Archive for May, 2012
Being in touch with nature and ones homeland is a popular theme while playing black and pagan metal, as there are quite a few bands focussing on such themes. While Andras sings about the tales and beauty of the Ore Mountains other bands, like Heidevolk or Obscurity focus on Germanic tribes which lived in their regions some time …
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It’s common knowledge that black metal as a genre has some quite strict rules which define what elements can be used and what should better be unattended. Overriding/Expanding of those rules is a quite difficult plan, as many of this experiments just fail but some are quite welcome. Some mixtures of genre are quite popular, …
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The Switzerland is quite known for some products (like cheese), although black metal (well, there are some exceptions) isn’t really one of them. As one shouldn’t be narrow minded we will discuss the record named Starfall of the band Moonfrost. Is this a real pearl or just another junk record from the underground?
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Conceptual records are really fun and it absolutely doesn’t matter what they are about, as you can normally hear how much work the musicians had in composing the record. The latest record of träumen von aurora is a post-metal (respectively post-black metal) one and therefore quite depressive/sad, but still worth listening?
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It’s often quite complicated to write a review, as at least the part with the rating can be quite difficult. You have to balance the positive and the negative aspects and draw your conclusion but sometimes it’s pretty easy as well. Das Atmen der Erde is the latest record of the German band Hel and it’s a …
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It should be “public knowledge”, that new releases that state, they play something like “true norwegian black metal” aren’t even worth taking the time to listen to them, as the genre is stagnating for quite some time now. Even new releases of really well known bands like Burzum aren’t the same anymore and many people only …
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It’s easy to forget all the great countries which are a home to black metal, while praising the “great old ones” like France or Canada. That this would be quite fatal is really obvious, as one would miss such brilliant releases as the Polish Mglas latest one Hearts Towards None. Clearly Mgla isn’t the only great act …
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Negura Bunget diveded the minds quite a few times in the past, as there were many people thinking, that the folk influence on their music is to huge, or they just didn’t like it at all. It’s little surprising, that Negru took two of his companions and founded Din Brad, to live out his preference for the Rumanian …
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