BRUTAL, UNRELENTING, UNHOLY SLOVIC BLACK METAL FROM 2007
MERRY FUCKING CHRIST-MASS!!!
1.Trumpets of Malevolence 04:04
2.Banished Into The Void 05:09
3.Murmurs of Diseased Tongues 04:08
4.Glorification In Loss And Misery 06:14
5.Lux Nova 05:48
6.Howls From The Devil... 05:52
7.Crowning of The Morbid King 03:48
8.The Abhor Bless 07:43
Total playing time 42:45
THE VOCALS ARE WHAT CAUGHT ME ABOUT THIS ALBUM RIGHT AWAY. THE SOUND GUY IN A LOCAL BAR WAS PLAYING IT BETWEEN BANDS. I IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT "IT SOUNDS LIKE HEVI AND LEE DORIAN ARE DOING A DUET!" THAT AND THEY'RE FUCKING CALLED FUNERAL HAHA
EVERYTHING ELSE I'VE HEARD BY THEM IS HORRIBLE BUT THIS DEMO IS AMAZING. AS BLEAK AND MISERABLE AS I COULD EVER HOPE FOR AN ALBUM TO BE.
1. Thoughts of Tranquility 10:38
2. A Poem for the Dead 18:28
3. Yearning for Heaven 10:24
Total playing time 39:30
"Die Festung" translates into "The Fortress".
THIS ALBUM IS A FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE. AN ICY ARCTIC BREEZE BLINDING YOU TO ANY HOPE OF RETURN FROM THE ENDLESS SEA OF ICE AND SNOW THAT STRETCHES BEFORE YOU.
THE ONE MAN PROJECT OF "WINTHERR" (Tobias Möckl) THE LEADER OF THE SWISS GROUP "DARKSPACE" HAS MORE IN COMMON WITH FLORIAN FRICK THAN WITH VARG VIKERNESS BUT YOU DON'T HEAR ME COMPLAINING...
1. Eishalle 14:46
2. König Winter, Schneekönigin, Eisprinzessin, Prinz Frost 24:54
Separate playing times of the second part:
- König Winter 6:55
- Schneekönigin 3:20
- Eisprinzessin 7:35
- Prinz Frost 6:50
ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL ALBUM OF THE SUICIDAL/DEPRESSIVE BLACK METAL MOVEMENT IN FRANCE
Tracklist:
1. Fbrahgments
2. Le Revenant
3. A Last Breath before Extinction
4. Epilogue d’une Existence de Cryssthal
5. Ciel brouille
6. Abstrbve Negabvtiyon Rebssurectyion
7. Aux Confins des Tenebrss
8. Fruits of a Tragic End (Celestia cover)
WHILE THE FRENCH ARE WELL KNOWN FOR THEIR ASSAULT ON THE EUROPEAN BLACK METAL SCENE OVER THE PAST TEN YEARS, CELESTIA HAVE BEEN RELEASING DYNAMIC, BRUTAL, SYMPHONIC, EPIC BLACK METAL AS FAR BACK AS 1997. I'M NOT NORMALLY A "RETROSPECTIVE" GUY BUT THIS COMPILATION CAN HELP YOU GET A GRIP ON THIS PROLIFIC DUOS 20+ RELEASES OVER THE PAST DECADE.
Tracklist:
01 - A Dying out Ectasy
02 - A Silent Night in a Silent Castle
03 - The Forest was a Neverending Place
04 - Prisoner of a Morbid Cradle
05 - Mort d'une Vestale
06 - Spectra
07 - Immortal Floating Shadow
08 - Darkness Enfold the Sky
09 - Demonic Screaming Entity
10 - Infected by Rats
11 - Black Spell of Destruction (Burzum cover)
12 - Prisoner of a Morbid Cradle
13 - The Forest Was a Neverending Place
14 - A Dying out Ecstasy
15 - Mort d'une Vestale
16 - Khaos and Pain
17 - Infected by Rats
18 - Spectra
19 - The Dapple Egg (cover)
Neun Welten is a dark traditional neofolk band from Germany. Neun Welten (which means ‘nine worlds') brings to mind every aspect of nature, forest, and aspiration with their dreamy, dark melodies and classical elements.
Members Anja Hövelmann - Flute, Clarinet
Aline Deinert - Violin
David Zaubitzer - Acoustic Guitar, Cello
Marten Winter - Drums
Meinolf Müller - Acoustic Guitar, Jew's Harp
LEAVE IT TO THE FINNISH TO TAKE THEIR KRAUT REVIVAL (AKA "FINFOCK" MADE WORLD KNOWN BY CIRCLE) AND FUSE IT WITH BLACK METAL... THE RESULT IS EXACTLY WHAT I WOULD HAVE NEEDED AT AGE 15 TO LISTEN TO ON MUSHROOMS FOR A LONG WALK INTO A MOONLIT FOREST... HOWEVER I CAN HELP BUT FEEL AS IF I WOULD HAVE TRANSFORMED THROUGH SOME PSYCHIC MENTAL SCARIFICATION/BRAIN TUMOR (VIDEODROME..?) IN TO A PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION OF SOME SORT OF NOCTURNALLY FEEDING CREATURE, WORSHIPED BY A SMALL TRIBE OF HIPPIES. OFFERING THEIR YOUNG AS SACRIFICE EVERY FULL MOON UNDER A THICK FOG OF SAGE IN A SMALL GROVE OF CASCADIAN TREES...
Title translations:
Alien Speaks:
1. Raven
2. Danjo's Zero
3. Mirage 1968
4. The Great Head from Heaven
5. The Praying Mantis of the Theatre of Latter-day Saints
6. Dub to the Memory of a Dead Whore (of Babylon)
7. Alien Speaks
8. Heretic Goat
1.
Korppi
05:31
2.
Danjon Nolla
03:43
3.
Kangastus 1968
04:00
4.
Suuri Pää Taivaasta
06:57
5.
Myöhempien Aikojen Pyhien Teatterin Rukoilijasirkka
"DEPRESSIVE POST PUNK" BLACKPOOL ENGLAND / FACTORY RECORDS 1981
OF THE FACTORY SCENE IN MANCHESTER IN THE LATE 70s/EARLY 80s THE MOST NOTABLE ARE OF COURSE JOY DIVISION AND THEIR LESSER KNOW LITTLE BROTHERS SECTION 25. APPARENTLY THEY BOTH DRANK FROM THE SAME WELL OF DARK, BROODING, ESOTERIC WATER AS THESE "DREARY CHAPS" AS SOME ASSHOLE BRITISH ROCK CRITIC PUT IT "HAVING SUFFERED FROM A MASSIVE DOSE IF P.I.L" (IN SOME SHITTY SNOBBY ACCENT) IN FACT AFTER READING THAT ARTICLE I SET ABOUT TRACKING DOWN "METAL BOX" (WHICH I HAD YET TO HEAR) AND SUCCEDED IN FINDING.
BACK TO SXXV, ROUMOR HAS IT THAT THE BREAK AFTER THE SECOND ALBUM "KEY OF DREAMS" WAS DUE TO THE GUITARIST (WHO REFUSED TO EVER PLAY THE SAME THING MORE THAN ONCE THE SAME WAY) RAN OFF TO INDIA TO BECOME ENLIGHTENED...
IF YOU LOVE JOY DIVISION AND CAN'T GET ENOUGH, GIVE THIS ALBUM A TRY.
"CHARNAL GROUND" IS MOST LIKELY THE DARKEST THING EVER RECORDED UP UNTIL THEN...
ALL OF THEIR BONUS TRACKS FROM THE TIME PERIOD LEADING UP TO THIS RECORD ARE HERE AND IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE, CHECK OUT THEIR BIO HERE:
http://www.section25.com/biography/
1. Friendly Fires
2. Dirty Disco
3. C.P.
4. Loose Talk (Costs Lives)
5. Inside Out
6. Melt Close
7. Hit
8. Babies in the Bardo
9. Be Brave
10. New Horizon
11. Haunted
12. Charnel Ground
13. Human Puppets
14. Knew Noise
15. Up to You
16. Girls Don't Count
17. Oyo Achel Ada
18. After Image
19. Red Voice
"USBM" RECORDED IN SAN FRANCISCO IN 1998... RELEASED IN 2000 ON tUMULUt RECORDS...
THIS DOUBLE ALBUM MAGNUM OPUS OF BLACKENED PAIN AND MISERY, WAS CONSIDERED FOR MANY YEARS BY THE EUROPEAN BLACK METAL ELITE TO BE THE ONLY TRUE BLACK ALBUM TO BE RELEASED IN AMERICA (THIS HAS SINCE CHANGED WITH THE EMERGENCE OF XASTHUR AND LEVIATHAN) AND FOR GOOD REASON. VOCALLY, JOHN GOSSARD SOUNDS LIKE A WOUNDED ANIMAL, CRYING OUT IN PAIN AS IF IMPAILED OR TRAPPED IN THE WILDERNESS. THESE ARE NOT CRIES FOR HELP BUT OF AGONY AND SUFFERING. AS IF DEATH WERE IMMINENT AND WELCOMED.
THE GUITAR WORK OF GOSSARD AND JOSH SMITH IS UNPARALLELED IN IT'S VIOLENCE AND DISSONANCE. COMBINED WITH THE RHYTHM SECTION'S (SARAH WEINER-BASS; SAM FOSTER-DRUMS) UNCOMFORTABLE CHURNING AND CASEY WARDS DRUG-LIKE HAZE OF WAHSHY SYNTHS TO LEAVE THE LISTENER TWISTED, MANGLED AN STUNNED...
A MODERN WORK OF ART...
1. "Cut Their Grain and Place Fire Therein" - 10:28
2. "Dead as Dreams" - 20:39
3. "This Entire Fucking Battlefield" - 14:47
4. "No One Can Be Called as a Man While He'll Die" - 13:09
5. "Disasters in the Sun" - 17:05
THE KNOWLEDGE OF SINGER/DRUMMER "FUCKED UP MAD MAX" HAVING THROWN HIMSELF OFF OF A BRIDGE IN QUEBEC IN 2001 (SIX YEARS BEFORE THE RELEASE OF DOOOM) SETS A HEAVY PRECEDENCE FOR ONE TO FOLLOW. THIS ALBUM REDEFINES THE WORD "HEAVY" AND GOES ON TO ADD "TRAGIC" "SORROWFUL" AND "BLEAK" TO THE FOREFRONT OF THE MIND. FEW ALBUMS HAVE EVER EXPRESSED SUCH TRAGIC BEAUTY, PAINFUL SORROW AND BLEAK HOPELESSNESS AS THIS RECORD HAS TO ME. FROM THE GIGANTIC WALL OF CRUSHING DOWNTUNED BASS GUITAR INTENTIONALLY LEFT DRY OF THE REVERB DRENCHING THE REST OF THE INSTRUMENTS. THE ARID, SOPPING WET MULTI-TRACKED HARMONIZING GUITARS AND THE ALMOST NON EXISTENT DRUMMING TO THE DEEPEST HARSHEST GROWL A HUMAN BEING POSSESSED OF BRUTAL PAIN CAN MUSTER COMES THE OCCASIONAL CLICKING OFF OF THE DISTORTION AND DROPPING DOWN TO A CLEAN AND INFINITELY SOMBER VOCAL LINE. THIS IS WHERE THE TRUE PAIN OF A DYING MAN IS FELT...
