March 20 2008 at 11:58:03 PM
Two-man outfit Spektr is a collaboration between the members of French Black Metal groups Haemoth and Batthlehorns, suitably titled and acted out on behalf of the invisible and sinister energies purported to surround us all.
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March 20 2008 at 11:54:08 PM
Et in Saecula Saeculorum: And in Ages of Ages—forever, a phrase cribbed from the Order of the Blessed Trinity and transliterated for those that choose to walk with the Beast. Before the church misappropriated the Latin, the Romans were utilizing the saecula to mark the age—and as an excuse to engage their darker sides with much wine and sex. Florida’s Negative Plane isn’t an ensemble prone to shy away from the macrocosmic, as they work from the recording title into consideration of the universe as void, slinking into the frame as voices take up in song.
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March 20 2008 at 11:51:18 PM
Merrimack is French Black Metal that takes no truck with subtlety, wasting all in its path and refusing to go it any way but full bore.
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March 20 2008 at 11:48:08 PM
Akron, Ohio: The void.
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March 20 2008 at 11:44:42 PM
The return of Germany’s Katharsis is marked by a different sonic direction; just what that direction is, however, is up for debate.
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March 20 2008 at 11:41:52 PM
Having been approached by Cold Spring Records in 2005, Ex-Gorgoroth members Tom Visnes (King) and Einer Selvin (Kvitrafn) formed Jotunspor, a semi-experimental project which delivers the niche sentiment common to the duo's recent outings together (Audrey Horne, Sahg) while comfortably book-ending their Black Metal career.
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March 20 2008 at 11:38:49 PM
Sometimes less is more: Cover art being point and fact. Non-Dutch speakers need not scuttle for Internet translating engines as it’s readily apparent that Hekel is by the “intolerant,” for the “intolerant.”
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March 20 2008 at 11:35:54 PM
Long Island, New York's Dimentianon Memorex four new tracks of blackened Death Metal in anticipation of their upcoming full length,
Hossanas Novus Ordo Seclurum.
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March 20 2008 at 11:32:35 PM
More carnage via Chicago
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March 20 2008 at 11:28:57 PM
Brought back into circulation by Deathgasm Records,
The Grand Torturers of Hell finds Cult of Daath in one of their earlier incarnations, declaring war against nuance, fragmenting de rigueur notions of Black Metal orthodoxy with a relentlessly fundamental take on the genre, “waxing poetic” about blood and vomit; flesh and bone; thirst, hate, and lust.
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