The Agent That Shapes the Desert

by Virus

The Agent That Shapes the Desert cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: February 2011
  • Label: Virulent
  • Country: Norway
  • Length: 43:17
  • Community rating: 3.79/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: Kjartan Kristiansen, B氓rd Ingebrigtsen, Kristoffer Rygg, Virus, Bjeima

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Led by Czral (of the influential Ved Buens Ende), the Norwegian avant-garde trio pushes further into surreal, dissonant rock textures. Abandoning overt extreme metal, the album operates as a bizarre, intensely creative fusion of jazz-rock complexities and dark, progressive desert psychedelia.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, dissonant, avant-garde, progressive, experimental, uncompromising

Tracklist

  1. The Agent That Shapes the Desert (5:18)
  2. Continental Drift (4:43)
  3. Chromium Sun (4:20)
  4. Red Desert Sand (4:54)
  5. Intermission: Furnace Creek (2:20)
  6. Dead Cities of Syria (6:42)
  7. Where the Flame Resides (4:50)
  8. Parched Rapids (4:53)
  9. Call of the Tuskers (5:12)

Credits

  • Einar Sjurs酶 - band [virus are], drums
  • Czral - band [virus are], vocals, guitar [guitars]
  • Eliran Kantor - cover [cover art by], artwork [cover art by]
  • Bjeima - guest, bass
  • Carl-Michael Eide - lyrics by
  • Johannah Marie Henderson - lyrics by
  • Mathew McNerney - lyrics by
  • Kjartan Kristiansen - guest, slide guitar

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