Tigguo Cobauc's Enochian Black Metal

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Enjoy a crunchy, dark metal joyride with Tigguo Cobauc’s new album A Fountain Of Anguish Is Gone. It takes black metal atmospheres and blends them with a raw punk sound, spreading it all over a heavy slice of sludge metal. 

There are a few songs that stood out to me. Inner Disaster sounds like someone set a group of witches free to fly over old churches in Norway, and Volt-Face is appropriately named, as you can hear the tube-style fuzz of the kind of metal us old-schoolers love. This is an album of Enochian magick and merciless mental anguish.

As I listened to The Darkest Emperor, eerie keyboards swept into my room and gave me the feeling of running through a graveyard, eyes bugging out from some sort of mentally induced hysteria. Eternal Quietus starts out with a mellow, crepuscular chant (the sun fell and the crickets came out here) before a deep dive into full blast scream mode. Of course, an interview had to be done.

You've toured around the UK and you were in Brazil during 2022... do you plan on taking the new album live?

Absolutely, this tour is a huge milestone for us. While we've had some scattered performances across the UK and even ventured to Brazil in 2022 (10 Shows), this upcoming tour in May will be our first proper UK tour, covering eight different cities, including some we've never visited before like Leeds and Bristol. Although we've played in local venues around our base in Nottingham and neighboring cities like Birmingham, Sheffield, and Coventry, those were more isolated events. With this tour, we're gearing up to bring our new album to life on stage. It's a thrilling prospect for us to share our latest music with fans in a more cohesive and extensive way, and we can't wait to see the audience's reaction to our new material in these diverse UK cities.

Tell me a little bit about what producing and recording this album was like. You guys recorded it yourselves, right?

Producing and recording this album was a unique and fulfilling experience for us. While we took charge of recording everything except the drums, which were expertly captured once again at Noiseboy Studios in Salford, UK, we made a deliberate choice to approach this process differently. Recording in our own studio allowed us to operate without the typical time constraints associated with traditional studio bookings.

This decision not only provided us with the freedom to explore our creativity fully but also proved to be a cost-effective measure. It enabled us to experiment with various amps and microphones, ensuring we achieved the precise sonic quality we envisioned for this album.

While we could have handled the mixing and mastering at our professional studio, Major Oak Studios in Nottingham, UK, we opted to entrust this crucial aspect to Esben Willams, drummer of Monolord. Esben's expertise and creative insight were invaluable to us. He took on the mixing and mastering duties at Studio Berserk, his own studio in Gothenburg, Sweden, delivering a final product that surpassed our expectations.

Overall, this recording process was a harmonious blend of strategic decision-making, creative exploration, and collaboration with talented individuals like Esben. We're immensely proud of the album we've created and can't wait to share it with our fans.

Does A Fountain Of Anguish Is Gone have any specific inspiration behind it?

A Fountain of Anguish is Gone as the title of the album and a recurring theme throughout the songs suggests a cohesive narrative or concept behind the music. It seems that the album explores various scenarios or stories from different ancient eras, all tied together by themes of anger, anxiety, greed, and their consequences.The title itself evokes a vivid image of emotional turmoil and suffering, which appears to be central to the overarching theme of the album. Each song likely delves into a different narrative or scenario where these emotions play a significant role, leading to tragic outcomes such as death or, in some cases, a sense of relief after the turmoil has passed.Drawing inspiration from different historical eras and weaving them together with themes of anguish and its consequences showcases a rich tapestry of storytelling and imagination. It offers listeners a journey through various time periods, exploring the universal themes of human emotion and the repercussions of our actions.Overall, "A Fountain of Anguish is Gone" it's conceptually rich and thematically cohesive album that invites listeners to reflect on the complexities of the human experience across different cultures and time periods.

A Fountain Of Anguish Is Gone is now out and up for grabs. You can snag a copy here:

https://tigguocobauc.bandcamp.com/album/a-fountain-of-anguish-is-gone

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