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Phlefonyaar Premiere “Temple Bells at Midnight” Video

Posted in Bootleg Theater on March 21st, 2017 by JJ Koczan

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To be perfectly honest, part of the reason I jumped on the chance to host this Phlefonyaar video premiere was because it gave me a chance to post the lyrics to the song in question. The UK sludge metal duo posted “Temple Bells at Midnight” as the first public audio from their forthcoming debut album, Septic, Bitter and Hardbitten, which is due April 14 via Cavernous Records, and I embedded the track with the release announcement at the end of last month, because, you know, it’s what you do for that kind of thing, and all the low end, and the growls, and the sludge and the groove, and Paul March and Jim Males seem really pissed off, and so on.

But along with the single itself on their Bandcamp, Phlefonyaar posted the lyrics to the track and I found them particularly striking. “Temple Bells at Midnight” talks about watching a church burn — not new territory for metal there — but instead of bragging either rightly or wrongly about having set the fire, the lyrics take kind of a resigned position with the lines: “And if we’re lucky/It will consume us all.” The fire isn’t something raging against a culturally oppressive force; it’s just a thing that happens on another shitty day. Yeah, the track caps with “Watch the end of lies,” but it feels like an afterthought compared to the core misanthropy and disaffection of the earlier verses. It’s not the church that needs to burn. It’s everything.

I don’t think it would be fair to say Phlefonyaar are taking themselves too seriously with “Temple Bells at Midnight” — March, after all, wears a “Booty Hunter” hat for the entire clip — but neither is their grueling, drum-machine-infused sludge vacuous in its antisocial position in this track. In addition, the video gives us a chance to see the bizarre, two-stringed instrument that allows Males to emit such rumbling low-end, and the we-broke-an-antique microphone through which March‘s distorted ramblings arrive. It’s a weird vibe, and like several heavy videos out of the UK of late, seems to take some influence from ’90s hip-hop in its presentation.

You’ve been duly warned. Septic, Bitter and Hardbitten is out April 14 on Cavernous Records. Video and lyrics follow.

Please enjoy:

Phlefonyaar, “Temple Bells at Midnight” official video

Phlefonyaar on “Temple Bells at Midnight”:

Gather round ladies and germs and let Phlefonyaar bring you a cure to all your happiness problems with the finest Tom Waits inspired doom skiffle this side of your worst Mike Mignola-inspired Freudian nightmares.

From the album: Septic, Bitter and Hardbitten, out via Cavernous Records on April 14 2017. Filmed and edited by: darknorthmedia.com.

Phlefonyaar, “Temple Bells at Midnight”
A blight on you and all of your kind
Screams the man with murder in mind
There’s a grave in which to lay
That will see you through now till judgment day

Mark out a place and stand in the sun
Turn guns on your own and blow them to chum
Fly kites at night over fires of bone
Raise knives to the heavens and burn in your homes

Oh there’s a fire in the church on Hawthorn Street
Where good men go to find there bad to beat
Oh there’s a fire in the church on Hawthorn Street
And if we’re lucky it will consume us all
It will consume us all

Come drink to this with me! Come
Stand by my side!
Come raise a glass with me
Come
Watch the end of lies

Phlefonyaar is:
Paul March: Iron lung, worrisome ramblings and Thunder board
Jim Males: live interpretative dance, bird calls and cable beam contortion

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Phlefonyaar to Release Septic, Bitter and Hardbitten April 14

Posted in Whathaveyou on February 28th, 2017 by JJ Koczan

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One finds the new single from UK two-piece Phlefonyaar to be just as expressive as it is misanthropic. The track comes from what seems to be the duo’s debut album, Septic, Bitter and Hardbitten — due out April 14 on Cavernous Records — and if you’re up for bringing yourself down a peg, the drum-machine-infused pulse of “Temple Bells After Midnight” and lyrics like, “Raise knives to the heavens and burn in your homes” and “There’s a fire in the church on Hawthorn Street/And if we’re lucky it will consume us all,” should probably get the job done. So much for your otherwise pleasant afternoon, mate.

The PR wire brings album art, the tracklisting and more perspective on the record itself, complete with lines about drinking cough syrup and whatnot. As one would expect.

Behold:

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British Doom Duo PHLEFONYAAR Announce Details of New Album

Septic, Bitter and Hardbitten will be released 14 April 2017

British doom duo PHLEFONYAAR will release their new album Septic, Bitter and Hardbitten on 14 April 2017 via Cavernous Records.

The band have released album track Temple Bells After Midnight as a taster of what’s to come.

Whether it’s sitting in their underpants in a car park, drinking tea and being serenaded by drunken truck drivers or being so annihilated on cheap lager whilst trying to sell the police wooden pegs, PHLEFONYAAR’s antics offstage are as bizarre and bleakly intoxicating as the music they produce.

Comments purveyor of vocal chaos, Paul March: “We’re back to generally bring you our feel good, happy day-glow, end time message with our latest release, Septic, Bitter and Hardbitten. It’s a full on rollercoaster of sparkling hardcore unicorn porn fun, I kid you not. So what’s new I hear you cry, why should I care about two scallywags playing the filthiest sludge doom rock this side of equator? Well if you said that then you’ve already answered your own question and maybe this isn’t for you, the doors over there. For the rest of us, I’m not gonna yap on about production or hand you a line like some slick snake oil salesman peddling his wares in a backwater town in the ass end of nowhere about this or that or how sincere I am about stuff. No no no. That’s not how this is gonna get done.

“To be honest the main pressing reason this should be listened to is just so you can laugh derisively and prove me wrong. So go listen, turn it up loud, maybe have a little dance, drink some screech or high end cough syrup (the good stuff) and if it doesn’t end up making you feel like a coyote chewing on a cigarette, you can come back and tell us how we ruined your evening. Either way you won’t regret it.”

A true monument in primal sound, Septic, Bitter and Hardbitten creeps, disorientates and lunges throughout 7 crucifyingly heavy tracks and is the product of a mere duo. Full of pummeling hooks and dark visions, the end result is a maelstrom of focused noise that is starkly terrifying. PHLEFONYAAR’s gloomy expressionism unravels in slow motion throughout the album to leave you with something which won’t tuck you up in bed at night and kiss you sweet dreams.

Having thrown their sound at stages across Europe, touring with bands such as Nachtmystium and Dark Fortress and providing support to Baroness on the night before their bus crash, the band are set to spend the rest of 2017 gigging and touring.

Septic, Bitter and Hardbitten will be released on 14 April 2017 via Cavernous Records.

Septic, Bitter and Hardbitten track listing:
1) The Lingering Molly
2) Temple Bells After Midnight
3) And If My Conscience Be In Fits?
4) Slow Death and Procrastination
5) Nuthin But Whimsy
6) You Can Never Have… (Too Many Knives)
7) All Things That On Earth Do Dwell

Phlefonyaar is:
Paul March: Iron lung, worrisome ramblings and Thunder board
Jim Males: live interpretative dance, bird calls and cable beam contortion

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Phlefonyaar, “Temple Bells After Midnight”

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