ECOFASCIST BLACK METAL FROM THE UNITED STATES
Dear cosmonauts & sybarites,
There comes a time when one needs to take a bow, draw the
curtains and call it a night. So now is the case with Velvet Cacoon. Our desires
have been fulfilled
and there is nothing more left to say. Members of the band will continue to
seperately pursue other avenues of art, literature and music but Velvet Cacoon
and what it
stood for has been put to sleep.
We endlessly thank our half brothers at Full Moon Productions
and we can only hope that the "December Star Embassy" trilogy, our
masterwork,
will continue to serve that strange ardor within all who feed on the serenity
of solitude. May your bellies ripen.
Goodnight, goodbye, sleep well. Summer awaits.
-LVG
If you were expecting a little dinner music, perhaps you've come to the wrong
place. Formed in autumn of 1996, Velvet Cacoon have many recordings to their
name but their desire to remain
a mystery has kept many a stranger to the band. Over the course of nearly eight years, Velvet cacoon have unveiled a flurry of spells and stars, dreams and depression, midnight and
misanthropy. This is the world of Velvet Cacoon - extremely surreal and celestial nightscapes.
Velvet Cacoon have broken virtually every rule which silently defines black metal by embracing such ideologies as ecoterrorism and asexuality, but despite always being surrounded in
controversy, they choose to ignore the rumors and live in their own world, 2 stories up in a rotting building where the windows are painted over and the insides have been gutted and
restocked with music instruments and recording equipment dating back to the 1950's. It is here in the bands private studio in Nob Hill where clandestine recording methods allow Velvet
Cacoon to experiment with an array of unconventional techniques, most significantly in 2000, when the band developed a guitar which functions off of the collected pressure of gasses from
the flames of diesel gasoline instead of traditional electric pickups. The sounds are then channeled through a fiber optic cord into a 40 gallon aquarium where vibrato sensors record the final
outcome. It has become Velvet Cacoons trademark sound, and in it you can hear everything from swirling voices to fireworks to harps, violas, and a myriad of netherworldy sounds which
have no default definition. Velvet Cacoon make it no secret that they are addicted to only the strangest methods of musical creation and ambience.
There is a depth and hypnotic quality here, and that was the design from day one - to create black metal which mesmerizes, hypnotizes, then paralyzes - to lull the listener into a world
where nothing seems quite right
but you'd rather be nowhere else.
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"December In Dissolve" - Demo - 1996 "Starlit Seas of Angel Blood" - Demo - 1997 "Dextronaut" - CD - 1998 "Few Ghosts Roam This Planet" - Demo - 1999 "Velorum" - Full Length (tape) - 2000 "Music For Falling Buildings" - Demo - 2001 "Chapelflames (Red Steeples)" - Full Length (tape) - 2002 "Dying Celestial Bodies" - Full Length - 2003 "December Star Embassy Vol I:
"Genevieve" - CD - 2004 |
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Download "Avalon Polo", taken from "Genevieve".
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