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5 hours ago, Nasty_Cabbage said:

NP: Dolorosa - Summoning Ancient Bleakness

Odd name, but memorable I suppose. Also interesting to take an older painting and make it black and white for the cover. Musically it's a quality effort without much I could really identify as a strength or a weakness.

Mater Dolorosa. Latin noun phrase: sorrowful mother — used especially for depictions of the Virgin Mary grieving over her dead son. It's an iconic thing in predominantly Catholic countries like Spain where the band is from, there are hundreds of paintings and statues of the grieving Mother Mary, "Mater Dolorosa." Literally translated the word "dolorosa" means painful. 

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Our Lady of Sorrows (Latin: Beata Maria Virgo Perdolens), Our Lady of Dolours, the Sorrowful Mother or Mother of Sorrows (Latin: Mater Dolorosa), and Our Lady of Piety, Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows or Our Lady of the Seven Dolours are names by which Mary, mother of Jesus, is referred to in relation to sorrows in life. As Mater Dolorosa, it is also a key subject for Marian art in the Catholic Church.

The Seven Sorrows of Mary are a popular religious theme and a Catholic devotion. In Christian imagery, the Virgin Mary is portrayed sorrowful and in tears, with one or seven swords piercing her heart, iconography based on the prophecy of Simeon in Luke 2:34–35. Pious practices in reference to this title include the Chaplet of the Seven Sorrows, the Seven Principal Dolors of the Blessed Virgin, the Novena in Honor of the Seven Sorrows of Mary, and the Via Matris.

The feast of Our Lady of Sorrows is liturgically celebrated every 15 September, while a feast, the Friday of Sorrows is observed in some Catholic countries.

 

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8 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Mater Dolorosa. Latin noun phrase: sorrowful mother — used especially for depictions of the Virgin Mary grieving over her dead son. It's an iconic thing in predominantly Catholic countries like Spain where the band is from, there are hundreds of paintings and statues of the grieving Mother Mary, "Mater Dolorosa." Literally translated the word "dolorosa" means painful. 

From Wikipedia:

Our Lady of Sorrows (Latin: Beata Maria Virgo Perdolens), Our Lady of Dolours, the Sorrowful Mother or Mother of Sorrows (Latin: Mater Dolorosa), and Our Lady of Piety, Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows or Our Lady of the Seven Dolours are names by which Mary, mother of Jesus, is referred to in relation to sorrows in life. As Mater Dolorosa, it is also a key subject for Marian art in the Catholic Church.

The Seven Sorrows of Mary are a popular religious theme and a Catholic devotion. In Christian imagery, the Virgin Mary is portrayed sorrowful and in tears, with one or seven swords piercing her heart, iconography based on the prophecy of Simeon in Luke 2:34–35. Pious practices in reference to this title include the Chaplet of the Seven Sorrows, the Seven Principal Dolors of the Blessed Virgin, the Novena in Honor of the Seven Sorrows of Mary, and the Via Matris.

The feast of Our Lady of Sorrows is liturgically celebrated every 15 September, while a feast, the Friday of Sorrows is observed in some Catholic countries.

 

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Well yeah. I'm familiar with some of the more moribund doxology that comes with some aspects of traditional Catholicism. It just struck me as odd because even among fervent Christians these days Dolores is something of an old lady name similar to Gretta or Ethel in terms of association. It's not that I don't expect to occasionally run into oddities when dealing with bands coming from a place where religion occupies a much more pronounced role within the culture, but it's still kind of difficult to shake the cognitive dissonance, like meeting a central american person named Jesus.

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NP: Sacrificial Vein - Black Terror Genesis

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Alright something's happening in Minnesota. This is probably the fourth or fifth band I've heard from the twin cities area that seems fascinated with taking the somewhat languid pacing and atmosphere from bands like Abyssal and blending in all kinds of different extreme influences. For some reason they seem to love their slowly mounting barre chords and using them to create an atmosphere of dread. It's not as chaotic as portal, and it's not as predictable as Deathspell has become. It's not a sound you'd typically think to headbang to, but the songcraft and careful dynamics between dissonant softer moments and fire and brimstone blackened vocals, clanging sustained guitars, and most of all that strange feeling of hearing or seeing something you're not supposed to seems to have taken root in Minnesota of all places. I'm here for it. Feels like it's been a while since we saw a true localized sound come into it's own, and maybe it won't happen, but the ground here seems suitably arable. All good signs to some one like myself.

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Well yeah. I'm familiar with some of the more moribund doxology that comes with some aspects of traditional Catholicism. It just struck me as odd because even among fervent Christians these days Dolores is something of an old lady name similar to Gretta or Ethel in terms of association. It's not that I don't expect to occasionally run into oddities when dealing with bands coming from a place where religion occupies a much more pronounced role within the culture, but it's still kind of difficult to shake the cognitive dissonance, like meeting a central American person named Jesus.

Just emailed the band, and they agreed that's gonna be the perfect title for their second album: Moribund Doxology. 

 

Endless Loss  - Traversing the Mephitic Artery, crusty black/death from the hellscapes of Adelaide SA

 

 

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