History Music / Cobalt

Cobalt remains fairly obscure among people not familiar with underground black metal (although they have had some media exposure)[[note]]They had an appearance on Fox News of all places, a case of WTHCastingAgency if ever there was one. The interviewer didn't seem to understand their music at all, or the appeal of extreme metal in general for that matter, but they are generally considered to have done a pretty good job explaining said appeal for laypersons[[/note]], but for people who know about them their music is quite well loved, and with good reason. Their music sounds like the work of no one else in existence.

* OedipusComplex: Referenced in the title track of "Gin."
--> "How much I want to crawl back inside my mother,
--> I want a house made out of her
--> How I want to wear the blood of my father"

Cobalt remains fairly obscure among people not familiar with underground black metal (although they have had some media exposure)[[note]]They had an appearance on Creator/FoxNews of all places, a case of WTHCastingAgency if ever there was one. The interviewer didn't seem to understand their music at all, or the appeal of extreme metal in general for that matter, but they are generally considered to have done a pretty good job explaining said appeal for laypersons[[/note]], but for people who know about them their music is quite well loved, and with good reason. Their music sounds like the work of no one else in existence.

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: "Dry Body" is a psychedelic post-metal track with ritualistic chanted vocals that sounds like a tribute to Music/{{Neurosis}} instead of the band's normal black metal.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent:
** "Ritual Use of Fire" is a lengthy dark ambient piece [=McSorley=] put together while on duty in Iraq. The complete version is 29:31 and appears on ''Landfill Breastmilk Beast''. Three shorter excerpts of the piece appear on ''Eater of Birds'', but these are not very representative of the whole work as they tend to be the parts with acoustic guitar. Much of the piece is comprised of distortion-laden feedback.
** "Stew Craven / ...", the HiddenTrack on ''Gin'', is an unsettling rendition of the prison chant "Berta, Berta", as made famous by the play/film ''The Piano Lesson''.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Solid 10 during the metal parts. Interludes can dip as low as 1.

* WordSaladLyrics: Some of their songs qualify, especially on ''Gin'', but "Two Thumbed Fist" is a particularly extreme example.

''I am the eater of '''BIIIIIIIIIIIIRDS'''!"''

''I am the eater of birds!"''

* WordSaladLyrics: Some of their songs qualify, especially on ''Gin'', but "Two Thumbed Fist" is a particularly extreme example.
* XMeetsY: Music/{{Satyricon}} meets Music/{{Neurosis}} meets Music/{{Tool}}.

* 2008 - ''Landfill Breastmilk Beast'' (EP)