Aarni

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doom metal, avant-garde, experimental, avant-garde metal, experimental doom metal… see all

Some sources (mostly people who like to call themselves music journalists) have described Aarni’s music variably as ‘almost orthodox doom metallish Lovecraftian-Jungian Kalevala avant-bard’, ‘progressive doom metal’, ‘Yanni with distorted guitars’, ‘primitive black metal’, ‘underground progressive rock’, ‘shit’, ‘space doom metal’ and ‘original as fuck’. The band itself occasionally uses terms like ‘Chthonic Hybrid Musick (pronounced “moo-sik”)’, ‘Antinomian Music’, ‘Maybe Music’, ‘Noise For Futants’, ‘Functional Music’, ‘Dream Torrent Music’, ‘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. Aarni aims for comfortably unpolished results using a mixture of bad and good playing. Probably the band also functions as much-needed therapy to its 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 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.

Top Tracks

1	Kivijumala	39
1	Squaring the Circle	39
3	The Thunder, Perfect Mindfuck	38
4	Mental Fugue	36
5	The Hieroglyph full track	32
6	Coniuratio Sadoquae	31
7	V.I.T.R.I.O.L.	30
8	Riding Down the Miskatonic On a Dead Thing	29
9	Niut Net Meru	28
10	Oneiroskopos	24
10	Arouse Coiled Splendour	24
12	Quinotaurus (Twelve Stars in Sight)	22
13	All Along The Watchtowers full track	19
14	Barbelith	17
15	Kesäyö	16

Top Albums

Bathos
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Duumipeikon paluu
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Manowar1 wrote:
last month

Join the Aarni fan group

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Prozac-plus wrote:
last month

Nice group :)

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Gherasim wrote:
last month

wasn't it the age of the Arcane Idiots?

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Doomintroll wrote:
last month

Hear, hear. Who will be the first out of the water?

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Dustspell wrote:
last month

It's time for Doom evolution :)

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HukkaBLuHT wrote:
last month

Oh yeah Fucking great

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Doomintroll wrote:
last month

I'll post this here too for spam's sake: 'Bathos' mp3 album is a remastered (in August 2008 e.v.) version of Aarni's original CD debut release; excessive bottom end and muddiness has been removed and brightness added for a more harmonically balanced and enjoyable listening experience! AND it's legally yours for a mere 6 euros. Available exclusively from The Ground: http://www.theground.com/catalog/artist.php?manufacturers_id=20364&language=en

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KazetNagorra wrote:
last month

Will do.

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Doomintroll wrote:
last month

Ouijawohl, it qualifies alright. Welcome to the band! Bring your own toilet paper. Now the rest of us can take a holiday. Come over to Karvatunturi, enter the underground Doominvalley Studios and start working on the next Aarni album. Call us on your stemcell phone when finished and we'll take it from there.

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KazetNagorra wrote:
last month

Doom hop? Maybe this qualifies: http://www.last.fm/music/Ealsmear+Dodging/_/Onzinlied. On the George Michael-Rob Halford scale, it might rate as Glenn Danzig wearing pink leather.

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Doomintroll wrote:
last month

Depends on your speed and general fruitiness on a scale of George Michael-Rob Halford. However it seems Manowar has already filled that niche (or hole?). But maybe you could make a doom hop song or something with FL and post it for general auditioning. Let the audience of a million flies decide!

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KazetNagorra wrote:
last month

I play Fruity Loops, good enough?

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Synskis wrote:
last month

Haha, Doomintroll

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knifeintheback wrote:
last month

Nicely played.

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Doomintroll wrote:
last month

First you should probably learn to play a pertinent instrument in an interesting way and then contact the band for an audition.

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knifeintheback wrote:
last month

Trying to get into this band...where do I start?!

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Caliban51 wrote:
last month

holy shit I love this.

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megzorus wrote:
July 2008

Hail Eris!!!

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Doomintroll wrote:
July 2008

You can now listen to a raw mix of a UN song from the forthcoming album at: http://www.myspace.com/umbranihil

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Doomintroll wrote:
July 2008

A touching recent interview; http://www.aarni.info/interviews.html

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