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Aeonic Impulse Concept Explanation Video #5 (“A Night For the Troubled Part VI: View of the Sunrise”)

31 Wednesday Aug 2016

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Aeonic Impulse Studio Outtakes

08 Monday Aug 2016

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2016 Album Review #4

25 Thursday Feb 2016

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HYPNO5E – Shores Of The Abstract Line

Label: Pelagic Records

Release: February 9, 2016

By: Jordan Salfity

Rating: 9.5/10

Time: 61:25

Style: Experimental/Progressive Metal

URL: Hypno5e

Review originally posted on Nocturnal Hall Magazine. Link to the original can be found here:

http://nocturnalhall.com/reviews/H/hypnose_sotal_e.html


HYPNO5E is a French metal band whose genre is hard to describe. It blends together a mix of Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock, but even saying all that leaves out so much that happens over the course of aHYPNO5E album. They also incorporate electronic, flamenco, classical, and jazz influences, not to mention the heavy use of soundclips throughout each song. I first fell in love with the band when I saw them open for Arsonists Get All the Girls, and they absolutely stole the show. I went to their booth, bought all their albums, and anxiously anticipated a new release. With the help of a crowd funding campaign, and signing to The Ocean’s record label, that new HYPNO5E album comes four years after their second album. Shores Of The Abstract Line continues much in the vain of their previous two albums, complete with songs averaging around the 10-minute mark and multi-part suits. Where this one is different is that it is held together by themes of lines, shores, and journeys, which in turn helps this album move along like a journey. The album starts with a short instrumental before moving into In Our Deaf Lands and We Lost The Ones, two of the most punishing and unrelenting songs that HYPNO5E has written, while still retaining their beautiful moments of Spanish style guitar, sorrowful sounding soundclips, heavy use of dynamics, and interesting and unusual transitions. From there, Memories is a very melodic and repetitive track, which helps ease the mind for a bit before going to my favorite track of the album,Tio. This track is a ballad sung in Spanish, and is the closest thing HYPNO5E has to a single. It is a beautiful track before we return to the insanity of the last three tracks.HYPNO5E is an extremely underrated band that has released three of the most interesting albums in the metal genre. Hopefully this release helps push them in the forefront of metal, where they belong. Highly recommended and it’s definitely a contender for album of the year.

Harmony Korine

05 Thursday Mar 2015

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Harmony Korine is an American director, producer, screenwriter, and occassional actor. He is best known for writing Kids and directing the movies Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy, Mister Lonely, Trash Humpers, and Spring Breakers. His films deal with the darkness of daily life and have a heavy use of dark humor. The plots center around typical drama in the lives of human beings that are then exaggerated to the points that the are absurd. This causes tense moments where the audience is left to wonder if the images are funny because of how over the top they are, or if they are in fact very realistic and therefore are not funny because they hit too close to home. He allows for a lot of improvisation in his movies and gives his actors suggestions on note cards rather than giving them full on scripts. He makes use of surrealism, non-linear forms, and mixing different kinds of camera styles such as Super 8 alongside 35mm. His movies show unique and bizarre individuals with a high emphasis on areas that consist of abandoned buildings and broken objects. He calls this portrait the “American Landscape”, and it can be found in most of his work. He has been the subject for much debate whether his movies are pieces of art and actually have something worth saying, or if they are just pretentious and self indulgent. He has said many times that he does not like to cram his movies with a lot of metaphors that force people to constantly try and figure out what it all means. He would rather have memorable images that speak for themselves and stay with the audience members. I tend to agree with him, because I think the images in his movies are extremely difficult to forget due to his focus and direction.


Movies Still To Review:

Gummo (1997): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtY_545-ST8

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Julien Donkey-Boy (1999):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3erNNfe6UQ

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Mister Lonely (2007):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lybo2JQc2zM

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Trash Humpers (2009):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQYSRXT3CiU

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Spring Breakers (2013): 8.25/10 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKaoyK4qrTw

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– For a detailed review about Spring Breakers, click the link below:

https://jsalfity.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/spring-breakers-2013/

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