Posts Tagged ‘black metal’

Burning Witch: Performance Footage Posted On Line

Posted on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Whale Bone Productions has uploaded professionally filmed video footage (see below) of Burning Witch’s February 6th, 1997 performance on 29 Live ep #56. A DVD containing this full set will be included in the forthcoming Burning Witch vinyl box, on Southern Lord.

“Graffitti is on the wall in the back ground level spot at the miserable Institution rehearsal studios in Seattle, cant believe thats still there!”, says Stephen ‘O Malley, “Edgy sprayed that in 1995-6. We got kicked out of that room by the way, either because we were too loud or because I kicked a hole in the wall. Cant recall. Good times.”

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Album of the day: Yoga – Megafauna

Posted on Friday, January 15th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from PopMatters: The fusion of black metal and dark electronic music continues to gain steam with the release of Megafauna, the first proper full-length from Yoga. The band’s name might signify a rejuvinating, esoteric form of exercise, but the sounds of this epic 12-track journey illustrate an audible ...read more

Album of the day: Liturgy – Renihilation

Posted on Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Brainwashed: The world does not need another black metal band but the guys from Liturgy don’t care. This is fine by me as this is one of the best albums in the genre for a long time. Consolidating the ground won via their Immortal Life EP, the ...read more

Album of the day: Bergraven – Till Makabert Väsen

Posted on Monday, December 28th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Cerebral Metalhead: Those with a predilection for pigeonholing oughta be pretty upset with the new Bergraven album. There aren’t convenient tags to affix to music this rambling and overgrown. While Till Makabert Väsen (Swedish for “The Macabre Essence”) is primarily the product of one man, Sweden’s Pär ...read more

Album of the day: Klabautamann – Merkur

Posted on Saturday, December 26th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from The Rock Blogger:  Klabautamann’s Merkur is a highly stylized piece of black metal that boasts lush instrumentation and long. winding interludes. Between walls of distorted tremolo riffing flow gentle and clean arpeggios, blending melodious textures with icy aggression.
The versatile guitar work is guided by subtle percussive touches ...read more

Negura Bunget: New Album Track Listing Revealed

Posted on Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

Negura Bunget — the Romanian band that incorporates elements of black metal, progressive metal, folk metal and dark ambient — has finished recording its new album, Vîrstele Pamîntului (English translation: The Ages of the Land/Earth). Due in late March via Code666 Records as a special limited-edition handmade woodbox, roped and ...read more

Album of the day: Krallice – Dimensional Bleedthrough

Posted on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from About.com: Heavy Metal: For those who kick and scream over the degree to which a band is “grim,” stop reading this now. Krallice don’t engage in a more-evil-than-thou pissing contest because, for better or worse, they aren’t really your prototypical black metal dudes. And one of the ...read more

Album of the day: Nachtmystium – Assassins…

Posted on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Pitchfork.com: Enter Nachtmystium’s brilliant fourth full-length, Assassins: Black Meddle, Part 1: The 45-minute collection’s Judd’s crowning achievement, one of the best albums released this year (2008 ). Compared even to Instinct, Assassins is an upgrade in every way– from the dense production by Minsk’s Sanford Parker at ...read more

Nachtmystium confirmed for Roadburn 2010; performing a unique-to-Roadburn set

Posted on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Illinois-based extreme metallers Nachtmystium have been confirmed for the Saturday Roadburn date, April 17th, 2010. This show will pan hard towards Nachtmystium’s more psychedelic inspired material taking Black Metal and the Roadburn attendees to a musical place that they’ve never gone before.

“We are pleased to announce that Nachtmystium will be ...read more

Nachtmystium to enter studio in January

Posted on Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Chicago’s purveyors of psychedelic blackened metal Nachtmystium are currently working on material for Black Meddle Part II (working title) and will soon embark on the “U.S. Plague Tour”, featuring Swedish black metal legends Marduk amongst others.
Commented Nachtmystium mastermind Blake Judd: “We’re currently working on material for ‘Black Meddle Part II’ ...read more

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