Archive for November, 2011
The Canadian band Forteresse gained quite a lot of attention with their debut record named Métal Noir Québécois, even in Europe. The quite uncompromising style of the Canadian black metal could catch a lot of attention and even the calmer successors of their debut, which featured a lot of ambient sounds, has satisfied their fanbase. Will Crépuscule d’Octobre feature …
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Thy Catafalque is – originally – a Hungarian avantgarde band, with huge black metal influences. You could speculate a lot what their sound could be like, only by considering their cover, you just could guess what it shows or you could enjoy its beauty. The only thing that is crystal clear, is that Rengeteg has a lot …
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How many expectations were dashed by bands, when they released new records and couldn’t catch up to former ones. Merkur was the name of the best record ever released by Klabautamann which combined avantgarde black metal structures with a lot of progressive and blues rock. Can The Old Chamber catch up to this performance or does it simply …
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Agrypnie is looking back on three full lenght-records and a steady increase in terms off skill, as you could see by the reference to former reviews of their records. They released one record every two years and after their last record was published in 2010, there will be the next – yet untitled one – in …
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Todays review will focus on a band, that plays a different style of metal, than the one which mostly dominantes here. So I want to channel your attention to one less known, german pagan metal band. The band we want to talk about is Fimbulvet, who really know how to produce authentic pagan metal which …
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“Darkness favors secret dealings” must have been the slogan of the members of Nine Covens, which they embodied twice. On the one hand there is the concept of their record which clearly has something to do with “the coming of darkness” – which was seperated on four big chapters – and on the other hand they …
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Some of you might ponder, why I want to discuss a four year old demo of some Australian guys for today’s review. The reason is short and striking: As preparation for their forthcoming record, as I think it will be important to know that they already started on a really high niveau. Another reason would …
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Many listeners of black metal will remember a lot of positive things, when the debut of the Thuringian band Farsot is mentioned, as it was purely aggressive, mighty and intense. It has the cryptic name IIII and Farsot gained a lot of attention for this and many people decided to watch out for further outputs. After barely …
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It’s always a hard discussed theme, when a band has line-up changes, especially if they – even if the new members have nothing to do with this – change their style according to their new output. Lantlôs impressed the scene with their selftitled debut and the change to the calmer .neon did cause both: Admiration and …
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