Band/artist - CaïnaGenre(s) - Post-black metal
Origin - United Kingdom
Album - Temporary Antennae
Year of release - 2008
Another runner-up to my Best of 2008; and like the leader of that list, another project flying the flag for inventive British black metal. Caïna was founded as a one-man raw but complex BM band but gradually turned more experimental, with especially post-rock influences seeping into the music. I've tried to describe the resulting soundscapes for hours, but it wouldn't work. Let's just say the music is at times sprawling like a hillside river, at times suffocating like a dungeon wall, and at times both. Temporary Antennae oozes avant-gardism in every direction, which I guess keeps the songs distinguishable, but also makes the album more exhausting that it should have to be, and it may overstay its welcome. That's why it fell short of the chart - also I think I liked 2007's Mourner better. But hey, it's black metal meets post rock, how can it not be awesome??
- Manuscript found in unmarked grave, 1919
- Ten went up river
- Willows and whippoorwills
- Tobacco beetle
- Larval door
- ...and ivy wound round him
- Them golds and brass
- Petals and bloodbowls
- Temporary antennae
- None shall die
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