"You know the way pitbulls bite something and then their jaw locks and they can't let go?" asks Drew Daniel. "That's kind of the way my mind works with things. I just get obsessed."
Daniel, an assistant professor of English at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, has spent 12 years writing a book on Renaissance melancholy and has made a series of rigorously conceptual albums as half of the electronic duo Matmos, but his new album was meant to be different. He had originally planned to include a single cover version from the forbidding world of black metal, Beherit's Sadomatic Rites, on the new LP by his dance music project, the Soft Pink Truth. But he enjoyed the process so much he ended up filling the whole record with repurposed black metal. The result, Why Do the Heathen Rage?, is one of the most thought-provokingly ambivalent covers albums ever.
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by Dorian Lynskey via Electronic music | The Guardian
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