Serpent Venom - Carnal Altar

*Year : 2011

*Country : UK

*Genre : Doom

Tracklist : 

1. Carnal Altar

2. Blood Of The Serpents

3. Four Walls Of Solitude

4. Conjuration

5. Under The Compass

6. Devilshire

7. The Outsider

*******

Total playing time : 56.01

Comment:

A mix between Seventies Horror/Occult films, Psychedelic Rock and classic Doom. In Chapter of the esoteric and cosmic delusions, there isn't more evocative.I wouldn't be surprised if their next album was signed on Rise Above Records. A giant is born. Maybe the album of the year with "Capricorn" (Orchid)...

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The Ruins of Beverast - Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite

*Year : 2009

*Country : Germany

*Genre : Atmospheric Black Metal

Tracklist : 

1. I Raised This Stone As A Ghastly Memorial

2. Alu 

3. God's Ensanguined Bestiaries 

4. Mount Sinai Moloch 

5. Transcending Saturnine Iericho Skies 

6. Kain's Countenance Fell 

7. The Restless Mills 

8. Theriak - Baal - Theriak

9. Blood Vaults (II - Our Despots Cleanse The Levant) 

10. Arcane Pharmakon Messiah 

*******

Total playing time : 1.19.56

 

Comment:

Slow Black Metal sometimes really near to Doom Metal. Powerful, mystical, hypnotic... " Buy it, listen to it, absorb it, be absorbed by it. Masterful.". An explosion of genius, a must have.

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Dopethrone - Dark Foil

*Year : 2011

*Country : Canada

*Genre : Doom, Sludge

Tracklist :

1. Unholy Water
2. Essence Asunder
3. Tänk På Döden
4. Voice of the Below
5. Shadows of the Shapeless

*******
Total playing time : 43.53

Comment:

Electric Wizard, Bongzilla, Weedeater,... with a near Black Metal voice. Recommended!

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Kongh - Shadows of the Shapeless

*Year : 2009

*Country : Sweden

*Genre : Doom, Sludge

Tracklist :

1. Unholy Water
2. Essence Asunder
3. Tänk På Döden
4. Voice of the Below
5. Shadows of the Shapeless

*******
Total playing time : 42.12

Comment:

Arid, stifling. and heavy. An enormous power.

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Voodoo Kungfu - Voodoo Kungfu

*Year : 2008

*Country : China

*Genre : Extreme Traditional Folk

Tracklist :

1. 此岸 (This Shore) 

2. 魔 (Evil Spirit) 

3. 只有神能评判我 (Only The Gods Can Judge Me)

4. Sweet Dreams (Eurhytmics Cover) 

5. (Untitled) 

6. 接受或者被诅咒 (Accept Or Be Damned) 

7. 毁了 (Destroyed) 

8. Get Up Stand Up (Bob Marley Cover) 

9. 李小龙 (Li Xiaolong)

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Total playing time : 48.55

Comment:

Amaaaazing chinese band with the particularity to use matouqin (Mongolian violin) and overtone singing (singing technique to produce two sounds simultaneously). Atmospheres like no other, a disturbing, religious and indescribable music.Simply unique!

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Saturnalia Temple - Aion Drakon

*Year : 2011

*Country : Sweden

*Genre : Hallucinogenic & Occult Stoner/Doom

Tracklist :

1.God is Two
2. Black Magic Metal
3. Aion Drakon
4. Ancient Sorceries
5. Sitra Ahra Ruled Solitary Before the Creation
6. Fall

*******
Total playing time : 48.59

Comment:

Look at the artwork and let this awesome music leading you through it. (I'll write a review in french next week, and and will post the link for the french speakers)

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Terra Tenebrosa - The Tunnels

*Year : 2011

*Country : Sweden

*Genre : Drone, Experimental, Industrial, Ambient, Dark, Doom, Post-metal, Noise-metal

Tracklist :

1. The Teranbos Prayer
2. Probing The Abyss
3. The Mourning Stars
4. The Arc Of Descent
5. Guiding The Mist / Terraforming
6. Through The Eyes Of The Maninkari
7. The Tunnels

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Total playing time : 46.09

Comment:

Ex Breach members form a new band and this is their first ever album release. Their music consists of: Dark atmospheres, unstructured tempi, noisy sounds, drone doom riffs (very particular riffing), with a touch of post-metal and even some psychedelic elements. The whole is very atmospheric; there are some voices in the background alternating with murmurs and hazy chorus which procure to Terra Tenebrosa’s music an insane, strange and Black Metal counterpart. It’s ambient, cold, dark, industrial and the result is something really new, fresh and…talentuous)

PS: I also post it on Hyperborean-cake

 

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