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
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
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
Sunday, November 6, 2011
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
Thursday, November 3, 2011
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
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
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
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
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.
Monday, October 17, 2011
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.
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!
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
Download
buy: drrainbows@gmail.com
Download
buy: drrainbows@gmail.com
This release was sent to us by the band.
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
Download
Available from Heidens Hart
Download
Available from Heidens Hart
This release was sent to us by the artist.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
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.
Friday, September 23, 2011
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.
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.
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.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Avulse - Too Kvlt to Fuck EP
In advance of our splits with Disguster and Malveillance (as well as the physical release of this EP). Here is the new Avulse EP "Too Kvlt to Fuck". Its kind of a midway point between the introspection of I Am The Liquor and the fuck it attitude of Granted but Grace from this World. Lots of Poison Idea was listened to when this was written.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Disguster - Live at Meat Gum
This is a recording of what (if I'm correct) is the first and thus far only Disguster live performance. It definitely doesn't have the greatest sound, but it still sucks you in and traps you in its rawness. A big thanks to Nick for sending this over (not completely related, but later in the year look out for the Disguster/Avulse split tape.)
Monday, August 15, 2011
While we are on the subject:
I have (re)started a new (old) blog for all things non-bm that me and my friends create, or demos that I receive that aren't quite what we strive for here: http://lastsunslight.blogspot.com/
This first post is another of the myriad projects I create, and I would recommend it for anyone who enjoys Death/Doom or just crushing music in general.
http://lastsunslight.blogspot.com/2011/08/black-chalice-years-of-flame.html
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Perpetual Strife
Shameless promotion here. I've started another blog entitled Perpetual Strife. It's review oriented but will have tons of specials (interviews, features, etc) on all kinds of music from grindcore to black metal to ambient to punk.
Check it out!
perpetualstrifemusic.blogspot.com
Thanks
-F
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Abu Lahab - As Chastened Angels Descend Into The Thoracic Tombs
"Abu Lahab is a project I started back in 2000 under a different name but forced to change the name later fearing that my identity would be discovered after my first demo gained some local fame because of the strong anti Islam elements it contained. Lately, the music I make/ try to make is mostly an outlet for me to express my personal frustrations (religious, sexual, social...), my take on the occult and an escapist activity to better cope with my illness."
Yeah...this is one weird fucking record. It is lo-fi black metal mixed with industrial and noise, with the occasional sample or Islamic prayer thrown in, and some fucking video game music. I could see this as auditory schizophrenia. If you enjoy generally fucked up unmusic, noise, or darkwave, give it a shot.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Book of Sand - The Bees and the Butterflies
So, Book of Sand takes old American and European folk songs and interprets them as black metal. Its a pretty cool set up. Lots of violin and atmosphere. The vocals are pretty low in the mix, but I had to find something to bitch about.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Yhdarl - Ave Maria
"YHDARL was formed in 2006 by D, doing everything, experimenting from suicidal black metal, drone, noise, funeral doom, ... In 2010, L (Larvalis) joined the project, doing insane female screams and inspiration of audial rape. With many free releases and some physical stuff available, YHDARL stood with a different, original banner of depressive music."
A nice and disturbing change of pace. The centerpiece here is the first disc, with two versions of "Ave Maria", the fifty-minute original and a beautiful and horror-filled orchestral version. The second disc contains a remix of the song, as well as two other originals and an Urfaust cover. Definitely grab this, dim your lights, and spend two and a half hours in another, more terrifying and grand place.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Disguster - Ferocious Hell Blizzard
New Disguster promo. This was supposed to be released as a 10" EP, but seeing as that fell through, it is being released to all for free. As always, it rips and is worth the time and download.
2011 - Ferocious Hell Blizzard
Download
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Urfaust- Der freiwillige Bettler
One of the few bands I actually try and keep up with. Drei Rituale Jenseits Des Kosmos... and Einsiedler are definitely my favorite works by this duo and while this release is a step more into solid black metal territory it's still good and just different enough to keep me surprised and interested. This band shows no sign of slowing down. Catch them this summer in Texas at Rites of Darkness (wish i was going)
2010- Der freiwillige Bettler
-F
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Auspicium - Hope Is All You Have (demos)
It's not to common that a blog posts something of mine that isn't already up here. It's completely wacky that something I didn't even release officially got out into the interwebs. So, I have been tracking some demo tracks up on the Auspicium bandcamp website just to get some feedback and get the word out there for new material coming soon. This was just a precursor to the actual recordings of HIAYH, which is actually gonna have a real live drummer, as opposed to my shitty programming. So since I cant put the proverbial cat back in the bag, here is the OFFICIAL Hope is All You Have DEMO with 4 songs.
Monday, July 4, 2011
Malveillance - Avena Sativa
Unreleased material from one of my favorites, 4 tracks of ugly raw black metal with crust overtones, those into this know what to expect!
download [192kbps]
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Wholy Failure pt 2
Two more WF releases. Tree of Human Debris is noise and pyschotic black metal overtones. Good for doing lots of drugs to. The Black House is like Songs of Surrender, but with a more downtrodden attitude. It features a cover of Current 93's Soft Black Stars and Swans' Alcohol the Seed.
rosaceae - rosaceae
This is a project of one of our readers. He descirbes it as Post-Black metal. To me, it sounds like the hybrid of Isolationist/DS black metal and Saetia (for those who aren't familiar with Saetia, they were a "screamo" band from the 90's. This is when screamo was a synonym for Chaotic Hardcore, not anime hair and overproduced douche shit music. Go to youtube and search for Venus and Bacchus.), with a touch of post rock. If you are a purist you might not like it. However, if you enjoyed Vestiges or Yellow Eyes, you'll definitely want to give this a spin.
Celephaïs - Becoming The Deceased
"This is the first demo-release of my musical project Celephaïs. The demo is called "Becoming The Deceased". Musically it's some kind of PostRock-Influenced Black Metal or something. The demo is a digital release meant for free downloading, but maybe some discs will be pressed in the future"
This descripion says it all. Very well put together Post-Black Metal. My only gripe is the drum programming being a little too prominent in the mix, predominantly the cymbals. No vocals.
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