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LOW: LYCUS AND ORTEGA
This is the second part of a two-part post about new music that swallowed me up last night. By blind chance, all four of the songs I heard sound like granite must feel, sitting on your chest or coming...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: PLANKS / O SPLIT
I first heard the music of Germany’s Planks last September and wrote about them here. What I heard then was a Bandcamp stream of Planks’ amazing 2012 album, Funeral Mouth. Not much later I discovered...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: MONOTHEIST —“GENESIS OF PERDITION”
(TheMadIsraeli reviews the debut EP by Florida’s Monotheist.) Checkmate atheists, creationists win again. No, I kid. However, it is a shame we never got to Monotheist’s debut Genesis of Perdition...
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UNEVEN STRUCTURE: “8″ (Re-recorded)
(In this post TheMadIsraeli reviews a re-recorded EP by the French band Uneven Structure.) 2013 marks the return of “that word” (THALL). First we had the Means End debut, we have a new Vildhjarta EP...
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TERATISM: “LA BAS”
Mark Riddick’s cover art for Teratism’s new MLP La Bas tells you something of what you need to know about the music: It is, in many respects, far out on the frontier of bestial extremity, dwelling in...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: TEMPLE OF VOID —“DEMO MMXIII”
This is the first of two short, new, doom-flavored offerings that I’m reviewing today, both with the name Demo MMXII. This first one comes our way from Detroit’s Temple of Void, and it’s their first...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: CRYPT SERMON —“DEMO MMXIII”
Crypt Sermon are the second doom-oriented band with a new debut release named Demo MMXIII that I’m reviewing today (the first was by Temple of Void). This is a new project, and I know only a small...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: PYRE / ENTRAPMENT SPLIT
Last month the Dutch label/distro Soulseller Records released a 45 rpm black vinyl split featuring two songs each from Pyre (Russia) and Entrapment (The Netherlands). I don’t have the vinyl — yet —...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: ANTEDILUVIAN –“SEPTENTRIONAL THEOPHANY”
I like to think I do a decent job of keeping my eyes open for new releases by bands I like, including bands and labels who don’t send out lots of press releases or advance promo copies to NCS. But I...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: LORD IMPALER –“BABYLON WHORE”
Man, it’s hard to believe that an entire year has passed since I first heard (and reviewed) Lord Impaler’s debut album, Admire the Cosmos Black. A full year has indeed come and gone, but not without a...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: SUNBURSTER —“SOLARBIPOLAR”
One thing leads to another. In late May I came across a compilation by the name of Anthrosphere IV assembled by Philadelphia label Anthropic Records. It includes some stellar tunes, and so I wrote...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: DEIPHAGO AND RITUAL COMBAT —“ACCEPT THE MARK”
Last fall a U.S. label named Red Stream Inc. made a limited CD release of a split entitled Accept the Mark by two sonically destructive bands — Deiphago and Ritual Combat. Now, the German label Iron...
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TORTURE DIVISION AND BENT SEA: “DOUBLE PENETRATION”
It was barely more than a month ago when Torture Division released their latest three-song assault on the senses (The Worship, reviewed here), and damned if they aren’t already back with another...
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CLOUDKICKER: “HELLO”
(Better late than never, DGR reviews a single released by Ohio-based Cloudkicker earlier this year.) Cloudkicker is one of those projects that people really should know more about. At this point,...
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BISPORA: “THE PINEAL CHRONICLES PHASE I: FURTHERANCE”
(DGR reviews the new release by Sacramento-based Bispora.) Back in 2011, local Sacramento group Bispora released an EP called The Cycle. For a group that pretty much came out of nowhere, The Cycle was...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: ÆVANGELIST —“OMNIQUITY”
This past weekend I saw two pieces of news concerning the otherworldly black death entity known as Ævangelist, about whom we have written frequently. First, it appears the band have finished recording...
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MAJALIS: “CATHODIC BLACK”
Majalis is one of those “after work” side-projects whose debut release leaves such a powerful impression that one can only hope, fervently, that it continues. It began years ago as a songwriting...
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BLACK CROWN INITIATE: “SONG OF THE CRIPPLED BULL”
(TheMadIsraeli reviews the stunning debut EP from Black Crown Initiate of Reading, Pennsylvania.) I feel like sometimes it’s up to us metal bloggers to take responsibility for making sure some bands...
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KAUNIS KUOLEMATON
Kaunis Kuolematon are a Finnish band with current or former members of Black Sun Aeon, Sinamore, and End of Aeon, who have released three songs so far in their brief career. Two of them appeared on a...
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SIDIOUS: “ASCENSION TO THE THRONE OV SELF”
(In this post Andy Synn reviews the new EP by London’s Sidious.) Brutal intensity. Savage technicality. Pure, refined evil. That should really be all you need to read. Go buy these UK blackened death...
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