March 26 2008 at 03:27:31 AM
The transformation of Blut aus Nord from little-known Black Metal group to herald of a new and “forward-thinking” music seems at last to have settled down since the release of their breakthrough album,
The Work Which Transforms God (2003). While still received with a measure of excitement, the band’s recent experiments with Godflesh inspired industrialized trance music and the pedantic serialism of last year’s
M.O.R.T. appears to have let down the once great promise of their arrival. On their latest disc,
Odinism, the band demure slightly and with mixed results.
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March 26 2008 at 03:21:12 AM
A late arrival to the grim tea party, Ash Pool’s founder, Dominic Fernow – modest peddler of curiosities at the NY-based Hospital Productions record store and captain of audible ship wrecker, Prurient – turns now from career directions of “noise” to music of structure, though still without center.
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March 24 2008 at 07:48:12 AM
Those lucky enough to witness Malignancy on stage, watching vocalist Danny Nelson run through his array of crazed mannerisms, cutting through the sea of sterility on display like a long-haired shark-fin, know that they have long been one of the few bright spots of New York’s dwindling Death Metal scene.
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March 24 2008 at 07:26:42 AM
No record this year has been so burdened by pretense as Will Stronger Than Death
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March 24 2008 at 07:16:48 AM
Sold only in select retail stores and at live shows in the last half of the year, this limited edition 7" brings together two of Germany’s most promising bands.
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March 24 2008 at 07:08:20 AM
One of the few bands who would make even Lugubrum blush
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March 24 2008 at 07:01:31 AM
Like Lovecraft aficionados Portal and Catacombs, Texas-based Brown Jenkins stresses the continuation rather than adaptation of the author’s nightmare themes.
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