thehappymask | ms

One-man post-rock/post-black metal/shoegaze project from Russia. Info from http://www.farfrommoscow.com/articles/thehappymask-mermaids-of-the-lipetsk-shed-and-dancedancedance.html : The gentleman behind that willful anonymity (and stylistic run-around) can be unearthed on at least one domestic social network, but even there he hides behind the nickname of "Constantine Horizon." Self-portraits, visual or textual, do little to increase our database of objective information; silhouettes and saturated colors hide various faces. Obscurity offers broad appeal, in several senses. In speaking of his musical development, Constantine shows nothing of the purposeful rhetoric that drives the local economy. Translated from the Russian, his self-declaration instead reads: "Basically speaking, this is my own, modest...