Black Autumn – Rivers Of Dead LeavesLabel: Antichristian Front RecordsFormat: CD, AlbumCountry: SpainReleased: Dec 2008Style: Shoegaze, Black Metal Germany’s Black Autumn is a one-member project of M. Krall. According to Metal-Archives, the band has been in existence since 1993 and there have been a slew of releases post-2003, all of which have evaded me. This includes the debut album released last year, Ecstasy, Nightmare, Doom. Rivers Of Dead Leaves was the first taste of Black Autumn that I had and the first thing that struck me was its eclectic make-up. In essence, this album is all about abstract, sluggish, melancholic riffs that usher you into an utterly bleak and depressive…
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Kazeria [KZ] – Credo Nostrvm
Kazeria [KZ] – Credo NostrvmLabel: Twilight Records – TW 1.56Format: CD, AlbumCountry: ArgentinaReleased: 2009Style: Dark Ambient, Military, Industrial, Neofolk KAZERIA [KZ] means “Hunt” in Spanish. This is a solo project started and leaded by argentinean composer [S] since 2008. “Credo Nostrvm” (“Our Creed”), has nine tracks inscribed onto a martial, neofolk, neoclassical and dark ambient combination, dealing with some themes that represents [KZ] main topics:the meaning of glory, decadence, eternity, struggle, occult and sacred symbols of forgotten times.[S] spouts out a harsh vision about reality, which could be understood as “active nihilism”. This is its way to relate to this current decaying age which, in [S] words, “must be overcome”.The…
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Mono Inc. – Nimmermehr
Mono Inc. – NimmermehrLabel: NoCut – SPV 262560Format: CD, Album,DVD, DVD-Video, All Media, Limited EditionCountry: GermanyReleased: 09 Aug 2013Style: Goth Rock Monomania, a term from the psychiatric nosology of the early 19th Century, was once (2003) thetemplate for naming the Hamburger Rock-Band MONO INC. and means as much as delusional individual, in contrast to the complete madness. – 10 years later, MONO INC. open another chapterof their creativity! Mean? Joachim Witt (a New German Wave legend of the 80ies) and MONO INC. mastermind Martin Engler became close friends since Witt’s latest album and since then they celebrate the “Club of living Poets” every week. Joachim benefits from the fact that…
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Anatomia De Vanitats – The Anthropic Principle
Anatomia De Vanitats – The Anthropic PrincipleLabel: GH Records – GH 121 CDFormat: CD Digi-Box Super Special Limited Edition with bonus tracksCountry: SpainReleased: 31 Feb 2014Style: Dark Ambient Anatomia De Vanitats is Mercé Spica from ELDARs solo project, this is an intricate album bubbling with details, a steamy dark ambient epic. In cosmology, The Anthropic Principle states that any valid theory of the universe must be consistent with the existence of human beings. “If the universe must verify certain conditions to our existence, these conditions are checked because we exist.” The various attempts to apply this principle to the development of scientific explanations of the universe cosmology have led to…
