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and Latin seems to be a natural fit like tonic and gin. Formed in 1998, <b>Gathering Darkness</b> is a Spanish outfit
that carries the flag of Death Metal in the 1990’s fashion way. Think of <b>Morbid Angel, Hypocrisy,</b> and <b>Vile</b> and you have a good idea of the
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Doom/Death, MeloDeath, Technical Death, Brutal Death Metal, it is almost
refreshing to have a Death Metal album that doesn’t wants and need to take part
of any of those tendencies in the genre. With the explosion of bands and
musicians and the diversity of offering from the bandcamp and other streaming
spaces it is interesting to have a band staying true to a genre and excelling
at it. With <b>Gathering Darkness</b> this
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the Cascadian region of the United States of America, <b>Isenordal</b> is labeled as a Black Funeral Doom/Neofolk project; what
an amalgam. It is almost as if when ordering delivery food you don’t know what
you’d like and tell the guy I’m taking a bit of every possible thing on the menu
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Let’s see if the buffet of Metal genres that is <i>Shores Of Mourning</i> is a total disaster or not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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positively a really beautiful record that works pretty well altogether. The mix
of the Folk melodic elements and the Funeral Doom gives time and space to the
music whilst Black Metal vocals are the most abrasive ingredient here. Lots of
piano, viola, organ, and acoustic guitars is present, from the mix of Funeral
Doom and Neofolk and even clean female vocals (Marisa Janke) gives an extra
layer of plenitude and even depth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Funeral Doom label the songs are long and the shortest intervention is seven
minutes long and the six songs are over 47 minutes on your player. Unlike the
conventional Funeral Doom release songs like ‘’Tear The Veil Of Dreams’’
elevate into a fast blast beat of Black Metal screeching and screaming. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Well, well, another month and another record of the month coming. With lots on my mind lately it is a lot more difficult to get to sit and write about the new music that is released these days. Even if some albums are really worth it only the albums that really deserve it will get a proper review others might just be added and graded on our scale that you can find at the upper right side. So for March what took our attention?<br />
<a name='more'></a>The American Black Metal band <strong>Woe</strong> gets the strongest effort and the prize with <em>Hope Attrition</em>. Surprisingly, this album didn't deserve a lot of praises or reviews but we really loved it from the beginning and still spin it regularly and it is a potential album of the year (AOTY), who knows?<br />
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success of <b>Deafheaven</b> with their ability
to take the ugliest music genre in the popular’s mind perception into something
as sensible and meditative as Shoegazing and hints of post-rock many hipster
millennials jumped on the bandwagon to make Post-Black
Metal/Blackgaze/Post-Rock-Black Metal into one of the biggest shitloads of
trend and legions of lovers/haters. Sure it is a bastardization of the ‘’purest’’
and ‘’trvest’’ form of Black Metal, almost no tongue in cheek here, but every
music has the right to exist and even the worst genre can have hints of genius
and produce once in a while a great album.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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their production and variety of genres. The Icelandic quatuor of <b>Dynfari</b> is the closest to what we can
call a Blackgaze release. Playing on the boundaries of Post-Rock and Shoegazing
more than the Black Metal substance in their music, they are exploring the
writings of <b>Jóhann Sigurjónsson</b> and <b>Patrick Rothfuss</b>. Added to that, lead
man and vocalist/guitarist Jóhann </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">O</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">rn has been diagnosed with an
autoimmune disease that has been a lot of pain and is controlled by a quantity
of drugs. Think about an immersive album that has many spoke passages and the
insertion of acoustic guitar, flute, accordion, and bouzouki. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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artwork suggest this is an album that wants so much to be sublime, beautiful in
every way that it is sugar coated. This fourth album is my first encounter with
the band and I believe that it reminds me that </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ulver</b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> as already used acoustic guitars in its early Black Metal
records without sounding corny or too artsy. Dynfari is a bit on the artsy side
of Metal and it might not pleased the ‘’kvlt’’ Black Metallers but most of them
won’t get past this artwork and the fact that Iceland is Scandinavian but not
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is a good record that wants to be great in every sense the word has been
overused in music reviews generally. It is introspective and generous in the
way that Orn is putting his tripes on the table but talks too much instead of
singing. Thanks for the numerous instrumental progressions but this album left
me with mixed feelings because I don’t know if I want to love it or to hate it.
One thing is sure, it did not left me cold and for me this is a sign that the
album works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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MPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08366182655374603950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1275189145920079171.post-16941670277291424442017-03-30T10:09:00.000-04:002017-03-30T10:09:59.487-04:00SLOTH HERDER - No Pity, No Sunrise Review
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Back in
1999-2000 I got into more ‘’extreme’’ and ‘’underground’’ Metal by the doors of
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Converge</b> and Second Wave Black Metal
essentially. Both are not related by scenes one might say, but I find <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Converge</b> to be more Metal than Hardcore
or Metalcore. Until this day, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jane Doe</i>
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Petitionning The Empty Sky</i> are
some of the most important albums that forged me as a metalhead. Grindcore with
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pig Destroyer</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nasum</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Spazz</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ROT</b> is also a chunk of my obsession for
bastard music as my parents were calling it back then. They might be calling it
that way if I was still living in their house and blasting this music all day
long.</span><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Sometimes, a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cult Leader</b> or a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Noise Trail Immersion </b>rises up and shakes that sensible chord that
reminds me of the blend of genres that is hard to define and successfully makes
me vibrate. From Maryland, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sloth Herder</b>
is a genre redefining band that reminds me of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">YAITW</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nature’s</b>. It
is dissonant at times, Black Metal<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ish</i>
other times. The guitar work is pretty interesting and not as precise as in
Mathcore but it does a lot of good things. Drums are well felt and reminds of
Ben Koller (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Converge, Mutoid Man</b>)
with velocity, heaviness, and great grooves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">With <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">No Pity, No Sunrise</i>, it doesn’t feel as
if the band was trying to follow a current trend or sound that almost every
promo material tries to fit into a circle or a square. The fact that the music
is tough to label helps the band and the album. However this might be one of
the gems of the month of March. Fourteen songs over 34 minutes is just enough
to get us hooked and stuffed but not saturated to a point where the record
feels longer than it actually is. This is a strong sense of editing and knowing
when it is enough. There’s no filling in here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In
conclusion, with the label of ‘’blackened doomgrind’’ I was more than
suspicious about this album. I coundn’t be more wrong about it anyway. As for
the inclusion of grind elements, the early <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Converge</b>
frantic sound and glimpses of genius guitar work, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">No Pity, No Sunrise</i> was close on being a BNM™ record.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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MPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08366182655374603950noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1275189145920079171.post-73254771277014723942017-03-29T15:28:00.001-04:002017-03-30T10:19:37.289-04:00NETRA - Ingrats Review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Back in the
1990’s, when underground Metal was becoming a little bit more on the map we had
to go to a record store, sometimes in a dark basement of a bad neighborhood to
get our fix of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">DarkThrone</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mayhem</b>, and<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Ildjarn</b>. Now that Black Metal is as easy to get as a burger and
fries at any corner many bands and one man bands have been pushing the limits
of genre crossing with Folk, Shoegaze, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">French act <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Netra</b> blends Black Metal, Trip-Hop, and
Darkwave to make its self labeled genre of ‘’Urban Black Metal’’. While the
first listen might be a schocker to pvrists and kvltists but with multiple
listens I tend to see <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Netra</b> as a
modern day <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dodheimsgard</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Arcturus</b>, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ulver</b>. An oddity into the Metal scene that may not create a
consensus but that could with the right producer become a very interesting underground
phenomenon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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polished and elevated from its sometimes naive and pretentious boldness. It is
not a perfect album but it retains elements of comprehension of the purity of
Black Metal with a desire to bring it into the city streets and make it an
urban themed nightmare. Trying to get as far as possible to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Burzum</b> inspired Cascadian Black Metal
and the often forest or nature related themes of the traditional Black Metal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">This third
album in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Netra</b>’s discography might
be their stepping stone. So far in 2017, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ingrats</i>
might be the most promising work for the future of a band featured here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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MPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08366182655374603950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1275189145920079171.post-9106138758608091812017-03-24T12:00:00.000-04:002017-03-24T12:00:06.595-04:00CONDEMNED - His Divine Shadow Review
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Unique Leader
Records is synonymous with Death Metal and mostly Brutal Death Metal. They have
rosters that represents many American states that produce the best and the
worst of the genre. A genre that’s been a bit worn off in the latest years.
Between Technical DM and Brutal DM is a plethora of talented musicians and
brutalists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Coming in
March this year is the third album by San Diego quartet <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Condemned</b>. With a revitalized lineup of only original member Steve
Crow on guitars comes Tyson Jupin (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Vile</b>)
behind the kit, Ryan Reidy on the bass guitar and the latest addition Sam
Townsley on vocals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is a ten song offering to brutality assaulting riffs, ground punching grooves
and an overall <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Suffocation</b> feel. The
fact that this album could have been made twenty years ago is pretty in your
face and its lack of originality only compensate for its list of famous
collaborators (producer John Haddad, mastered by Alan Douches, cover art by Par
Olofsson, logo art by Christophe Szpajdel) on the packaging of this album. Give
me a completely black or blood red album but put some fuckin’ great music on it
and I’ll be satisfied. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of its musicians, this <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">His Divine Shadow</i>
is another generic paint by the number Death Metal release that surely would do
great live but feels too uninspired to be a ‘’rotationist’’ (read here :
an album that enters my late release rotation of good to perfect records).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Brutal Death Metal isn’t as big as it used to be in the Metal circles and the
fact that Dissonant Metal has brought something new and different that this
genre has suffered but I think that this album by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Condemned</b> is not going to be the next<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Gatecreeper</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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MPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08366182655374603950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1275189145920079171.post-70333782660454136192017-03-10T08:00:00.000-05:002017-03-10T08:00:22.498-05:00ROZAMOV - This Mortal Road Review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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series of EPs and 7’’ releases, <b>Rozamov</b>
formed in Boston in 2011, are throwing Doom Metal lines and <b>Neurosis</b> like monolith songs. In fact,
the similarity with the legendary Oakland band even goes into the vocals that
are a shared between Tom Corino (also bass) and Matt Iacovelli (also guitars
and piano).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Those five
songs of Doom Metal are spanned over forty minutes and it lets the time to the
songs to develop and progress with melody laded and crushing Doom. In the
recent years Doom Metal has exploded and clones of clones have appeared and disappeared.
Rozamov is just a step away from being<b>
Neurosis </b>or <b>Sleep</b> clones and
their music is interesting and despite the flat vocals I believe that they can
eventually be like <b>Isis</b> (the band)
and grow away from their musical influences. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in their means and no one seems to be stepping on another one’s toes. There is
mixed information on the drums for the band and the album but I believe it was
performed by Will Hendrix on the album but since then the permanent player is
Jeff Landry. Whoever did the drums did an amazing job of simplicity in
complexity. Sometimes the hardest drum parts are the most simple and I think
that the music<b> Rozamov</b> has composed
for <i>This Mortal Road</i> isn’t that
simple as it seems. Playing in simplicity and in long songs needs a control and
a certain balance between performance and creativity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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all the Doom metal and Sludge bands that were created in the later years <b>Rozamov</b> is one to take seriously and
expect some quality releases à la <b>Pallbearer</b>
and <b>Khemmis</b> in the years to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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MPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08366182655374603950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1275189145920079171.post-22874285288275707172017-03-09T12:00:00.000-05:002017-03-09T12:00:32.024-05:00Record Of The Month: February 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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With a little delay and less reviews than we were supposed to produce here are the two best Records of the Month of February 2017. It is almost a tie but the winner is the lesser known and underrated Dissonant Metal album of the month. The other one has had many well deserved accolades.<br />
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<b>Vastum - <i>Carnal Law</i> Remaster Reissue (20 Buck Spin)</b><br />
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ideal and its Luciferian counterpart. Taking inspiration from the Symphonic
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Dark Funeral,</b> and <b>Emperor </b>than <b>Dimmu Borgir</b> even if they still have a
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fans. Their music has this quality in execution and raw beauty that few bands
are capable of. However, this reviewer kind of felt like he is not listening to
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This is pretty much a copy paste of the Scandinavian Second Wave of Black Metal sound except for some Doom elements here and there that steers the music towards an Atmospheric BM.<br />
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Nothing really groundbreaking and even the production sounds as if it was a <b>DarkThrone</b>'s UnHoly Trinity takeover or an early <b>Burzum</b> record.<br />
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<b>Insanity Cult - <i>Of Despair And Self Destruction</i> (Ogmios Underground)</b><br />
<b>Release date: February 11th, 2017</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">The release
of their full length <i>Tierra Y Libertad</i>
last year showcased their mastery at merging Hardcore and Metal together was
well received. To some, they sounded a lot like <b>Hatebreed</b>. The comparison isn’t false but <b>Xibalba</b> has more Metal in their song structures than the
aforementioned band and less cheesy moments. One year later, they are now
releasing a three songs EP <i>Diablo, Con
Amor… Adios</i> with the songs ‘’Diablo’’, ‘’Con Amor’’, and ‘’Adios’’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with a solid song in ‘’Diablo’’ and its heavy riffs and mid-tempo groove we are
in the Hardcore territory. While ‘’Con Amor…’’ is a lot more faster and carries
an old-school approach with breakdowns and a great presence of the drums as the
driving force behind the fast guitar riffs. The third offering on this 7’’ is ‘’Adios’’,
a song that could be pulled off a <b>Suffocation</b>
album more than from <b>Hatebreed</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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between Death Metal, Hardcore, and even Grindcore at some extension. The
production of the album sounds exactly as it should be with the backing of long
time collaborator Taylor Young (</span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Nails</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">,
</span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Twitching Tongues</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">, </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Disgrace</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">) of The Pit Recording Studio
and the mastering of Brad Boatright at Audiosiege (</span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Integrity</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">, </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Nails</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">, </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Harm’s Way</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">). It is heavy, gritty, and it
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listens to this EP and hear for yourself how they are their own oddity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Yith - <i>Dread</i> (Hellthrasher Productions / Vendetta Records)</b><br />
<b>Release date: February 10th, 2017</b><br />
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<i>The first full-length from </i><b>Yith</b><i>, is a
cold slab of hopeless black/doom that
continues the project’s exploration of
darkness, fear and grief. With haunting
melodies and lyrical inspiration coming from
the pages of M.R. James and H.P.
Lovecraft, „Dread” tries to pull the listener
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