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