I am always trawling the internet looking for music that replicates that moment, in high school chemistry class, when I poked my Walkman headphones into my ears and pushed play on "Pyschocandy" by The Jesus and Mary Chain.
The drug of choice for the writer became music that buzzed or enveloped me in sound.
Lately the source of the buzz has infected the world of metal. Black metal bands are making the best Slowdive records and Danish man of darkness, Nortt is making tectonic plate shifting soundscapes of crippling beauty.
Nortt's doom is a long way away from just about any doomsters out there these days. This is a melding of Lustmord and Burzum. A self hating dark trip into darkness and depression, though I am sure Nortt is a happy and well adjusted fellow (we doomsters and noise-makers generally are).
The vocals are deep growls that are fairly burried in the mix and do not seem out of place or jarring.
Pick this up if you are into doom or perhaps into darker soundscapes (maybe a darker Windy and Carl).