Callisto - Providence

Track: Providence
Artist: Callisto
Album: Providence

Category:

Music

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• Callisto
• Providence
• Avant-garde
• Doom
• Post
• Metal

[dyve9]

providence is a beautiful piece, does anyone know what it's about, because i understand the words, but can't get the idea ?

[AstronautJ]

Religion's selfish and opportunistic followers: those that treat their faith as a providence to rule over.

"While these golden plates are now emptied,

You're most welcome to the house of grief" -- A nod to the dark side of Catholicism, in particular.

[AstronautJ]

Yeah, bands like Neurosis, Isis and (Especially) Rosetta are hard to just pick up. You really need the time to immerse yourself in their work.

Wow, I've yet to meet a newer Neurosis fan that hasn't heard Souls. Go do it. Now. Lol.

I don't much like Opeth, myself. They're a little too... '80's-90's heavy metal', if you get me.

[quadrupleplay]

Tried this album again and I still don't like it, but I have listened to Noir and enjoyed it more. This track is pretty good, definitely the best on the CD.

[squidgeymush]

Thanks for uploading these songs. I've just listened through the entire album and I'm gonna have to buy it really soon! Now I'm gonna go check out Minsk.

[quadrupleplay]

Orchid and Morningrise might be for you. The best description I could come up with for those is post-melodic death metal. It's not progressive melodic death, and not pure melodic death, so that's the best way to say it.

The structures are amorphous and the songs often build in places, although without the same feel you might find in post-rock/metal (this isn't Weight).

[AstronautJ]

Yeah, bands like Neurosis, Isis and (Especially) Rosetta are hard to just pick up. You really need the time to immerse yourself in their work.

Wow, I've yet to meet a newer Neurosis fan that hasn't heard Souls. Go do it. Now. Lol.

I don't much like Opeth, myself. They're a little too... '80's-90's heavy metal', if you get me.

[quadrupleplay]

I'm going to take a look at that. It's not on the Archives, probably because it isn't quite metal, but it looks as if Monolith will be good.

I've not heard Souls at Zero yet, oddly enough. There's not a whole lot of situations where you listen to Neurosis.

I've noticed no one's brought up Opeth...the same friend that just learned Minsk and some of Neurosis (originally found him with a Radiant shirt) doesn't like them. It's surprising because the O's abstract approach to music is similar.

[AstronautJ]

Hmm, you're a tough nut to crack. My final recommendation then would be Monolith -- which I have uploaded. They take the ambient progression of Neurosis and add the heaviness of traditional heavy metal. Sort of what Neurosis would be like if they kept down the Souls at Zero path and still developed the song structure of their last few albums.

[quadrupleplay]

I know that those opinions are being shared by a lot of people. I seem to agree, but I also found more to like. It's going to take a while to get Minsk!

I once listened to Agalloch, but I've discarded them since. The music was fantastically done, but...now I can't avoid this issue: it wasn't "evil", but it was pagan. I listened to some similar bands (Elvenking) for a while and they just dropped away. Nothing against the music, of course, but not for me.

Discussion should probably move...