Fuck labels, fuck putting music into little boxes to make it easier for people to understand. Call me weird, but I really fucking dig it when bands break free of the labeling bondage! Finland’s Oranssi Pazuzu is one of those bands that truly defy genres to create their own sound that has so many different radical layers to it that they are almost never-ending! On their latest album, Kosmonument, out now via Spinefarm, they have envisoned a huge universe of dark exciting music that changes shape by the second, shapeshifting from song to song. I was amazed by Oranssi Pazuzu’s first record, I respected them for being brave and open-minded in the way that wrote songs, and with Kosmonument they surpassed my expectations. These humans are willing to take their creative spirits to places that leave them open and emotionally naked, but that’s what makes Oranssi Pazuzu so fucking special! Also, I respect the way that this band is able to combine all of their influences together in a way that flows like the running water of an enchanted stream. Every song on this album is like its own planet, and the band’s creative energy force is the sun that all of the songs rotate around. The opening track, “Sienipilvi,” is a blackened space doom audio UFO that will have your braincells flying off to an alternative galaxy. You will hear sounds in this song that will etch themselves into your memory, and bass lines that seem to be hovering above you on the wings of a raven, while the vocals in this tune soar into another world. “Uusi olento nousee” is an extremely dark place, where the chilly drumming has the power to shatter huge glaciers, but before it’s all over they will have you traveling into a cave of nothingness. There are so many gnarly riffs hidden in Kosmonument that with each play, your ears will hear new nuggets of of black gold! I could write for days about how awesome this record is, but in reality, the only fucking way you will know the greatness of Oranssi Pazuzu is by encountering Kosmonument on your own terms.
blasting D
March 7, 2012 at 2:02 pm
great band, great record!!
check a review of the record and an interview of the drummer at The blasting days :
http://theblastingdays.blogspot.com/2012/03/oranssi-pazuzu-kosmonument-by-finnish.html