Archive for April, 2011
Listening to another Woods of Desolation record could take some surmounting of ones feelings, as they probably made bad experiences in the past. Their first releases did leave a bad aftertaste in many listeners mouthes, as you could not actually say if they really tried to make music or just wanted to test if noise …
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Le Secret was the second release of the band and it soon became an insider’s tip. The following hype was the reason why the EP was sold out shortly after its release, but the request remained huge. This has to be one of the reasons why they will rerelease the EP and they even rerecorded …
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Vinterriket is one of those projects in black metal, that has drawn a lot of attention to itself, mostly because he released very many records, sometimes three or more per year. Many people blame Christopher Ziegler, the man behind Vinterriket, that he is not very creative, some even say he releases carelessly composed material. Can the …
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When one read the word “atmospheric” in combination with “black metal” a certain queasy feeling might kick in, because it often means that this music is filled with keyboard sounds. This presumption might be called underrated in terms of Fear Of Eternity as the keyboard sounds are taking the main role and “black metal” might …
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From time to time there are some bizzare figures, first and foremost in the field of black metal. The scurrility ranges from strange appearance to really weird statements. The self-proclaimed goal of the people behind Istapp is to fight the sun and after that, cool everything down to absolute zero. Can they achieve to take …
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After the really big hype of pagan metal there was the great regression and new outputs were mostly defined as meaningless and the only ones who liked those were the “party vikings”. This redefinition does not suit everyone, especially bands founded at an early stage of the genre dislike this redefinition. Gernotshagen is one of …
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There are people having too much sparetime and therefore are leaping at innumerable projects. Vintersorg is one of those people and so he is playing in several bands a more or less major role. There hardly is a year which passes without Vintersorg releasing a record, may it be with the projects he founded or one of …
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There are a bunch of pretty normal, some strange and some really strange bands out there. Pergalé seems to be one of the category “really strange”, if not the strangest one around. At least the cover indicates that they are not playing straight black metal and they are describing their style as “victorious psycho black …
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