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NIGREDO

by Bronze Chariot

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    WHEN WE WERE TOLD THAT WE WERE TO BE EVICTED, AND THE CHURCH WAS TO BE TURNED INTO APARTMENTS, THE QUESTION ON OUR MINDS WAS “HOW DO WE SEND IT OFF?” QUICKLY, THE PLAN WAS HATCHED TO MAKE A FILM, DOCUMENTING THE SPACE, AND THE BANDS IT HELPED FORM. WE HAD LESS THAN THREE WEEKS. SWORDS RE-FORMED FOR THE OCCASION, AND BRONZE CHARIOT CAME BACK FROM THE BRINK OF BREAKING UP. UNFORTUNATELY, AT SUCH SHO...RT NOTICE, MANY GREAT BANDS WERE UNABLE TO PARTICIPATE. A CALL WAS PUT OUT TO OUR FRIENDS WITH THE SKILLS AND EQUIPMENT TO PULL IT ALL OFF. THE RESPONSE WAS FAR GREATER THAN WE COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED.

    EACH BAND PLAYED WITH CONVICTION AND SINCERITY, KNOWING IT WAS THEIR FINAL TIME ON THE HALLOWED STAGE. WHEN THE LAST NOTE WAS STRUCK AND THE FINAL FRAME CAPTURED, WE ASSEMBLED OUTSIDE TO TAKE A PHOTO ON THE STREET TO COMMEMORATE WHAT WE HAD JUST ACCOMPLISHED.

    ALL THE PEOPLE INVOLVED CONTINUED TO GENEROUSLY DONATE THEIR TIME AND EXPERTISE OVER THE FOLLOWING WEEKS. SOME WORKED TIRELESSLY TO COMPILE AND EDIT THE EXTENSIVE FOOTAGE AND PHOTOGRAPHS. OTHERS MIXED AND MASTERED THE AUDIO RECORDINGS, DESIGNED THE ARTWORK AND WROTE THIS PASSAGE.

    NOBODY GOT PAID, AND NOBODY ASKED TO BE. WE ALL HAD ONE GOAL: TO COMMEMORATE THE GREAT TIMES WE HAD, AND EVERYTHING WE ACHIEVED WITHIN THE GREAT STONE WALLS.

    WE HOPE YOU ENJOY THE FILM.

    Staring:
    BEFORE THE AFTERMATH
    BRONZE CHARIOT
    BURNING SEA
    DAMNED MEN
    ROBOTOSAURUS
    SWORDS
    THUNDERCLAW

    Directed by Dan McGuiness

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1.
Brushfire 02:33
2.
Nigredo 04:36
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He came over plains Stretching out as one can see There’s a trail of tombstones And eulogies from howling dogs His crooked unkept jaw Whistles jingled cries Its no myth oh there’s a reason For devastation to be swaggering in Town bells were ringing Yet no damn fool listening The doors they get right kicked in There’s only one way to skin a dirty cat Oh man rich and poor Curse money they don’t need it no more And awe marches it marches on and on To level this shit hole into the ground Here comes Nigredo That look in his eyes looks a little too familiar On cruel lonely nights I dream of Nigredo
3.
Can't Win Them All 05:01
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Shoulda known to get out there Knew it weren’t same no more Where’s a mistake ill make it Where’s a mess I’ll dive right in It’s just how I circle the drain You can’t win them all Remember one thing and she’ll be right There two sides to every coin Some you love and some you don’t Nothing can stop the world turning It’s just how the universe swings You can’t win them all A good old friend he once said Stop your digging when you’re in a hole Gather my things head through our door Try my luck and roll em again It’s just how the bets are laid You can win them all. What is done is done You can win them all.
4.
Down At The Bar 03:43
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The well is three deep far from dry I fought the tough five o’clock war To find a friend amongst strangers They’ll be here to the very end To the very end There is the easy way down at the bar And time swirls it swills around Looking for answers in empty glasses So put another one back It’s a bloody wonder we’re still standing we’re still standing There is the hard way down at the bar Down down down down.... Ill do my very best just give me one more chance. Ill do my very best Down at the bar
5.
The Crossing 03:49
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Everyone’s troubles ache deep in their guts Coz getting by is flogging a dead horse When walls crumble and silhouettes ail They’ll always be one last chance brooding on the outskirts of town And I go on in And can a man shedding skin turn back again Spectre things ascend between dog and wolf I hear All beasts come by my side Canopies close around so heavens can’t reach and touch us now All souls shall damn the tide Fate is revealed breath by breath And the phantoms gaining precious time So parting reeds, debris is drifting away From where I submerge within the rivers ethereal undertow And I go on in To see the faces of the living and the dead Spectre things ascend between dog and wolf I hear All beasts come by my side Canopies close around so heavens can’t reach and touch us now All souls shall damn the tide
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Hellhound Hymn 06:41
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Out where stars shine bright I lay beaten and alone Asking if the worst is still to come There’s no telling how such damage was done Nothing will change unless I stumble on Beneath a round moon old bones and gums glow Remind the rattle can shake before you know. In darkness its always the coldest before dawn The only way out of here aint death row Hounds hunt in packs When blood is around Champing for the breath Of who can’t inhale again Go salivate elsewhere Go collect another soul Go sell a weaker man the deal For when I return I will be with the ones in bloom.
7.
Lucky Country 03:21
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Sovereignty is no where to be seen Across this burnt land And whittling wheat fields Are still getting no yield When you’re running the country betting on nothing Loot is the saviour for a basket case like this I said like this In the Lucky Country In the Lucky Country So bring out your dead For another days work Where money is a small Compensation for a boot in the face Who will get the job done now sucking on boredom's breast Spellbound and staring at a history with no future I said no future In the Lucky Country In the Lucky Country The racket is up shit creek Doing all the wrong things Descending in madness Pissing into the wind Cop it like the common man Copping it from birth to grave In the Lucky Country In the Lucky Country
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Round 01:47
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Horseshoe Bend 07:01
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9. HORSESHOE BEND They came by boat The carpenter and homemaker Forging a frontier Them were gruesome times His son built by the river Round horseshoe’s bend Served his town damn well A man of faith about town Upon a black horse rode his son Undertaker in fine thread Drawn by our ancient seas Traded in ochre and wood One of nine was to follow He never had an idle hand Spreading yield around the regions Farmer, butcher a father Houses came rolling in The name was left behind Found her man early on Young woman who passed by Her daughter did it hard Raised up in countless homes Spreading rare dollars a mile Were two sons For those who toiled From dawn to dusk I left a town behind Can’t hang my hat in It’s ever looming Shadow on the hill Where the cemeteries calling out To lay six feet down In a dynasty I belong to Round horseshoe’s bend

about

Debut Album "Nigredo"

Australian 6 Piece from Adelaide. Formed 2008.
New Album "Nigredo" recorded January 2011
Out May 27th 2011 on Capital Games.
Mostly structure, some improvisation. Loud.
Keen for a beer.

Australian 6 Piece from Adelaide. Formed 2008. New Album "Nigredo" recorded January 2011 out May 27th 2010 on Capital Games. mostly structure, some improvisation. Loud. Keen for a beer.

Way back in early 2010, we set out to write an album that represented the band we wanted to be and the albums we wanted to hear. We wrote songs that were inspired by dreams of starting again, the times when Ben wo...rked for long periods in the outback, friendships and families, dead end relationships, drinking, playing in bands, throwing caution to the wind, old town family dynasties and getting by in the lucky country. To capture the live and fluid sound we needed, the songs were tracked live as a band in only one day,with the vocals and guest instruments tracked in the following days. For us, Nigredo has essentially been 158 years in the making. The album not only reflects our past but also guides our future. We hope you find everything that we put into it (Bronze Chariot 2011)

They're quite a lot like The Drones with a little more regimentation and a little less chaos, which in some ways make them the more punishing. Both bands have a taste for that gothic Australiana where drunks and gunslingers, beaten wives and morally bankrupt preachers meet their variously grizzly ends: a little blood to lubricate the axles of the Bronze Chariot. Nigredo, meaning in alchemy blackness and purification, or in psychology the dark night of the soul, here personified as a dark traveler, he brings ruination to all those he meets. A perfect songwriter for this band, I think (4ZZZ 2011).

They're stupidly angry, sound rather like Tom Waits covered by a dirge band put through a cement mixer with the distortion pedals cranked (Spoz Rant 2010)

Nigredo is an album which is quite hard to define. If you can imagine a cross between Nick Cave, Black Sabbath and the Pixies, well, that might sound something like Bronze Chariot (The Dwarf 2011)

Fuzzed out power chords have been replaced by the twang of telecasters and plaintive slide solos. The bass and drums still bludgeon the listener, while the guitars paint a wall of noise that could never have been possible using
their old palette. And through it all, the unholy roar of the vocals. The old paint-stripper wail is still present, but so to is a swaggering growl able to accommodate the less ferocious guitar moments. To try and make an album that captures this cacophony is an ambitious task, but somehow they've pulled it off. Capturing the shimmering definition of the guitars within a sound that is heavy, towering, scary. The album also includes quieter interludes - the opening instrumental, "Brushfire" sets the mood perfectly. On "Hellhound Hymn"and "Horseshoe Bend" the guitarists take turns at vocals, employing a baritone drone which is a marked contrast to the other tracks. Just more great parts summing the even greater whole. Nigredo is clearly the product of a band who have arrived at the sound
they were always meant to make (Nat Stone 2011 / The Burning Sea / Diplomat)

While the music of Bronze Chariot is a lot heavier than anything Nick Cave has ever produced, they definitely have the stage prescience of the veteran Australian rocker (Rave Review 2010)

Bronze Chariot were very impressive and arguably had a more consistent aura about their set. The act looks set to build a solid profile in Adelaide and perhaps beyond within their scene (Faster Louder 2009).

credits

released May 27, 2011

GARRETT R. COOPER: Guitars & Vocals
SCOTT WILLIAMS: Drums & Percussion
BENJAMIN COOPER: Vocals
MATTHEW BARLOW: Guitars & Vocals
MARK DRAPER: Bass
NATHAN ABBOTT: Guitars, Organ & Piano

Recorded January 2011 at Capital Sound Studios in Adelaide, Australia
Engineered by Justin Hermes & Mike Deslandes
Mixed by Justin Hermes
Mastered by JJ Golden at Golden Mastering CA
Released May 27th 2011

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Australian 6 Piece from Adelaide, Australia Formed 2008, now in hiatus. Latest album Nigredo is out on Capital Games. Mostly structure, some improvisation. Loud. Keen for a beer.

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