Posted on February 15, 2013 |
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A complete bolt from the blue moment back in 2011, Ancient VVisdom dropped their debut album “Godlike Inferno” to an astounding and near universal press reception. Essentially playing acoustic folk music, but with a black metal mentality and lyrical concept; full of instantly memorable songs...
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Posted on February 13, 2013 |
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Eurgh! Can you hear that? It’s the sound of something so foul and disgusting; it shouldn’t be allowed to share the planet with us, despite the earth being in a pretty sorry state of affairs as it is. It’s the sound of three ageing metalheads...
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Posted on February 6, 2013 |
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Occasionally an album comes along that demands repeated listens, that as soon as it’s finished you must press that all important play button over and over again. “Silent Leges Inter Arma” is not one of those records. Maybe it’s meant to sound like it was recorded...
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Posted on February 6, 2013 |
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Hailing from Belgium, Evil Shepherd is a five piece, blackened doom/thrash metal band that unleashes all things demonic and unholy through the music on their latest album entitled “Evil Through Darkness… And Darkness Through Death,” released via Empire Records. Made up of 12 crusty, dirty...
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Posted on February 4, 2013 |
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Interview by Kyle Harcott. Belgian black metal/sludge outfit Gorath have called it a day after the release of their most ambitious album yet, entitled “The Chronicles of Khiliasmos”. A rather curious decision it may seem, however, Gorath’s front man Filip Dupont heartily disagrees. What follows...
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Posted on January 30, 2013 |
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Black metal is one of those styles that is pretty difficult to master and perfect. When it is done well, it is absolutely furious and captivating, even near unnerving at its best; but when it isn’t, it can be an absolute shambles. Unwittingly falling into...
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Posted on January 27, 2013 |
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Celtachor have released yet a must buy now album entitled “Nine Waves From the Shore”. Celtachor is a heady mixture of metal and folk that is positively a joy to listen to. “Nine Waves From the Shore” is chock full of Irish mythology set to...
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Posted on January 25, 2013 |
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Agalloch are proud to announce that joining them on their upcoming European tour will be longtime friends Fen (UK). Agalloch commented: “We’ve played with Fen numerous times already in the UK, Belgium, and the US and are very pleased they’ll be with us for this extensive...
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Posted on January 23, 2013 |
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Commencing with the customary rubbish intro that’s supposed to build atmosphere, but merely irritates as you await proper songs, “Solarflesh” is certainly well produced but let’s have it fellas. Seeing as I’m reviewing this I feel obliged to listen to the whole of the 3...
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Posted on January 18, 2013 |
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Barshasketh seemingly began their life in 2009 with their first demos surfacing from the wilds of New Zealand and making their sinister tones known to this world before vocalist and founder Krigeist left his home country and relocated to Edinburgh, picking up a band along...
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Posted on January 18, 2013 |
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About 18 months ago Alcest finally toured Australia and one of the two Melbourne shows kicked off with a band I’d never heard of called Encircling Sea. Four bearded men came on stage in checked flannies and black tees and I expected to hear some...
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Posted on January 17, 2013 |
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The Foul Year of Our Lord 2012 proved to be a bumper year for British Black Metal with quality releases from the likes of Winterfylleth, Wodensthrone and Nine Covens amongst others. But the pine-scented blasts from the pasts of the Heathen movement aren’t all our...
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Posted on January 10, 2013 |
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England’s Fen have spent many a year on the outskirts of the black metal realm, their music constantly taking new paths and straying ever further from the blueprint laid down so many, many years ago. It’s with Fen that black metal takes on new forms...
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Posted on November 28, 2012 |
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Lord Worm (ex-Cryptopsy) is a legend of sorts, a man who has a distinctive voice, was an English teacher on the side and gained his name from ingesting worms on stage (smart chap). He re-enters the world of extreme metal with a new project –...
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Posted on November 12, 2012 |
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Hype is a powerful thing, it can make a band but it can also break them just as quickly. The music scene is full of bands that have collapsed under the weight of their own hype, some bands thrive on it with very little to...
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Posted on October 30, 2012 |
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Finland. Apart from being the place where I would quite like to be (apologies, Monty Python), it has been a country with a naggingly decent habit of finding, almost seemingly from nowhere, bands and artists that are worthy of our attention. I’m not sure what...
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Posted on October 29, 2012 |
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Sadness and melancholy are part and parcel of modern life; just ask Forgotten Tomb. Just over a year after they released the grim and gloomy “Under Saturn Retrograde”, Herr Morbid and his band of not so merry men have returned to plumb the depths of...
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Posted on October 21, 2012 |
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Cormorant‘s “Dwellings” was released late 2011 and there’s a fair chance that if you’re reading this you are already familiar with the album or at least with the dent it made on the extreme metal community on its release. It continues to be highly regarded...
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Posted on October 18, 2012 |
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After unceremoniously ousting founder member and guitarist Infernus from Gorgoroth, bassist King ov Hell and vocalist Gaahl (who had become the main writing force within the band in recent years) set about continuing with the same monicker. However, two years of legal wrangling resulted in...
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Posted on October 17, 2012 |
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Who would have thought back in 1994 that in 2012 Cradle of Filth would be one of the UK’s biggest metal exports? Ok, they may not be shifting Iron Maiden quantities of albums but for a band that started out under the gnarly black metal...
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