Botanist
III - Doom In Bloom / Allies

The black metal (cd1)

*DOOM IN BLOOM*

This metal isn't black as shit anymore...

Botanist is a one-man band, plays black metal but starts with a track that sounds like it was written by Jesu. Or Iroha or Fragment, they all do the same stuff anyway.

Botanist is a one-man band, plays black metal and talks about flowers. But also about fungi with homicidal spores and other nonsense.

Botanist is a one-man band, plays black metal but there isn't even a guitar: drums and dulcimer are more than enough.

Botanist is a one-man band, plays black metal and rightfully sings like crap, but who cares: he's often and gladly silent.

Botanist is a one-man band, plays black metal but I've never seen black metal done like this. Not even in "Blut Aus Nord".

Botanist is a one-man band, plays black metal and likes to say "avant-garde". Which means nothing, but certain trends have to be followed so the kids are happy.

Botanist is a one-man band, plays black metal but is sweet as honey. Then he gets bored and even throws in "Allies".

The black metal (cd2)

*ALLIES*

Called upon the allies, Botanist starts again.

And there are basses, guitars, drums, rich prizes, and cotillions. There's electronics, there's pissi pissi psiche bau, there's people who can sing black metal well and people who sing it worse than ever. There's: gaudiness, a saw, an iPhone, a song called "LOTUS THIEF - Nymphaea Carulea", keyboards, ambient, a female voice, some bad songs, some exceptional songs, plenty of ambition and a bit of presumption, catchy melodies, terrible moments and unheard peaks, something grind, something symphonic, doom and rock, useless avant-garde and indispensable avant-garde; there's darkness and there's light, everything and nothing. No: everything and that's it.

Otrebor (aka "Botanist", aka "the drummer of Ophidian Forest") perhaps exaggerates, but he's really quirky.

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