Archive for the ‘Ambient’ Category
The best requirements for a good review vary from project to project. Sometimes it’s really important to know every single release to judge the latest output, sometimes you shouldn’t know anything to be impartial. Frozen Ocean is probably one of the latter cases, as their debut record Vestigial Existance wasn’t that great (in my opinion of course!) and …
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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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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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Tardigrada is a quite interesting project, as they seem to have a real concept behind their band, at least concerning their first demo tape Widrstand. The cover artwork of Wolfgang Belzebuth illustrates a biblical scene, the one of Babylon. The band references to both (the story and therefore the artwork). Read on if you want to know how …
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Les Fleurs Du Mal is a book of poems, written by the French author Charles Baudelaires, which had to face some serious difficulties the time it was released. First of all, the first release of this band was blamed to “contravene the public moral” while the latter release was banned because of six “offensive” poems. Read …
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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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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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I remember the first time I heard of The Great Old Ones quite well, as I saw the teaser for their debut record in the empyre-forum.de. I had mixed feelings, as the offered soundbits weren’t of the best quality and the passages you heard weren’t really exciting as well, while the theme of the band and …
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Reading the name of Stroszek, many will think (well, if there are any thoughts) of the movie by the German regisseur Werner Herzog. This clearly has nothing to do with the movie, since this is a blog about metal records. We want to deal with the Italian Stroszek (and not with this Post-Punk band from Scottland) …
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