Black Earth – Diagrams Of A Hidden OrderLabel: Black Plagve – Infect18Format: CD, Mini-Album, Limited EditionCountry: USReleased: 02 Jul 2016Style: Industrial, Noise, Black Metal Debut digital recording for Spain’s cryptic collective Black Earth that continues the path laid down by 2014’s well received “A Cryptic Howl of Morbid Truth” cassette (Graceless Recordings). “Diagrams of a Hidden Order” presents us with three tracks showcasing their turbulent strain of blackened noise, that stretches the boundaries of black metal, death metal and dark ambient respectively, thus amplifying these genres into darker territory few have explored. Within the turbulence of chaos and bleakness, there exists fleeting form and (un)structure that is shattered and rebuilt…
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Agalloch – The Mantle
Agalloch – The MantleLabel: Grau – Grau 001 CDFormat: CD, AlbumCountry: GermanyReleased: 2011Style: Black Metal, Experimental, Neofolk “The Mantle” is a grand multi-dimensional opus of 70 minutes featuring their dark melancholic metal with post rock and neo-folk elements. References range from Pink Floyd, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Sol Invictus, Ulver, Dissection, Fields Of The Nephilim and a lot more
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Skullflower – Fucked On A Pile Of Corpses
Skullflower – Fucked On A Pile Of CorpsesLabel: Cold SpringFormat: CD, AlbumCountry: UKReleased: 27 Jun 2011Style: Black Metal, Noise, Drone The most remorseless, brutal Skullflower ever! Alternating between granular lo-fi primitive rock and granular lo-fi primitive Power Electronics, this taut disc is a chain mail glove of hate to any lazy minds who’ve tainted the air with describing Skullflower as ‘psychedelic’. But that’s not to say this is an all out total assault. There are also moments of tender acoustic balladry, its just that they don’t exist. The remorseless brutal sound is primitive, but as detailed and rich as a blood soaked medieval canvas, somewhere betwixt The Rita and Clandestine…
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Suspiral – Dawn Of Kezef
Suspiral – Dawn Of KezefLabel: Equinox Discos – EQNX08Format: Vinyl, 7″, 33 ⅓ RPM, EPCountry: SpainReleased: 06 Dec 2015Style: Black Metal “Cacophonous coalescence of amorphous chaos and morbidly dissonant riffage conforming a mesmerizingly hypnotic Black Metal mass that will appeal to those who have been staring unblinking at the abyss until its relentless vortex has finally consumed them.”
