Uškumgallu - Mortifying the Flesh (demo)

Segunda demo para Uškumgallu, e na minha opinião bem mais interessante que a demo homónima...
Esta banda/projeto de nome bizarro junta dois musicos de Ash Borer, Triumvir Foul etc, continua a percorrer o lado mais negro do BM aqui com ligeiras (e novas) nuances atmosfericas que a espaços trazem a memoria nomes como Vorde embora continuem a fermentar o extremismo já presente no primeiro registo. São apenas 3 temas novamente, mas com a qualidade que já se espera destas criaturas!
The Stars Are Laced With Serpentine And Blood

Devouring Ghost - Devouring Ghost

Provocativo e hipnotico á boa maneira do atual USBM é aquilo que estes Devouring Ghost aqui oferecem numa limitada edição onde se explora a segunda vaga nordica de uma forma que remexe com alguns fantasmas saidos do ancestral movimento e lança os seus tenebrosos tentaculos para outras estranhas e obscuras formas musicais originando um complexo e tenebroso registo que nos engole e sufoca..
Recomendadissimo!!
"Mark McCoy’s latest solo drawing exhibition, Devouring Ghost, opened 04.17.15 at Weltkunstzimmer in Düsseldorf, Germany. To coincide with the nine drawings in the exhibition, he created a special edition soundtrack to play in the gallery. Each musical composition relates to a visual work on display, presented in an array of stripped-down black metal and ambient tracks. The album spans two LPs and was composed in collaboration with Ian Jacyszyn (Absolute Power, Suburbanite) and Ryan Martin (Dais Records, Copley Medal). Devouring Ghost deals with the transience and mutability of a technically-constructed world. Symbols of decay and mortality reflect the ambivalent and unconscious desire for death."

Mortuus Umbra - Catechism

Conheço as tuas obras, e tribulação, e pobreza (mas tu és rico), e a blasfêmia dos que se dizem judeus, e não o são, mas são a sinagoga de Satanás.
Apocalipse 2:9

Premonições: Abacination

Daquilo que ouvi talvez tenhamos aqui a proxima perola saida da Islandia...prometedor!!

Abacination traces its roots back to May of 2010 when the founding members discovered a common interest in trying to create a unique mix of black and death metal, with an emphasis on the later. What ensued was a long process of composition and work to convert this idea into a fully functioning band. By early 2011 the band was a full five piece and work was started on a DIY demo to showcase the fruits of the work done in the earliest period of this collaboration.

Demo II was released in spring 2012. Today, Abacination is slowly but surely moving deeper and deeper into the dark void that is black metal. New material is on the way.

Saturndust - Saturndust

Saturndust, são brasileiros e este album homonimo é uma daquelas perolas que caiem assim do nada...colossal album de Rock pesadão que percorre de uma ponta a outra a magia meio psicadelica de Black Sabbath, os riffs epicos a fazer lembrar algumas bandas Stoner/Doom, momentos de ocultismo sonoro que nos remetem para aquilo que Tribvlation criam nos seus albuns mais recentes e que se embrulham uma voz que parece saida da cinzenta Seattle...tudo isto com um toque espacial, curiosos?
Ouçam:

Premonições: Au-Dessus, new song (live)

Rehearsing a new song from upcoming album

Vaiya - Remnant Light

"Vaiya's third album 'Remnant Light' is an aggressive ritual banishment of the darkest aspects of the ego. A progression upward toward the light and away from that which drags us down. Told through three thirteen minute tracks, 'Remnant Light' seeks to exalt the journey toward bliss and repel the darkness that aims to destroy true being.
This album is a more straight forward Black Metal record than the two previous Vaiya releases, which were written specifically for live ritual performance, thus, there is more emphasis put on dense atmosphere and layered instrumentation.
"The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star." - Henry David Thoreau"

Premonições: Grave Ritual - Morbid Throne

Formed from the ashes of Alabama bred duo Meathole Infection in 2009, Grave Ritual's sole purpose is to create dark and primitive death metal. The band's self-titled demo was released in 2009. A year later, Dark Descent Records released Grave Ritual's first full-length album, Euphoric Hymns from the Altar of Death. Since the release of their debut album, Grave Ritual has focused on perfecting their devastating live assaults, sharing the stage with such bands as Proclamation, Revenge, Black Witchery, and Inquisition. They have played Rites of Darkness II and III, as well as several appearances at Destroying Texas Fest. The band is now stationed in New Orleans. Grave Ritual's highly-anticipated second full-length album, Morbid Throne, is set for release in late 2015 on Dark Descent records.

Sonance - Mirror and Vie

This album can be played alone, or at the same time as "LIKE GHOSTS" then "BLACKFLOWER".

Premonições: Skáphe - Untitled

Preview track from the forthcoming SKÁPHE LP is now streaming.

Set to be released on in early 2016 on LP by Fallen Empire Records and CD by I, Voidhanger Records.