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AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE: ANGER AS ART — “AD MORTEM FESTINAMUS”

Mar 042016

Anger as Art’s new album Ad Mortem Festinamus (“We Hurry Into Death”) is a non-stop thrill ride, and today we’re giving you the chance to experience it for yourselves one week before the official release date through our premiere of a full album stream.

This is the fifth full-length released by a veteran group of musicians who’ve paid dues in other bands, and it’s the sort of album that fully displays the experience, the song-writing talents, and the top-shelf performance skills of people with a deep knowledge and love of heavy metal. But it’s also full of fire and fury, as you would expect from a band named Anger As Art. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: YLIASTER — “SOLILOQUY”

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Mar 042016

For those who missed our previous feature about Yliaster, it’s a project formed by musician/vocalist Marcel Polit in partnership with drummer Dariusz ‘Daray’ Brzozowski (Vesania, Dimmu Borgir, ex-Vader). Later this month, Yliaster will release its debut album, Soliloquy, and today we bring you a stream of its powerhouse title track.

From beginning to end, the song is galvanizing. Ratcheting electronic sounds pave the way for jackhammering riffs and swirling guitar notes, and Daray‘s drumming alternately hits hard enough to crack concrete, somersaults in head-spinning progressions, and launches bullet-spitting fusillades with mechanistic precision. Continue reading »

AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: OMOPHAGIA — “DOWN WE FALL”

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Mar 032016

I had so much fun watching the video you’re about to see. There’s something perversely satisfying about the surprise of seeing a flesh-eating band dressed to the nines in business attire kicking down the door to a blast furnace of superheated death metal. And then you discover that these dudes are quick-change artists as well as fleet-fingered assassins. And yes, there will be blood before it’s over.

The band in question is a group of Swiss berserkers named Omophagia, which does indeed refer to the consumption of raw flesh. When I tell you that their new album In the Name of Chaos is being released by Unique Leader Records, you may make the educated guess that speed and technical proficiency will lie ahead, and yes, you’ll get a hot dose of both in the song we’re premiering via this eye-catching video for “Down We Fall“. But those ingredients don’t exhaust the appealing facets of this turbocharged track. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: OBSCURE EVIL — “MIDNIGHT FORCES”

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Mar 032016

Midnight Forces is the first release by a band from Lima, Perú, named Obscure Evil. The dark lord willing, it will not be their last — because it’s hellishly good.

Caligari Records will be the courier for this bat-winged blast of savagery, releasing the album on March 11 in the form of a pro-tape cassette limited to 150 copies. What we have for you is a chance to hear all four tracks before parting with your hard-earned money. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: DRAUGNIM: “A PASSAGE IN FIRE”

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Mar 032016

Although we don’t often write about trailers for albums that include mere snippets of music when there are so many complete songs and albums to spread around, we made an exception last month for the teaser reel for Draugnim‘s new album, Vulturine. In addition to the eye-catching visuals, even the brief excerpt of music in the video was arresting. And now, in cooperation with Debemur Morti Productions, we have the good fortune of bringing you the premiere of a complete song from the album: “A Passage In Fire“.

Vulturine comes six years after this Finnish pagan metal band’s last album, Horizons Low. In a career that began in the late ’90s, the band’s three core members have remained the same — Morior (composing, guitars), Chimedra (vocals, lyrics), and Turms (bass, lyrics) — and their experience, talent, and persistence have produced an album that has definitely been worth the wait. Continue reading »

AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE: FILTH IN MY GARAGE — “SONGS FROM THE LOWEST FLOOR”

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Mar 022016

At the end of this post you’ll find our North American premiere of Songs From the Lowest Floor, the debut album by an Italian band named Filth In My Garage. The music is different from what we usually write about here, but this album hit me the right way, which is to say right in the teeth, leaving my brain rattling in my skull. And then there’s the artwork.

For each of the album’s nine songs, vocalist and visual artist Stefano Bonora created a separate piece of art, no two of them even in the same style, but all of them intriguing and well-matched to the lyrical content of the tracks. Here are three of them (in addition to Stefano’s eye-catching cover art above): Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: ALLFATHER — “RASKOLNIKOV”

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Mar 022016

Following their debut release, last year’s No Gods, No Masters, UK-based Allfather signed with Static Tension Recordings for the release of a new EP named Bless the Earth With Fire, which is scheduled to hit the streets on April 29. Today we have for you the premiere of a song from the EP called “Raskolnikov“.

What the song demonstrates in spades is that Allfather are capable of creating music that hits like a sledgehammer to the back of the neck but sticks in the memory as well. They also know how to start a song in a way that grabs your attention immediately. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: DECREPIT SOUL — “STORM OF STEEL”

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Mar 012016

Australia’s Decrepit Soul could hardly have chosen a better title for their new album than The Coming of War!!. As the successor to last year’s debut full-length Uncreated and Eternal, it is even more barbarous and warlike — and you will discover that for yourselves through our premiere of a new song with the equally well-chosen title of “Storm of Steel“.

On this new record, scheduled for release by Iron Bonehead on March 18, vocalist/guitarist Kakorot is joined for the first time by drummer Marcus Hellcunt (Vomitor, ex-Bestial Warlust and Gospel of the Horns), and together they make a powerful two-man death-dealing machine. Continue reading »

AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE: PITTS MINNEMANN PROJECT — “THE PSYCHIC PLANETARIUM”

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Mar 012016

(Austin Weber presents our full streaming premiere of the new album by Pitts Minnemann Project.)

For those unfamiliar, the Pitts Minnemann Project has been kicking around with various line-ups for a while now. It’s safe to assume that even for people new to the group, they know the key players involved. It all starts with keyboardist/pianist extraordinaire Jimmy Pitts (Spastic Ink and countless others) joining forces with world-renowned drummer Marco Minnemann (formerly live for Necrophagist, The Aristocrats, and many others) to create experimental prog fusion music. Over time they’ve added more players with each subsequent release, leading to their latest full-length, The Psychic Planetarium. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: EQUIPOISE — “A SUIT OF MY FLESH”

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Mar 012016

(Austin Weber introduces our premiere of a new song by Equipoise.)

One of our favorite things to do here at NCS is to show you new groups you might not find out about otherwise. In keeping with that ethos, we’ve got an exclusive premiere to show you today for a new technical death metal band called Equipoise.

While the band’s architect and composer, Pittsburgh-based guitarist Nick Padovani, is a new name in tech-death circles, he made sure to assemble a jaw-dropping lineup to help him achieve his vision, making for a mix of session players on the record consisting of several of today’s best musicians within the technical death metal scene — along with a ton of equally impressive guest spots on various songs by other well-respected people! Continue reading »

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