Archive for January, 2012
Some things are more important when it comes to music (or art in general) than others. One of them clearly is creativity and Nimh Stil seem to have quite a bit, concerning the name of their latest output Demo(n), which is simple and/but good. Read on if you want to know if the music can …
I often complain about bad standards of production some records have, although I know that this can be traced back to the first black metal records and somewhat counts as a “classic” element. The supporter of this raw style are many, and so it’s no surprise that even many artists tend to this bad production …
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If you take a close look on the bandname of the Norwegian 66crusher, you could ask yourself if they may have forgotten the third six …. or the other way round, what they may want to achieve/say with this name. There aren’t any answers on this record but a lot of good progressive music. Progressive? …
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Although threnodies.com is a german website, we still are aware that the SOPA is a “poorly thought out “anti-piracy” law backed by corporate lobbyists that threaten freedom of speech and information on the Internet”. To support the struggle against passing the bill we won’t publish any review today. Instead we are offering some information about …
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The details which are most likely to be remembered and therefore affecting future decisions are clearly negative ones. In the case of Seelenfrost one of those negative details would be a song from their debut record named D.S.O.N and because of this really strange track I steered clear of their second release Metamorphosis. Maybe that …
Sometimes it is enough to take one look on the cover of a new record to be quite fascinated. There are far more times, that one look on the cover let’s you guess what genre that record will offer, as there are often the same stylistic elements (scrawly logos and such) which represent several genre. …
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I referenced quite often to the fact, that Neige is confronted with quite some criticism in the scene, as he is involved in a lot of projects recently. It’s no big surprise that the new record of his own band Alcest will have to face some criticism as well, as the post-rock influence the Frenchman brought with …
Read MoreI just talked about the turn of the year and now it’s done. Threnodies wishes a happy new year 2012! The announced new design was just activated and I hope you like it – although there will be some changes in the next days but I wanted to show you the base frame. There won’t …
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