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Aarni

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About Me


Some sources have described Aarni's music variably as 'almost orthodox doom metallish Lovecraftian-Jungian Kalevala avant-bard', 'progressive doom metal', 'Yanni with distorted guitars', 'savantgawd submusic', 'primitive black metal', 'underground progressive rock', 'shit', 'space doom metal', 'repulsonic metametal' and 'original as fuck'. The band itself occasionally uses terms like 'Chthonic Hybrid Musick', 'Antinomian Music', 'Maybe Music', 'Noise For Futants', 'Functional Music', 'Dream Torrent Music', 'Bizarro Musick' or 'Musical manure for the mind' or preferably no description at all. Sound confusing? Join the club!
Aarni strives to avoid using needless amounts of traditional song-structures, homogenous parts and other such widespread and boring conventions in its music fnord. Aarni aims for comfortably unpolished results using a mixture of bad and good playing. Probably the band functions as therapy to its unsuspecting members.
Some of the themes in Aarni's music may be A) Finnish folklore and paganism as the band views them B) occultism and world mythologies, brain-change, Discordianism, collective & personal liberation and theories of analytical psychology (especially those of C.G. Jung) C) The Cthulhu mythos as described by H.P. Lovecraft and fellow authors (sometimes possibly handled with a slight tongue-in-cheek approach) and D) Topics not included in the above categories.
Aarni's superintelligent lyrics take form in the language believed most suitable for the song's subject: usually in English, Classical Latin or Finnish and occasionally in French, Ancient Egyptian, Hebrew, German, Enochian, Glossolalic, Ouranian-Barbaric, et cetera.
Auditory releases so far: different demos in 2001 and 2002 ev, split CD with Umbra Nihil (2002 ev), debut full length CD 'Bathos' (2004 e.v.) and second full length CD 'Tohcoth' (2008 e.v.). Also appearances on various compilation and tribute albums.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/26/2006
Band Website: aarni.info
Band Members: Master Warjomaa - Intuition, cries from the crypt, Xothian kantele, the piping of that accursed flute
Comte de St-Germain - Sensation, alchemical processes and keys to secrets
Doomintroll - Feeling, sense of fashion and percussionism
Mistress Palm - Thinking, errors of musical execution, inferior songs, sub-par sound
Influences: Black Sabbath, Camel, Piirpauke, Van Der Graaf Generator, Candlemass, Gong, Alien Dream, Hawkwind, Alan Parsons Project, Robert Anton Wilson, Austin Osman Spare, Philip K. Dick, Aleister Crowley, Nietzsche, Hakim Bey, Carl Gustaf Jung, Wilhelm Reich, Rabelais, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Hermann Hesse, Carlton Mellick III, John Dee, Väinämöinen, Timothy Leary, Ramsey Dukes, Peter J. Carroll, Phil Hine, Grant Morrison, Christopher Hyatt, Edward Kelley, Risto Santavuori, Timo Heikkilä, Copros the God of Caca, Veltto Virtanen, Antero Alli, Terence McKenna, Dadaism, Surrealism, the helpful voices in my head who like to claim being my HGA
Sounds Like: shit or shinola, depending on the listener's current reality tunnel and state of consciousness...
Record Label: Epidemie Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Aarni perplexia as of July 2008

:: :: LIBER XLVIII AARNI vel Excremetallus :: ::Sweetmorn, day 55 in the season of Confusion, 3174 Anno Mungi.Ia Eris! Welcome to Liber XLVIII Aarni, the forty-eighth edition of the official Aarni new...
Posted by Aarni on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:41:00 PST

Blather 06/2008

:: :: LIBER XLVII AARNI vel Lirum Larum :: ::Prickle-Prickle, day 23 in the season of Confusion, 3174 Anno Mungi.Ia Eris! Welcome to Liber XLVII Aarni, the forty-seventh edition of the official Aarni ...
Posted by Aarni on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:09:00 PST

Tidings from Doominvalley fnord

:: :: LIBER XLVI AARNI vel Festina Lentissime :: ::Sweetmorn, day 53 in the season of Discord, 3174 Anno Mungi.Ia Eris! Welcome to Liber XLVI Aarni, the forty-sixth edition of the official Aarni newsl...
Posted by Aarni on Tue, 06 May 2008 12:24:00 PST

Tohcoth released!

:: M.W.'S WORDS :: 23, Today we received our candylike copies of the splendid album Tohcoth! But it's not right that we should have all the copies, so place your order and become the proud owne...
Posted by Aarni on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:42:00 PST

Recent news & some remarks about the next album

:: M.W.’S WORDS ::Thanks to everyone who has ordered ’Tohcoth’ from us! Azathoth knows we need all the support we can get...still a few copies left so please get yours if you feel na...
Posted by Aarni on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:53:00 PST

Worldwide Tohcoth distributors

Here’s Epidemie Records’ distro list for our latest album ’Tohcoth’:USA: THE END RECORDS, RELAPSE RECORDS, CRUCIAL BLAST  UK: SUPERNAL MUSIC  FINLAND: ...
Posted by Aarni on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:40:00 PST

New songs from Tohcoth online

Yea, MySpace features now two lovely songs from the forthcoming album, the other being the Discordian classic (recorded for the first time ever?) and 'Iku-Turso' a somewhat epic folk metallish track b...
Posted by Aarni on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:08:00 PST

Release of Tohcoth set for February & other shit

:: :: LIBER XLIII AARNI vel Hypnerotomachia Coprophili :: ::Pungenday, day 28 in the season of Chaos, 3174 Anno Mungi.Hail Eris! Welcome to Liber XLIII Aarni, the forty-third edition of the official A...
Posted by Aarni on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:08:00 PST