This beth It!

My dear fellow conspirers, this truly must be nothing else but It.
I have found out the identity of this leery character Admiral!
It shall come to pass, once I confirm this scoop with The Council,
that I (M, for your consideration) shall emboss these words revealing
upon thine comparatively righteous beings.

By this act of paradigm-defining decency, shall Admiral be cast unto endless befoulment, for matters revealed and traspired by his actions of trickery and guile.

Now I must hasten to my meeting with The Council.
You'll be hearing from me soon. The truth shall be revealed and justice served!

M

I beg to not differ

Who this Admiral figure might be?
And such accurate intel has he bestowed upon us!
Extremely intimidating times we are living indeed.

Until I know more of this.
M

Of matters extrauniversal, yet to sound.

As fate (or her devout follower and advocate mr Fuck You (of mainly Japanese heritage(one part German I think(Hitler's lost shoe perhaps?))) would have it, Dusk of Man has recently lost two of it's members in an accident most tragic and unfortunate.
Both of them, drummer J and guitarist H, were drowned in a pool of blood and urea of their own provision, under circumstances found to be most natural, by a third party found to be so neutral that the lack of conceptual gravitation towards any alignment ought to be overemphasized even on occasions where such a statement could and would be deemed as unorthodox device of discussion considering matters at hand.

As all possibilities are explored (and exploited of course) further development shall be revealed by me, your loyal anti-illuminati counter operative, on this very same site at each time I deem it necessary to do so(or not, whatever). How I come by this information is of no concern to you nor me, but having and getting it is nonetheless of great advantage in this dark middle age(d?(?)) déjà vu.

I wonder what day is it.
Admiral

P.S.
It has been two minutes since I came out with this insignificant revelation.
It would seem that this wasn't my diary, and therefore one should note the first chapter is yet another figment of my imagination (until tonight 2300-hours of course).
Until I've validated that blasted first chapter.
Ta taa.

P.P.S
One really should forget that strangled note about 2300-hours and so on.
You really really should.

Lepakkomies 28.07.2009

So, we played among great bands for one night in hot basement at the heart of Kallio, Helsinki.

Setlist:

• Caravans
• Monolith
• Thin Air
• Horizon

Thank you.

-J

Dusk of Man / Locomotora / The Fërtility Cült @ Lepakkomies, Kallio, Helsinki

Ištar promo sessions, pt VIII.

We're almost ready! Ištar is now available to you in our myspace site.
Physical promo versions will follow in few months, among lossless downloads and cover art.

http://www.myspace.com/duskofman

if you like it, spread the word. Thank you.

-J

Swedish Royal Mask

Meditate on this.

-S

Ištar promo sessions, pt VII.

We have finished our recording sessions, spending only 6 weeks on scheduled 1 week run. Now it's time to head on to post-production. It's scheduled to be ready in 2 weeks, so you can expect to hear these songs in about 12 weeks.

After some second thoughts we will probably release this promo in physical form, limited to 200 copies. More on that later.

Also something new in gigs: We are playing 28.7.2009 in Lepakkomies, Kallio, Helsinki with Locomotora and The Fërtility Cült. Flyer and further information will follow.

-J

Ištar promo sessions, pt VI.

Ready:
Drums, percussion, bass, guitar 1 & 2, bass overdubs, guitar overdubs, vocals 2 & 3.

To go:
Vocals 1 & 4, overdub vocals, mixing and mastering.

-J

Ištar promo sessions, pt III-V.

So, many odd days and weird nights has been spent on recordings. Drums, percussions, one guitar and bass tracks are ready. Second guitar and overdubs (if any) will be recorded late on this week.

Our delirious drummer/mustachio Jesse babbled something about new myspace layout in prior to release of these songs, just can't wait.

-J

Ištar promo sessions, pt II.

First day of studio (ok, rehearsal room) is over, complete 7 - hours session, ending up with roughly around 19 minutes of drum and guide guitar tracks.

More will follow on saturday, when percussions, first guitar track and bass tracks are in schedule.

-J

Ištar promo sessions, pt I.

Shock! Horror!
Members of Dusk of Man are actually putting down their beer, bacon, laptops, wifes, bikes and other substances and actually DO something!

So, yes. We are about to record 2 song - promo, named after Ištar, Babylonian goddess of fertility, love, war and sex. I'm not really sure if it's ever going to be released in any physical format but you can expect to hear some noises at our myspace and even more lossless noises at our webpage in few weeks.

The songs on this promo will be CARAVANS and HORIZON. First one is already appearing on our self-titled demo. We tought that last recording of this song didn't quite gave honor to that song so we will re-record it right this time. The second one is quite new one (ok, almost a year old), thundering at lenght of some 10 minutes and being the shortest piece of our upcoming EP.

"Studio" diary will follow shortly.

-J

Holy shit, this is awesome!

-J

"New" songs

Caravans tells us a story of a fight-till-death battle between man and his spiritual self, taking place somewhere near Ursa Major. The happenings of Caravans take place some 100 years after project Haloperidol was failed on Earth. More on that later. As a song, it's a straight-in-your-face stonercore piece with mental and physical bass and guitar walls, coming at you scaringly uneasy.

Horizon on the other hand is this maritime blues about long lost love and billaging seamen who ultimately trip on their own greed. It is one of our most post-rock songs with its meandering riff structure and eerie guitar sounds. We hope you'll find yourselves positively surprised by both songs.

-S

Hey, cool, song biography!

CARAVANS is basically one of the first DOM songs among 'Monolith', and first version of it was originally made in fall of 2006, as far as I remember. Structure is quite naive and too random to my ears now, 3 years later but I rather do new songs and put my energy on them than try to correct age old mistakes. We re-recorded it because we find it at least quite entertaining piece of random noise and shouting and the last version of it on our first demo wasn't quite good enough to give full potential of this song to the audience. As interestin notion, this song originates from era that DOM really didn't exist as a full band and I didn't had that self-feeding vortex of our own existence to aid me in writing process. So if you listen it carefully you can hear some influences from crust punks big names to some doom metal acts. Mostly this song is the landmark of "post-apocalyptic crust-doom" concept we had in our minds in early 2007.

HORIZON is a bit newer piece. Some parts of it originate from improvised parts that we recorded on rehearsal hall in last summer, long middle part is written in early 2008, ending has taken its form in about six months, from spring to fall of 2008. At this point most of my ideas came from our own songs and improvisation. Ending of this song actually honor briefly some influental new, 2nd generation modern black metal bands we just took their concept a bit further in our own style. Everything has its roots.

Hope you enjoy them. Thanks.

-J

OK, really, no-one saw this one coming and we are totally blown away by this:

Our guitarist/vocalist Henu got his first-born baby girl couple of days ago.

We are fully surprised and happy for him and his family, congratulations!

(weird-ass name suggestions will follow at rehearsals..)

-J

Rides out from red sun high above.

So, we're back in one piece.

During our five day trip to a beautiful, warm, green and did I mention beautiful Netherlands countryside is over. We felt extreme sound pressures, got more fuel to fire our passion for our music and will to carry on our own thing even more further than we have ever gone.

We listed some cons and pros during this journey on my little black book, so, here it is:

HATELIST:

• Tobacco as a mixer in king size joints.
• British tourists (also floating ones.)
• Separately priced side dishes.
• Overpriced horsebeer.
• Duke Nukem - cat.
• Metallica's new music videos
• Train waves (what?)
• Intimitating african drugdealer
• Coins as only valid form of payment
• "debit and master" are NOT major credit cards. Visa is. IT SHOULD BE APPROVED.
• Drum solo of St. Vitus
• Drum solo of St. Vitus
• Disturbing lack of cats in Etten-Leur
• Loud ethnic teenagers
  

SUPPORT LIST:

• Cat of The Old Nickel, Amsterdam
• Same cat, drunk.
• Clone cat on that Uruguyan grill restaurant
• Open kitchen in same place. Delicious!
• Duke Nukem - cat
• Scatman, John
• JESSE EMIL, the musical
• Architecture and selection of The American Bookstore, Amsterdam
• Customer service, mostly.
• Freshly deceased cow and forklift at field near Utrecht centraal.
• Mental bacon (wtf? who invented this?)
• Batman - hangover (so called "bat-over")
• Drum solo of St. Vitus
• Drum solo of St. Vitus
• Train synthesizer
• Train seat which colour was almost same as the taste of beer and sausage. (new kind of synergy?)
• New animal-based money system of Kyrpälandia
• Phantom - hangover (mustanaamiodarra)

-J

Roadburn 2009

Not that 3/5 is only the time signature to our next 20 minute epic, it's also the amount of Dusk of Man members going to a field trip. Main themes for this short pop to the Netherlands are

- thundering sound walls that you can feel with your pulmonary alveoli
- noise so vivid you receive it into you with your eyes
- undergoing studies of becoming ever better in what we do
- enjoying ourselves
- other / other

This being also the only true summer vacation to me at least, I'm going to take the best of it.

-S

A Mote of Dust

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
- Carl Sagan, 1934-1996

-J

He's an individual, and they're always trying.

"I'm looking at somebody who belongs to my world"
"This is your world - I am your only world"

This struck me hard. He was a huge influence among several members of our band. We have been embraced his works from references in our daily locution to thematic scapes in our lyrics even to the carving in backside of my iPod. His art carry on in our hearts and minds.. Thank you.

He is a free man now.


-J

Plot thickens.

Ok, what is this shit? Since the dawn of modern time men has tried to get through their life as easy as possible with automating complex or just dull tasks with machines. Well, progress has been quite impressive and many fingers has been replaced by wires and fewer hands with clamps succesfully in factories... but automated creative work?

I'm really perplexed by this. I don't know if I should laugh my ass of from quite campy advertisement of Microsoft product running on macbook and crappy actors or be terrified by the basic idea of taking away the freedom of creative arts and making illusion to anyone that they have talents to do music? All I know for sure is that those "happy" and "jazzy"- sliders must be the most hilariously confusing thing I've seen in a while.

But if we sit down and start reasoning the meaning of this phenomena, automated creativity, the advertised idea that Everyone has music or song inside and they need to let that out. Where it will lead?. We've seen this before in some form, reality TV formats such as popstars, Idols etc. But Microsoft cunningly tops all this by cutting out competition, now everyone can be heard. I really can't imagine how strongly that little program (ok, not that little) will affect on basic quality of MySpace, YouTube and other interactive web2.0 communities by spamming them quite full of different kinds of awful shit, varying from little Miss popstar - wannabes like your little sister to a love songs towards your best friend, wrote by your dad.
Yeah, I'm terrified too.

But if anyone ever manages to make anything listenable with Songsmith, who will own the rights to that song? I'm quite sure that Microsoft has some kind of kickback on copyrights and eventually they own millions of bytes crap all over the modern Internet but maybe, eventually, some good songs. Time will show. If this product flops, it will be huge success as camp, if it really breaks through there is a slight potential that it will be really huge. iTunes of 2010. That is not comfortable idea. I really like that even just plainly bad bands that exist today are bad, but they do not exist in same numbers as, lets say, for example, population of some suburb where every teen has something to say with their "music".

Now you are thinking that "does it really work?". Our drummer Jesse bravely downloaded it and did a little song for all of us. Yes, it works. I think that our next EP will be fully recorded, composed and produced with Songsmith. I feel kinda useless now. Normally our songs form up from vague melodies that I whistle and hum to the rest of the guys and then let gravity do the work. Usually I also snap my fingers a lot. WHAM! has always been a great influence to us.

I'm kinda interested where this already a little phenomena will develope. We'll see.

-J