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Ne Obliviscaris Sign to Season of Mist

Filed Under: General News
Feb.13, 2013

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Australian progressive extreme metallers, Ne Obliviscaris, last year attracted widespread praise for their brilliant debut album, Portal of I, and have now followed in the footsteps of fellow Melbourne bands Destroyer 666 and Blood Duster by signing with French label Season of Mist.  With a strong background in black and progressive metal, and a roster currently boasting names such as Cynic, Carach Angren, and Deathspell Omega, let alone legends Morbid Angel and Mayhem, Season of Mist seems the perfect fit for Ne Obliviscaris as they seek to capitalise on the success of Portal of I, and expand their profile worldwide.

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Deathspell Omega – Drought

Filed Under: Reviews
Jun.25, 2012

Deathspell Omega

Drought

01. Salowe Vision
02. Fiery Serpents
03. Scorpions & Drought
04. Sand
05. Abrasive Swirling Muck
06. The Crackled Book Of Life

[07/03/12]
[Season of Mist]

French black metal enigmas Deathspell Omega not only helped to innovate the genre, they transcend it as well. Their sound, while rooted in black metal bands such as Mayhem and Marduk, also delves into sludge, prog, and even shades of hardcore. Their unique melding of sounds puts them at an advantageous position at the forefront of a movement, becoming the source of emulation over the years by the likes of Dodecahedron, Smohalla, and likely a handful of others yearning to make a racket in the underground avant-garde scene. The group continues their trend of weirdening up the genre with their succinct new EP Drought.

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Agruss – Morok

Filed Under: Reviews
Jun.12, 2012

Agruss

Morok

01. Damnation
02. Morok
03. Punishment For All
04. Fire, The Savior From Plague
05. Ashes Of The Future
06. When The Angels Fall
07. Under The Snow I
08. Under The Snow II
09. Under The Snow III

[04/26/12]
[code666 Records]

I have gotten pretty involved with black metal over the past year, and it has quickly become the genre I turn to when I want to listen to something really heavy, but without breakdowns and terribly clichéd lyrics about the movie Kids. I love discovering new black metal acts, especially the foreign ones, because they always seem to have a different aura to them. So lo and behold, I stumbled upon Morok, the debut from a sextet of Ukrainian guys who released their debut album on the 26th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, and while the release date was obviously calculated to line up with the disaster, the music on it was—to say the least—less so.

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Ne Obliviscaris – Portal Of I

Filed Under: Reviews
May.18, 2012

Ne Obliviscaris

Portal of I

01. Tapestry Of The Starless Abstract
02. Xenoflux
03. Of The Leper Butterflies
04. Forget Not
05. And Plague Flowers The Kaleidoscope
06. As Icicles Fall
07. Of Petrichor Weaves Black Noise

[05/07/12]
[Code 666 Records]

Black metal is quickly evolving from a one-off listen to a personal favorite of mine. There is just something about its music that entrances me, something other-worldly. I also happen to like its distant nature, by which I mean its ability to still sound heavy without downtuning a guitar. Take the first Mayhem record; standard tuning, but some of the heaviest songs I have ever heard. I also really enjoy some more relaxing non-metal acts, such as The Mars Volta and even (yes, true story) Dave Matthews Band. Part of what attracts me to both is not only their versatility, but their sometimes shocking surprises.

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Naglfar – Téras

Filed Under: Reviews
Mar.23, 2012

Naglfar

Téras

01. Téras
02. Pale Horse
03. III: Death Dimension Phantasma
04. The Monolith
05. An Extension Of His Arm And Will
06. Bring Out Your Dead
07. Come Perdition
08. Invoc(H)ate
09. The Dying Flame Of Existence

[03/26/12]
[Century Media Records]

Black metal is a curious beast. I didn’t even think to delve into this misunderstood genre of metal until I heard Mayhem’s debut record and the most recent release from Krallice, which I reviewed. It really is more of an acquired taste; something that the palate must be prepped for. When I first discovered metal, I was into Metallica and Iron Maiden, not Dimmu Borgir and Burzum. However, when your first taste black metal on a palate that is prepared for it, you will receive a healthy, hearty, and heavy treat.

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Botanist – I: The Suicide Tree/II: A Rose From the Dead

Filed Under: Reviews
Dec.02, 2011

Botanist

I: The Suicide Tree
II: A Rose From the Dead

1. Dracocephalum
2. Invoke the Throne of Veltheimi
3. Helleborous Niger
4. Whorl
5. Forgotten in Nepenthes
6. Aldrovanda Ascendant
7. Chaining the Catechin
8. Dionaea Muscipula
9. Clematopsis
10. Rhododendoom
11. Gorechid
12. Cerbera Odollam
13. Bromeliad
14. Lepidoptera
15. Euonymous in Darkness
16. Dactylorhiza Elata
17. Glycyrrhiza
18. Convolvulus Althaeoides
19. Dioscoria
20. Megaskepasma
21. In The Hall Of Chamaerops
22. Quercus Lamellosa
23. Echinocereus
24. Sparaxis Of Perdition
25. Feast Of Saussurea
26. Wings Of Antichrys
27. Monstera’s Lair
28. Chiranthodendron
29. Koeleria
30. Sanguinaria
31. Dodecatheon
32. Summon Xanthostemon
33. Asclepias Curassavica
34. Strelitzia Reginae
35. Trillium Recurvatum
36. Cypripedium
37. Nephrolepsis
38. Abrus Precatorius
39. A Rose From the Dead
40. [untitled]

[06/24/11]
[tUMULT]

Black metal. You either love it or you hate it. However, the thing about black metal is that it’s remarkably consistent.  You know what you’re going to get before you get it. You know which bands do anger and violence, or beautiful and symphonic, or a combination of both. Black metal is black metal, right?  Wrong. Meet Botanist, a one-man black metal project by a man who goes by the alias of The Botanist. Allow me to read you what it says on the sticker on the front of the album:  “Forty tracks of eerie and esoteric, buzzing and baffling, drum and dulcimer driven eco-terrorist black metal.” Yes, you read that correctly. The main instrument of this album is a hammered dulcimer. There are no guitars and no bass. A hammered dulcimer, a drumset that is equipped with a marching snare as well as a concert snare and the usual drumset fixtures, and The Botanist’s creepy, eerie voice are all that is featured on this record.

Before I get into the bulk of this review, allow me to warn you. This will be the weirdest, strangest, all-out perplexing album you will hear all year. It definitely takes some getting used to, but once you’re accustomed to the sound, you’ll find out quickly if you’ll like it or not. This is definitely unlike anything that you or I have ever heard.
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Dragged Into Sunlight – Hatred For Mankind

Filed Under: Reviews
Dec.01, 2011

Dragged Into Sunlight

Hatred For Mankind

 

01. Boiled Angel/Buried With Leeches
02. Volcanic Birth
03. To Hieron
04. Lashed To The Grinder And Stoned To Death
05. I, Aurora
06. Totem Of Skulls

[01/18/11]
[Prosthetic Records]

It’s November the 11th, 2011. It’s around 5pm and I’m at Damnation Festival, killing time inbetween bands. I’m drunk. Naturally.

And then the in-house music shuts off and the lights go down. The smoke machines begin to work overtime, pushing out gallon upon gallon of dry ice into the already cloudy room. Where there was only murmurs , an intro-tape suddenly lurches into life with a dry vinyl hiss and mechanical screeching jostling for space. I’ve never before seen such a large group of people snap into such a relentless concentration but all eyes are fixed expectantly on the cloudy haze that was once a stage.

At this point the only thing separating this from some kind of psychological torture scenario is the few sources of light emanating from the candles on stage. The buzzing and hissing becomes more violent. A metronomic low pulse pushes to the forefront, testing the ear drums of everyone present. Minutes go by whilst the endless aural abuse continues before suddenly 4 silhouettes make their way onto the stage and face away from the crowd.

‘It pleases me to serve you‘

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Old School Black Metal… Surfified?

Filed Under: lolwut
Oct.04, 2011

So, I’ve come across this interesting thing. I don’t know what to make of it… So I’ll just share the videos with you:

The Emperors – I Am The Surf Wizards

The Mayhems – Surfin’ Moon

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Nader Sadek – Brilliant? Or Just Plain Mental?

Filed Under: Video
May.31, 2011

OK, so Nader Sadek is a name I’ve been hearing quite a lot lately. Mostly due to the fact that the Egyptian born conceptual artist, who has previously collaborated with bands such as Mayhem and Sunn O))), has just released his first record In The Flesh (an album centered around the place that petroleum holds within society) and it contains contributions from a pretty stellar cast. The band is made up of Steve Tucker (ex-Morbid Angel) on vocals, Blasphemer (Mayhem) on guitar, Nick McMaster (Krallice) and Flo Mounier (Cryptopsy) on drums and guest appearances include Attila Csihar (Mayhem), Travis Ryan (Cattle Decapitation), Destructhor (Morbid Angel) and Mike Lerner (Behold… The Arctopus). Quite the line up, ain’t it? Don’t worry, the music is pretty damn good too – check out the video for “Sulffur” below, it’s the second part in a three-part video being shot for the album.

Reminds me a little of each band involved really but I suppose primarily it sounds like early Morbid Angel with a few Mayhem inspired riffs and there’s definitely nothing wrong with that. Anyway, you think that was good? Just wait till you see the video for the first part of the trilogy, “Nigredo In Necromance”!

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iwrestledatrollonce: IWABO Goes Black; May Or May Not Go Back

Filed Under: General News, lolwut, RAGE, Upcoming releases, WILD SPECULATION!
May.18, 2011

IWABO are allegedly going grim. Elitists are pissed. Scene kids are pissed. Everyone is pissed. I, for one, am delighted.

It’s not that I’m a big fan of IWABO; in fact, I thought their debut album It’s All Happening was mediocre and failed to live up to the hype. Hell, it’s not even that I’m a fan of black metal; sometimes, I can’t stand the stuff! I do however enjoy how the band simply does not give a fuck. If their new album is in fact a forray into trve black metal that, according to Metalsucks, “sounds like fucking Mayhem in their prime,” then the sheer amount of balls it takes to completely disregard both fans and haters alike for the sake of their own amusement is quite admirable, especially if they’re capable of pulling off the sound, which—let’s be honest—is probably not that hard of a feat to begin with.

But then again, if they aren’t really changing up their sound and are in cahoots with MetalSucks to troll everyone (which seems to be the most likely alternative), then they’ve effectively made a fool out of everyone getting bent all out of shape over something so trivial. Either way you look at it, IWABO wins. Deal with it, everyone else.

Here’s a statement from guitarist Steven Bradley:

“We were sick of getting lumped in with ‘scene’ and ‘whatever-core’ bands, so we decided to embrace our roots and just go straight black metal on the new album. I’d say 90% of the new record is straight-up black metal, so we had to change our image to match… Because of course that’s just as important, if not more so, than the music.”

Absolutely biting. Personally, I don’t see how anyone could see this as anything other than a clever ruse. At any rate, we’ll find out this Thursday when Metalsucks debuts the new IWABO song, won’t we?

- JR

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