Chaosmonaut
Passion Aggression
Independent
Unreleased
Doom Metal
Chaosmonaut is a Boise, Idaho based Doom Metal band committed to incorporating musical influences ranging from classic Doom staples such as Yob, Bongripper and Earth, to anything and everything else including jazz, opera, and classic progressive rock acts such as Yes. Each member brings a diverse and unique musical history that is blended together in the band context to make a truly unique sound. Chaosmonaut explores various themes particular to each piece they have written. For Passion Aggression that theme is the intrinsic need to create artistic pieces in opposition to all the forces trying to convince creatives that art is meaningless, fake, or trivial. Each member’s passion and experience is celebrated and explored within the 35 minute expression of love for art. Pulling from a myriad of influences, this track ranges between doom metal, black metal, psychedelic and progressive rock.
Chaosmonaut has played the past two Treefort Music Festivals; this is Idaho’s largest music festival which prides itself on providing opportunities to performers of all sounds. During one performance a crowd member let us know that their smart device told them that their heart rate increased to levels of high exercise, borderlining on concerning. Another crowd goer loudly proclaimed “OH MY GOD” after being obliterated with a wall of distortion. Chaosmonaut are sometimes described as weird due to non-conventional song arrangements and instrument layout. Their goal is to use every musical tool at their disposal to express specific feelings and emotions in a way that is not constrained by time or style, while still being uniquely identifiable to the band. As a result, much of their work consists of albums that are a single song exploring the depths of particular concepts. They have shared the stage with a variety of artists that share the same non-conventional stylings, including Telekinetic Yeti and The Body.
Passion Aggression is the first studio recording from Chaosmonaut. This is also the first piece of music with the current line-up which added new vocalist Rebecca Irwin and additional drummer Jake Anderson, and also features Brandon Walker of Ghorot as guest harsh vocalist. As it is one song over 30 minutes long, they are trying to show that music does not need to be limited to a narrow, genre-defined structure and can explore various territories and still have a cohesive sound. If nothing else, this should be a unique listening experience, the culmination of an expanding number of influences into a singular expression of emotion and art.
Chaosmonaut is:
Joe Turmes (guitar/bass/samples/vocals)
Joey Turmes (percussion/guitar/vocals)
Jake Anderson (percussion/vocals)
Rebecca Irwin (vocals)
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Short Bio:
Chaosmonaut, is a Boise, Idaho based Doom Metal band committed to incorporating musical influences ranging from classic Doom to anything and everything else including jazz, opera, and classic progressive rock acts such as Yes. Each member brings a diverse and unique musical history that is blended together in the band context to make a truly unique sound. The album Passion Aggression follows theme of the intrinsic need to create artistic pieces in opposition to all the forces trying to convince creatives that art is meaningless, fake, or trivial. Each member’s passion and experience is celebrated and explored within the 35 minute expression of love for art. Pulling from a myriad of influences, this track ranges between doom metal, black metal, psychedelic and progressive rock.
Really Short Bio:
Chaosmonaut is an eclectic Doom Metal group utilizing instruments, styles and techniques as unique as the musical experiences of the band members to weave a colorful tapestry full of heavy textures.
Reviews:
Aaron Austin of Dirtfeeder:
This is a creature of doom, raised in the Southern Idaho Desert.
A Creature, much like the angler fish of the deep, that seems to have an alluring and mysterious way of making you feel comfortable, while leading you to certain death.
This comfort is warm, like a liquid blanket, floating in some vast and endless space.
Safe.
Over the course of Passion Aggression, this intrinsic feeling of safety is repeatedly smashed to pieces, being met with high gain, fuzz driven guitars, thunderous sections of dueling percussion, and those reverb laden, haunting vocals I have grown to love in doom and sludge over the years. The structure on this album shows a mastery of riff-based drone that is rarely attained by mere mortals. Seamlessly finding their way in and out of grunge influenced melodies, blackened sludge movements, and shoegaze-esque auditory heroine lulls, all while keeping the attention of the listener for 37 solid minutes, is not a task to be taken lightly; and Chaosmonaut is making it look easy.
This creature is a world eater, I admit defeat.
My liquid blanket has become an ocean of embalming fluid and we have been banished to the belly of this creature. It smells like punk rock.
Inside, we find the rotting corpses of all who opposed it.
This is Passion Aggression.
Huey Gluey Maximus:
Chaosmonaut, indeed. I am a new comer to these Neanderthal grooves. To cross the stoner doom threshold, I imagine , there must be a gladiatorial levels of epicness at Chaosmonaut shows to concede their doom equilibrium. Ladies and gentlemen step right up and have your head holes pummeled to these mellifluous melodies. In the green corner weighing in at One song for a whopping 35 minutes and twenty seconds, the drone does not bore, nor does the sludge disappoint nor the drums egregiously lag. Make no mistake my dudes, this is some next level shwag style shroom laden hypnotic metal for the soulful by the bowlful. -666 stars-
Steve Howe from Outlaws Of The Sun:
https://outlawsofthesun.blogspot.com/2023/04/chaosmonaut-passion-aggression-album.html?m=1
Passion Aggression is quite complex with the many different creative themes the band employ for this album. The music can be quite unforgiving especially with the Drone Metal textures merging with the lo-fi Psychedelic grooves. Rebecca’s vocals are confident and self assured. They provide a different contrast to the gloomy and chaotic instrumental sounds being played sound Rebecca’s vocals but it works.
Passion Aggression is a highly original release with a level of technical brilliance shining throughout the album.
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