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Tribulation - The Formulas Of Death
| Progressive Death / Black |
09.03.2013
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Anyone familiar with Tribulation's excellent The Horror record may as well delete their brain-cache as the new album is almost nothing like it. Whilst The Horror was a crusty, energy driven death metal number with a few black metal bells and whistles, The Formulas of Death has mutated into a highly dynamic and diverse mix of black and death metal that's quite progressive in nature, made even more eclectic by lengthy psychedelic soloing and clean passages and some surprising melodic harmonies. In fact the entire affair is so clever and intoxicating that the 75 minute duration will positively fly by and still leave you craving more. If you have any interest in black or death metal, or any kind of quality music, then you need this in your life as it's simply a brilliant piece of metal engineering. AOTY material.
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Jolly - The Audio Guide To Happiness (Part 2)
| Prog for djentelmen |
07.03.2013
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Who are these incredible Jolly people with such a Jolly name supporting Riverside on a tour kicking off in 2 days? And what is this brand new Jolly album that just saw the light of day? That is one awesome album, I tell you, that got crowd funded with such love by the fans when the band got dealt the business end of the hurricane Sandy. A funding that now also sees the band coming over to Europe to tour with none other than the mighty Riverside. You miss them this March, I'm having a feeling you'll regret it for a while. I have made my travel arrangements. Have you?
Just listen to the new song "Dust Nation Bleak".
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Portal - Vexovoid
| Beyond-Death Metal |
02.03.2013
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Portal's brand of ultra-impenetrable death metal have afforded them a rare and paradoxical level of popularity for a band as extreme and unpalatable as they are. If you haven't heard them yet or found previous releases to be too much to handle then now's your chance to get to grips with them. Vexovoid eases up (very) slightly on the wall-of-noise approach and allows a rare glimpse into the structural mechanisms at the heart of Portal. Listen now before they submerge themselves back into the murk once again.
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Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
For the first time in three years everyone's favorite demonic duo are back with another platter of new wave of blackened crust punk fun. Leave the detraction to lesser men, leave no cross unturned and no beer unopened. Read review ››
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Redwood Hill - Descender
| Post-Black Metal |
26.02.2013
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Description from their Bandcamp site:
"Their songs are rooted in a cold and depressive aesthetic expression, with a lyrical universe revolving around the dark corners of the human mind. Riddled with powerful highs and enigmatic, melodious and haunting lows, the music uniquely captures the essence of the modern post-black/post metal genre."
LISTEN
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Mourning Beloveth - Formless
These guys will make you wait for their new output for a long time. But when it arrives, you know it is worth the wait. It really is.
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Lascaille's Shroud - Interval 01: Parallel Infinities - The Inner Universe
| Progressive death metal |
13.02.2013
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If you like your death metal progressive, long and epic then this is definitely the album for you.
If you're a fan of the book series "Revelation Space" by Alastair Reynolds then you should also check this out since it's entirely based around his book series.
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Condor - Speedwagon
So apparently two of the dudes in Mion's Hill are in this group here as well. And their stuff is equally good. Hell, with the mixing being less garageish on this, in a number of ways it's even better. Unequivocally, not to be missed for any bullshit excuse stuff.
Listen here.
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Moth - Endlessly In Motion
| Progressive Death Metal |
11.02.2013
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Denver-based death metallers have started their career on a strong note with the impressive debut Endlessly in Motion. An adept mix of forward thinking, technical and constantly interesting death metal with a few feathers plucked from melodic death's sense of melody and harmony. Vocally this sounds somewhat like the bastard child of Björn "Speed" Strid and Devin Townsend, not to to mention the band aren't afraid to explore and exploit ambient atmospherics in a subtle yet effective manner. Something for pretty much everyone I would think.
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Amiensus - Restoration
| Progressive melodic black post-metal |
06.02.2013
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Found this little gem while using the Bandcamp Discovery feature. Very solid and beautifully crafted American progressive melodic black metal with bits of post-metal strewn about as well.
Here is what the band has to say about the album:
"The result was something that had some rhythmical qualities and aesthetics coming from the black metal genre, but paired up with some contrasting melodic influences from genres such as progressive metal, post-rock, doom metal and even a bit of folk. We don't really know what to call it, we just try to call it metal."
I'd say that sums it up quite well.
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Wormlust - The Feral Wisdom
| Avant-Garde Black Metal / Dark Ambient |
28.01.2013
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The debut of Iceland's one-man black metal outfit isn't released on record until the Spring, but it can be streamed already via his bandcamp page. An amalgam of sprawling, cavernous avant-garde black metal and gloomy, spooky dark ambient, this is the first stellar release of the genre in 2013 and any fans of Mories' work (particularly De Magia Veterum and Cloak Of Altering) will surely find themselves at home with Wormlust.
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