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AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: PRAISE THE PLAGUE —“TORMENT”
We would like to offer two rounds of applause to begin this premiere. The first goes to Berlin’s Praise the Plague for the wrenching emotional power channeled by their song “Torment“. The second is...
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AN NCS EP PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): GOLDEN BATS —“VII”
Roughly one year ago the distinctive one-man mauling machine known as Golden Bats, then located in the vicinity of Brisbane, Australia, released an album named Residual Dread, the first official...
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AN NCS EP PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): HORSE DRAWN —“NONBELIEVER”
The Ohio duo Horse Drawn can trace their origin back a dozen years. But both members — vocalist Bryce Seditz (Plaguewielder) and guitarist Jonny Doyle (Coldfells) have been involved in other musical...
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AN NCS EP PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): FLESHMEADOW —“DAYMARES”
(TheMadIsraeli introduces our premiere of the new EP by the Norwegian band Fleshmeadow, which will be released via Bandcamp on October 11th.) I try to avoid hyperbolic statements about how a new or...
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A DIRTY HALF DOZEN (SHORT BUT SWEET EDITION)
(In this column Andy Synn compiles reviews and streams of six new EPs — by Engulf, Lvcifyre, Maladie, Ordeals, Phobocosm, and Ultha.) Damn, today is a busy one for big releases isn’t it? We’ve got...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: HUMAN SERPENT —“THE VACUITY”
(Here’s DGR’s review of a new two-song EP by the Greek band Human Serpent, which was released on November 18th.) It wouldn’t be a black metal release if it didn’t have a flair for the dramatic, and...
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AN NCS EP PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): THIRD CHAMBER —“HARVESTING OUR DECAY”
Although Harvesting Our Decay is the debut EP by Calgary-based death metal band Third Chamber, this is another example of a band whose members have a long history in the underground scene, in this...
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AN NCS EP PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): ABYSSAL VACUUM —“MMXIX”
Beginning in 2018 the French black metal band Abyssal Vacuum has released two EPs, with a third one due for release by Egregor Records on December 1st. These three EPs collectively include nine...
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AN NCS PREMIERE: BLOOMING CARRIONS —“SISTERS IN BLOOMING FLESH”
Blooming Carrions is a beautifully chosen name for this Finnish band whose new EP we’re premiering today, as is the EP’s title — Sisters In Blooming Flesh. On the one hand, the music is a stunning...
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AN NCS EP PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): HAMELIN —“HAMELIN”
Hamelin is a new Belgian band, but when you listen to their debut self-titled EP (which could also be called an album, given its half-hour run-time), it will come as no surprise that the band’s...
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AN NCS EP PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): FAWN LIMBS —“THEIR HOLES AROUSED BY THE...
This past June we premiered a song named “Pines” from the debut album, Harm Remissions, by a trans-oceanic noise/grind trio named Fawn Limbs (presented through a video that excerpted footage from...
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SEEN AND HEARD ON CHRISTMAS EVE: REPLICANT, NYLITHIA, WAKE, PERMADEATH, OBDUKTIO
Contrary to an accusation that one of my NCS comrades recently leveled at another one, I don’t hate fun. In fact, I love it, and I enjoy seeing other people have fun. And so, although the imminent...
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GNAW: “BARKING ORDERS”
(Here’s Todd Manning‘s review of the new EP by Gnaw, which is set for release on January 31st via Sleeping Giant Glossolalia.) New York-based Gnaw produce the kind of brutalizing listening...
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AN NCS PREMIERE: INNARDS —“ENLIGHTENMENT THROUGH HATE”
Victor Costa‘s cover art for the debut EP of the Portuguese death metal band Innards is a perfect accompaniment for the ghoulish delights the EP holds in store. The music, like the art, is an...
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AN NCS EP PREMIERE: MENTAL CASKET —“DEMO 2020”
Mental Casket first crawled forth from some stinking grave in Warsaw, Poland, in 2018, inspired by the early works of Chuck Schuldiner and other fore-runners of Floridian death metal, with an...
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AN NCS EP PREMIERE: WITCHTRIP —“A BURNT OFFERING”
During the early morning hours of July 23, 2019, a fiery inferno engulfed and consumed a warehouse on Jarvis Avenue in Winnipeg, Canada. By the time the sun rose that day, according to this report,...
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AN NCS EP PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): SUMMON —“HELIOS”
If you have been searching for the soundtrack to your worst nightmares, you have come to the right place. What we have for you today is a full stream of Helios, the new EP by the three Portuguese...
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AN NCS EP PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): TURIAN —“SPIRAL & THE HERMIT”
On March 20th the Seattle-based grindcore band Turian will release their third record, which will be self-titled, adding to a discography that includes 2017’s Voiceless and 2018’s The Near Room. To...
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A DOUBLE TECH-DEATH EP RECOMMENDATION: FROGG AND ERGODIC
(In this post TheMadIsraeli provides recommendations and brief reviews for two EPs, one by the Connecticut band FROGG released in January of this year, and one by North Carolina’s Ergodic coming out...
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SEEN AND HEARD: ABORTED, MEDICO PESTE, NECK OF THE WOODS, CÉNOTAPHE,...
I’m scurrying this morning, so I’ll dispense with introductory comments and get right to the music I’ve chosen for this round-up — but did you see Mitchell Nolte‘s fantabulous artwork on the cover...
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