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Shroud of the Heretic – Unorthodox Equilibrium (2015)
Skillfully bringing together doom/death, modern atmospheric and war metal styles, Unorthodox Equilibrium is more than a fitting name for describing the musical approach used in this album. Bands...
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May 2015: The decent and the rescuable
This is a “best of the month” list for this month, but making the title “Best of May 2015″ sounds like giving too much of a spotlight for such a short span of time, and devaluating the word “Best...
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Dogmatic Absolution stream new track
Italian black metal band Dogmatic Absolution is set to release their album The Poetries of Oppression which will be released digitally on June 9th and have made public one of the tracks as a...
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Abyssion – Luonnon harmonia ja vihreä liekki (2015)
Abyssion is an industrial metal band hailing from Finland, a land that typically has been cradle to some of the most pensive underground metal. Abyssion plays music in that same spirit while remaining...
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Aion – Verses of Perdition (2015)
Aion’s music falls into that territory between war metal or atmospheric death metal mistaken for black metal on account of its superficial attempt at creating atmosphere that results in simple...
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Deiphago – Into the Eye of Satan (2015)
Playing a mixture between the primitive South American black metal of Sarcofago, the unrelenting and mindlessly simplistic assault that borders on comedy of Marduk and something of its own, Deiphago’s...
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Enslaved – In Times (2015)
Watching the greats fall is always painful. But watching Darkthrone go from Transilvanian Hunger to The Underground Resistance is not half as painful as seeing how Enslaved defile their name in a...
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Gestalt – Infinite Regress (2015)
More black metal from the people who do not understand black metal. This is in the now popular style of pseudo black metal that sounds like war metal trying to be progressive. This lot probably new...
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Névoa – The Absence of Void (2015)
The phrase The Absence of Void (or in other words “not nothing”) basically means the same as “something”. If we indulge in its mystic inclination, the phrase is not about pointing out that there is or...
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Nyseius – De Divinatione Daemonum (2015)
While not profoundly insulting as most bands pretending to play black metal, Nyseius just plays very boring black metal. Now, this isn’t just an emotional remark, I have concrete reasons linked to the...
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Blasphemy – Fallen Angel of Doom (1990, 2015)
Bringing together the grindcore of Napalm Death and the primitive black metal of Bathory and Sarcófago into a death metal way of thinking, Blasphemy gave the world a solid although juvenile Fallen...
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Obsequiae – Aria of Vernal Tombs (2015)
On their first album, Obsequiae made use of very simple but consistent and creative melodies in a harmony emulating that of early western music from the late medieval period. Under the Brume of Eos...
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Goat Semen – Ego Sum Satana (2015)
Following in the footsteps of Sarcófago without becoming their clone, Goat Semen play a form of primitive black metal with riffs bordering on grind death. The music here is of consistent style, but...
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Rito Profanatorio – Grimorios e Invocaciones desde el Templo de la Perversión...
Contrary to the modern northern predilection to either go with the “intellectual” or “sentimental” strain of black metal expression, Latin American bands seem more inclined to follow Sarcófago. Many...
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Codex Obscurum – Issue Seven
Having watched this zine grow from humble origins to the reliable source of underground metal feature stories that it is today, the metalheads who comprise the underground — including death metal,...
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Pilgrim’s progress
I thoroughly enjoyed William Pilgrim’s “The postmodern Gorguts” for its list of metal attributes. For many years, writers have attempted to categorize metal and most commonly have ended up with a list...
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Plage – Den Kristne Stank (2015)
Den Kristne Stank, meaning “Christian Stench” in Danish, is an effort by the band Plague to bring some black metal with occult themes, blasphemy and just the general themes associated with the genre....
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Goatblood – Adoration of Blasphemy and War (2015)
Wearing the mantle of blasphemous black metal, Goatblood play metal in the time-honoured tradition of grind-tinged black metal dancing the line between Sarcófago and Blasphemy. As most bands playing...
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Bhagavat – Annunciazione (2015)
An example of outstanding musical competence in melody-lead black metal, Bhagavat’s To Burn in a Lair of Snakes give us an initially almost seamless integration of many different elements under a...
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Scythian – Hubris in Excelsis (2015)
Following the example of Kreator in Phantom Antichrist, Scythian unite riffing approaches from different metal subgenres under the banner of traditional heavy metal and growled or barked vocals, with...
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