Nightbringer (USA) – Terra Damnata 14.04.2017

Nightbringer (USA) – Terra Damnata 14.04.2017

Season Of Mist

Nightbringer from Colorado, USA was born in 1999 by Naas Alcameth who have or has a few other projects, like Akhlys; Bestia Arcana (with other Nightbringer members) and Nox Corvus who went to his own path. Now in 2017 after they ate a lot of members with a lot of split and four full length is a quintet including for example Menthor, who is the drummer in Lvcifyre and much more.

Five members in a Black Metal band never sounds too good and in case of Nightbringer is fairly true. United States created with great Death Metal bands, but only a few evaluable Black Metal bands. First, I think they really want to follow European Black Metal, but the well-known, mainstream way such as Dimmu Borgir; early Cradle Of Filth; late Emperor or newer Dark Funeral. Their music is too complex and want to be very evil, but they just uses boring, meaningless themes.

I acknowledge their knowledge in occult and music too, but not in creating of Black Metal. For that need something more to know in the dimensions of spiritual blackness. There were/are and will a lot of great Black Metal bands in whole world, but much more so called Black Metal bands whose don't understand the creativity of black

There are a lot of bands whose start their existence under the veil of any other “bigger” band, but can grow through above this child disease and from servant become the master. In case of Nightbringer was not so successful this event even they are at fifth full length.

Dense, complex music with a lot of keyboard. Including a lot of blastbeat, but also doomy slowing, ramming, shallow creeping. The only song that I can highlight is the sixth 'Inheritor of a Dying World' all other songs just for mainstream lovers.

https://nightbringer.bandcamp.com/                                                             http://www.season-of-mist.com/ 

                                          Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaalrhlvPAE

Firespawn (SWE) – The Reprobate 28.04.2017

Firespawn (SWE) – The Reprobate 28.04.2017

Century Media Records

Firespawn was born in Sweden in 2014 as Fireborn, then one year later they changed their name to Firespawn. Nevertheless band members started decades ago in bands such as Necrophobic; Usurpress; Entombed A.D.; Dark Funeral..etc. One of them is L.G. Petrov who was the vocalist in cult bands such as Nihilist; Entombed and Morbid, where he played together with the best singer ever: Dead. What great stories could he tell!

Really when listen and review any album, not the members are important first, but the music and the releases.

Firespawn first bastard was the 7"EP called "Lucifer has spoken" in august 2015. Both song ('Lucifer Has spoken' and 'The emperor') got a visual release too that did a starting fire to Firespawn legion. First LP/CD “Shadow Realm” was released three months later in November the same year that has been re-released on CD in 2016 by Mazzar Records.

Eleven songs of “Shadow Realms” contained the two songs of the 7”EP and got a new video for the song 'All Hail' too. As song-titles spoken, Firespawn singing about the dark side.

When 'Serpent of the Ocean' started I was not disappointed. The music correctly fits to lyrics as brutal, but melodic, real headbanging Death Metal that for example Deicide knew in “Serpents/Insineratehymn” era. L.G. singing more brutal than ever, in 'Blood Eagle' the riffs in the middle of the song like a Slayer song from "Divine Intervention".

Intense, brutal, mainly mid-tempo, but faster parts are not alien for these guys around age of 45! As biography says, they lives in Death Metal everyday so Death Metal is in their veins. They are still hungry for brutality and that's an honor for the style and for the fans too.

These men played Death Metal when most of today fans were just a sperm and they still know and never left the way of left hand path. Obviously every band get any influences, especially if he wrote already a lot of songs, but counter to many old bands, they don't want to travel back in 60'/70' years when they were kids. Firespawn follow the path when they was a teenager and their mind and flesh are opened for the real way of Death Metal. Only Death is real!

“The Reprobate” is killer and brutal as Death Metal was in in mid 90's and needs attention. These guys will tear your spine out. 10 songs in nearly 43 minutes

Respect!

Note: All above mentioned videos can you find in video sharing pages

https://www.facebook.com/firespawnofficial/                                                          www.centurymedia.com 

                                            Video :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inx_Nfr9QaI

Windswept (UKR) – The Great Cold Steppe 31.03.2017

Windswept (UKR) – The Great Cold Steppe 31.03.2017

Three Ukrainian musician from Drudkh started a new project and written and recorded “The Great Cold Steppe” under three days only without any rehearsals.

The names are initials on this album, but I know that R is Roman Sayenko who is a very talented and known musician in Ukrainian scene. Then K is Krechet who played bass and V is Vlad who played the drums. Counter to the mother band here is not any keyboard just the usual guitar – bass – drums and vocals.

It was a very great idea to create Windswept as it can summon the ancient spirit of Black Metal. Triumphant and atmospheric guitar themes, blastbeat drums and hateful vocals features on this nearly 34 minutes long album. Instead of evil themes, Windswept is natural and cold just the Great Cold Steppe. They are in harmony with the grim forces of nature, like blizzard, storm, frozen trees, ice-cold winds.

Nature can be evil, but evil is natural in nature as in the movie Antichrist said:”Nature is Satan's church”. These are universal and ancient secrets.

The six songs inspired by Eastern land during winter and I think it is so great and beautiful as every winter. The whole album is like a marching, fast and melodic without any resting.

Every instruments can be heard clearly, the sound is good. There is no choice, than to buy this album by Season Of Mist.

                            CD Digipak hand-numbered and limited to 1.000 copies
                            Black Vinyl-LP hand-numbered and limited to 500 copies 

https://hu-hu.facebook.com/windsweptukraine/                                            http://www.season-of-mist.com/

 

Earth Electric (NOR-POR) – Vol.1: Solar 12.05.2017

Earth Electric (NOR-POR) – Vol.1: Solar 12.05.2017

Season Of Mist

1994 volt, amikor Blasphemer az Aura Noir-ból átigazolt a Mayhem-be, hogy átvegye az Euronymous által hagyott űrt. Sokan rosszallóan tekintettek körbe, de akkor már a régi Mayhem halott volt.

Nem kétséges, hogy Blasphemer egy tehetség a zeneírás terén és nem csupán a két kvintes témákhoz ért. Azóta rengeteget fejlődött és így könnyebben visszatérhetett a zenei gyökerekhez.

2005-ben az Ava Inferi megalakult és kezdetét vette az új pályára állás. Nagy szerepet játszhatott az életében a Portugál származású Carmen Susana Simóes, aki az Ava Inferi énekesnője volt. Szerelemgyanús az egész, hiszen az Ava Inferi nem csak zeneileg, de szövegvilág terén is jócskán eltért korábbi munkásságától. Természet, szerelem...

Blasphemer nincs többé, helyette Rune Eriksen az, aki a zenéket írja, egy átlagos(vagy átlagon felüli) zenész, de semmi több. Azt hiszem, valójában a múltja nem is érdekes, hiszen nem a múltját követi.

Az Earth Electric mondhatni az Ava Inferi egyenes folytatásának is tekinthető, habár ott még Gathering-re jellemző Gothic/Doom volt a zenei háttér.2013-ban vége lett, hogy 2014-ben már új névvel egy még távolabbi zenei skálán kezdhessék újra. Alexandre Ribeiro csatlakozott basszeron, Ricardo Martins dobokon és Dan Knight szintetizátoron.

Nincs információm arról, hogy mit csináltak az elmúlt 3 évben, de májusban megjelentetik első albumukat, mely csalódást fog okozni a régi rajongóknak. Az Earth Electric már nem nevezhető Metal zenének többé, inkább Hard Rocknak. Leginkább a Magyar Solaris-hoz tudnám hasonlítani a zenéjüket. Avantgárd témák kavarognak csillagporral és tejúti messzeséggel.

Régi zene új köntösben. Az első 'Meditate Mediate’ dal még hordoz magában némi vadságot, de azt is nagyban enyhíti Carmen vokálja. A 'Mountains & Conquerors pt. II’ inkább a technikára épül. Egy kicsit olyan mint néhány újabb Satyricon dal, mely köré felépítették a női éneket, szintetizátort.

A 'The Endless Road’ pedig egy abszolút kavargó darab.

Természetesen a hangzással nincs semmi gond. Minden hangszer annyira jól kihallatszik, hogy simán születhetnek majd feldolgozások. Ha valaki kedveli a régi zenéket, mint a Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, vagy a fentebb említett Solaris, annak meg kell szereznie ezt az anyagot. 9 dal több mint 35 percben.

https://www.facebook.com/earthelectricband/                                             http://www.season-of-mist.com/ 

Necrowretch (FRA) – Satanic Slavery 14.04.2017

Necrowretch (FRA) – Satanic Slavery 14.04.2017

Season Of Mist

Since previous „With Serpents Scourge” LP from 2015,Necrowretch left Century Media Records and signed to Season Of Mist. Also K. Desecrator came back to the band, but not as a drummer anymore. He became the second guitarist for the band.

In the past two years Necrowretch played on a lot of tours and live shows around the world. Infection so done visually too.

Necrowretch also featured in the second issue of my physical 'zine with a short, but great interview and I did reviews online for previous LP and EP “Even Death May Die”. I was not disappointed when I started to listening Satanic Slavery. It's still a Putrid old school Death Metal with some Black Metal influence – especially in the fourth 'Evil Names' song where the riffs can be placed on a Nordic Black metal album too and of course Vlad's voice is more cruel than some Black Metal voice. Vlad’s voice is still evil as hellfire, and Ilmar can plays on drums faster than two other drummer

Satanic Slavery contains eight songs in an average of 4 minutes so the full album is more than 38 minutes long – or short, because Necrowretch plays that kinda stuff where the time runs fast and the listener want to be more pain.

Satan worship is still the main theme for the evil priest called Necrowretch and I think that it is trustworthy. No doubt that an evil atmosphere can be perceptible while listening Necrowretch music. Yes it has some influences from the past, like the intensity of Slayer, the infernal fire of ancient eastern bands and Vlad wrote some eastern riffs but all of these things makes Necrowretch a very powerful evil and putrid band that need to worship.

No wait to buy this masterpiece, “Satanic Slavery” will be enslave you

https://necrowretch.bandcamp.com/                                               http://www.season-of-mist.com/

Their new official video:

                                       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiwY6UmzVRY

Ysengrin /Sartegos (Fra/Spa) – Resvrrezionespiritval split MC April 2017

Ysengrin /Sartegos (Fra/Spa) – Resvrrezionespiritval split MC April 2017

Caverna Abismal Records

Ysengrin from France born in 2005 to create Occult, hermetic Death Metal or so called Dark Metal. After one demo in 2008,they are over a lot of official releases like two full length and a lot of split.

“Resvrrectionspiritval” is the second volume of the four split that Ysengrin would like to release. The first one was released in 2015 called “Nigrum Nigrius Nigro” and it was a split with Chilean Black Grail.

“Resvrrectionspiritval” was released already at I, Voidhanger Records on 12” Vinyl and the other band now is Sartegos from Spain who was born in 2008. Sartegos is a duo and plays Occult Black/Death Metal. They released two demos and an EP before this split so they are the younger band. While on previous split Black Grail has only one track in 15 minutes long, now both bands plays 3 songs.

Of course, the split is start with Ysengrin's side and a cold keyboard intro that creeping into a slow/mid-tempo, doomic Death Metal song. 'Nel Candore Lvnare' is dark, where the drums and growls are in front and guitar is very weak. Bass, keyboard and choir color the atmosphere. A simple song but it has a weird remembrance and ends with female vox.

Second 'Daemonalba' is just a medieval guitar-playing while the closing 'Solar Birth' is like Therion meets with Celtic Frost. The song has more avant-garde than first song. A bit like Mortuary Drape.

Sartegos starts with 'As Asas Do Morcego' that is a horror music like intro. Second 'Umha Danca De Estrelas Dargas' is a mid-tempo Death Metal song from early 90's demo era. Ending 'Ele Viu as Suas Maos' is like a Swedish Death Metal demo from early 90'.

All in all, this split has a weird, occult atmosphere that left from nowadays scene.Very interesting to listening it and remember.So I think, that this split was a good choice as both band created something special and united for the summoning of old spirit. For younger people needs to merge into it. The cover shows a cemetery scene so it fits correctly to the music.

/I can say for Hungarian fans only, that this split is like a pulled to pieces Cultic Pulp from their second demo. It's sad that the demo never been released officially,but also for their fans needs to get this releas/

                                                          http://www.cavernaabismal.com/

Tod Huetet Uebel (POR) – N. A. D. A May 2017

Tod Huetet Uebel (POR) – N. A. D. A May 2017

Caverna Abismal Records

A bit earlier I already wrote a review about THU previous release “Malicia”, so I don't think that they need introduction. The Portuguese duo will be come back with a new EP in May 2017, that I got from Caverna Abismal Records.

The first thing, that I can perceive, is the sound of this EP called “N. A. D. A.”.It's much better than before, even “Malicia” wasn't a bad sounding album. Fortunately the sound for THU isn't a bad decision. The destructive, misanthropic feelings can penetrate through the music. Tod Huetet Uebel still a great band, and the shining star on the blackened sky of Iberian Peninsula.N. A. D. A. contains two songs in 21 minutes. First song is 'Nå' that is the continue of previous material. Intensive, but tormenting Black Metal music with Marcos’ angry screams. All instruments are on the right place. If you like for example Dark Funeral, you will like this song. (Even THU plays now better music, than DF did on their last album).

Second 'Da' is much more other and special, than 'Nå'. First, this song is more than 17 minutes long. First half is agonizing pain, than Hungarian Veér. Then Sofia join and a flying journey starts. Her voice is (sorry if I err) similar to Dim' voice who is the artist of Hungarian Tymah. May I will check her band Vaee Solis.
Atmospheric and experimental pieces replaced with whirlwind fast tempo, then changed again to flow into the endless deep and madness.

It's fantastic to listening to 'Nå' again as it's start suddenly after the last whispers of 'Da'.

Dreamers of black, worshipers of death I invoke you to paying attention to this genial duo. I think that artwork of Maxime Taccardi was the best choice to this release. Lethal and bloody in the same time as music of THU.

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