Nowherer

about this album

Fourth album by avant-garde black metal band Victory Over the Sun (and the third released under that name), released on April 23, 2021, through Bandcamp. Sole member Vivian Tylinska wrote and performed this album entirely in 17EDO (17 Equal Divisions of the Octave), rather than the traditional 12-note scale of Western music. She explained: “I got interested in microtonality around 2017, and learned to re-fret guitars myself in 2018. I had been listening to some blackened sludge and death metal and thought the qualities of 17EDO would work nicely with the conventions of those genres. 17 felt like a way to make some metal conventions that employ dissonance (chromatic tremolo riffs, low tuned sludge progressions, tritone & minor 2nd based chords) feel more fresh, since after enough exposure to those intervals (in 12EDO) they cease to feel as dissonant.” The title track was also released as a single on March 26, 2021, in advance of the album. Lyrically, she described it as “sort of a prayer about life under capitalism.” She also described “Alveromancy” as being “about trying to create beauty from chaos, permuting sounds and words and images trying to find meaning,” and “Oscines” as “a longer and more unified piece, sort of a love story about birds and dreams and filling abstract longing with art.” The Bandcamp track page for “God Howling in a Cage” credits Aki McCulloch with “additional guitar”, although the overall album credits do not. The reason for the discrepancy is not

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