Archive for the ‘Depressive’ Category
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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A whole lot of bands are sharing the same name, mostly because it’s really generic like “Hate” or such. Pendulum seems to be one of these namens, as there are four bands claiming it, but only one if it will be the object of “research” today. The band in question is, of course, the french one, …
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It’s not unusual, that the origin of a band is emphasised, especially when they originate in a country, that is not known for metal. How exciting it must be, that there are bands from the orient, asia or south america which are playing metal, too. Except some special cases like Melechesh you can’t even hear, from which …
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Watching bands progress is probably nearly as nice as watching children grow, especially if the progression is positive. Aspects of positive developement are manifold, but one important is definitely when they move along to a better standard of production and therefore sound. Some of those changes may seem a bit artificial though, especially drastic changes …
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It happens from time to time, that I get mails from bands I never heard of before, although they have been quite active. Garden Of Grief is one of those bands, although it only consists of one member. It was founded in 2008 and the discography consists of four records and three splits. Can the records …
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Depressive/suicidal black metal often is a genre, that evokes two hardened fronts. One side stands for all the people that are catched by the atmosphere of the emotional songs and the other one stands for all the people, that do not like the long-drawn passages, that often are badly produced as well. Nathanael does not …
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Listening to another Woods of Desolation record could take some surmounting of ones feelings, as they probably made bad experiences in the past. Their first releases did leave a bad aftertaste in many listeners mouthes, as you could not actually say if they really tried to make music or just wanted to test if noise …
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When one read the word “atmospheric” in combination with “black metal” a certain queasy feeling might kick in, because it often means that this music is filled with keyboard sounds. This presumption might be called underrated in terms of Fear Of Eternity as the keyboard sounds are taking the main role and “black metal” might …
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You can translate the name of the band into “butcher” which could indicate, that the music is not very sensitive but rather rough. But if you consider the title of the EP you can come into some contradictions because someone who ponders about love can not really be “callously” and distanced. Read on, if you …
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