Asristir Vieldriox (sometimes spelt Asristirveildrioxe) is an EP released by the
avantgarde
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band
Orthrelm
Orthrelm is an American Avant-garde rock, avant-garde band from Washington, D.C.
Biography
Orthrelm is a duo composed of Mick Barr on guitar and Josh Blair on Drum kit, drums. Their songwriting style is mostly experimental, and shows the influ ...
. It was released by
Troubleman Unlimited Records
Troubleman Unlimited Records was a record label specializing in indie rock and similar genres. Founded in 1993, the label was based in Bayonne, New Jersey and owned by Mike Simonetti.
History
The label started as an offshoot of a fanzine called ...
in February 2002.
Despite having 99 tracks on it (the maximum any CD can hold), each one is only 5 to 15 seconds in length, therefore making the entire release only 13 minutes long in total. Due to this it cannot be classed as an album but an EP instead.
Each track mainly consists of quick and abrasive guitar lines with corresponding drum parts. There are no vocals.
The style of this EP is best described as Abstract,
Grindcore
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,
Experimental
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and
Avantgarde
The avant-garde (; In 'advance guard' or 'vanguard', literally 'fore-guard') is a person or work that is experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.John Picchione, The New Avant-garde in Italy: Theoretical De ...
.
Reception
In a review for
AllMusic
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, William York wrote: "this is constantly jarring, nerve-rattling stuff. In fact, due to the extreme compositional density and compression of this music, one is tempted afterwards to throw on some Anton Webern or early Napalm Death -- two infamous champions of brevity -- just to decompress a little bit." He recommended the album for "curiosity seekers and for die-hard fans interested in examining the duo's music at its most microscopic level."
Alec Hanley Bemis of
LA Weekly
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stated: "You get 99 songs in 12 minutes. This prolific drum/guitar duo exists at the nexus of prog-rock, free jazz and extreme metal. Mick Barr's guitar tangles are so dense, he makes the Locust's Bobby Bray sound like James Taylor."
A writer for
Indy Week
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described the album as "acid spittle; fleeting metal riffs slapped against a clatter of drums, rolling into big, brittle space."
Track timings
As each of the tracks are not named, it is not possible to give a track listing however the following list
shows how long in minutes and seconds how long each track is.
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References
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Orthrelm albums
2002 EPs