AN NCS INTERVIEW: STUPOROUS

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Mar 082024
 

(With agonized apologies to Comrade Aleks and the members of the Netherlands-based group Stuporous for our lamentable delay, today we present an excellent discussion among them, with a focus on the band’s debut album released in January by Void Wanderer Productions and War Productions.)

You should know Stuporous, as there was already a track premiere last fall at NCS, don’t you? It’s a killer band performing a mix of black and doom metal with jazz elements. Its members play different styles of extreme (and not so extreme) metal in Belgian and Dutch bands, some of which are members of the Zwotte Kring artistic collective.

Their first full-length album is Asylum’s Lament, so named after the experiences of the band’s vocalist Devi, who works in psychiatry, and you can easily imagine what kind of crazy stuff you can find here.

And here we have all members of this highly artistic outfit answering my questions with patience and passion. Or something like that. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: STUPOROUS — “DECORATING THE WILLOW TREE”

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Nov 202023
 

“Stuperous,” in case you were wondering, is a word found in the dictionary. It means “stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or exhaustion)”. Synonyms include dazed, foggy, groggy, and lethargic.

A strange choice for a metal band name, you might think, especially a band whose music stands as an antonym for “stuporous”. Momentarily, you’ll see why we think that.

As for the band itself, it’s the brainchild of Floris Velthuis, whose name you might recognize as the main person behind the unorthodox black metal band Meslamtaea. In Stuperous he’s joined by trumpeter Izzy Op de Beeck, who’s also part of Meslamtaea, and singer Devi Hisgen, who we’re told works in psychiatry, a useful specialty in the context of the trio’s debut album Asylum’s Lament, given that the lyrics are about mental disorders and depression, based on true events in a psychiatric facility.

That album is now set for release on January 25th by Void Wanderer Productions and War Productions, and what we have for you today is the premiere of the album track “Decorating the Willow Tree“. Continue reading »