GET TO THE POINT: BLOOD MUSIC EDITION (GOST, CORPO MENTE, ÖXXÖ XÖÖX)

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Jun 082015
 

 

(In this new installment of KevinP’s short-interview series, he beings us a trio of conversations with three bands on the Blood Music label.)

 Back in April I did mini reviews on three of Blood Music’s 2015 releases over at MetalBandcamp (here).  But I wanted to delve into more about each band and find out the “method behind the madness”, as you would say.  *Note*  All three releases are available for NAME YOUR OWN PRICE download.  Here is my conversation with each of the bands:

GosT

K:  So are you surprised at the interest from metal fans/websites in your horror synthcore?

G:  Being a metalhead myself, I feel like some of my tracks reflect that, so not totally surprised.  Also being associated with Blood Music helps. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: DISLOYAL — “GODLESS”

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Jun 082015
 

 

About one week ago we had the pleasure of premiering a new song by Poland’s Disloyal from their new fourth album, Godless. Today we deliver unto your ears a premiere of the entire mind-blowing album.

Disloyal have been around since the late 1990s, though the current incarnation of the band reflects significant changes in membership, with only drummer “Jaro” Paprota remaining from the group when it was first formed. The line-up now includes guitarist Artyom Serdyuk (Deathbringer, Thy Disease, Amentia, Woe Unto Me), bassist Kolya Kislyi, and vocalist Krzysztof Bendarowicz (Deathbringer).

Godless also manifests some stylistic changes compared to Disloyal’s previous releases, and the result is a creative death metal powerhouse that’s both savage and brain-twisting. Continue reading »

SHADES OF BLACK: CLARET ASH, OLD GRAVES, SANCTUAIRE, VLK, SPITEFUL URINATOR, TREPANATION

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Jun 082015
 

 

Although I’m on the road for my fucking day job, I found more time to myself last night and this morning than I expected. Of course, I used that time to blog like a maniac — so, we will actually have a mammoth amount of content on our site today, beginning with this collection of new music I’d like to recommend. The songs are all quite different from each other, but most of them have some connection to the realms of black metal.

CLARET ASH

Claret Ash, from Canberra, Australia, have recorded a sophomore album named The Cleansing, which will be released on July 8. Yesterday the band revealed the album’s cover art and a new song named “Desolation of A Pierced Soul”. The album cover was created by one of my favorite metal art talents, Sam Nelson (Stigma), and I think it’s wonderful. So is the new song. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: AIRLINES OF TERROR — “TERROR FROM THE AIR”

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Jun 082015
 

 

About five weeks ago we had the pleasure of premiering a lyric video for the first single from a new album named Terror From the Air by the Italian band Airlines of Terror — and today we’re premiering the new album’s title track in advance of its June 25 release.

This new song is a powerful death metal storm front that manages to be both sweepingly atmospheric and viscerally electrifying. The off-the-chain drumming drives the music into the red zone from the beginning, accompanied by a frenzy of furious riffs and Demian Cristiani’s wolf-like howls. Continue reading »

ENTOMBED A.D. EJECTED FROM METAL ALLIANCE TOUR

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Jun 082015
 

 

After just a handful of dates on this year’s edition of the Metal Alliance Tour headlined by Deicide, Sweden’s Entombed A.D. have been ejected from the tour and are now on their way back to Sweden. The following statement appeared 12 hours ago on Entombed’s Facebook page:

“Attention US headbangers!
We got pulled of the U.S. Tour for reasons we don’t yet know. On our way to Sweden now. Never in 30 years have we experienced something like this.
But we will be back soon !!
Cheers!!” Continue reading »

SHRINE: “SPEWING GLOOM”

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Jun 072015
 

Photo by Þórgunnur

I’m now in Texas at the beginning of a two-week grind for my fucking day job. On yesterday’s long flight here I had wi-fi, which was good enough for me to find lots of new music that I wanted to hear but not good enough to actually stream the songs. I was occupied last night and couldn’t listen to anything then either. And this morning I only had time to listen to one new song before having to leave my hotel.

The song I randomly decided to check out came in the form of a music video. It’s called “Spewing Gloom” and it’s from an Icelandic band named Shrine. The song will appear on the band’s forthcoming debut album Unortheta. Continue reading »

SEEN AND HEARD: SOULFLY, PISSGRAVE, LVXCAELIS, FALSE, PALE CHALICE, YETI ON HORSEBACK, BLOODBEAST

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Jun 062015
 

 

Happy goddamned Saturday to one and all. The old fucking day job is sending me out of town again today. I’ll be buried in a whole lot of Texas for the next two weeks, putting my figurative nose to the figurative grindstone both day and night until I’ll just have a hole in the face I don’t have when I return. Sigh.

What this means, as it has meant during past trips like this one, is that the content at our putrid site will probably fall off until I get back to the Pacific Northwest. Before I drag my glum ass to the airport this morning, however, I thought I would leave you with a collection of new musical and visual discoveries I made yesterday.

SOULFLY

To be honest, I’m not champing at the bit over the prospect of a new Soulfly album. However, I am a champion of Eliran Kantor’s artwork, and I love the shit out of the art he created for Soulfly’s new album Archangel, which was revealed yesterday (right up at the top of this post). Continue reading »

AN NCS INTERVIEW: SHAKHTYOR (CHRISTIAN HERZOG)

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Jun 052015
 

 

(In this post we present Comrade Aleks’ interview with Christian Herzog, guitarist for the German band Shakhtyor.)

That ugly and bulky name Shakhtyor means “Miner” in Russian, but this instrumental post-doom/sludge band is from Germany. The reason for picking such a strange name is that one of this power trio’s members, Christian Herzog (guitars) studied in Saint-Petersburg for a few long months in the ’90s. Shakhtyor released their first self-titled album in 2012, and this record, along with the band’s powerful gigs attracted enough attention to the band that their second work Tunguska (named after the geographical location in Russia where a strange phenomenon, probably the fall of a meteor, took place in 1908) was released by Cyclone Empire both on vinyl and on CD on the 24th of April, 2015.

We discussed Shakhtyor’s new album and the Tunguska event with Chris just a few days ago.

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Hail Chris! How are you? What has SHAKHTYOR done since the release of your debut self-titled album in 2012?

Hi Aleks, I am pretty well, thanks. Actually, we did what most bands do. We played a bunch of shows and recorded a new album. However, it took longer than expected. We had already started recording stuff for a second album in early 2013 but then we did not get any further with it. So we decided to play fewer shows in 2014 to write new songs and finally made it to the studio in November. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: VACIVUS — “RITE OF ASCENSION”

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Jun 052015
 

 

Vacivus are a UK band that rose from the ashes of an earlier group known as Dawn of Chaos. With a different line-up and a change in musical direction, Vacivus have recorded a five-track EP named Rite of Ascension that reflects their new focus. Today we bring you a full stream of the EP in advance of its official release.

The music on Rite of Ascension is in the vein of what today might be called “blackened death metal”, but might also be thought of simply as one of the vicious descendants of death metal progenitors such as Incantation. The five songs flow from one to another in an electrifying storm that ebbs and flows but is never less than heartless and scathing. It marks the stunning appearance of a band whose name we expect to see praised throughout the dark places in the underground where ancient death worship is the order of the day. Continue reading »

GET TO THE POINT: WYATT H. (HELLEBORUS AND AKHENATEN)

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Jun 052015
 

 

(KevinP brings us another short-but-sweet interview, this time with Wyatt H. of the Colorado bands Akhenaten and Helleborus — whose new song “Coils” we premiered earlier this year (here) with a free download.)

K:   So how does one go from brutal death metal [Execration] to Mesopotamian and psychedelic black metal?

W:  Helleborus and Akhenaten were in development during our time spent with Execration. Jerred  had already started developing sounds for what would be Akhenaten in 2010. Around the time I was asked to join Execration, we were already experimenting with the elements of Black Metal before we had formed a solid project. Execration already had two releases when I started rehearsing with them. The nature of the music never fit with me but I enjoyed the chaos and energy behind it. Jerred and I tried our best to put our soul into the project with the last release The Acceptance of Zero Existence. Even though we had great success with the album, it brought light to me, that my brother and I were putting too much energy into something that wasn’t ours and of our true nature. Continue reading »

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