AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): LETHVM — “THIS FALL SHALL CEASE”

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Nov 102017
 

 

In late September I learned of the first advance track from the album we’re about to premiere from starkweather, and still smile over his description of the music, which jammed together three references in saying it has “the Cult of NeurIsis sound”, though with even more unhinged vocals. But the music isn’t the kind that makes one smile, no matter how much you respect the band’s relentless dedication to their vision and their powerful skill in making it such an apocalyptic reality.

The album is This Fall Shall Cease, and it’s the debut full-length by the Belgian doom/sludge band Lethvm. We’re presenting a full album stream in advance of its November 24 release by Deadlight and a consortium of other labels. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: RIMFROST — “A CLASH UNDER THE NORTHERN WIND”

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Nov 102017
 

 

Last year the Swedish black metal band Rimfrost released their self-titled third album, which itself came seven years after their second one, Veraldar Nagli. But it appears we won’t have to wait such a long stretch of time for the next Rimfrost full-length. They are working on it now, and in fact today we present a substantial new single from the next album named “A Clash Under the Northern Wind“, which will be released on all major digital platforms by Non Serviam Records, including Bandcamp, on November 11.

Rimfrost explain that the new single “is a taste of what will dawn on everyone after the bands latest release”, and that the song is “dedicated to the Swedish county Värmland, and in particular our hometown Hagfors, where the band formed and founding members grew up”. “It is a celebration to the history and the dark mystic forces embracing the nature and its own being.” Continue reading »

AN NCS EP PREMIERE: FUNERAL HEARSE — “THE FIST, THE SPIT, THE SWORD”

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Nov 092017
 

 

In the space of a compact, three-song EP of less than 13 minutes, the Singaporean band Funeral Hearse create a dramatic, unearthly, soul-shivering experience — a black metal furnace of fury, terror, and desolating delirium, laced with solemn ecclesiastical chants and choirs that seem to represent the target of the assault.

This new EP, The Fist. The Spit. The Sword., will be released on November 10 (tomorrow!) by Redefining Darkness Records, both digitally and on tape, but you can (and should) listen to it right now, at the end of this post. Continue reading »

AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: SOL DE SANGRE — “PERROS CON SARNA”

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Nov 092017
 

 

Today we get to divulge a lyric video for the third single released so far this year by Sol De Sangre, the name of which is “Perros Con Sarna“. The first single hooked me straight through the gills, the second one drove the hook deeper, and this third one shoved the hook straight up into my brain pan and made mincemeat out of the small squirming organ that lives there. Despite the brain damage, I will nevertheless attempt to string together some words about the experience.

But first, let me remind you that all three of these singles are destined to appear on the band’s first album, which is projected for release early next year. Although this will be a debut record for the band, its members aren’t newcomers to the metal scene, all of them having honed their lethal skills in other South American bands over a span of decades. And what the album represents is a kind of tribute to the evil death metal they grew up with, along with other aggressive influences that include hardcore and thrash. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: THREE EYES OF THE VOID — “THE EYES TO SEE”

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Nov 092017
 

 

Three Eyes of the Void is a new Ukrainian black metal band, the solo project of Dmytro Kvashnin (ex-Balfor), and The Moment of Storm is the project’s first EP. It will be released in December on digital platforms, and on February 23 it will be released on CD by the Mexican label Diabolus Productions. It includes session drumming by Kyiv musician Alexander Kasiarum.

We are told that The Moment of Storm grew out of  Dmytro Kvashnin’s conversation with a friend about the increasingly frivolous interactions among people in the global social environment and the resulting loss of self-identification and individuality. Kvashnin also drew upon such works as Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits and Plato’s Republic in formulating the lyrical expressions of these reflections.

Not exactly standard conceptual or lyrical fare for black metal, but these inspirations have produced remarkably vibrant and emotionally involving music, as you’re about to discover through our premiere of this song from the EP:  “The Eyes To See“. Continue reading »

AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): NO AMNESTY — “PSYCHOPATHY”

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Nov 082017
 

 

Psychopathy is the debut album of the Barcelona band No Amnesty. It will be released on November 14th by Xtreem Music — and it’s an explosive metal fireworks display, one that just gets more and more eye-popping the deeper in you go.

We’re told that when the band formed in 2012 the average age of the members was 15, and now it’s 20 — other than the “old man” of the group, new vocalist Albert (ex-Fuck Off), who is 30. (Since the band’s 2013 debut EP, A New Order For Attack, they’ve also recruited a new drummer and a new bassist.) But their relative youthfulness is part of what makes the album so surprising, because it really sounds like the work of far more experienced hands. Continue reading »

AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): SPOOK THE HORSES — “PEOPLE USED TO LIVE HERE”

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Nov 082017
 

 

Sewing confusion and discord seems to be a persistent part of our mission statement, wholly apart from all the misspellings and typos. And so it’s time once again to flummox people who take our site’s name literally or have become used to receiving severe audio punishment at the hands of most bands whose music we recommend. Even people who are familiar with the previous albums of the band who are the subject of this post may be surprised by what they’re about to hear.

What we have for you is a full stream of People Used To Live Here, the enthralling new full-length by Spook the Horses from Wellington, New Zealand, which will be released on November 10th by Pelagic Records. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: MALEFIC LEVITATION — “WARLORD RITES”

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Nov 082017
 

 

In May of this year a duo from Fresno (California) who took the name Malefic Levitation released their first single, “Warlord Rites“. It caught my ears, mangled them, and produced enough savage excitement that I spilled some equally mangled words about the track. Since then, Malefic Levitation made the acquaintance of Sentient Ruin, who will leave Thanksgiving in ruins by releasing the band’s debut album, The Ancient Plague, on November 24. It will also be released in the EU by Dawnbreed Records.

And here we are with “Warlord Rites” again, although this is the re-recorded version of the song that will appear on the album, engineered by Jacob Lee at the Wolf Chamber in Easton, CA. It hasn’t gotten any more merciful or any less rampantly destructive. If anything, it’s more punishing and pestilential. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: AXIA — “VULTURES”

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Nov 072017
 


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Those are not happy faces. And those men don’t make happy music. In fact, the Portuguese band Axia have sought to infuse their music “with infinite levels of self-inflicted negativity and hopelessness.” As their vocalist Alex Vale says, they are “focused, cursed and inspired by the ruin shadowing our material ashes. Forward leads nowhere…”

As time marches forward, however, it will lead us to the release of Axia’s new album Pulverizer in April 2018 by Selfmadegod Records. That seems painfully far away, and the waiting will begin to seem even more painful once you listen to “Vultures“, which is the track from Pulverizer that we’re premiering today, because it’s really, really good. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: HAK-ED DAMM — “JADE WITH THE DEFLOWERED SCALP”

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Nov 072017
 

 

Hak-Ed Damm is a black metal strike force founded in Quebec City, Canada, in 2007 with the idea of creating a hate-filled “musical war machine concept”. For their name, they chose Hebrew words that signify “field of blood”, and also a place in Jerusalem associated with Judas Iscariot.

Since their formation, the band have released a 2010 debut album (Nekrowristfucked) and a series of splits from 2011-2013. And on November 26th, in conspiracy with Satanath Records (Russia) and Death Portal Studio (U.S.), the band will release their second album, Holocaust Over Dresden. Today we bring you today the premiere of the album’s closing track, “Jade with the Deflowered Scalp“. Continue reading »

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