Black Boned Angel - Verdun (2009)Release ID: 16944

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Campbell Kneale is a pivotal figure in the New Zealand drone/noise scene and has released numerous albums under the Birchville Cat Motel and Our Love Will Destroy the World monickers. Black Boned Angel is his drone metal trio. Verdun is the bands fourth full length album that takes on providing a soundtrack the longest and most devastating battle in World War 1.

Verdun is a single 50+ minute song split into 3 distinct parts (the 3 parts are available on the CD and digital release, the vinyl version contained the first and the third movement). Part 1 (Prayer Sodden Holes) has a sombre, ominous sound with repetitive riffs and drums underlayered with feedback that leads into a brief respite during the mellow(er) part 2 (Tears Strike the Mile High Gong) before the terrifying climax of looped choirs and a cacophony of noise, feedback and the sound of war of part 3 (Creeping Barrage). It’s the sound of desolation, hopelessness, anticipation, terror and fear.

Black Boned Angel are no more. In an interview on the inarguable, Kneale stated that “The grand-scale, crushing, sadness that is plastered all over those records was actually real for me and I can't live that way anymore.” And you can hear it all on Verdun – my favourite drone metal album.

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Release
Verdun
Year
2009
Format
Album
Clans
The Fallen
Genres
Drone Metal
Sub-Genres

Drone Metal (conventional)

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