Botanist
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-GZLZBUCHo

THIS IS AWESOME.

Black Metal with just drums, vocals, and a hammered dulcimer. Aside from the novelty of the idea being awesome, the music is excellent and the hammered dulcimer works surprisingly well, especially when it is distorted. I play the hammered dulcimer so I'm even more head-over-heels for this.

Interview: http://thequietus.com/articles/0798...iew-black-metal
Bandcamp: http://verdant-realm-botanist.bandc...d-download-only

Seriously? No one? I understand if its hate it as is definitely weird, but its at least a fresh idea.

The track ain't bad and the idea is interesting, but I gotta say something - you'd quite happily listen to a recording of a pig being slaughtered on a stack of cymbals in a Chinese city centre at rush hour whilst a special needs child keeps time by rhythmically bashing his own face against a wardrobe filled with screaming chimps, all the more if it featured a fuckin' dulcimer!

I bet the following track will give you an erection:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmzodvWDwSM

Ya innovation-loving, originality-peddling, boundary-pushing ear-whore. If God wanted us to be inventive and progressive he wouldn't have given us Tetris.