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And The Ants Still March On

by Little Hole Filled

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Andriy Karamazov
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Andriy Karamazov This is one of the best metal bands which I have discovered in the last 10 years. Awesome riffing, melodic, fat sound, great vocals, lyrics - everything is top here. Favorite track: Boneyard Blues.
Wan Medeiros ⛧
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Wan Medeiros ⛧
Austrian Doom/Stoner/Sludge Metal Masters...
This album is rich in unspeakable musicality. Guttural vocal variations and powerful drive, heavy instrumental, cutting drag, with tuning and guitar timbres that are one of the most beautiful in the style. Another one of those that each time you listen it brings a different perception changing the choice of favorite track. Undoubtedly one of the best releases of 2020.
Favorite track: Giving Birth To A Planet.
WolvesOfSaturn
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WolvesOfSaturn Superb heavy riffing. but they ain't keeping it easy structured and relaying on the riff factor. excellent song writing with surprises keeping it spicy until the end. vocals reminding me on Pink Floyd 80s - strange matching? not a all!!! Favorite track: Giving Birth To A Planet.
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barren earth trees are falling wasted lands under yellow sky rotting flies on septic flesh shades of grey all green is gone a wind is blowing the air burns red a mist of dust a storm of ashes a silence screaming no voice to raise a last breath taken no soul to hear and the ants still march on
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The unseen hand that wields the blade That severs bodies from theirs souls The ancient joints are worn by time In restless motion cuts the twines In Thousand miles of blackend waters In streams where once live dwelt The fingers combing through foul sludge No soul to find no life to end Deserted fields of once green meadows Where bedlam gave away to peace And throngs of creatures feared their god Now trails of dust blow through the breece The fist clenched tight, the dream dissolves Impaled by light and crushed by shade And drowned by silence ever rising The strife for footing was in vain And doubt creeps into thoughts and lingers Infests ideas then souls decay The boundless void inhales the warmth A mindless feast on easy prey Dragged away into darkness Pulled down into the deep
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Nothing moving a void unfilled An empty mass is not yet spilled The silence is deceptive still Waiting for a storm to build. If nothing moves, can time exist?1 No parts collide, stasis persists Stagnation stems against the tide The friction grows in space too wide And light filled the sky And life filled the world And all that is living Will fall back to the void
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Trippozoid 05:02
Feet buried in black soil Head high in the wind One hundred years standing Time grinding my skin A thousand tongues eating Away at the sun My lungs fill with light I drink from the ground Live off the earth Drink from the sky Exhale to give back Feed from me when I die
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Sprout 07:49
Aeons - melt away waiting - here to stay Buried - semen alive Awaking - sprout's arrived Growing - grab for the sun Shaping - Becoming the one Arousal - all boundaries gone Blossom - a new life born Aeons - melt away Pilgrims - on their way
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Weiße Wänd 01:03
Weisse Wänd und weisse Türn Weisse Händ und weißes Hirn Weiße Westn, weißer Wein Weißer Schnee und weisser Schein Weisse Haut und weisse Hoar Weiße Zähnt und weisses Gschroar Weiße Handschuach, weiße Fetzen Weißes Rauschn, weisses Hetzn Weisser Hengst und weisse Tauben Weiße Ängst und weißer Glaubn Weiße Wirscht und weißes Bier Weißer Rauch und weisse Gier Weisse Fleckn, weisses Göd Weißer Zwerg und Weisse Wöd

about

"I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving."

I don’t know why Colonel Walter E. Kurtz suddenly pops up in my mind. There’s something in his words and in the way he’s delivering them. A mad kings’ wisdom? He’s earned himself a degree in mayhem and he’s seen things, for sure. But has he heard anything like that?

"From start to finish you'll be treated to an extensive spread of genres and styles that will keep you engaged and stimulated. Most importantly the album rocks hard as hell. It’s something that you need to experience." [James Grunge in Cave Dweller Music]

And The Ants Still March On is not a walk in the park. It’s more like opening a furnace. Blasting from white noise to BIG noise in less than a wink. Drone to the bone. Speed is not essential here: Little Hole Filled allowed themselves almost 25 years to finally release their debut album. Kurtz would have loved that: operating at a snail’s pace while the world around him is falling to pieces.

So who’s coming to our rescue? A hot pot does, steaming of heavy riffed guitars, ecstatic noise and pounding drums. And all our favourite dark spices are in there. Albeit the recipe, concocted by singer/guitarist Phillipp Diesenreiter, who is also a sound engineer and, as Tenderboy, one of the best-known Austrian hip-hop artists, is special.

"Answers the question: what if a stoner band was influenced by The Doors and Bauhaus? Eclectic, strange, and melancholic, this album gives you time to breath and mourn." [Hayduke X on bandcamp]

The album's multilayered, snotty yet crystal clear sound makes And The Ants Still March On an adventurous delight. Like being on a boat ride on an unknown river with the occasional rapids, shallows and hungry river monsters graving for your attention while you hum along to the berserk-but-elegant tunes delivered by Little Hole Filled. A band that needs a bit of time. The time a snail, for example, needs to crawl along the edge of a razor, and survive.

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„I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving.“

Marlon Brando lässt in Apocalypse Now den Satz kurz sickern, dann legt er die brandneue Platte von Little Hole Filled auf seinen 1012er Turntable von Dual. Und seine Welt geht unter in einer rasiermesserscharfen Wall Of Sound. Drone To The Bone!

Um hier gleich klare Verhältnisse zu schaffen: And The Ants Still March On ist definitv nichts für die Kinderjause. Schon eher Soundtrack für die Maloche am Hochofen. Wer den Opener auflegt – beware! Und halte das Whiskeyglas fest. Sturmalarm! Von Alltagsruhe zum Noise in 0.35 Sekunden. Speed kommt von spät: Little Hole Filled gönnten sich fast 25 Jahre Zeit, um mit ihrem Debutalbum endlich rauszurücken. Schneckentempo. Die Welt bröckelt. Giving Birth To A Planet zerrt minutenlang sein schweres Riff den Berg hinauf und nicht einmal das Gitarrensolo hat da noch Lust auf perlende Läufe. Ausgebremst vom Rollator auf dem Highway to Hell.

Und wieder einmal hat Metal völlig Recht! Time Is On Our Side. Sowieso ist Zeit im Doom und Stoner Rock nur eine Frage der Bassdrum und des Verzerrer-Sustain. Und der eigenwillig berserkerisch-elegante Sound, den die österreichischen Doomer auf ihrem Debut präsentieren, braucht wie ein köstlicher Barriquewein zum Atmen Luft und Zeit. Punktlandung! „Ihr Gefühl für blumige Verse und für lautmalerische Musik machen das Album zum dunklen Hörvergnügen.“, schreibt eines der größten Metal-Fanzines und trifft den Nagel im Kopf: Noise, Lärm, Prügeldrums - alle dunklen Gewürze sind da. Aber das Rezept ist anders. Kein Wunder, ist doch Sänger/Gitarrist Phillipp Diesenreiter auch noch Tontechniker und als Tenderboy einer der bekanntesten österreichischen Hip-Hopper.

In Boneyard Blues hebt sich die Voice über Tonnen von Hall. Schlecht gelaunte Riffs zerren und enden im Finale in einem wunderschön melancholischen Chor. Der vielschichtige, rotzige und gleichzeitig glasklare Klang des Albums macht's möglich: ein Guss ein Fluss. Wenn auch einer mit Stromschnellen, Untiefen und räudigen Flussmonstern.

„Von zartem, fast schon hypnotisierend wirkendem, bis hin zum epischen Gesang ist etliches verankert worden. Dem angepasst verhält sich auch die Rhythmusfraktion und das setzt dem Ganzen die Krone auf. Ein komplettes Waffenarsenal an Stileinlagen wurde handgerecht reingepackt und da bleibt einem sprichwörtlich die Spucke weg.“ [metalunderground.at]

credits

released October 6, 2020

Philipp Diesenreiter - vocals, guitar
Thomas Breiteneder - drums
Otto Hackl - guitar
Manfred Steininger - bass

Music by Little Hole Filled
Lyrics by Philipp Diesenreiter

Recorded @ home, mixed by Philipp Diesenreiter

Mastering by Dejan Mandic @ Schallrausch Studios

Cover by Miriel Zeiner @ Blaek Design

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Little Hole Filled Austria

Founded '96 in Austria. Played shows all over the Mühlviertel in the early years. Stopped playing live due to living in different parts of Austria, but never stopped rehearsing and writing songs.
After recording early demos, released 1st. official demo “Far Beyond The Horizon Of The Sun” in 2015.
Wrote more songs.
Recorded and released first album “And The Ants Still March On” in Oct. 2020.
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