Metgumbnerbone

About

In the damp, echoing chambers of early 1980s England, Metgumbnerbone emerged as a fleeting yet profound presence, conjuring sounds from the marrow of the earth itself. For a brief span between 1983 and 1984, their ritual industrial incantations resonated through the cavernous spaces of cassette culture, leaving behind seven relics that continue to resonate in the subterranean communities of the curious and the fervent. Their compositions, like 'For The Raven,' crafted in 1984, are not mere recordings but ceremonies in themselves — ceremonial rhythms and atmospheric soundscapes woven with bones as instruments, creating a sound that is as corporeal as it is ethereal. The trio of Sean Breadin, Philip Rupenus, and Richard Rupenus operated within a liminal space where the boundaries of music and ritual blurred, crafting haunting vocal elements and manipulating tape with a reverence for the forgotten and the arcane. Their live performances, especially those in Newcastle in 1984, were tectonic events, seismic in their raw energy and primal intensity, captured on tapes such as 'Live Newcastle UK, 27-3-1984' under the Aeon label. In their ephemeral existence, Metgumbnerbone carved out a bottomless well of influence, a spectral shadow cast across the experimental soundscapes of their contemporaries.