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

*******
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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Ural Umbo - Ural Umbo

*Year : 2010

*Country : Switzerland & USA

*Genre : Experimental, Dark Ambient, Doom, Noise

Tracklist : 

1. The Lights Would Stop Flickering
2. Theme Of The Paranormal Feedback
3. Förlåta Jag
4. Voices From The Room Below
5. Don’t Eat Carrots, My Little Ghost Horse
6. Stumbling Upon Blood And Mercury
7. Pendulum Impact Test
8. Among The Bones
9. Mathieu 2004-2009

*******

Total playing time : 46.47

Comment:

later... (impressive CD)

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Felis Catus - Answers to Human Hypocrisy

*Year : 2011

*Country : Italy

*Genre : Black Metal/Dark Ambient

Tracklist : 

1. Babylon Returns 

2. Apocatastasis 

3. Bohémien Bizarre

4. Through The Centuries

5. Wine and Roses

6. Somewhere

7. Ophis ( Felix Culpa )

8. Jakob Lorber

9. Night Gaunts

10. Cupio Dissolvi 

11. Commemoration

12. La Bàs

*******

Total playing time : 49.04

Comment:

later...

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Schattenheer - Schattenheer

*Year : 2005

*Country : Germany

*Genre : Black Metal

Tracklist : 

1. Vorwärts , in den kalten Schatten des Todes 

2. Tote Augen , kalte Augen 

3. Am Abgrund 

4. Wenn sich die schwarzen Tore öffnen 

5. Unter Wurzel und Stein 

6. Legion des Blutes

*******

Total playing time : 40.52

Comment:

I just rediscovered a nice CD I had totally forgotten in my CD-rack. This is Black Metal quiet similar to Lunar Aurora and Ewiges Reich with ambient soundscapes which install a dark and poisonous atmosphere. Very dark and repetitive waves of riffs immediately invade this CD as a veil of shadow that falls on a desolate landscape. In this world of ash and night the only human presence comes from hate-weeping vocals, which sometimes ends in Lightly-speaking blurred passages. A not necessarily inovative Black Metal but a very efficient and talented result that will please all fans of Cold (and a bit too seriously) Black Metal .

Schattenheer in 3 words: Classic, Cold, Atmospheres

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Ghost - Opus Eponymous

*Year : 2010

*Country : Sweden

*Genre : Psyche Doom Hard Rock

Tracklist : 

1. Deus Culpa
2. Con Clavi Con Dio
3. Ritual
4. Elizabeth
5. Stand By Him
6. Satan Prayer
7. Death Knell
8. Prime Mover
9. Genesis

*******

Total playing time : 34.41

Comment:

Everything begins with a calm and pious organ intro. Then we are rapidly thrown back decades in sixties-seventies Psychedelic Hard Rock / Doom both occult and overvitaminized. Ghost’s general concept is retro, with the exception of a smooth production (but not insipid). Ghost is orchestrated by awesome clean and limpid vocals which are perfectly controlled. The choruses of each song is ultra catchy. Combined with the vocals you end up with titles that are instantly etched on your mind. Over the flow of riffs a malefic, thick, Transylvanian and opiate/opioid mist pours out from your speakers.
There isn’t a least note to balk, it would stuff me with this music until indigestion. But unfortunately (my single reproach) the album is too short.

It took only one album to Ghost to rise in the Pantheon of indisputable masterpieces.
For the anecdote, although band’s members are anonymous, we already suppose to know that the Ghost singer, Tobias, also plays in the Death Thrash band Repugnant (vocals and lead guitar).

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Opus Eponymous in 3 words: Retro, (Oc)cult, Catchy

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Krallice - Diotima

*Year : 2011

*Year : 2011

*Country :USA

*Genre : Black Metal

Tracklist : 

1. - 

2. Inhume 

3. The Clearing 

4. Diotima 

5. Litany Of Regrets 

6. Telluric Rings 

7. Dust and Light 

*******

Total playing time : 1.08.58

Comment:

Here is the brand new album of the renowned band Krallice. Diotima by its title refers to the german poet and philosopher Friedrich Hölderlin (Diotima is the name of the beloved woman/muse of Friedrich)... While the Black Metal scene overflows with  bands which plagiarize each others, Krallice is one of those Black Metal bands who produce something different, new and more interesting. A dense and savage sound illustrated by a wall of sound embellished with tremolo-picked and buzz-ridden guitars, blast beat drumming and  irreproachable vocals. It's also important to mention the post metal influences which give some air to this instense Black Metal. In line with the previous album, Diotima is the logical continuation of this references band's work. A new step for this high quality band.

Diotima in 3 words: Existentialism, Cultured, Fuzzy

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