Posts Tagged ‘black metal’

Album of the day: A Forest Of Stars – Opportunistic Thieves of Spring

Posted on Saturday, August 21st, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Stonerrock.com: Originally, back in the 90′s, black metal bands often described their approach to chords and melodies as such: they picked the voicings which they thought sounded the most unsettling and claustrophobic.

Now, in 2010, well into the much celebrated “3rd Wave of Black Metal”, it seems a lot of the modern bands have gotten away from that, and gone for something else. And that’s cool. But not A Forest of Stars – they’ve managed to create a sound that’s unsettling in not only its tonality, but its instrumentation as well, with micro-tonal keyboard sweeps and violin slides that blow away traditional Western approaches to melody and harmony, and leave the listener awash in a wave of paranoia and claustrophia.

And to think that they dress in Victorian garb, then sing about poets and medieval royalty. A band of British hippies haven’t sounded this evil since Electric Wizard, or perhaps even Black Sabbath. Just to make sure you noticed, this band is distinctively British. They revel in it, and it translates well in their sound.

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Krieg: New Song Posted On Line (Stereogum Premiere)

Posted on Thursday, August 19th, 2010

‘All Paths To God’, a brand new song from US Black Metal stalwars Krieg, is available for streaming on Stereogum’s Haunting The Chapel. The track comes off  Krieg’s forthcoming album, The Isolationist, which is scheduled for release on October 26  via Candlelight Records. According to Stereogum / Haunting The Chapel: ...read more

Album of the day: Eibon – Entering Darkness

Posted on Saturday, August 14th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from MetalSucks: Look France, what did we do to deserve this? Was it the Freedom Fries thing? One of the guys behind that isn’t in office anymore, and most of us thought it was pretty dumb. Steve Martin in the Pink Panther reboot? We’re not proud of that, ...read more

Austin Metal Music Examiner: The 10 Most Expensive Black Metal Albums

Posted on Friday, August 6th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Austin Metal Music Examiner: Hessians the world over pride themselves in buying stacks of CDs and LPs at a time. We think nothing of blowing hundreds of dollars in a single visit to our favorite record stores or online distros. It’s expensive enough to keep up with ...read more

Album of the day: Winterfylleth – The Mercian Sphere

Posted on Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Thrash Hits: Music lives and dies by its ability to affect the listener, yet few metal bands are capable of making a record that moistens the eyes and puts a lump in the throat of even the most sentimental listener, let alone the most hardened of metal ...read more

Album of the day: Alkerdeel – De Spleenzalvinge

Posted on Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Praise for Alkerdeel‘s De Spleenzalvinge from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: Brand new record from these blackened Belgian weirdoes, whose sound has changed dramatically from our first exposure to these guys. The grim noisy Luizig cassette, releases on Silvester Anfang’s Funeral Folk label, which seemed apt at the time, a raw ...read more

Album of the day: Teitanblood – Seven Chalices

Posted on Sunday, June 27th, 2010

Teitanblood‘s Seven Chalices was one of the best records of 2009 and we completely forgot to share this with you, our beloved Roadburn readers. From San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: France’s Norma Evangelium Diaboli has always been one of the labels to turn to for some of the best black metal ...read more

Nachtmystium: Every Last Drop Available for Streaming (Stereogum Premiere)

Posted on Friday, June 4th, 2010

Every Last Drop, a brand new song from psychedelic black metallers Nachtmystium, is available for download at this location (courtesy of Stereogum). Every Last Drop comes off the band’s new album, Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. II, which will be released via Century Media Records (USA) / Candlelight (Europe)  on June ...read more

Album of the day: Twilight – Monument To Time End

Posted on Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

Praise for Twilight‘s Monument To Time End from San Francisco’s Aquarius Records: Whoa. Just when we warmed ourselves to the idea that this would NEVER happen… it happened. The return of Twilight, described out of necessity as a “black metal supergroup”, a bad description for something so awesome, but more ...read more

Album of the day: Nachtmystium – Addicts Black Meddle Pt. II

Posted on Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

Praise for Nachtmystium’s Addicts: Black Meddle Part II from Stonerrock.com: I won’t deny that Nachtmystium‘s follow up to 2008′s superb Assassins: Black Meddle Part I was one of my most hotly anticipated albums of 2010. I knew Sanford Parker was producing, which is always a good thing in my book. ...read more

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