Label: Der Schwarze Tod – tod30, COD Music and Distro – COD7 Format: CD, Album Country: Russia Released: 27 Oct 2016 Style: Black Metal
The flame of discord devours human destiny. Scythe of the civil war satisfies death hunger, not skipping a single family. The year 1917 had plunged Russia in bloodshed and destruction for a long time and it led to the collapse of the age-old way of life, traditions and practices.
In the debut album, the group Gherzen is not trying to find who was right and who is wrong. The tragedy of the common man and the entire nation together with him and is at the forefront here. Echoes of those fierce days resound in monumental atmospheric Black Metal inspired by the classic works of Burzum and Drudkh.
Label: Lupus Lounge – WOLF 65LU Format: CD, Album + CD + DVD-V + Dlx, Ltd, Art Country: Germany Released: 30 Sep 2016 Style: Black Metal, Folk Metal, Avantgarde
Negura Bunget is an award-winning Transilvanian black metal band that twists the genre sideways, presenting an atmospheric sound that incorporates both progressive underground metal and traditional Romanian music.
Negura Bunget’s new album, “ZI” (English for ‘Day’ or ‘Say’) is the second part of the group’s ambitious “Transilvanian Trilogy”, released on the heels of 2015’s celebrated album, “TAU” (English for ‘Your’ or ‘Thy’), a record accurately hailed as “earthshaking” as it focused on unique native, natural landscapes and the mystique, legends, lore and meanings behind them.
In creating its most luminescent recording to date, Negura Bunget has further immersed itself in the traditions and practices of local Transilvanian inhabitants, exploring their connection with nature, and the way this relationship has shaped spiritual horizons. Within this framework, “ZI” closely examines the core of the most important traditions and rituals connected with the well-being of this community. Life events such as funeral ceremonies, soil tillage, and human growth and evolution (i.e. youth to teen to man to warrior, through to outcast) are spotlighted, in what is undoubtedly some of the most heady, thinking-man’s metal produced in recent memory. Musically, “ZI” builds upon the hallmarks of Negura Bunget’s impressive catalog; the juxtaposition and interweaving of grim black metal elements, ambient soundscapes and acoustic counterparts based on native Romanian folk music, giving life to panoramic atmospheres, intensity and power unequaled in the band’s rich discography.
An impressive musical statement and crucial bridge between root-bearing beginning and impending finale of the trilogy (scheduled to be released in early 2018), “ZI” is a mystical, tension-building recording that mirrors the size and scope of the deep forest fog for which the band is named.
Label: Lupus Lounge – WOLF 065 LP Format: LP, Album Country: Germany Released: 30 Sep 2016 Style: Black Metal, Folk Metal, Avantgarde
Negura Bunget is an award-winning Transilvanian black metal band that twists the genre sideways, presenting an atmospheric sound that incorporates both progressive underground metal and traditional Romanian music.
Negura Bunget’s new album, “ZI” (English for ‘Day’ or ‘Say’) is the second part of the group’s ambitious “Transilvanian Trilogy”, released on the heels of 2015’s celebrated album, “TAU” (English for ‘Your’ or ‘Thy’), a record accurately hailed as “earthshaking” as it focused on unique native, natural landscapes and the mystique, legends, lore and meanings behind them.
In creating its most luminescent recording to date, Negura Bunget has further immersed itself in the traditions and practices of local Transilvanian inhabitants, exploring their connection with nature, and the way this relationship has shaped spiritual horizons. Within this framework, “ZI” closely examines the core of the most important traditions and rituals connected with the well-being of this community. Life events such as funeral ceremonies, soil tillage, and human growth and evolution (i.e. youth to teen to man to warrior, through to outcast) are spotlighted, in what is undoubtedly some of the most heady, thinking-man’s metal produced in recent memory. Musically, “ZI” builds upon the hallmarks of Negura Bunget’s impressive catalog; the juxtaposition and interweaving of grim black metal elements, ambient soundscapes and acoustic counterparts based on native Romanian folk music, giving life to panoramic atmospheres, intensity and power unequaled in the band’s rich discography.
An impressive musical statement and crucial bridge between root-bearing beginning and impending finale of the trilogy (scheduled to be released in early 2018), “ZI” is a mystical, tension-building recording that mirrors the size and scope of the deep forest fog for which the band is named.
Label: Prophecy Productions – PRO 195LP Format: Vinyl, LP, EP Country: Germany Released: 2016 Style: Black Metal
The 4 track EP “The Kindred Of The Sunset” serves as harbinger of The Vision Bleak’s forthcoming album “The Unknown”, to be released on June 3rd 2016. But the diverse and high-quality EP is more than just a simple appetizer for the album. The hymn-like title track and the nightmarish “The Whine Of The Cemetery Hound”, both taken from “The Unknown”, are accompanied by two exclusive tracks: a cover version of the Tiamat classic “The Sleeping Beauty” and the atmospheric instrumental piece “Purification Afterglow”. “The Kindred Of The Sunset” is available as Digisleeve CD, limited to 1.000 copies, and LP, limited to 500 copies.
Tracklist: 1. The Kindred Of The Sunset 2. The Whine Of The Cemetery Hound 3. The Sleeping Beauty 4. Purification Afterglo
Various – Lords Of Chaos – The History Of Occult Music
Label: Index Verlag – INDEX 002VL Format: 2 × CD, Compilation Country: Germany Released: 2008 Style: Prog Rock, Blues Rock, Viking Metal, Death Metal, Black Metal, Ambient, Religious, Experimental
CD 1:
1.Aleister Crowley – The Pentagram 2.Robert Johnson – Me And The Devil Blues 3.Coven – The Portrait [Unreleased On CD Format] 4.Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath 5.Black Widow – Sacrifice [Rare Track] 6.Bobby Beausoleil – In The Temple Of The Moon [Exclusive Track] 7.Mick J. – Invocation Of My Demon Brother [Unreleased Track] 8.Venom – Black Metal 9.Mercyful Fate – Come To The Sabbath 10.Sodom – Outbreak Of Evil 11.Hellhammer – Triumph Of Death 12.Monte Cazazza – Stairway To Hell 13.Anton Szandor LaVey – The Satanic Hamboo [Rare Track] 14.Genesis P. Orridge And Psychic TV – Supermale [Rare Track]
CD 2:
1.Anton Szandor LaVey – Black Mass Opening Hymn 2.Death SS – Black Mass [Rare Track] 3.Bathory – Twilight Of The Gods 4.Unleashed – Into Glory Ride 5.Mayhem – Freezing Moon [Feat. Dead; Rare Track] 6.Darkthrone – A Blaze In The Northern Sky 7.Emperor – The Burning Shadows Of Silence 8.Ulver – [Exclusive And Unreleased Track] 9.Thorns – tellar Master Elite 3:52 10.Abruptum – Massdöd 11.The Electric Hellfire Club – Age Of Fire [Exclusive Remix] 12.Peter H. Gilmore – What Is Good? [Lex Talionis; Rare Track] 13.White Stains – Take It From Me [Rare Track] 14.Anton Szandor LaVey – Black Mass (Closing Hymn)
Agalloch – The Mantle Label: Grau – Grau 001 CD Format: CD, Album Country: Germany Released: 2011 Style: 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
Label: Cold Spring Format: CD, Album Country: UK Released: 27 Jun 2011 Style: 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 Blaze, but more brutal! Long live the New Flesh! Kether is in Malkuth, Malkuth is in Kether, but in a different way…
Suspiral – Delve Into The Mysteries Of Transcendence
Label: I, Voidhanger Records – IVR054 Format: CD, Album, Stereo Country: Europe Released: 01 Mar 2016 Style: Black Metal, Death Metal
A duo comprised of M.S. (guitar, voice, fx) and A.T. (bass, synth, voice), here assisted by session drummer M.P. (Arkaik Excruciation), SUSPIRAL is the earthly manifestation of spiritual dimensions existing beyond Death. Wrapped in a chilling cover (a detail from K.W. Diefenbach’s painting “Toteninsel”), their first magnum opus “Delve Into The Mysteries Of Transcendence” comes divided into three chapters of transcendence by means of transformation through poisonous elevation, meditation on the sacrificial plane and the ultimate revelations on the final mysteries of Death. All engulfed in an amorphous mass of dissonant and chaotic Black Metal that will appeal to those who have stared on the verge of the Abyss.
Supremely dark and majestic, SUSPIRAL’s music is a coalescence of frantic guitar-working and mesmerizing, noisy solos raising from chaos like bloody spears pointed at a black hole sky. The band’s apocalyptic and unmerciful assault is tempered by the obscure, trance-inducing aura of the melodies, and by a well-structured songwriting, so dense of shades, sonic details and unexpected twists and turns that the 33 minutes of “Delve Into The Mysteries Of Transcendence” end up looking like an odyssey.
The purpose is to explore the true depths of darkness instead of safely swimming on its surface, like too many bands are content to do. But SUSPIRAL have no fear to drown: they bravely jump into the vacuum, sure to ascend.
Label: Equinox Discos – EQNX08 Format: Vinyl, 7", 33 ⅓ RPM, EP Country: Spain Released: 06 Dec 2015 Style: 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.”
Label: Duplicate Records – DUPLO 68 LP Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition Country: Norway Released: 04 Apr 2016 Style: Death Metal, Black Metal
From the northern shores of Spain comes an unholy entity known as Arkaik Excruciation. After a blazing tape release, Among the Vortex of Chaos in 2014, Duplicate Records are proud to present their debut full-length offering. Cursed Blood Of Doom is one of those rare albums that leave an instant imprint on the darker recesses of the subconscious. More of a ritualistic experience than a mere collection of songs, its different parts segue into one another, adding a feverish atmosphere to the devilish proceedings. Musically, Arkaik Excruciation take their cues from the origins of extreme metal, way back when death, black and thrash metal were stewing in the same primordial cauldron. Devotees of bands such as Necrovore, Poison, Sadistic Intent, Sarcofago, early Morbid Angel and so on should soon feel the Cursed Blood Of Doom coursing through their veins! credits
Ltd. to 500 copies on black vinyl in reverse print cover incl. insert.
