Aarni
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trying to create enough inner turmoil to boost the 'Lovecraftian' songwriting process.
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Bio
Aarni has of course always existed, but the current incarnation's story began in the autumn of 1998 ev when M.·.M.·. suddenly began solitarily developing his vague musical ideas further. He got telepathetic messages from the unicorn dolphin elder of Sirius B, who begged M.·.M.·. to reawaken the ancient Xothian aural technology tradition called aarni. Soon after choosing to comply with the demands of these psychotic transmissions, Comte de Saint-Germain appeared to him and immediately joined Aarni. When the two gentlemen conducted an unsuccessful necromantic ritual at Moominpappa's cenotaph, a third member's addition to the band took place: Doomintroll. Simultaneously the first letter of Mahatma M's surname semi-accidentally flipped over completing his mutation into Master Warjomaa. The fourth band member does not really act as a "proper" musician but seems nonetheless to partake in Aarni's creative processes. For Mistress Palm seems in fact composed entirely of artificial, phlogiston-driven rectoplasm and due to her apparently incorporeal nature can only exist on a computer's hard disk.
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Aarni
Some sources have described Aarni's music variably as 'almost orthodox doom metallish Lovecraftian-Jungian Kalevala avant-bard', 'progressive doom metal', 'Yanni with distorted guitars', 'primitive black metal', 'underground progressive rock', 'shit', 'space doom metal' and 'original as fuck'. The band itself occasionally uses terms like 'Chthonic Hybrid Musick', 'Antinomian Music', 'Maybe Music', 'Noise For Futants', 'Functional Music', 'Dream Torrent Music', 'Bizarro Musick' or preferably no description at all. Sound confusing? Join the club!
Aarni strives to avoid using needless amounts of traditional song-structures, homogenous parts and other such widespread and boring conventions in its music. Aarni aims for comfortably unpolished results using a mixture of bad and good playing. Probably the band functions as much-needed therapy to its members.
Some of the themes in Aarni's music may be A) Balancing your tribal/racial heritage with the good sides of modern technology & globalisation; magick, occultism, esoterica and world mythologies, brain-change, Discordianism, collective & personal liberation and theories of analytical psychology (especially those of C.G. Jung) B) Finnish folklore and paganism as the band views them C) The Cthulhu mythos as described by H.P. Lovecraft and fellow authors and D) Topics not included in the above categories.
Aarni's superintelligent lyrics take form in the language believed most suitable for the song's subject: usually in English, Classical Latin or Finnish and occasionally in French, Ancient Egyptian, Hebrew, German, Enochian, Glossolalic, Ouranian-Barbaric, et cetera.
Auditory releases so far: different demos in 2001 and 2002 e.v., split CD with Umbra Nihil (2002 e.v.), debut full length CD Bathos (2004 e.v.), second full length CD Tohcoth (2008 e.v.) and the EP CDR Omnimantia (2008 e.v.). Also appearances on various compilation and tribute albums. The third LP album aka Lovecraftian to be released in 2009 e.v. or later.
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