel that Unknown Command is much more a metal album than it tries to be a NES soundtrack.

In typical Indricothere fashion, it’s without a word of warning that III came out… Read more

Kel Valhaal – New Introductory Lectures on the System of Transcendental Qabala

by Dæv Tremblay

a0901541014_10That’s the new project of Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, most famous for being the brain behind the American black metal band Liturgy: Kel Valhaal. Borrowing the name from a song on “The Ark Work”, the latest of his other band’s albums (more on that later), it completely lets go of the black metal aesthetics in favour of a completely electronic soundscape, along with clean, monotonous vocals. While most of Liturgy’s work can be labeled as metal, The Ark Work did go into extremely experimental territory, abandoning harsh vocals and bringing in the sound of bells… lots of bells. Kel Valhaal has … Read more

Advanced Mathematics 1: Morse Code

by Dæv Tremblay

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I recently wrote an article, on Heavy Blog Is Heavy, about twelve-tone technique, dodecaphony, tone row system, whatever you want to call it (read it here). And while it was fun, I only could go so deep into theory, not to alienate the diversity of readers, each with their own proficiency in music theory. So, this exercise got me into gears and I now want to do more of this, and go as deep as I personally can, so I’m beginning the Advanced Mathematics series, where I’ll pick a topic that takes from both math and music and try … Read more