Posts Tagged ‘profound lore’

Album of the day: Apostle Of Solitude – Last Sunrise

Posted on Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Apostle Of Solitude - Last Sunrise

Lovingly pinched from HellrideMusic.com: Those of you that are into real two-fisted Doom Metal, the ‘no beatin’ round the bush’, ‘misery and woe of this mortal coil’ variety, those whose Doom Metal proclivity is of the Godzilla-stomp-on-your-cerebrum genus, will most certainly find the godhead in Apostle of Solitude’s newest collection of recordings, Last Sunrise.

The expectations for AoS following 2008’s sublime Sincerest Misery were huge. I’d be hard pressed to name another release in recent memory as heavy, skilled and as tethered to real human emotional suffering as Sincerest Misery. So the question on most fans minds is, does Last Sunrise match the visceral power of it’s predecessor?

The answer is… no, not quite. Almost, but when you’ve recorded what is widely to be considered a totem of the Doom Metal genre, anything in comparison is bound to fall short as good as it may be. Such is the case with Last Sunrise… a very good album from the Indy fearsome foursome, but missing some of urgency and differentiation between songs that made Sincerest… such a wallop. And an agonizingly horrible choice (in my opinion, anyway) in an album cover. Fear not though, Last… is definitely no let down. The walls of Russian Studios in Bloomington, IN would tell you, if only they hadn’t been rendered speechless by the band.

There are some exceptional songs on Last…. ‘Letting Go Of The Wheel’ comes in with a whisper and leaves 9 minutes later with your head in it’s hands. Heavy as a mutha. The oddly titled ‘Hunter Sick Rapture’ is nearly 5 minutes of mid-to-uptempo bludgeoning, the Webb / McClellan rhythm section firing on 16 cylinders of Doom-fueled fury. The cymbal sound in the mix here is superb… sounds like hammers against an anvil, especially effective in the slower section. Amazing how that sound alone can give you an amazing sense of unadulterated gravitas.

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Album of the day: Worm Ouroboros – Self Titled

Posted on Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Livingly pinched from The Obelisk: As over the course of this decade San Francisco has become a hotbed of neo-artsy metal, it’s not surprising that the aughts should end with a release like the Profound Lore debut from the trio Worm Ouroboros. It’s been called chamber metal because of its ...read more

Terrorizer’s band of the day: Altar of Plagues

Posted on Friday, January 8th, 2010

Find out why our good friends over at Terrorizer picked Altar of Plagues as band of the day: Irish act Altar Of Plagues may have formed in 2006 but it wasn't until a live stint in London with Wolves In The Throne Room that we fell madly in love with ...read more

Album of the day: Amesoeurs – Amesoeurs

Posted on Monday, December 21st, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Pitchfork: Profound Lore has been knocking down the walls of black metal for a while. Label acts Caïna, Cobalt, and Wrath of the Weak alloy the genre with others, puzzling purists and delighting critics. Amesoeurs are the imprint’s greatest challenge to categorization.
This French band surveys black-clad music ...read more

Album of the day: Cobalt – Gin

Posted on Saturday, December 12th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Prefixmag.com: It’s so common that it’s become an archetype in black-metal circles: the solitary auteur, locked up in a dark room, creating hostile, atmospheric death music that’s anti-everything. Anti-god, anti-world, anti-self. Cobalt are different. They’ve got two such auteurs in vocalist/lyricist Phil McSorley and everything-elsist Erik Wunder.
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: Bloody Panda – Summon

Posted on Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Blistering.com: Quite the back-story behind New York’s Bloody Panda. A transplanted visual artist from Japan (Yoshiko Ohara) with no musical background hooks up with four NYC-based musicians to play free-form, avant-garde metal, if that’s how we want to tag it.
There’s no structure to the band’s music, rather, ...read more

Roadburn playlist: August (Walter)

Posted on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Obviously, we need good music on the stereo while we are busy putting together the 2010 edition of the festival. Be on the lookout for updates from time to time on what’s spinning on the Roadburn turntable, CD player and Winamp player (And if you are on Last.fm, come join ...read more

Album of the day: Amber Asylum – Bitter River

Posted on Friday, July 31st, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Sonic Frontiers.net: It’s easy to trick yourself into believing there is no beauty left in the world. Most of us lead dreary lives, grinding away the hours behind a desk amidst a sea of cubicles, only to waste what little freedom we have at the end ...read more