Just another plug for my other blog, I've complied a nice mixtape of lesser known 2nd wave acts from Norway. Maybe you know 'em, maybe you don't. You can download the mix here and read about it/get a tracklisting here.

Black Chalice - Submission

New slab of black metal-cum-extra doomy death metal via Black Chalice. The songs are on a whole longer than Years of Flame, with more riffing for stoned headbanging, and enough dark melody and decaying atmosphere to satiate the black metal palate.

2012 - Submission
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Satanas Tedeum

I picked this up when I was in Greece and was 14 or so. I believe it to be a bootleg of their Passage to Arcturo demo with Satanas Tedeum mixed in as well as some live tracks. No legal info is on the thing and unfortunately I have it somewhere in storage, so I can't give you guys a picture (googling it doesn't show the copy I have).

Whatever it is it's interesting insight as to the beginning of Greece's most well known black metal band.

1989-1991 - Rotting Christ - Satanas Tedeum

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-F

Sleepwalker

20??-Sleepwalker-Sleepwalker

Post rock influenced black metal, but in a way you haven't heard it before. Simply amazing, I can only hope for more. One man act from one of the dudes in Fell Voices (the drummer I think).

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-F

Also, check out my best of 2011 here

Colloquial Sound Recordings: 6 albums

ATTILA THE HUN PRESENTS

COLLOQUIAL SOUND RECORDINGS: 6 ALBUMS


2011 - Askumite - The Gleam of Wetted Lips
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2011 - A Pregnant Light - The Feast of Clipped WingsDownload


2011 - Obliti Devoravit - S/T
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2011 - A Pregnant Light/SADOS - The Sky Conspired Against Thee Before Thy Bones Had Dried
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2011 - This Station of Life - AntitheticDownload


2011 - Askumite - Tormented By Blessings Abundant
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Mania/Huldrekall - Split

Two sick fucking bands. Mania plays psychedelic black metal that rips shit up (there is some sick flute work here too!). Huldrekall is more straight-forward, but mixes it up enough to keep it interesting as fuck. Download this or fucking die.

2011 - Mania/Huldrekall - Split
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Glossolalia Records: Five Albums

ATTILA THE HUN PRESENTS:
GLOSSOLALIA RECORDS - FIVE RELEASES

2011 - Eternal Eclipse - S/T
(Ambient Black Metal)
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2011 - Terra Deep/Earthenwomb - Split
(Experimental Black Metal)
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2011 - The Screaming Wind - Glass House of Fragmented Ideas and Concepts
(Atmospheric Experimental Black Metal)Download


2011 - Vaba Marat/Alkmorhilyion - Split
(Black Metal/Noise)
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2011 - Dark Tower/Earthenwomb - Split
(Black Metal)
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Aanal Beehemoth - Forest Paranoid

This is the shit right here, punk infused black metal, catchy riffs, no production, ugly vocals…what more could you ask for??

2008 - Forest Paranoid

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Suffering Jesus Productions

Auspicium - Here is no Heaven EP

So while recording is going on for the next Auspicium album, here is an interim EP. One new song, one rerecorded song, and a song from that next album.

2011 - Here Is No Heaven


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Wholy Failure - Christmas Day Exhumation

Newest WF poop. I hope it ruins everyone's holiday season. Has a cover of the seminal (semenal?) twee-pop song Emma's House by The Field Mice.

2011 - Christmas Day Exhumation


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Wode - Demo 2011

A strong black metal demo, with plenty of atmosphere, yet straightforward at the same time, perfect for banging your heads to. Watch out for these Brits, because if this demo is an indication of what is to come, I think they should be on your radar for a while.

2011 - Demo 2011


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Rosaceae - Where the Aconitum Amass, the Cities Have Fallen

Another repeat offender. Again, another journey into a post-rock, post-hardcore, post black metal world with Rosaceae. Just like with Nuklearenpest, a marked improvement. Quite the improvement actually.

Nuklearenpest - Monuments

New Nuklearenpest demo. I enjoy this one more than Consigned to the Black Plague, which I didn't dislike but was not one of my favorites. Raw, atmospheric black metal.

2011 - Monuments


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Dolorvotre - s/t

Black Twilight Circle black metal, I pretty much love every single release that comes from these guys and this one is no exception; raw, dirty and with a nice dose of psychedelic in it, black metal at its best!

2011 - Dolorvotre

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Nekrasov - Extinction

“...Riding atop the recent wave of black metal/noise hybrids who combine the bleak frosty riffs and blackened ferocity of underground BM with blown-out and corrosive strains of industrial noise (see also WOLD, Emit, Grief No Absolution, Enbilulugugal, Vargr), the Australian one-man band Nekrasov has so far made a substantial mark in the realm of extremist necro-racket with a series of limited edition, brutally abrasive albums (Cognition Of Splendid Oblivion, The Form Of Thought From Beast, etc) that have mostly been self-released, save for some recent offerings on labels like Siege Of Power and Chrome Leaf. Early on, Nekrasov's sound was steeped in caustic noise, a blazing industrialized black metal assault that was doused in heavy levels of irradiated distortion and Merzbowian skree. But more recently, it's mutated into less metallic regions, alternating the hyperblast black metal with forays into crushing, demonic wall-noise and blasted ambience. Now, Nekrasov is back with a new full length (the first for Crucial Blast), and it's the most advanced slab of their blacknoize terror that we've heard so far. An octagonal prism of isolationist drone, flesh-rending mechanical black metal, abstract otherworldly beauty, claustrophobic industrial dread, and the most violent, suffocating strains of harsh noise, Extinction is pure cyclonic contempt for humanity.... ” via Crucial Blast

yeah what they said, this is a powerful release!

2010 - Extinction

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Crucial Blast

Lamentations of the Ashen - EKIMMV

Newest full-length from the best Tragic black metal act out there. Don't go into this expecting anything, there are so many influences that slapping a genre tag doesn't work on this. This will be out at the end of the week on Bandcamp and iTunes, so please buy it if you like it!

2011 - EKIMMV

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Please buy it from the Lamentations bandcamp page or iTunes store

De Silence et d'Ombre - 3: The Fall

Dark black metal with a dissonant dark ambient feel, pitch black moods coated in distortion and graced with some great vocals!

2010 - 3: The Fall

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Dunkelheit Produktionen

Wolfhetan - Entrückung

Here’s a, more or less, hidden gem from Germany, amazing black metal in the vein of Nagelfar. A great album full of memorable songs, a must listen!

2006 - Entrückung

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Xerion - Nocturnal Misantropia

Excellent black metal from Spain, really good compositions that have a melancholic yet epic feel, very well made and well worth checking out!!

2007 - Nocturnal Misantropia

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Tour de Garde / Schwarzdorn Productions

The Haunting Presence

Filthy raw black metal in the vein of Beherit, Teitanblood and all the other good stuff, only four songs but man are they good, fucking mandatory stuff right here!

2011 - The Haunting Presence

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Arizmenda - Without Circumference Nor Center

New album, really well made, not as good as the debut but still a mandatory listen!

2011 - Without Circumference Nor Center

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Horrid Cross

Powerful raw black metal, really in your face stuff but at the same time incredibly listenable, highly recommended!!

Horrid Cross - Demo I, II and III

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Auspicium - Infinite Lights of Greater Stars

Here it is, the long awaited and delayed third Auspicium long-player. Nick from Disguster contirbuted leads and vocals on "The Imperialist" that are great. The packaging and layout by Ninth Meridian Records are great, so please make sure you buy a copy if you enjoy it.

2011 - Infinite Lights of Greater Stars


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Hellige - God

Hellige is from Argentina. They play a blend of doom and black metal. It is reminiscent of The Axis of Perdition and TWTTG-era Blut Aus Nord.

2011 - God


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Petrychor

Some very, very impressive folk/tribal/black metal album. Phenomenal musicianship and songwriting. It's ritualistic and pagan and folky all at the same time. Absolutely beautiful. Well done.

2011 - Effigies and Epitaphs


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Nachzehrer - Pestilence Hungers in the Shadows

A goddamned headbanger! Nachzehrer play black metal mixed with thrash. Think D666 but more straightforward. Leather Jackets, bullet belts, cheap whiskey by the handle. If any of those sound good to you, check this group of Bostonians out!

2011 - Pestilence Hungers in the Shadows


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Boglord - Total Fucking Eclipse of the Sun

Here is a cautionary tale for all bands submitting here. Please don't say you are a "blackened punk" act when in reality you are a raw black metal band with a decent amount of punk influence. I don't care what you are, I'll post your tunes no matter what. Just don't misrepresent yourselves.

Boglord are a raw black metal band with some punk influences. This demo is kinda sloppy when the speed picks up, so your best bets are the tracks where the speed stays at a stompy level. Not the greatest thing to pass my desk, but far from the worst. Check it out
(ps - any band who has a member who's pseudonym is a drug from the Elder Scrolls video games can't be that bad)

2011 - Total Fucking Eclipse of the Sun


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Northward - In Sturmes Wind

Wow. An honest-to-goodness fucking submission that wasn't Post-this, /that, just a good old fashioned cold black metal release with WAY too much reverb and some decent melodies. It's atmospheric, but not slow. It sounds like a demo because it is a demo. The wheel definitely wasn't reinvented here, but that's ok.

2011 - In Sturmes Wind


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Folkstorm - Valavond

Folkstorm is a black metal/folk band that really sounds a lot like what would happen if Agalloch and Falls of Rauros (buy their new fucking album, The Light That Dwells In Rotted Wood, then fucking thank me) combined to create something new. Their first album was good, but this is damn good. This is top notch material and is a must for any fans of folkish black metal.

2011 - Valavond


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Happy Autumnal Equinox/Field of Spears - Pale Eulogies (EP)

As the Autumnal Equinox is here, I thought I'd give the new Field of Spears EP I'd been working on out in celebration. As Serpent & Sodom celebrated summer and sweltering sin, Pale Eulogies is inspired by the impending chill of Autumn and the inescapable finality of death.

2011 - Pale Eulogies


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1. The Great Equalizer
2. Veil
3. Before the Pale
Bonus Tracks:
4. Runes and Men (Death In June cover)
5. Vici Ruinam (unreleased song from the Serpent and Sodom sessions)

Fixed the fucking link.