Audio commentary delayed - will be out December 1, 2023

 

The audio commentary for The House with Laughing Windows was supposed to be out November 1.

Unfortunately I can't release it yet. New release date is December 1, 2023.

Vajaa - Incomplete

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2023.

Drawing 423.

Imaginary Horror Comedy #3

 

You Gotta Wash Your Zombie Ass
Starring Deadd Foxx.

Ink drawing by Rinta-Perälä, 2023.

Previous installments:

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mambo Number Five

The Silence of the Slaps
Starring Chris Rock and Will Smith.

Robert E. Howard wrote a story about screen time almost a 100 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mirrors_of_Tuzun_Thune

https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0603481h.html

"A wild, weird clime that lieth sublime
Out of Space, out of Time."
— Edgar Allan Poe

Vengeful Semblance - Gnossienne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noOGuHhY2o8

Music by Erik Satie, 1893. Arrangement, production and artwork by Rinta-Perälä. Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, October 9, 2023.

This track will be on the "Black Classical" compilation (2019-2023).

Your Spine Is a Pierced Snake - out now

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tquL0llO8w

https://vengefulsemblance.bandcamp.com/album/your-spine-is-a-pierced-snake

1. Enemy of Prostituted Darkness
2. The Merit of Sanity
3. Aura of Their Birth
4. Deformed Deluge
5. Totalitarian Thieves
6. Axiospection
7. Demagogue Devoured by Worms
8. Your Spine Is a Pierced Snake

The 12th and final Vengeful Semblance album and the 30th by Rinta-Perälä.

Your Spine Is a Pierced Snake - out October 1, 2023

 

Enemy of Prostituted Darkness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwuiuJIKquo

The 12th and final Vengeful Semblance album and the 30th by Rinta-Perälä. No more albums will be released this year.

Written in October 2022 and August 2023.
Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, August - September 2023.

Never Surrender to Fascism

Nazism can't exist without white supremacy. Its inclusion in the halls of metal is one of the most childish things I have ever heard. Neo-nazis are the biggest posers and thieves. They are the ones who benefit from idiocracy. They will turn you into a far-right stooge. The term subgenre doesn't justify fascist terror.

It's not enough to claim ignorance, to be selectively "unpolitical" or rely on infantile cliches. When neo-nazis start stealing things, you don't just give in. You don't give them that credit. We don't have a nazi dictatorship yet. You can actually do something.

Don't be fooled by narrow-minded goons whining about "cancel culture" and confusing criticism with the suppression of free speech. Freedom of speech is not in a vacuum. It's connected to things in the real world. We need all kinds of constructive standards and principles besides that freedom. Freedom of speech won't make your shitty music better.

NSBM is less than music and their ideology is worthless. They would love to be mainstream. We need a new creative underground where uniqueness is not a taboo.

Metal albums top 10 - 30 years of metal

Ten inventive metal albums spanning 30 years, chosen by me after listening to metal for 30 years.

1971 Black Sabbath: Master of Reality

1984 Celtic Frost: Morbid Tales

1986 Slayer: Reign in Blood

1986/1989 Repulsion: Horrified

1989 Morbid Angel: Altars of Madness

1989 Godflesh: Streetcleaner

1995 Ved Buens Ende: Written in Waters

1997 Ulver: Nattens Madrigal

1997 Arcturus: La Masquerade Infernale

2001 Thorns: Thorns

Recording new Vengeful Semblance material for the last time

 

The black classical odyssey that began in May 2019 is coming to an end this October.

Four years, 12 albums and 96 tracks.

The final Vengeful Semblance album will be called Your Spine Is a Pierced Snake. It was written in October 2022 and August 2023.

https://vengefulsemblance.bandcamp.com/

Opening Lines - out now

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O70TALOzFow
https://rintaperala.bandcamp.com/album/opening-lines

1. It Was Noon of a Bright Winter's Day
2. Out There We Walked Quite Friendly Up to Death
3. The Red Death Had Long Devastated the Country
4. A Vulture Was Hacking at My Feet
5. I Love the Night with Passion
6. The Cruel Moon Hangs Out of Reach

The 29th album by Rinta-Perälä. On this album the alphabet was aligned with musical notes and the melodies were inspired by the words in the opening lines.

The opening lines were taken from
1: "A Joke" by Anton Chekhov
2: "The Next War" by Wilfred Owen
3: "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe
4: "The Vulture" by Franz Kafka
5: "Night" by Guy de Maupassant
6: "The Cruel Moon" by Robert Graves

Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, August 2023.
Music, artwork and production by Rinta-Perälä.

Opening Lines - out September 1, 2023

 

Out There We Walked Quite Friendly Up to Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvrhnHx09cc

The opening line in the title is from "The Next War" by Wilfred Owen.

The 29th album by Rinta-Perälä. On this album the alphabet was aligned with musical notes and the melodies were inspired by the words in the opening lines.

Out September 1, 2023.

Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, August 2023.
Music, artwork and production by Rinta-Perälä.

Historians are not creative

 

Audio commentaries used to be worth listening to. I never thought they were just meant to exist in order to employ film historians. What the hell happened?

Here's a little news flash: cinema is a creative medium. Get some creative people on those audio commentary tracks. Is that too much to ask?

It's not about explaining your work, it's about the perspective you have.

I have been actively watching films for 30 years. I'm also a creative person. What I have found out is that cinema is not about the info. It's about imagination and curiosity. The filmmakers are faced with creative opportunities and problems. Cinema should be a playground for the imagination.

What is the point of making a blu-ray if it only has one commentary track from the point of view of a historian?

I don't care if the historian calls himself a "genre expert." That's not enough. Most of them are just boring farts who have no imagination.

One of the saddest things is that so many people are now addicted to information. They ignore everything else.

Historians barely even care about the films half the time. I can't listen to the opinions of some detached historian without jumping off a cliff. Next time you talk about "quality blu-rays", ask yourself: how much do they really care?

Cellar Door - Open now

 

https://rintaperala.bandcamp.com/album/cellar-door

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQR7fRGUiPo

1. Cellar Door 1
2. Cellar Door 2
3. Cellar Door 3
4. Cellar Door 4
5. Cellar Door 5
6. Cellar Door 6
7. Cellar Door 7

Cellar Door is the 28th album by Rinta-Perälä. The sound of a cellar door opening followed by 84 processed versions of it.

Recorded on location and in Silence & Desolation Studio, September 13 - December 8, 2022.

Cellar Door - Opening August 1, 2023

 

Cellar Door 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqlpo8kREJM

Cellar Door is the 28th album by Rinta-Perälä. The sound of a cellar door opening followed by 84 processed versions of it.

Recorded on location and in Silence & Desolation Studio, September 13 - December 8, 2022.

Out August 1, 2023.