It's been quite a while since I previously crafted a "lego music video" for Scumfusion, so ... I got inspired and crafted a video for one tune taken from 'Achromatic horridness' album. The tune in question is "Warp drive failure" and I think the video came out pretty good. Contains lyrics, too.
So, if you are up for some lunatic lego action & visuals, check it out <here> or below as usual.
Enjoy! :)
You might recall me writing about <Aeuk> release in 2024, after I had released Scumfusion's "achromatic horridness"? Well, if you don't remember, you can always check out <the mentioned post> here in this Scumfusion blog and see what I mean. But let's have a some background here.
Aeuk was my tracked metal artist name, and it was all about tracked music in metal form, of course (in case you don't know what tracked music is, check out <this> general infobit at wikipedia). I started tracking already in 1989 with Amiga 500, and right away in 1989 I was trying to track metal music as inspired by f.e. Napalm Death. Ehh? Not exactly easy as you had 4 channels in use with tracker software back then, the samples were very lofi and ... well, drums alone require bunch of channels so that the samples being played would overlap / get cutted off in a brutal way all the time. Then as it's grindcore, you know, fast and furious - it makes it even more complicated from samples' point of view, back in those days. Because it wasn't just drums but you should have channel(s) for guitars and bass at least. It was really hard and for years I kind of went away from even trying to track extreme metal, and slided towards something you could call safe sounding "Amiga heavy rock" so to speak. It was only from 1996 forwards than I started gradually believing again into making extreme metal in form of tracker music. Amount of channels in use started to raise notably, and suddenly it wasn't a limiting factor at all anymore ... quality of samples started to get better, you could also record vocals and utilise them in your tracker music, etc. Tracked metalscene was born around 1997 or so, and it grew fast, exploded in the early 2000s and almost as fast faded away around 2005-2006 or so.
Well, that's a very brief history there. I got an idea to craft another 'Aeuk' compilation package last february and I worked at it when I had time, in small bits - literally. The idea was to take selected, the more extreme Aeuk releases from 2000 to 2003 and record some extra growls / grunts to them etc. Perhaps some sound effects mixed in, too, brief intros and outros? And as they are very much lofi stuff musically speaking, right from the start I thought I'd seriously "bitcrush" them, add all kinds of white noise / sound elements in a brutal way. At first I had a working title "noises with unbird" for the release, as most the songs had my ancient vocal pal Unbird from tracked metalscene days handling the vocals. Then as the package grew more and 5 songs with me handling the vocals were added to the pack, I thought to follow the first compilation name ("selected raw sewage works") with this second compilation, ... so it turned into 'selected explosive works'. It is a noisy package for sure, most of the tunes death/grind style - with some (not many) carefully selected exceptions (death metal, thrash metal) to kind of calm the attack of noise for a moment.
Actually there's another reason to tell about this 'Aeuk' release here which makes it directly connect with Scumfusion: Ouf ot the 18 songs in this compilation called "selected explosive works" 2 songs are songs which were later re'recorded as Scumfusion songs:
That song 6 turned into "the silent howl" on Scumfusion's "a lossidian threnody" (2010) and song 10 was named the same "my inner storm" on Scumfusion's "the awakening" (2002). Funnily the original tracked metal version from 2001 of "my inner storm" sounds way more brutal than Scumfusion's version in 2002. That "gasholesong" vs. "the silent howl" isn't as easy one though for comparing - both versions are very brutal stuff, just soundwise different. In a twisted way I think I prefer the tracked metal version from 2001 more here too, as it's a sick uncompromising blaster.
You can find this <Aeuk> compilation "selected explosive works" from streaming medias online. I also put it up into Bandcamp, so you can check it out <there> as well. It was literally a noisy package to be compiled - and it was fun to put together after all these years. Enjoy!
