American instrumental stoner/doom solo project Gaunt Emperor stream new album »The Opaque Impressionist«

San Diego, California based instrumental stoner/doom solo project Gaunt Emperor is back with new album, »The Opaque Impressionist«, which was just released on April 20th, 2024.

Tracklist:
01. Picked Apart By Flies
02. Impressions Of Mortality
03. Beneath The Blood Red Sun
04. Outer Heaven
05. The Wanderer

“Gaunt Emperor writes “heavy” music. Heavy as a feeling, as a mood, a sensation beyond the scope of purely distortion.”

One can be opaque in a number of ways. It can refer to transparency, a person’s ability (or lack thereof) to see through things. It can also mean difficult to understand. In both instances its root meaning is closely related to perception and understanding.

In the origins of Impressionism there was a concept that had began to take root prior to the popularization of the art genre, the concept of the flaneur:

“Flâneur (French: [flɑnœʁ]) is a French noun referring to a person, literally meaning “stroller”, “lounger”, “saunterer”, or “loafer”, but with some nuanced additional meanings (including as a loanword into English).” (Wikipedia)

A wanderer, hardly noticeable, walking the streets of a city….

»The Opaque Impressionist« is a collection of instrumental doom/stoner metal that presents stoner as modern flaneur, traversing landscapes urban and desert, challenged by altered perception both imbibed and organic. This album was largely inspired by these impeccable albums as well as too many more to name.

This album has been inspired by:
• Orange »Heavy Rocks« by Boris
• »Phase 3: Thrones And Dominions« by Earth
• »Primitive & Deadly« by Earth
• »The Sciences« by Sleep
• »Weedsconsin« by Bongripper
• »Dopethrone« by Electric Wizard
• »Dead Roots Stirring« by Elder
• »What We All Come To Need« by Pelican

All music by Gaunt Emperor.
Artwork by MontDoom.

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well