Archive for July, 2012
It’s a quite common thing, that companies wonder why their product won’t sell on certain markets, after they had planned its release for several years. The main reason is, that the name of the product is either strange or offending in the place in question. Furze is, at least in the german speaking countries, one of those …
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A Forest Of Stars surely isn’t a band that can be blamed to be stagnating, although they always use the same orchestration for every record. The interesting thing concerning their records is, that they always manage to create completely different stuff out of the same basic elements and their special interpretation of black metal in …
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It’s a really cheap trick to advert a band with elements/tags that are quite popular at the moment, but many labels choose to do so. In many cases it doesn’t even matter if you could justify the comparission at all. A whole bunch of bands suddenly were “post”-rocking after it got modern, Laster is said to …
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Some seasons seem to have an unlimited potential to inspire musicians and other artists to create amazing and beautiful things. Especially autumn and winter are those, that are important for black metal, as there are quite some records about them. Dämmerfarben’s Herbstpfad is one of the records focusing on autumn, but does it still have …
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Six years flew by since the release of the debut record under the flag of Dark Forest, before the second release named Land Of The Evening Star finally was released. This great timeframe is quite unusual for one-man bands, as we all know straighter release cycles. Was something changed in this span, or is there any …
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There is one thing which can be said for sure about Andreas Hedlund a.k.a Vintersorg: He is one of the most hardworking musicians worldwide, while still maintaining a certain level of quality. Was he able to create such a striking record as Till Fjälls or at least Jordpuls again, or is his Orkan just a balmy breeze?
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There are several themes in black metal, that are used quite often especially natural phenomenon. Everyone knows at least one song about forests, glades, waterfalls or of course the mysterious fog. It’s not really surprising that there is a band, that is named after the latter phenomenon Mgła.
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