And The Ants Still March On, by Little Hole Filled

And The Ants Still March On

by Little Hole Filled

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1.	And The Ants Still March On 04:41	buy track
2.	Boneyard Blues 05:20	buy track
3.	Giving Birth To A Planet 10:07	buy track
4.	Coyote Howling 06:04	buy track
5.	Trippozoid 05:02	buy track
6.	Sprout 07:49	buy track
7.	Weiße Wänd 01:03	buy track

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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."

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]

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released March 26, 2021

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