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One man band drummer12/27/2022 ![]() ![]() I've been in bands that have done some things and a lot of other bands that did nothing. I feel like I need to get the most obvious question out of the way first: Why hammered dulcimer? ![]() (Search hard enough on Encyclopedia Metallum and you can figure it out, but that doesn't bother him.) We also talked about black metal's ties to environmentalism and the most metal plant. When I called the man behind Botanist for an interview, he said he prefers anonymity - not for mystique, but because Botanist is a "split personality" of himself. And, not only that, but the man behind Botanist has created an alternate world where black-metal tropes - buzzing sound, croaked vocals, bleak aesthetics - exist, but are sonically limitless. Thankfully, Botanist lives up to its environmentally minded, hammered-dulcimer'd nerdery. Perhaps by nature of its insularity, black metal - more than other metal genres - is often guilty of hyping these increasingly weird or disturbing albums that really just sound like any other black metal record. Of course, some wackadoodle ideas are too good to be true. from I: The Suicide Tree / II: A Rose for the DeadÄownload.The hammered dulcimer rings out and cuts like a blast-beated piano pounding paradiddles in some kind of black-metal drumline, which you can hear in the longest track from the album (most are a minute and a half long), titled "A Rose From the Dead." You'd think a two-disc, 40-track album of creepy, hammered-dulcimer black metal would get stale, but I: The Suicide Tree / II: A Rose from the Dead is surprisingly dynamic and hypnotic. And, true to its name, Botanist is all about the flora and the fauna, from the artwork to the lyrics. Cue Botanist, a one-man black-metal band whose ethereally weird sound comes from a hammered dulcimer and drums. So, more often than not, we're attracted to equally nerdy (okay, strange) metal ideas like mysterious musicians who perform in Lovecraft-ian costumery or use mental patients as vocalists. Most of the time, we're video-game wizards, obscure-history researchers or even beer connoisseurs. ![]() Metalheads can be a nerdy bunch - don't let the battle jackets and grim visages fool you. Botanist pounds paradiddles in some kind of ethereally weird black-metal drumline in the name of. ![]()
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