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SEEN AND HEARD: ULCERATE, NOMAD, LIKE RATS, HOT GRAVES, BOMBS OF HADES,...
At the risk of overloading our readers with new music in light of what we’ve already sent your way over the weekend and this morning (a risk that obviously means nothing to us), here’s a carefully...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: BOG WRAITH / MÆRE / PHALANX / SUTRAH / SVENGAHLI
(Andy Synn has decided to collect in one place reviews of five recently released EPs that have provoked very enthusiastic responses. Lots of very good stuff here.) After spending a significant...
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OVERFLOWING STREAMS: ABYSMAL DAWN, CENTINEX, COGNITIVE, COOLING TOWER, DEATH...
Abysmal Dawn Here we are again. with so many new songs and videos that I want to recommend that I’m resorting to what I did last weekend — compiling lots of sights and sounds (which are all over the...
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OVERFLOWING STREAMS (PART 1): KREATOR, LIGHT DWELLER, DISROTTER
Thanks to the amazing Zoom service, I participated in a couple of virtual happy-hour celebrations last night, woke up woozy as a result of that, and then had to do a work-related Zoom conference for...
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AN NCS PREMIERE AND REVIEW: DEATH WHORE’S SELF-TITLED EP
“Imagine a cross between the brutalizing grooves of Y2K-era Metal Hardcore greats like Terror, Xibalba, Nails or Rotten Sound, and old school Swedish Death Metal breakneck riffing”. That’s part of...
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AN NCS EP PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): DOWNCROSS —“CURRENT TOWARDS END”
The Belarusian black metal band Downcross made a startling debut with their first album, Mysteries of Left Path. To paraphrase what we wrote in introducing our premiere of the album early last year,...
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SEEN AND HEARD: REJOICE! THE LIGHT HAS COME, MICO, VOID PRAYER, KALL,...
I hope all of you are well and staying safe and neither lapsing into stupor nor pulling our your hair due to quarantine-itis. I have chosen a few things to occupy your mind today, since you probably...
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OVERFLOWING STREAMS: QUESTION, DECOHERENCE, SKELETON, UTZALU, DÖDSVARG,...
As you can see, it’s time for another gigantic round-up. I took extra time and included artwork for this installment. I’m also very happy with the variety of what I chose, which I’ll forewarn you...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: ABORTED / AUROCH / BECOMES ASTRAL / DEVIL CITY CULT /...
Aborted (In this post Andy Synn has compiled reviews of six recently released EPs that will make your shut-in time more bearable.) In the unending onrush of new albums coming out every month it’s...
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AN NCS EP PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): PROTOSEQUENCE —“A BLUNT DESCRIPTION OF...
On their new EP A Blunt Description of Something Obscene, Protosequence have created a genuine musical spectacle, a fusion of tech-death and progressive metal that manages to be both jaw-dropping...
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EP REVIEW PARTY: BOMBS OF HADES, TRIBE OF PAZUZU, TOMBS, KATHOLIK, SUTRAH,...
Bombs of Hades – photo by Susan Wicher (DGR prepared this collection of reviews, focusing on six 2020 EPs across a range of metal genres.) If you’ve been reading the site recently you might’ve...
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AN NCS EP PREMIERE: DEVIL WITH NO NAME —“DEVIL WITH NO NAME”
(Andy Synn introduces our premiere of the self-titled debut EP by the western U.S. black metal trio Devil With No Name, which is set for release on May 22nd.) Unlike most Black Metal bands, Devil...
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AN NCS EP PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): EXAUGURATE —“CHASM OF RAPTUROUS DELIRIUM”
Death looms large in Exaugurate’s vision of death metal, but it is not a vision of sudden death or the endless void that would follow it. Instead, their malevolent and morbid music channels raging...
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GRIMENTITY: “TO PERFECTION”
(Vonlughlio has brought us another recommendation, which he describes in this post — a 2020 demo by a relatively new band from Belarus.) Being able to write here on NCS about the bands in one of my...
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AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): DESCEND INTO DESPAIR —“OPIUM”
Opium, the new album by the Romanian funeral doom band Descend Into Despair, is a classic example of a musical river. It began somewhere high in the mountains (a collective of minds). As the waters...
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SHORT BUT SWEET (PART 1): HERESIARCH, ANTEDILUVIAN, VEGAS, LIKTAL
I’m way behind in compiling round-ups of new music and video streams, but nevertheless I thought I’d use this time to recommend a collection of recently released EPs, and to offer a few words about...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: COSMOVORE / INSTIGATE / LIVING GATE
Peter Paul Rubens: “The Fall of the Damned” (Andy Synn helps us end our week-day posts (though more will be coming this weekend) with the following trio of reviews.) I really feel like I’ve let you...
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SHORT BUT SWEET (PART 2): TRUUS, BRZASK, LEECHES, OMNIVOID
This concludes a post I began here two days ago devoted mainly to new EPs I’ve been enjoying lately. This one is devoted to shades of black metal, and includes four debut releases. TRUUS I’ll begin...
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AN NCS SPLIT PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): BOB MALMSTRÖM AND DISPYT
In this unusual year of 2020 the Finnish “borgarcore” band Bob Malmström are celebrating their tenth anniversary. In addition to popping champagne and blowing out candles they chose to commemorate...
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NOTES MADE WHILE LISTENING: HOLY DEATH AND MOONWORSHIPPER
I am always behind in listening to what I want to explore, but have fallen further and further behind this week, chiefly due to the malaise that many of us have felt from the protracted lockdown,...
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