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Obsidian Tongue

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  • Genre
    • Metal
  • Members
    • Brendan Hayter
    • Greg Murphy
  • Hometown
    • Plymouth, Ma
  • About
    • Pure Sonic Catharsis
  • Biography
    • Obsidian Tongue is a duo from Massachusetts manifesting a personal vision of Black Metal: An intense, eerie and ritualistic sound that merges traditional Black Metal elements with their signature sense of melody and progressive song structure. Moments of beauty and moments of despair are weaved seamlessly into a tapestry of raw human emotion.Their name illustrates the key principle that unites a…
      ll of their songs into an expansive narrative of personal evolution through introspect, spiritual development and the incredible power of music.
      Obsidian is a pitch-black volcanic glass that is used traditionally to absorb negative energies, and encourage mental/spiritual clarity. Music is widely considered a universal language, and for band members Brendan James Hayter and Greg Murphy, their musical ritual is The Obsidian Tongue.

      After 2 demos (2010 Demo and the 2011 Subradiant Architecture Demo), their debut album “Volume I: Subradiant Architecture” was recorded and mixed onto vintage tape machines in March 2012 at Mystic Valley Studio in Medford by Alex Garcia-Rivera. The sound is organic and raw, allowing the compositions to speak for themselves.

      The record was graced with the artwork of Norwegian artist Namtaru, of “Namtaru Creations”. Her grayscale illustrations provide 3 key visuals to guide the listener through the musical journey. The connection between these 3 illustrations is left for the listener’s imagination to create.

      Founding member and guitarist/vocalist Brendan James Hayter: “The first string of compositional attempts I made in the extreme metal style, naturally congealed into a 50 minute record named Volume I: Subradiant Architecture. These songs truly came together in a connected fashion, so it was only proper to call it a Volume. Furthermore, Subradiant Architecture is a term for the imaginary “Shadow World” that much of the music takes place in, the consistent closed-eye visuals this music has given me since I first began to explore it. It suggests that the gods designed and built this lightless realm in our psyche like a piece of architecture, for Man to explore the origins of his despair and draw wisdom and power from symbolic images. In this life such emotions as despair, anxiety, abhorrence for mankind, and the uncertainty of my fate both in this world and the next, have been my greatest guides. It is like a sense of duty to honor the evolution I have undergone through these chronic internal storms, and through the catharsis of extreme metal music.”

      With nearly 5 hours of music composed and ready for release, the duo will continue exploring and celebrating the psychedelic, cathartic and unifying principles of extreme metal until the end of their days.

  • Current Location
    • Plymouth, MA
  • Press Contact
    • Brendan James Hayter – obsidiantongue@yahoo.com
  • Booking Agent
    • Brendan James Hayter – obsidiantongue@yahoo.com
  • Websites

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Status

  • Our CD is available to purchase online at WWW.DISSOCIATIONRECORDS.COM

Press

  • “These dudes are eerie and ritualistic and I love them.” – Gun Shy Assassin
  • “There are tons of ideas I get along when I hear this. Everything from Mundanus Empire, old Ulver, loads of other Scandinavian sources of inspiration is what I get pulled out from the plate.” – Metal-Norge
  • “…features some of the most invigorating musical change ups I’ve ever heard in a black metal band, running the gamut from Agalloch to Burzum to Craft to Fall of the Bastards in the blink of an eye! “…fans of cold, chilly American blackness should ante up and make the purchase on this one…it’s as good as it gets to my ears, with superior riffing, an organic band structure, and stellar writing all across the board! ” – Hellride Music
  • “Volume I: Subradiant Architecture is one of those rare records that was able to gain my attention directly with the first note I heard, makes my heart beat faster and gives me this certain powerful feeling only the best records are able to. ” – Cvlt Nation
  • “For a 2 piece, it was amazingly rich music. A lot of it reminded me of wolves in the throne room and/or immortal.” – ReturnToThePit
  • “Obsidian Tongue makes killer atmospheric/minimalist black metal…and they make it look effort­less. Brian killed on drums, and Brendan on vocals/guitar had an impres­sive rack of pedals laid out before him onstage.” – PositivelyBleak
  • “The atmosphere of the music is very dark and desolate sounding. To convey such powerful emotions and mood is impressive enough; it is doubly so when one considers the band has no bassist.” – Mick’s Metal Blog
  • “…this duo put up a cool set of highly atmospheric black metal that in its spaces and stylings verged on the dare-we-say it “Cascadian”. :eyeroll: The sound still came raw as well as hypnotizing, though, and combined to cool effect, especially from just guitar and drums.” – Observes From The Satellite
  • “In my opinion Obsidian Tongue are a very good and dark sounding black metal band that has an original sound, and if you are looking for a black metal band that is doing something different, you should check out this band.” – OccultBlackMetalZine
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