Telepathic With the Deceased

Xasthur

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 17, 2004)
• Original Release Date: August 17, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Napalm
• ASIN: B0002NY8OY
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #200,818 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

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

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Yeesh., March 2, 2006

By	HeavyGuitarSunn - See all my reviews

Psychedelic black metal. The black metal equivalent of shoegazer metal or rock: piles of distorted guitars burying a broken, pained voice. This makes My Bloody Valentine, Jesus and Mary Chain, and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club seem like happy, upbeat, toe-tapping fun. Which, coincidentally, most of it is.

This album is no fun. But it is spectacular, atmospheric, and adventurous. Remarkable stuff.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars , September 4, 2005

By	Douglas Hernandez "varathron1" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

5 of 6 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

By	Chet Fakir (DC) - See all my reviews

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.