Telepathic With the Deceased

Xasthur | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 17, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Moribund Records
• ASIN: B0002NY8OY
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #158,955 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Entrance Into Nothingness

2. Slaughtered Useless Beings In A Nihilistic Dream

3. Abysmal Depths Are Flooded

4. May Your Void Become As Deep As My Hate!

5. Telepathic With The Deceased

6. A Walk Beyond Utter Blackness (Instrumental)

7. Cursed Revelations

8. Drown Into Eternal Twilight

9. Murdered Echoes Of The Mind

10. Exit

Editorial Reviews

After two acclaimed albums Xasthur return with their Napalm/Moribund debut. Telepathic With the Deceased is isolated visionary Malefic’s darkest jewel yet, culminating his clandestine efforts into an hour-long voyage deep within his distorted psyche. Spanning icy sojourns to decaying ambience to paralyzing funeral doom, Malefic brings his horrific visions to you. Beware! You may already be Telepathic...

"The black metal equivalent to a Sergio Leone epic masterpiece film! This album is not of this world..." Bruni/BW&BK

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The best Burzum tribute band that doesn't play any Burzum, April 20, 2005

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Chet Fakir (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Telepathic With the Deceased (Audio CD)

Cold, frozen, black metal with distorted indecipherable vokills very reminicent of everyone's favorite pagan nutjob Varg Vikernes of Burzum. And like Burzum the guitars are distorted to a wash of fuzzy multilayered distortion, the drums plod and pummel, and keyboards add simple yet very atmospheric and ambient touches. In fact several of the songs are effective ambient electronica, for example the album opener "Entrance Into Nothingness". A few songs on this album are fast, but most are at a black-ice glacial pace. And despite being very influenced by Burzum, Graveland and the necro sound of early Norwegian black metal, this album is quite good, ie it's atmospheric, emotional, grim, and even frightening at times. It does what black metal is supposed to do very well. Xasthur bring something of their own to the table in what can be a limited and limiting genre, especially these days. Telepathic With the Deceased is chillingly evil and as another reviewer said, beautiful.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Darkest Place, November 16, 2004

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D. C. Bowden (Vermont mountains) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Telepathic With the Deceased (Audio CD)

Xasthur's music I have found to be almost the darkest possible place one can "go" with music. The overall sound of this album (I have the LP version), the sense of space therein, with the fuzzy guitars and distant screeching vocals, is almost unique in the genre of black metal. I applaud Amazon's effort to provide samples of tracks, but I still think black metal is a genre best experienced as complete albums, not a track here or there, and certainly not in low bit-rate, 30 second pieces (which can be ample for radio pop music).

Thus I encourage you to buy this CD, or LP if you can find it. If you're reading this review, you must have at least some interest in black metal to have found this item. The production will be considered horrid by some standards, but, in my opinion, it's part of the experience and works perfectly; these songs wouldn't have near the effect if everything was crystal clear.

I encourage you to seek Xasthur's even newer album called "To Violate the Oblivious". Thanks for your time, good day.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars , September 4, 2005

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Douglas Hernandez "varathron1" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Telepathic With the Deceased (Audio CD)

Xasthur's music isn't for everyone. Production values and accesible musical structures are thrown out the window in favor of primitive passages and ultra-depressive funeral dirges. Through chaos and perversity, a vision of nihilism and total annihilation for everything that stands for good is quite easily achieved. After a brief eerie intro, the carnage begins in the form of repetitive guitar interludes, and strained vocals. The drums and vocals might sound a little too buried in the background, but they only help the guitars spew their mournful laments up front over everything else, which is fitting seeing how this record mostly focuses on atmosphere. While there's some good partially fast tracks in here, I feel Xasthur are more lethal and effective at its slowest. It is when the sentiments of sorrow and grimness come across more predominantly. It is a pleasure to see that in thia age and day bands are still producing black metal of the highest caliber devoid of any outside influence or irrelevant progression. It doesn't really surprise me to see that Xasthur is quickly becoming a cult act of sorts within the black metal underground circles.