Chelsea Wolfe:

[aen]

Cause it'sheavy as fuck. even without triple rectifiers and cookie monster vocals.

No doubt! I just feel like a lot of metal heads would get uppity about it.

I think the, uh, look certainly helps in this situation.

[MaggotBrainNY]

Motherfuck this is a great track!

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/15762-we-hit-a-wall/

probably my favourite from the new album

i'll be seeing her with Russian Circles in Oct... i must say i like the previous album better but there are some amazing bari guitar parts on this one yeah... i prefer the "guitar" tracks to the more electronic and whatnot based, but it might be slowly growing on me... we'll see

I agree about that particular track. That guitar sound is so heavy to me, and the vocal layering at the end is superb (something she always does an exceptional job at). Track one as well. When that low bass stuff comes in. I dig the electronic stuff a lot actually. It's super creepy sounding.

[kbit]

Agreed on the electronic stuff. House of Metal and Sick took me by surprise, I dig them both a lot.
I'm not listening to this until I get my copy from the record store, though. Don't wanna spoil it.

[gunslinger_burrito]

Cause it'sheavy as fuck. even without triple rectifiers and cookie monster vocals.

Even Sunn O))) recognized that last year.... She opened for them, on Halloween if I'm not mistaken (Japan gets all the best shows, it seems like.....). And she's played shows with Wolves in the Throne Room.

[dase]

She made Deafheaven look silly with all their "WE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY" bravado when I saw her last year.

to be fair that's not hard


But yeah I'm not a fan of her personally but the music can be as dark and grim and heavy as any other metal band. And the witchy aesthetics fit right in.

[THEBEERHAMMER]

Chelsea wolfe is swill for hipsters and beardos.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzWVWY5QUzg[/youtube]

[Achtane]

Man, sometimes Diamanda Galas's singing is THE SHIT and sometimes it's annoying as fuuuuuuuuck.
Maybe really talented people just have that sort of potential.

[THEBEERHAMMER]

Man, sometimes Diamanda Galas's singing is THE SHIT and sometimes it's annoying as fuuuuuuuuck.
Maybe really talented people just have that sort of potential.

Right? I guess its just going to be like that when cats fucking is one of your vocal influences. But when shes on it sounds like satan herself is on earth and wants to party.

[Bassus Sanguinis]

Man, sometimes Diamanda Galas's singing is THE SHIT and sometimes it's annoying as fuuuuuuuuck.
Maybe really talented people just have that sort of potential.

Right? I guess its just going to be like that when cats fucking is one of your vocal influences. But when shes on it sounds like satan herself is on earth and wants to party.

Chelsea Wolfe is something I'd probably enjoy from the corner table, sure.

But it's totally unfair, TOTALLY UNFAIR I SAID, to even compare Diamanda Galas, an artist and the Goddess of all things unthinkable, to somebody doing okay neo-psyche. NO matter if Chelsea Wolfe is heavy or not (I just haven't probably heard the heavy songs by CW because I don't get at all her act being called heavy). No matter if You like CW or not.

[THEBEERHAMMER]

Man, sometimes Diamanda Galas's singing is THE SHIT and sometimes it's annoying as fuuuuuuuuck.
Maybe really talented people just have that sort of potential.

Right? I guess its just going to be like that when cats fucking is one of your vocal influences. But when shes on it sounds like satan herself is on earth and wants to party.

Chelsea Wolfe is something I'd probably enjoy from the corner table, sure.

But it's totally unfair, TOTALLY UNFAIR I SAID, to even compare Diamanda Galas, an artist and the Goddess of all things unthinkable, to somebody doing okay neo-psyche. NO matter if Chelsea Wolfe is heavy or not (I just haven't probably heard the heavy songs by CW because I don't get at all her act being called heavy). No matter if You like CW or not.

I think you can make the comparison in approach. Theyre both female musicians with very little actual musical connection to metal but that affect a witchy/dark vibe visually. The difference is that theres actual pain and emotion an heaviness in DGs music. Chelsea wolfe is little more than gothed up lana del ray.

Most of my statements today on here and facebook are reactions to dialogue like this

Cause it'sheavy as fuck. even without triple rectifiers and cookie monster vocals.

No doubt! I just feel like a lot of metal heads would get uppity about it.

I think the, uh, look certainly helps in this situation.

Saying shit like this really belies the fact that alot of people these days havent the foggiest what actually constitutes heavy. Sure it can mean different things to different people, but you can always pick out the hipsters by the ones who evaluate bands primarily visually.

[dase]

she's pretty savvy about marketing herself with those witch house gone metal visual elements to appeal to the post southern lord crowd though.

[DarkAxel]

I can feel the rising flames licking my feet as i enter this thread

i was also wondering about the heaviness, but since i haven't seen her live yet, i'll judge after i do... from the records it seems more dark and macabre than heavy... oh and i'm not really sure if her looks help her in any way, but hey... different strokes

[THEBEERHAMMER]

Oh my god dude the bio on the sight gave me an aneurism.

How often nowadays do we read of an artist’s “intensity”, or their rhetorical, one-of-a-kind individuality? Journalistic hyperbole routinely contorts the mundane into the “epic”, the tired into the inspired, all the while heaping praise on performers as seemingly vacuous and generic as possible. Navigating the landscape of contemporary alternative music can be an exercise in redundancy; true visionaries and boundary-pushers are few and far between. Enter Chelsea Wolfe. To simply call Wolfe unique would be an understatement. Even among her peers in the so-called “drone-metal-art-folk” scene she’s an icon, a stand-alone singer/songwriter whose fully-formed aesthetic and haunting timelessness appear almost without effort.

[kbit]

Yeah that bio is not very good.
I hate most band bios but that one is especially... bleck.
Either way I'm still digging Pain Is Beauty a whole lot.


However, I must say the into to "Ancestors, the Ancients"..... "I feel.... rabid..."
Like, really? I just think it's an unnecessary line and frankly sounds stupid.
At least the rest of the song is pretty great.

/mini-rant

[D.o.S.]

So I think I officially don't get it.

Attractive female + string bends + lots of shadows = fkyeh