Some sources have described Aarni’s music variably as ’almost orthodox doom metallish Lovecraftian-Jungian Kalevala avant-bard’, ’progressive doom metal’, ’Yanni with distorted guitars’, ’primitive black metal’, ’underground progressive rock’, ’shit’, ’space doom metal’ and ’original as fuck’. The band itself occasionally uses terms like ’Chthonic Hybrid Musick’, ’Antinomian Music’, ’Maybe Music’, ’Noise For Futants’, ’Functional Music’, ’Dream Torrent Music’, ’Bizarro Musick’ or preferably no description at all. Sound confusing? Join the club!
Aarni strives to avoid using needless amounts of traditional song-structures, homogenous parts and other such widespread and boring conventions in its music. Probably the band functions as therapy to its unsuspecting members.
Some of the themes in Aarni’s music may be A) Finnish folklore and paganism as the band views them B) occultism and world mythologies, brain-change, Discordianism, collective & personal liberation and theories of analytical psychology (especially those of C.G. Jung) C) The Cthulhu mythos as described by H.P. Lovecraft and fellow authors (sometimes possibly handled with a slight tongue-in-cheek approach) and D) Topics not included in the above categories.
The band occasionally likes to see its message (if any) as being anti-state, anti-religion, anti-ideology & anti-anti, and pro healthy balanced happy living for all awakened domesticated primates everywhere.
Aarni’s superintelligent lyrics take form in the language believed most suitable for the song’s subject: usually in English, Classical Latin or Finnish and occasionally in French, Ancient Egyptian, Hebrew, German, Enochian, Glossolalic, et cetera.
Band Members
Master Warjomaa - Intuition, cries from the crypt, Xothian kantele, the piping of that accursed flute.Comte de St-Germain - Sensation, alchemical processes and keys to secrets.Doomintroll - Feeling, sense of fashion and percussionism.Mistress Palm - Thinking, errors of musical execution, inferior songs, sub-par sound.
Influences
Black Sabbath, Camel, Piirpauke, Van Der Graaf Generator, Candlemass, Gong, Alien Dream, Hawkwind, Robert Anton Wilson, Austin Osman Spare, Philip K. Dick, Aleister Crowley, Nietzsche, Hakim Bey, Carl Gustaf Jung, Wilhelm Reich, Rabelais, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Hermann Hesse, Carlton Mellick III, John Dee, Väinämöinen, Timothy Leary, Ramsey Dukes, Peter J. Carroll, Phil Hine, Grant Morrison, Christopher Hyatt, Edward Kelley, Risto Santavuori, Timo Heikkilä, Copros the God of Caca, Veltto Virtanen, Antero Alli, Terence McKenna, Dadaism, Surrealism, the helpful voices in my head who like to claim being my HGA
Other Artists
Maudlin Of The Well, Iron Maiden, Magma, Ozric Tentacles, King Diamond, King Crimson, Opeth
Website
www.aarni.info
