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SHORT BUT SWEET: THE FIVE HUNDRED —“WINTERS”
(Grant Skelton reviews the new EP by The Five Hundred from Nottingham, England.) I initially caught wind of Nottingham, England’s The Five Hundred after hearing a demo of the song“Winters.” That...
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SHADES OF BLACK: ENTROPIA, END OF PROCESS, IFRINN, MORBOSIDAD, DEATH...
I had intended to post most of the new music in this collection on Sunday, hot on the heels of Saturday’s Shades of Black post. However, I was distracted by the sound of a passing car, chased it for...
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ABORTED: “TERMINATION REDUX”
(TheMadIsraeli reviews the new 20th anniversary EP by Belgium’s Aborted.) I fucking love Aborted, especially their last two albums. It’s no secret that here at NCS we were foaming at the mouth like...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: MALDEVERA , WALL OF WATER, PROFANAL & INTO DARKNESS
What follows are delayed reviews of three short releases that I’ve enjoyed, two of which are available for free. And by “delayed”, I mean that I started writing this post in November, put it aside,...
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DEATH RITUALS: DESTRÖYER 666, INVERLOCH, PESTILENTIA, VENEFICIUM, SXUPERION,...
You may have already guessed from the title of the post that it includes a shitload of new music — and I still haven’t exhausted the new discoveries that I want to write about, not by a long shot....
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BENEATH THE NCS RADAR (PART 6)
(This is Part 6 of our Norwegian friend Gorger’s continuing feature on bands we seem to have overlooked at NCS. And be sure to check out Gorger’s Metal.) Cheers anew, and a headbanging new year. The...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: GOD ROOT —“GOD ROOT”
This just-released debut EP by a new band from Philadelphia really is one that must be heard all the way through, from start to finish. Yes, you can randomly pick any one of the four tracks and...
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SHADES OF BLACK (PART 1): DIVINE BLASPHEMY, NAÐRA, NOCTURNE
Some weekends are a whirlwind, a flurry of unexpected events hitting from all points of the compass. Others are a soporific quagmire of sloth and malaise. Somehow, for me this weekend was an odd...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: ITHAQUA / BØG — A SPLIT
I’d like to recommend a new split release by a Japanese band named Ithaqua and an Australian band named BØG. I don’t know much about either band, and I’ve already now forgotten how I came across...
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SHADES OF BLACK: LVTHN, DRAMA, PERDITION WINDS, IMPERCEPTUM, MERV’, VIOLET...
This is a rather super-sized edition of Shades of Black, collecting new and recently discovered music in a blackened vein. But believe me, this could have been much bigger still, because I’m sitting...
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SHADES OF BLACK: DEATH FETISHIST, PTAHIL, WALDGEFLÜSTER, CANTIQUE LÉPREUX,...
I usually post collections such as this one on Sundays, to make the Sabbath blacker. But I’m sitting on so much good new metal in a blackened vein that I decided to share this collection now. I’m...
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SHADES OF BLACK: MANTAR, GERM, GRAVDAL, NOX FORMULAE, KASSAD, DISSVARTH
I had originally planned to post this yesterday, to make the Sabbath blacker, but didn’t quite get it finished. I’ve collected five new songs from forthcoming albums and a brief review of an EP...
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FAST CASKETS
I seem to have the attention span of a fruit fly. I was working on a “Seen and Heard” round-up of newly discovered music and decided to pause and take a quick spin through the NCS in-box. There I...
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SEEN AND HEARD: KZOHH, HÜZÜN, WINTER NIGHTS, NUCLEUS, WORSHIP OF KERES
I mentioned yesterday that this week has brought yet another flood of new music. Continuing to sift through what I’ve been seeing and hearing, I’d like to share and recommend new songs and videos...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: MOROS —“LIFE ASSISTED SUICIDE”
I’m VERY late in writing about this EP — it was released last August. I had started scribbling some typically half-formed thoughts, as one might expect from a half-formed brain, and then got...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: ITHAQUA (“THE BLACK MASS SABBATH PULSE”) AND CRUSTY OLD TOAD...
It’s possible that I owe each of these two bands an apology for reviewing their new releases alongside each other. I swear I wasn’t trying to be ironic or make any mischief. It just happened that I...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: ROTTEN COLD / DISTASTE (SPLIT) AND W R I T H E (SELF-TITLED)
(DGR brings us two reviews of two new cataclysmic musical assaults.) The foraging for new sounds with which to ruin your hearing never stops here at NoCleanSinging, it just happens to move a little...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: SYNODIK —“A MATTER OF PERCEPTION”
(Andy Synn reviews the latest release by the Italian band Synodik.) It was way back in 2012 when itinerant Italian Tech-Death types Synodik released their debut album, which largely flew under the...
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SEEN AND HEARD: WOLVSERPENT, WITHERED, WODE
Wolvserpent You may have noticed that over the weekend I only posted one article on our site, despite the fact that for more than 6 years I’ve been obsessed with posting something every day of every...
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AN NCS PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): VENEFICIUM’S SELF-TITLED DEMO TAPE
Even though we’re about to premiere a full stream of the debut self-titled demo by Veneficium, I don’t know who is in the band. They are reputed to be veterans of New Zealand’s metal underground,...
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