Archive for February, 2011
Aaskereia is one of the few phenomenons that can bisect into two hardened fronts, at least according pagan black metal. There are various reasons, like the high pitched screams by their vocalist Grim, their choice which label should distribute their latest EP or the way of distributing their stuff in general. The later statement is …
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Csejthe may ring a bell in the head of some readers as he might know where this name comes from. However Elisabeth Bathory should ring some bells at least because her name was used quite often in black metal spheres. Csejthe is the name of the castle Elisabeth lived in and because the Canadians wanted to …
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You can translate the name of the band into “butcher” which could indicate, that the music is not very sensitive but rather rough. But if you consider the title of the EP you can come into some contradictions because someone who ponders about love can not really be “callously” and distanced. Read on, if you …
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It is quite known, that french black metal is of a very high quality these days, and there are many people who are trying to bring this quality nearer to you, so did I. That is the occasion of our today’s review, where i am going to talk about another high quality band from France, …
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A bunch of bands arose after the legendary Windir disbanded because of the tragic death of front man Valfar. Vreid is one of this bands and they managed to gather every former member of Windir, except Righ, to create something new. The name of their latest record V can be read in multiple ways. First …
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The raven seems to be a beloved object of many black metal bands, as they utilize his name and picture quite often. One of those bands is Rabenholz from Germany, as you can translate their name into “ravenwood” and you can clearly see a raven on the cover of their record. Does the band adopt …
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It’s not long ago when I received an e-mail from Anders Hansson (some of you might know this guy) if I would want to review the new EP Bestial of his band Blood Mortized and therefore good old Swedish death metal. As nobody could resist such a nice request, I said yes and here we …
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The time Dornenreich could be treated as an insider’s tip is long bygone and so everyone should know that the quality of their music should be placed in the higher third of the chart concerning metal outputs. Flammentriebe might attract attention instantly because of two points: According to interviews with the band it shall be …
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