Posts Tagged ‘profound lore’

Album of the day: Disma – Towards the Megalith

Posted on Sunday, July 17th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from Lurker: We all arrive at genres with certain preconceptions. My approach to Death Metal is founded in a deep-seeded apathy. I had a minor fling with the old school death metal revival that reared its ugly head on the back of bands like Teitanblood and Cruciamentum. The cavernous, wailing insanity of the primal condition – how I loved it!

I have always ignored the more straight forward canon of modern death metal. The overly technical, malnourished-by-production bands that multipled thousandfold did the genre no favors. The same riff began to propagate across different albums, and then different tracks on the same album. Death metal bored me. You can count the number of death metal bands I follow with fervor on one hand. It has been long overdue for a band like Disma to arrive and annihilate my (perhaps naïve) take on the genre.

Disma differentiate themselves from the other DM bands I take some interest in by omitting gimmicks or outsider influence (see Portal, Cannabis Corpse of Teitanblood for some reference points). Towards the Megalith is a brilliant example of how the atmosphere in old school death metal can be combined with the rigor and riff count of more modern outfits to supreme effect. The riffs are cavernous bastions of monstrous scope and force. They flow with finesse and pride. Occasionally one guitar reels off and in decidedly un-death metal fashion commands a section of lead constrained to the lower sections of the register (god bless that G-tuning).

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Listen to Towards the Megalith HERE, courtesy of NPR First Listen.

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Transylvanian Hungerrr: A Conversation With Altar Of Plagues’ James Kelly (by Stefan Raduta)

Posted on Tuesday, July 12th, 2011

ALTAR OF PLAGUES “At this point in my life, cycles make the most sense to me. Energy is cyclical, it cannot be created or destroyed. We are vessels. Feed me to a vulture or throw me in the sea, I will return”  –James Kelly. The new Altar Of Plagues album ...read more

Album of the day: Yob – Atma

Posted on Tuesday, July 12th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: YOB’s 2009 return, The Great Cessation, was fueled by a seething anger so visceral it practically stabbed its way out of the speakers. The Eugene, Oregon, trio’s first release for Profound Lore following a breakup after 2005’s landmark The Unreal Never Lived and the ensuing ...read more

Album of the day: Morne – Asylum

Posted on Friday, June 17th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from The Sleeping Shaman: Many, many times we hear the old cliché about a bands difficult second album. Let’s put that old adage to bed right now. After 2009′s master class in dark brooding metallic hardcore, namely Feral Ward’s Untold Wait we have here the follow up record. ...read more

Yob: New Track Streaming at Stereogum

Posted on Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

Stereogum / Haunting The Chapel has the premiere of Yob‘s Prepare The Ground off the upcoming full-length, which is called Atma. Listen HERE. (Or click here to download). “There’s a reason the NY Times suggested Yob “may very well be one of the best bands in America…” Might was well replace ...read more

Album of the day: Dark Castle – Surrender To All Life Beyond Form

Posted on Monday, June 6th, 2011

Praise for Dark Castle‘s Surrender To All Life Beyond Form from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records:  Latest blast of psychedelic avant doom from this Floridian boy / girl duo, apparently often referred to as the doom metal White Stripes, based we assume entirely on the boy guitarist / girl drummer lineup, ...read more

Album of the day: Loss – Despond

Posted on Monday, May 30th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from Stereokiller: I’m going to be brutally honest and tell all of you that my experience in the realm of “funeral doom” is quite limited, but I will do my best to write this review from the standpoint of someone who appreciates all forms of metal. Though I ...read more

Album of the day: A Storm of Light – As The Valley Of Death Becomes Us, Our Silver Memories Fade

Posted on Friday, May 27th, 2011

Praise for A Storm of Light‘s As The Valley Of Death Becomes Us, Our Silver Memories Fade from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: Latest slab of epic, apocalyptic, psychedelic doom from A Storm Of Light, the project of Josh Graham, who also plays in Red Sparowes, Blood And Time, and of course ...read more

Album of the day: Altar of Plagues – Mammal

Posted on Sunday, May 22nd, 2011

Praise for Altar of Plagues‘ Mammal from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: Record number two from these Irish heavies, who blend murky blasting black metal with slow build epic post rock, their songs sprawling epics that flit from frantic riffing to soaring churning majesty, guitars slipping easily from super distorted buzz ...read more

Album of the day: Krallice – Diotima

Posted on Saturday, May 7th, 2011

Praise for Krallice‘ Diotima from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: Thee latest blast of confusional sonic chaos from this sort-of black metal supergroup, featuring avant outsider axeman Mick Barr (Orthrelm, Ocrilim, etc.) and bass shredder Colin Marsten (Behold The Arctopus, Dysrhythmia, etc.) is Krallice album number three, the follow up to the ...read more