Posts Tagged ‘Valborg’

Valborg: New Track Available For Streaming

Posted on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

“Battlefield of Souls”, a brand new song from Valborg is available for streaming down below (Myspace CD player). The track comes off the forthcoming album, Barbarian, which will be available in 2011 via the band’s Zeitgeister Music.

“I learned of Valborg last year through Tom G. Warrior’s blog. They’ve since become one of my favorite metal bands. They embody a rare combination of aesthetics: minimalism and atmosphere, but with power and rhythm.  A huge Godflesh influence informs the guitars, with hints of Killing Joke and Celtic Frost – which makes sense since those bands were a big influence on Justin Broadrick. In Crown of Sorrow, which came out earlier this year, this plays out dramatically. The record has no tremolo picking that I could detect – notes ring out with Broadrickian singularity – but it is very much black metal. (Interestingly, Valborg identify themselves on MySpace as “Death Metal / Gothic / Rock). This refutes the perception that black metal is some formula of tremolo picking + blastbeats + corpsepaint. Valborg do use blastbeats and corpsepaint. But even their use of the latter is minimal” – Cosmo Lee, Invisible Oranges.

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More Roadburn 2010 audio streams now on line; performances by Bong, Death Row, Karma To Burn, Moss, The Lamp of Thoth and others

Posted on Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Finally, the volcanic dust has (almost) settled! For everyone no longer fighting short term memory loss and extreme fatigue caused by sleep deprivation and sensory overload, get ready to re-live the highlights of Roadburn Festival 2010. For everyone who could not make it due to the mighty Eyjafjallajokull eruption, now ...read more

Album of the day: Valborg – Crown of Sorrow

Posted on Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Praise for Valborg‘s Crown Of Sorrow from San Francisco’s Aquarius Records:  Yet another band in the ever expanding axis of aQ beloved weird and wonderful German metal groups, most of which share members. Avid aQ list readers no doubt remember math metal combo Woburn House, avant black metal horde Klabautamann, ...read more

Valborg To Release Crown Of Sorrow In April

Posted on Friday, February 12th, 2010

Crown Of Sorrow, the sophomore album from Germany’s atmospheric / death metal / rock band Valborg, will be released in April 2010 via  the band’s own Zeitgeister Music label. The CD was recorded live at Stonehenge Studios in December 2008 and it was mastered by Tom Kvålsvoll at Strype Audio. ...read more

Tom Gabriel Warrior announces the first bands for Only Death Is Real event at Roadburn 2010.

Posted on Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Tom Gabriel Warrior, the founder of Swiss pioneers Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, and now TRIPTYKON has announced the first confirmed acts to appear at his curated event, titled Only Death Is Real, appearing  at Roadburn  Festival 2010 in Tilburg, Netherlands on Friday, April 16th. Following is a list of the confirmed ...read more

Album of the day: Valborg – Glorification Of Pain

Posted on Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from MetalReview.com: Every once in a while an album comes along that isn’t necessarily groundbreaking, but also doesn’t conveniently fit into any particular genre or sub-genre. A good example of this was Gojira’s From Mars to Sirius, which took the metal underground by storm but refused to be ...read more