Archive for the ‘Doom’ Category
It’s often hard to describe why someone likes a record, especially those that are only special because there are some details “hidden”. It’s not even necessary that those details take much space to affect your opinion. The Australian musician Terry Vainoras surely understood this, as his project Subterranean Disposition would not stand out of the puddle …
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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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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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The flood of releases some artists present, was often thematized here before, as they often result in less qualatative records, which aren’t much fun to listen to. Fortunately, that wasn’t the case for Horn, as mastermind Nerrath managed to keep the level constantly high. That caused me to be quite happy, when I saw, that he released …
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It is quite known, that french black metal is of a very high quality these days, and there are many people who are trying to bring this quality nearer to you, so did I. That is the occasion of our today’s review, where i am going to talk about another high quality band from France, …
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Looking to the statistics according the amount of band members in underground black metal bands will reveal a “shocking” fact: The majority of them are one man projects. They often have to face criticism, as a vast amount of people is denouncing them as less authentic or even unprofessional. All followers of my blog will …
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It’s no secret, that artists often search for new ways to express themselves and to evolve in musically ways. The Foetal Mind are also looking for different spheres and are leaving the former path of black/doom metal, but also the album’s title seems to spoil intern changes. Since the vocalist left the band, The Grand …
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I decided to review something “exotic” to celebrate this new years dawn. Everyone’s hoping for some strange genrehybrids may be disappointed, because “exotic” is meant in terms of origin, as our artist is of japanese ethnicity. Kanashimi is japanese for “sorrow” or “sadness” you might guess, in combination with the cover and title, that they …
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Probably everyone of us is looking forward to his or her birthday for various reasons. One of this reasons could be, that you get a lot of presents. But what could be better than receiving presents on your birthday? Right, receiving presents on another persons birthday. So lets sing: Happy birthday to you, happy birthday …
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