AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: SEPULCHRE BY THE SEA — “GOLDSEEKER”

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Oct 022026
 

(written by Islander)

Each of us who contributes to NCS has favorite bands (many of them!) that we try to follow over time, and we try to pay special attention to underground groups and projects who lack support from big labels or a PR apparatus, i.e., names that don’t draw as much attention in the music press. Yet despite such efforts we can still overlook releases from artists we follow, though sometimes we discover and rectify the oversight.

In the fall of 2020, which you may remember as a wretched time in the life of the world, I came across music from Conqueror Worm, the debut album of a one-person UK project called Sepulchre by the Sea. I was initially intrigued by the album in part because the project’s creator (Ash) drew his inspiration from the writing of Edgar Allen Poe, and then the music proved to be very, very good. I tried to help spread the word about it here, and then did so again the following year in the lead-up to a new Sepulchre by the Sea EP named Ratiocinations.

Yet I somehow overlooked Sepulchre by the Sea’s second album Seven Chambers, which was released in August 2024. Like the previous releases, it was inspired by Poe. Specifically, it was a concept album inspired by Masque of the Red Death and it incorporated ambient and electronic soundscapes into the band’s genre-blurring configurations of black metal, shoegaze, melodic death metal, doom, and hardcore.

Now Sepulchre by the Sea is returning with a new three-track EP titled Goldseeker, which was inspired by the Poe stories “Some Words with a Mummy”, “The Gold Bug”, and “Ligeia”, all of which reference ancient Egypt. We will not overlook this one, because today we have the privilege of premiering and enthralling video for the EP’s first single, “Goldseeker“. Continue reading »

AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: SEPULCHRE BY THE SEA — “GHOST OF THE DEPARTED”

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Aug 192021
 

 

Last fall we made one of those surprise discoveries that’s a source of constant motivation to dig deeper into the underground rather than just paying attention to the names most people already know. That discovery was Conqueror Worm, the debut album released by Anthrazit Records from Sepulchre by the Sea, a genre-bending one-man band who drew inspiration from the works of Edgar Allen Poe. As we explained here, the music explored some adventurous and interesting (and frightening) ideas that were embroidered around a spine of atmospheric black metal.

Now we’re pleased to report that Sepulchre by the Sea will be releasing a new EP on October 1st entitled Ratiocinations. It continues the Edgar Allen Poe theme and is based on the famous, and first ever, detective stories that Poe wrote. And to help spread the word about it, today we’re presenting the video premiere of the EP’s first single, a multifaceted song named “Ghost of the Departed“. Continue reading »

SEEN AND HEARD: PUTERAEON, FURNACE, SEPULCHRE BY THE SEA, LOUD NIGHT, AVLIVAD, PARI’SYA, CRYPTAE

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Sep 222020
 

 

Like almost all the posts I wrote this past weekend, I put this one together in my head during a long listening session on Saturday. Since then more new songs have popped up, but I decided to stick with my original mental plan rather than have this thing turn into something even more intimidating to people who are already drowning in music.

I’ve already put the first four songs in this collection onto the list of candidates for my year-end series on Most Infectious Extreme Metal Songs. In different ways they rock, and they’re all very catchy. And then I decided to turn in other more ugly and unhinged directions.

PUTERAEON (Sweden)

I use the word “majestic” way too much in describing music, because I don’t spend enough time with a thesaurus. Usually it comes to mind when a band use soaring and sweeping melodies (other over-used words in my vocabulary) or create sensations of towering obsidian immensity, as often found in funeral death-doom. Neither of those qualities is present in Puteraeon’s new song (and video) “The Curse“, but the word “majestic” still came to mind. Continue reading »