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    <description>Some sources have described Aarni’s music variably as ’almost orthodox doom metallish Lovecraftian-Jungian Kalevala avant-bard’, ’progressive doom metal’, ’Yanni with distorted guitars’, ’primitive black metal’, ’underground progressive rock’, ’shit’, ’space doom metal’ and ’original as fuck’. The band itself occasionally uses terms like ’Chthonic Hybrid Musick’, ’Antinomian Music’, ’Maybe Music’, ’Noise For Futants’, ’Functional Music’, ’Dream Torrent Music’, ’Bizarro Musick’ or preferably no description at all. Sound confusing? Join the club!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aarni strives to avoid using needless amounts of traditional song-structures, homogenous parts and other such widespread and boring conventions in its music. Probably the band functions as therapy to its unsuspecting members.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of the themes in Aarni’s music may be A) Finnish folklore and paganism as the band views them B) occultism and world mythologies, brain-change, Discordianism, collective &amp; personal liberation and theories of analytical psychology (especially those of C.G. Jung) C) The Cthulhu mythos as described by H.P. Lovecraft and fellow authors (sometimes possibly handled with a slight tongue-in-cheek approach) and D) Topics not included in the above categories.&lt;br /&gt;The band occasionally likes to see its message (if any) as being anti-state, anti-religion, anti-ideology &amp; anti-anti, and pro healthy balanced happy living for all awakened domesticated primates everywhere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aarni’s superintelligent lyrics take form in the language believed most suitable for the song’s subject: usually in English, Classical Latin or Finnish and occasionally in French, Ancient Egyptian, Hebrew, German, Enochian, Glossolalic, et cetera.</description>
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      <title>Recent tidings, shoggoths, fnords</title>
      <description>Many of you patients have been requesting some rags to cover up your loathsome nakedness and now we can help you: respectable Aarni T-shirts will probably be available in the more or less distant future. More info as soon as we get it...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't recall if I stated this before, but 'Tohcoth' too is interactive yet after another manner than 'Bathos'. The interactive portion of the record consists of magickal sigils in the booklet: the listener/operator is kindly asked to concentrate on each one in turn, charging and launching them in a state of gnosis as per the popular practice in Chaos Magic. To you that's ogling at the artsy red-coloured scribbles in the booklet page corners and wanking, bub.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many wondrous and blissful things will happen to you and your planet if you choose to comply! Help yourself to help us help you. Yes, this is no joke. I somewhat painstakingly made those sigils in the Tohcoth booklet just for you to launch. I hope this is a good excuse for you to have sex or some other activity leading to the required 'moment of emptiness'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking of which, we've still got a few copies of 'Tohcoth' left and feel anxious to be rid of them. Contact us for pity's sake and get a nice gift for someone special. Your favourite lover and/or enemy perhaps? Remember too that Mother's Day draws close...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aarni now has a spanking new &lt;a href="http://links.imeem.com/13iETnJN" title="http://www.reverbnation.com/aarni"&gt;ReverbNation page&lt;/a&gt;. We suggest you visit it as the site clearly beats the likes of My$pace in many wonderful ways.&lt;br /&gt;Featured are numerous full-length songs from all Aarni releases, plus "fan exclusive" stuff such as unreleased tracks and other curiosities. In about a week two further early songs ('In The Mouth Of Oulu' and 'Kakkakepponen') will after remastering hopefully be added there, as in time will be such new tracks as don't fit the Lovecraftian concept of the forthcoming 3rd Aarni album, but are too good to be thrown away...I kid, Aarni never throws anything away - we are ecological in that way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the moment ReverbNation has a total of 11 Aarni songs, including the fan exclusives 'Ethanol Jam' and 'Logos (piano edit)'. "Becoming" a fan shouldn't be too painful as it is gratis. And while you're at it you might want to consider joining the Aarni mailing list feature there. It seems more fancy than these plain text Liber Aarnis. Maybe it will in time replace the old Bravenet newsletter service that we currently use...let's see if enough people wish to join it and unsubscribe from the Bravenet one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yea, naturally the recordings of the 3rd album are underway and likely will be for quite some time. The song 'Yule Horror' has been practically completed and now only awaits for the finishing guest star contributions. Additionally, the vocal recordings for 'Nemesis' should be completed later this week as well as some of my guitar solos for the forthcoming Umbra Nihil album.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's shoggoth!&lt;br /&gt;MW</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:57:46 -0000</pubDate>
      <title>Reaching Azathoth by Aarni</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:57:39 -0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:56:37 -0000</pubDate>
      <title>Anima by Aarni</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:56:36 -0000</pubDate>
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