Stalaggh - Nihilistik Terrror review
| Band: | Stalaggh |
| Album: | Nihilistik Terrror |
| Style: | Ambient, Noise |
| Release date: | 2006 |
| A review by: | Herzebeth |
01. Projekt Nihil
02. Projekt Terrror
03. Untitled
As a reviewer, I receive constantly good and bad albums, I've also received the most amazing and the most stupid releases of course; but every once in a while I receive albums which do not fit in any of those categories, albums which are so bizarre and so estrange that the words "good" or "bad" become useless for them. "Nihilistik Terrror" is one of those albums, I'll do my best to explain it with details.
This album is the remixed version of both "Projekt Nihil" and "Projekt Terror created by Xardas, this guy is worldwide unknown but apparently he has a couple of Black Metal bands doing well in the underground scene. So anyway he remixed both albums and "Nihilistik Terrror" was the result; this album is ambient/darkened noise in the vein of Merzbow at times, but when everything becomes more rawer and drowned by white noise bands like Whitehouse pops into my mind.
So you have here a really weird release which is really difficult to digest, in fact I think most people won't be able to hear more than 13 minutes of this record. That's exactly where everything gets interesting, the rarity of this album is priceless as well as the concept; Stalaggh's objective is to create terror via their noise, they were smart enough to add shivering shrieks, trembling noises, upsetting moans and a lot of weird things to make your intestines feel unhappy about themselves. Also, apparently those moans, cries and screams are performed by the mentally ill, yes indeed, taken directly from the asylum to add weirdness to the album, or so they say. The last track is the only 100% Stalaggh's work, it's a little more digestible than the previous remixes, but that does not mean less shuddering as the screams become even more noticeable and scary.
And so that's it, we have here one of the most unusual releases I've heard in years, I can't say it's good or bad as I explained in the first paragraph; if you belong to the "I like noise and sky-high volumes in my stereo" group, then you'll love this album and you'll play it on a regular basis. But if you just like weirdness and atypical stuff in your collection you'll probably play this album once and then you'll go around saying "dude I have the oddest album in my pile of CD's but I can't show it to you", just like a Star Wars collectible if you know what I mean.
The most abnormal form of music I've heard this year
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 8 |
| Songwriting: | 8 |
| Originality: | 10 |
| Production: | 8 |
Written by Herzebeth | 07.05.2006
Comments
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| Slayer666 Posts: 2466  |
@Herzebeth "The most abnormal form of music I've heard this year" This is the most abnormal audio file I've heard in my life. And, it's not music, by the way.
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18374  |
Written by Slayer666 on 05.02.2009 at 09:48 He allready said that: "this album is ambient/darkened noise" But then again... I don't think there are some kind of rules to what's music and what's not. Everything is subjective.
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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| Ragana Rawrcat Posts: 4919  |
Since when noise isn't music? Someone makes those sounds too, you know.
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| Slayer666 Posts: 2466 |
Written by X-Ray Rod on 05.02.2009 at 19:58 Yes, there is a sort of a rule. Music is something that has even a slightest hint of melody or rythm. This... thing lacks both. It's just a bunch off mentaly disordered people screaming. How can anyone see anything even vaguley artistic in this, is waaaaaay beyond me.
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| Ragana Rawrcat Posts: 4919 |
I cannot agree with you. I haven't heard that music has a definition, nor that noise is not music anymore. Besides, just because you can't understand it, doesn't mean it's not music. Btw, answer of your question - people are different.
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| Lucas Mr. Noise Elite Posts: 13427  |
Written by Slayer666 on 05.02.2009 at 20:31 While I do agree with you that Stalaggh isn't good, it is music, definitely. Music, to me at least, is any conscious arrengement of sounds. No matter what sounds. And I'm backed by Merriam-Webster: 1 a: the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity b: vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony And besides, Noise (a genre which I'm unfortunately but a newbie in) is definitely a very interesting genre. Some noise is goddamn brilliant.
---- SLUDGE. DOOM. DEATH. Wait, what?  "The reason I'm running for president is because I can't be Bruce Springsteen." - Barack Obama
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| VPeter Posts: 1450  |
Written by Slayer666 on 05.02.2009 at 20:31 That's what the band wants you to think. I asked some one who works in a mental place, turns out those mental insane people who Stalaggh claims to have in their music cannot even leave their rooms. Also a guy I know who has connections with the dutch drone and noise artists says that they took a picture of an other underground noise artist and had it painted and now they use it as their main pic.
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| Slayer666 Posts: 2466 |
Written by Lucas on 05.02.2009 at 23:31 Some noise may be good, but this sure as hell ain't. For God's sake, it's just a bunch of mentaly distresed people screaming! What's good in that? 1 a: the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity b: vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony And this thing has even 1/500 of that? Please.
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| Slayer666 Posts: 2466 |
Written by VPeter on 06.02.2009 at 01:12 Yeah, that's probably true. But still, if it isn't real mentaly disordered people, then it's certanly some bunch of idiots who sound just like real crazyes.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071  |
Written by Slayer666 on 06.02.2009 at 09:46 So, just because YOU dislike it and don't hear any structure in it disqualifies it as music? mmm, the arrogance 
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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| Slayer666 Posts: 2466 |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 06.02.2009 at 10:20 Yes, arrogance indeed. But, now, seriously, I'm either deaf or retarted or somethin' or there really is no structure.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by Slayer666 on 06.02.2009 at 11:23 I don't really like this album at all but I can certainly hear loads of structure here. But the structure doesn't mean that what they're doing is good. even for the genre they operate in this is very very mediocre stuff at best.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| Slayer666 Posts: 2466 |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 06.02.2009 at 11:27 Hmmm... call me stuborn, but I'm still sticking to my opinion.
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| Ragana Rawrcat Posts: 4919 |
Stubborn! Sorry, couldn't help. Give noise another try. This wasn't your best pick.
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18374 |
Written by Ragana on 06.02.2009 at 13:14 Damn... It was me who was going to say that. But I agree... Take another Noise album. This is not a good one, it's just "interesting". Skullflower sounded fucking tight the last time I checked their myspace 
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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| Slayer666 Posts: 2466 |
Written by Ragana on 06.02.2009 at 13:14 Yeah, I don't blame you. By the way, I don't say noise itself is bad, I just don't like it. But this one IS bad.
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18374 |
Written by Slayer666 on 10.02.2009 at 17:04 It's always good that you know the difference between "not being of your liking and being just bad".
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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| Slayer666 Posts: 2466 |
Written by X-Ray Rod on 10.02.2009 at 17:13 Nihilistick Terrror is just plain bad. Shit, if I may say so. Other noise... some decent, some crap just like this.
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