Botanist: One-Man, Hammered-Dulcimer Black Metal (No, Really)
Metalheads can be a nerdy bunch — don't let the battle jackets and grim visages fool you. Most of the time, we're video-game wizards, obscure-history researchers or even beer connoisseurs. 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. Cue Botanist, a one-man black-metal band whose ethereally weird sound comes from a hammered dulcimer and drums. And, true to its name, Botanist is all about the flora and the fauna, from the artwork to the lyrics. This is like catnip for metalheads.
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 Of course, some wackadoodle ideas are too good to be true. 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. Thankfully, Botanist lives up to its environmentally minded, hammered-dulcimer'd nerdery. 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. 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. (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. I feel like I need to get the most obvious question out of the way first: Why hammered dulcimer? I'm a drummer. I started playing drums 10 years ago. I've been in bands that have done some things and a lot of other bands that did nothing. When I started to pitch this idea of Botanist to people, I'd originally thought of making it a two-man grind band with drums and guitars — each person does vocals. No one seemed to want to do this. There was an issue of getting people to show up at the right time. It wasn't happening as fast as I wanted it to. So that was the first thing.
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It's an amazing song — very heavy, very doom, very downtuned, very crushing. I: The Suicide Tree / II: A Rose for the Dead is out now on tUMULt, but you'll have better luck finding it at Aquarius Records. You can read lyrics and lore at Botanist's
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She’s carefree, up for anything, and not into the whole mushy I love you kind of stuff. Also, she’s independent and has her own life which doesn’t revolve solely around him. Plus there’s always something interesting going on btwn these two whether it be a discussion or something going on in their lives, atleast that’s how it’s been in my case. Also, air and fire is an awesome combo, they understand each other.
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