AN NCS INTERVIEW: EMINENTIA TENEBRIS

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May 262026
 

(Below you will find Comrade Aleks’ very engaging discussion with the humble founder of the French epic black metal band Eminentia Tenebris, whose latest album, their fourth, was released last year by Antiq Records.)

We always do our best to follow new releases and present our readers the most actual and up-to-date information, but life is life and it’s difficult to cover all releases we receive. So I found the digital promo of Eminentia Tenebris’ album Whispers of the Undying in the corner of my desktop. I immediately recognized the album’s cover art, as it looks like a manifest, it’s very metal to the degree of cliché, yet it’s remarkable and solid. Thus finally I paid proper attention to this album and enjoyed it a lot with its epic and cinematic black metal.

It could be a nostalgic vibe of some songs or their refreshing breath, but I believe that the decision to do an interview with Cryo, Eminentia Tenebris’ founder, was a right one. Continue reading »

SHADES OF BLACK: DANTALION, SATÓN, ANTI-GOD HAND, MAZE OF TERROR, EMINENTIA TENEBRIS, STANGARIGEL

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Jul 162023
 

If I’ve said it once I’ve said it 100 times (probably closer to 200): I have another job whose demands are very unpredictable. It interfered with my ability to prepare a roundup yesterday, unexpectedly so for me — because I just fucking forgot about a big online meeting that had been scheduled for months (rude surprises have many causes). It started early and went on for 2 1/2 hours (come on, it takes time to coordinate production of pocket-sized fusion reactors!).

I thought about just pretending that today was Saturday and proceeding with a cross-genre roundup, but then thought again, and decided to stick with the usual plan and focus on the blacker arts today. Still, your creaky wagon won’t get stuck in any ruts – these selections will cause it to careen all over the en-thorned dirt road (or so I hope).

DANTALION (Spain)

I decided to start with a quintet of songs from forthcoming releases and then turn to just one recent EP. The first of the advance tracks comes from the ninth album by the long-running Spanish band Dantalion (which my addled brain always tries to read as “dandelion”, though there’s nothing about their music that connects with such an image, unless the flower is dead). Continue reading »