Nexion - Seven Oracles

Provavelmente o album mais interessante vindo da Islândia da fase pos-Aphotic Womb! 

O ep de 2017 já deixava boas indicações que aqui se confirmam..ficando a ideia, mesmo com o aparente efeito de monotonia que parece ter-se abatido no movimento islandês ainda vão surgindo algumas perolas por descobrir como é o caso de Nexion. A sonoridade é ou tem por base aquilo inicialmente explorado por Sinmara, Chao ou Svartidaudi não é novidade é certo, mas devolve um pouco o extremismo sonoro que se perdeu ligeiramente nos ultimos registos destes nomes..não existe muito mais a acrescentar se conhecem o que se fala aqui provavelmente sabem ao que vão...

Battle Dagorath - Abyss Horizons

The sixth seal of Battle Dagorath' saga will indeed stand as their best album to date by many aspects, last but not least a sharp and definite production that's giving full emphasis to their majestic and epic songwriting (counting over 73 minutes of aural battle this time...) A crushing Spectral Black Metal soundscape that unlocks a visionary journey into the third eye. Abyss Horizons represents the unraveling of your unconscious Ancient dreams, crossing the abyss into transcendental Magic realms. Traversing the boundaries of this dimension, the shadows of transformation are now awakened to restore the illumination of the Great Darkness.

OČI VLKA - Demo

OČI VLKA (translated to English: "Eyes of Wolf") is a two-piece band formed in 2018 in the city called Chomutov, which is located in the Ore mountains in Czech Republic. This area is well-known for eternal winters and for a bloody history after the Second World War. OČI VLKA state that they don't have any musical inspirations - "We listen tons of stuff, and this stuff primarily depends on our mood" - but one can certainly detect traces of black metal, death metal, doom, and grind of various stylistic strands each. What results is an utterly ugly smokestack of dread, darkness, and scorched-earth emotion. The physicality is palpable, and leaden with a heft that betrays the band's two-person membership; in fact, OČI VLKA's swarming attack would be irrevocably overwhelming if not for the fact that the duo's songwriting patiently plays itself out, establishing mood just as handily as metallic might, and altogether creates a sensation of hovering hypnosis...all before the reality hits you, HARD, and drags you down to the abyss.

Deadlight Sanctuary - Deadlight Sanctuary

Deadlight Sanctuary is a solo project of G., notorious for being one of the ghouls behind Norwegian black/death/war metal terrorists Goatkraft. In Deadlight Sanctuary G. has however steered his attention toward the more ritualistic, contemplative and esoteric fringes of black metal, seeking out instead the perverse, morbose, doomed and decadent moods and atmospheres we've seen in bands like Beherit and most recently in Demoncy, a couple of G.'s long running musical inspirations. The end result became "Thaumaturgical Rites of the Damned", G's debut solo album under the Deadlight Sanctuary moniker, a lone descent by the Norwegian musician into a sonic underworld of esoteric perversions and decaying sepulchers drenched with the stench of death. Steeping in deviancy and decadence, "Thaumaturgical Rites of the Damned" is an exercise in sonic disgust, defilement, and abandon, in which black metal has embraced the most decaying realms of inverted filth-worship, giving way to doomy rhythms and tempos that have masterfully re-evoked the tank-linke stylistic resemblances of early Demoncy, along with the disgusting, evil, and lurid atmospheres we've seen spew forth by Beherit in their now legendary "Drawing Down the Moon" album. 

Recorded, mixed and mastered in P.A. Studio June 2019, Bergen Norway All music and lyrics written, played, executed, and arranged by G. Band photo by Nina O. Logo and artwork by BMS Illustration Design and layout by MA.