Young Eagle by Jute Gyte

Notes:
My black metal albums tend to group into loose trilogies and I usually find the middle albums of these trilogies the most difficult to assemble. This is true of Young Eagle: I generated more outtakes during the recording of this album than any other – there is easily another album's worth of material I created while exploring different possible directions (the track “Detritivore” from Fallen Empire's SVN-OKKLT compilation was created during this period between Old Ways and Young Eagle). I felt it was necessary to explore different directions because I knew I could not continue under the strict constraints of the style I established with Old Ways: the dense sound processing so greatly privileged timbre over pitch content that all attempts at complex polyphony were rendered indecipherable. The balance between timbral complexity and clarity of line is difficult to find. The tracks that actually made it on the album were recorded in disparate sessions and the album was pieced together painfully. This is my only black metal album without bass guitar and the only one with acoustic guitar. The title track was the last track written and recorded and its shifting asymmetric meters and contrapuntal leads represented, after many false starts, a way forward.

Antifascism, antibigotry.
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