From what the Mad Mane Machine has gathered, Musrum is a highly valued cult book. Considerately, that can be an apex for wrapping up book blogging—especially when a sought after style is nowhere to be found, few entries later. It would be doing the book much worse than good. Shit.
Schizophrenic and experimental writing—these have managed to be checked before. Musrum ticks the weird-and-phenomenal-without-even-trying box. Reinstating all belying preconceptions towards meaninglessness, implied meanderings, and conclusive misconceptions. The existential world of Musrum. It may convince it is the opposite of a mind trip, yet its realization is an inimitable directory of how not to impose anything. As a rule, it just is—minus mere existence.
For one, Musrum is a stretcher upon its course. There is a set of images eloquently re-arranged to match the written counterpart of its deranged and determined stylistic humour. The amount of logo creations up-fronts the number of word creations. Many of them recall to the Metal genre; where funly, they were related—as follows—to various sub-genres to an almost astounding precision.
Cover (07) — Death Metal. Very Morbid Angel distortions
COLUMBUS ... (09) — Occult Doom Metal/any tribal variation. Woodcraft and symbology
THE ATTIC (15) — Stoner (Doom). Thick text in the vein of Sleep
THE IRON CASTLE (19) — Progressive Metal. Sharp/defined symmetry (far from Thrash's)
THE EXPLORATION OF THE WORLD (32) — Atmospheric Sludge Metal. Coastline/Island indenting . . . since Pirate Metal is not really a genre. . . .
THE PURSUIT BEGINS (41) — Post-Metal. Cresting with wavelines/rendering to softness
IN ODESSA (52) — Avant Garde Metal. A funny 'mess' of objects living and non-living
MUSRUM A PROLOGUE OF BANNERS — Gothic Metal
MUSRUM'S PLAN TO UTILIZE THE INDUSTRIAL SUBURBS OF THE ESTATE AS AN ARSENAL (69) — Brutal Death Metal heavy on Hardcore/Sludge Metal. Not very stylized, solid font. (Borderline Grindcore)
WHEEL-LORE (72) — Speed Metal. Thrash-like precision meets arrows
THE TREE TELEGRAPH (80) — Depressive Suicidal Black Metal. Trees; Pines in particular
PRINCIPLES OF FLOWERLIGHT (82) — European Power Metal. (Sun)Flower power
THE ELDER TREE (93) — Grindcore. Nasum spikiness with talons. Sweet perfection
PREPARATION AT THE CAMP (97) — Industrial Metal. Wtf moment as human limbs spell it out
THE MUD CASTLE (107) — (Progressive) Groove Metal. Ahem! Toning down/up from (19). The whole logo realized anew as a block
THE IMITATION GARDEN (112) — Drone Metal. Beating dunes eaten by time? Fascinating arrangement
FEAR, AFFLICTION - AND STRANGE HOPE (124) — Technical Death Metal. A die; no cast—Hexahedron with impressions/layers
SPOILS OF WAR (129) — Experimental? taken. Avant garde? taken. How do genres start? Not cheating here . . . Boris belongs somewhere?
THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO INTERSOL (133) — (Viking) Folk Metal. Through a rugged mapping and sea-faring arises the the nation (and title)
SECOND MOVEMENT: BELLA: LA DAME GENOVESE (134) — Love Metal (hark!). Arrow-shots to the hearts of sentimentalization
THIRD MOVEMENT: ALLEGRO (136) — That Byzantine Metal should be a thing? All above (134), in mosaic detail. Also deduct arrow. Right, Batushka exists
THE WEEDKING'S PLIGHT (151) — Crust loving Powerviolent Grind. Sells itself as Botanical Metal. Caterpillar's legs espouse the whole disappointing irony
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