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''Full of Hell & Merzbow'' is a collaborative studio album between the American punk band Full of Hell and the Japanese noise artist Merzbow. The album was released on November 24, 2014 through Profound Lore Records. The CD version of the album was also packaged with a five-song, 35-minute bonus disc titled ''Sister Fawn'' that was described as an "extension" of ''Full of Hell & Merzbow''; it was later released in a digital format as well. The album received mixed reviews from music critics, with many praising the collaboration between the two artists, however some noted that Merzbow's part in the album was minimal, and only apparent and successful on the album's two longer tracks toward the end: "High Fells" and "Ljudget Av Gud". ==Background and recording== At a live performance in New York headlined by Phobia, the members of Full of Hell, who were opening at the show, ran into Merzbow's live drummer Balázs Pándi, who was there to see Phobia.〔 After the show, the band kept in contact with Pándi, who would send them albums he thought they should listen to; the relationship evolved into Pándi becoming their indirect contact with Merzbow frontman Akita Masami, which continued throughout the creation of ''Full of Hell & Merzbow''. Full of Hell vocalist Dylan Walker said, "The communication was definitely minimal with Masami. I don't think he speaks a lot of English, so I think Balázs () has been really helpful for him."〔 Full of Hell asked Pándi if they could have permission from Masami to release a shirt paying tribute to the cover art of Merzbow's 1996 album ''Pulse Demon''. In Masami's response, he proposed the idea of doing a split album, but later changed his mind and decided he wanted to do a collaboration album instead.〔 Merzbow sent the members of Full of Hell approximately 45 minutes of material for them to do with what they saw fit, and had very minimal contact with Masami during the writing and recording process.〔 Knowing that some fans and critics wouldn't like the finished product, Full of Hell focused their attention on making an album Masami and Balázs would be proud of,〔 and ultimately spent over a year working with the material.〔 Walker said he specifically was inspired how Jamie Saft used Merzbow's source material on his 2006 album ''Merzdub''. On Saft's album, Walker said: "it was so soothing, and it was so cool that he'd be able to warp Merzbow into this new sonic territory; it was a dub album, but like a dub album in space. We hoped that we could achieve something similar by warping Merzbow into our kind of sound. And Masami was really happy with how it turned out so, y'know, naysayers be damned!"〔 Because of the varying frequencies present in the source material that Masami sent Full of Hell, the band decided to "map out" how they wanted to use it all.〔〔 Ultimately, they decided to make two separate releases that put different levels of focus on either of the two contributors to the project. For the first disc, ''Full of Hell & Merzbow'', weighted the focus as: "70% Full of Hell, and 30% Merzbow record, so much like a regular Full of Hell record with noise."〔 Originally only available with the CD release of the album, the band included a "second CD hidden within the layout" of the album's packaging titled ''Sister Fawn'', which flipped the approximate weighted ratios, and as a result saw: "70% Merzbow and 30% Full of Hell. We did a lot writing in the studio for the second CD, it has kind of a Tribes of Neurot feel for the second CD."〔 In addition to collaborating with Merzbow, ''Full of Hell & Merzbow'' also features Kevin Morris on horns, and contains excerpts from William Rounseville Alger's novel ''The Solitudes of Nature and of Man: Or, The Loneliness of Human Life'' on the tracks "Raise Thee, Great Wall, Bloodied and Terrible" and "Ljudet Av Gud."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Full of Hell & Merzbow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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