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AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: ALKERDEEL — “LEDE”

Apr 062016

When I first gazed upon the cover of Alkerdeel’s new album, Lede, I could’t help but think of the insults hurled by the French guard from his parapet in Monty Python’s best movie: “I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries”. Yet the album art depicts a demonic expulsion of foulness rather than a French one. What might this portend, I wondered, especially as the cover for an album by a Belgian black metal band? We have a premiere of a video for the title track that will give you at least a few clues to the answer today, though I think it’s safe to say that those clues will be surprising in themselves.

This new album is the band’s third and comes roughly four years after their last one, Morinde, with some spit releases filling the gaps in the interim. For those of you familiar with Morinde, those passing years have produced some changes in Alkerdeel’s sound, as you will discover through this new video. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: DOMINHATE — “AWAKENING CONFESSIONES”

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Apr 062016

Emissaries of Morning is the new EP by the Italian death metal band Dominhate. It follows the band’s debut album in 2014, Towards the Light, and it will be released by Lavadome Productions on April 22. As a sign of what Dominhate deliver on this new 5-track release, we bring you the premiere of “Awakening Confessiones“.

This is the kind of song that fans of gruesome, bone-grinding, old-school death metal should eat up without bothering to grab a knife and fork. When the song is in full rampaging speed, the drums drive like pistons and the tremolo riffs vibrate with arcane energy and sinister intent — a mix of snake-like slithering and the kind of swarming that brings to mind a horde of angry wasps the size of hawks. Continue reading »

AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE: EYES FRONT NORTH — “FROM SHAPE TO NAME”

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Apr 052016

This Friday, April 8, the Italian label Argonauta Records will release From Shape To Name, the debut album by the Parisian band Eyes Front North, and beginning today we give you the chance to stream the album in its entirety.

Listening to From Shape To Name can be a disorienting experience. Not only do the band incorporate a surprisingly diverse mix of musical styles into their songs, they juxtapose them in sharp, unexpected twists and turns. It’s an almost non-stop roller-coaster ride keeps you off-balance — but wide-eyed in wonder, waiting to see what’s coming next.

The ever-present question about music like this is whether the eclecticism works — whether the integration seems organic, even if surprising — or instead becomes a jarring jumble. Eyes Front North definitely make it work. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): REBAELLIUN — “THE HELL’S DECREES”

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Apr 052016

Rebaelliun are a band of Brazilian death metal marauders whose roots can be traced back to 1998. In 1999 the Dutch label Hammerheart Records released the band’s debut album, Burn the Promised Land, and then also released their second album Annihilation in 2001. Both albums made a big and lasting impact in the underground, but after touring in support of Annihilation the band broke up.

But now Rebaelliun have reunited, and they have again joined forces with Hammerheart Records to release their third album, The Hell’s Decrees. Although the release date for the album doesn’t arrive until May 5, we are privileged to bring you a full stream of the album today.

Our good friend from The Dominican Republic, Vonlughlio (Blast Family and Reign of Death) has been a Rebaelliun fan for many years, and has been as excited as anyone about the band’s reunion and the release of this new album. And so before the album stream, we bring you his thoughts about the music: Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: ABHOMINE — “NEST OF DISGUST”

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Apr 042016

The name Pete Helmkamp will be a familiar one to fans of underground terrorists such as Angelcorpse, Order From Chaos, Revenge, and Terror Organ — all of them bands whose ranks have included Helmkamp at one time or another. But he also has a solo project named Abhomine, and near the end of this month Hells Headbangers (and Osmose Productions in Europe) will release Abhomine‘s debut album, Larvae Offal Swine. Today we have the pleasure of bringing you the stream premiere of one of the album’s nine tracks — “Nest of Disgust”.

Larvae – Offal – Swine may be just three words stitched together, and the same could be said of the album’s intro track, “Worm Pig Shit”, but the words clearly weren’t chosen randomly. They manifest a disgust for much of humanity that’s also reflected in the venomous offensives launched by the music. But while misanthropy animates the lyrics and powers the sound, the songs will also sink their fangs into your neck and bend it to their will. Which is just a metaphorical way of saying that the shit rocks hard. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: ASKESIS — “THE PATH TO ABSENCE”

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Apr 042016

By all accounts, and from photos and films I’ve seen, Venice is one of the world’s most unique and beautiful cities, a magical place that seems to inspire art that is likewise not entirely of this world — though the art inspired by the city can take dark, supernatural shapes as well as sunlit ones. And that brings us to The Path To Absence, the debut EP by the Venetian black metal band Askesis — which we are premiering for you today.

The slow, morbid chords and banshee wails that begin “Prayer To the Void” begin to spread the cloak of darkness immediately, and the sense of ravaging pestilence only mounts as the band accelerate the pace. You’ll quickly notice that the music has a heavy, thundering low-end sound and that the jolting drum progressions not only move the rhythms and pacing in differing directions as the song progresses, but will also rattle your teeth. Meanwhile, the swarming tremolo chords and predatory growls deepen the sense of malignancy that those doom-shrouded opening chords announce. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: BEASTWARS — “DEVILS OF LAST NIGHT”

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Apr 012016

NCS Introduction: We have a two-fold treat for you in this post. First, we have the privilege of premiering for you a song from the new album by New Zealand’s amazing Beastwars. And second, we have an introduction to the song by New Zealand metal writer and broadcaster Craig Hayes — and I want to take this opportunity to mention that Craig is in the final days of a crowdfunding campaign to turn his Six Noises blog into a first-stop (and first-class) portal for anyone investigating “radical sonic arts” from New Zealand, and thus a more visible and successful platform for supporting and promoting New Zealand underground music. This is a very worthy cause, and one to which I hope you will contribute (I did — twice). HERE is where you do that. Now, onward to Craig’s introduction and the new music of Beastwars….

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The devilish goat Black Philip asks the ultimate question near the climax of the recent horror film The Witch: “Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?”

Really, there’s only one answer to that: of course you would. One brief life is all we get, and the sweet Dark Lord knows it often feels like our lives are jam-packed with enough misery to last three lifetimes.

So why not indulge our senses?

Why not purge all that pain? Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: VERMENT — “DEATH’S DOMAIN”

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Mar 312016

Verment are a four-man death metal machine from the greater Cincinnati area, and tomorrow they will be releasing a new EP entitled Death’s Domain. To help spread the word about the release, we’re bringing you the premiere of a full stream right now.

Verment interweave a variety of strands of extreme music into their generally up-tempo blasts, including thrash, melodic death metal, and bursts of buzzing black metal riffs. The songs are also anchored by head-hammering grooves, along with drumming that sounds very much like a heavy-caliber automatic weapon going off right inside your ears. Continue reading »

AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: THIS GIFT IS A CURSE — “XI: FOR I AM THE FIRE”

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Mar 312016

Sweden’s This Gift Is A Curse gave us (with help from Season of Mist) one of the last year’s most stupefyingly heavy, implacably savage, and frighteningly eerie albums. On All Hail the Swinelord, they made music that will take you apart and send what’s left of your mind into a very dark place. And today we’re helping bring you the premiere of a video for one of the album’s terrifying tracks, “XI: For I Am the Fire“.

The video was written and directed by Ivan K. Maras (Deathless Pictures). Filmed in black and white, it makes the natural woodland setting seem ominous and threatening, and the barren trees and vacant fields bear cold witness to a ritual that visually captures the atmosphere of unavoidable catastrophe created by the music. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: SYBERIA — “ARAM CHAOS”

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Mar 312016

April 22nd is the day set by Debemur Morti Productions for the release of the second album by Syberia from Barcelona, Spain. Entitled Resiliency, it features eye-catching cover art by Msgdssny and 11 fascinating instrumental tracks, one of which we’re premiering for your listening pleasure today.

This new song is named “Aram Chaos“. It has the kind of pounding bass and drum rhythm that vibrates your spine and produces reflexive head-nodding. That compelling rhythm section provides a heavy foundation for a swirl of riffs and guitar arpeggios that chime, shimmer, and glide. And just as you feel you’re leaving solid ground, carried aloft by the pulse-quickening brightness of those sounds, the song comes to an end. If you’re like me, you’ll feel the end comes too soon. But that’s only the disappointment that comes from listening to a single track — and fortunately there is much more ahead of you on this album. Continue reading »

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