Monday, May 2, 2011

Leucosis - Pulling Down the Sky (2011)


This is my new favorite newer black metal album. Yes. Check it the hell out. From Santa Cruz.

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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Ash Borer - S/T (2011)

A beautiful, wicked album. Drone black metal at its finest, from Humboldt County. Tremendously epic, you have to get it.

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Himinbjorg - Europa (2005)


Folk metal, but also hell of black metal. The Inner Mirror and Law of the Worship are my personal highlights. From France.

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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

rhinocervs



0% post rock


http://www.mediafire.com/?fd1kg82a7kk3nb4

aghast - hexerei im zwielicht



this is a dark ambient album made by....the wives of members of darkthrone/emperor. really witchy creepy stuff

http://www.mediafire.com/?82yv5wb3x44kga3

volhan - live ritual



holy shit

http://www.multiupload.com/UBIE75M8K4

i find this entertaining



kinda creepy

http://www.mediafire.com/?jutzltgtnzl

the monad of creation



i have no idea why this isnt on here. this is probably the most tragicly underrated doom release ever.

http://www.mediafire.com/?dmy4d4gktmy

DESTRUCTION RITUAL



this is a really hard to find tape including some really entertaining improv ambient/noise/black metal from the folks froom woodsmoke.

http://www.mediafire.com/?zioxnntmzij

Monday, September 20, 2010

Kongh - Shadows of the Shapeless (2009)

This band's earlier release was posted before on here, and now here is the newer one. Also excellent. Swedish doom/sludge, with some mid-pace death-y parts.

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Sombre Labyrinthe - Heptagram Rising (2008)

This is fuzzy, screaming, nebulous black metal from Belgium. It is an evil fogbank fluming down through dark mountains, overtaking villages and cities alike, and turning all human life to rot. I enjoy it, and you will too.

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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Fell Voices and Ash Borer split (2010)


This is a fantastic tape, and I am terribly excited about it. That is all.

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Sunday, September 12, 2010

Lantlos - Neon (2010)

German post-rock/black metal band. I appreciate it when bands take black metal into different moods, its like getting your back scratched in a way that you'd needed for awhile. A couple clean I can't entirely get behind (like in Pulse/Surreal), but largely pretty good. The internet tells me they sing about "modernity."


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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Ancient - Svartalvheim (1994)

Classic, straight-ahead black metal, from (surprise!) Norway. Contains a smattering of nice drippy and/or acoustic parts, and a neat solo that sounds like it is being ripped out in the bathroom adjoining the recording studio (but in a good way).


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Finntroll - Nifelvind (2010)

Opens up sounding like Finntroll on a fevered warmarch. Excellent harsh black metal parts in addition to their more customary humppa sound. Also present (and customary) are a couple awkward synth parts, but overall pretty non-symphonic, and at times more brutal than I would have expected. Thanks to MDP.

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Eschaton - Causa Fortior (2006)

Driving black metal with old school feel, fuckin' blastbeats exploding everywhere, railing against god, and so forth. Just look at these guys. This is straight up.


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Dark Tribe - Archaic Visions (2010)

German black metal. Dark, cold, with desperate howling and screaming. The band name is appropriate. Some good riffs, mostly cohesive and not overly technical. It has some rough spots, but they're pleasing like a punk record. Pretty great.


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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Asunder - A Clarion Call (2004)

More sludge/doom. This album has resurfaced for me pretty consistently for awhile, and is definitely a personal favorite. If you haven't heard it, just go ahead. There are some great cello passages in here, too.

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Monday, September 6, 2010

towards the skullthrone of satan



i discovered this by chance as a chubby highschooler and was completely confused and amazed. this is a clasic peice of (belgium?) black metal history.cheezy traditional black metal with funny sound clips of thunder and church bells. theres even a song called "evil church". this is so good. if it helps there really big with metal nerds in south america..

link:http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JZ9D0JCE

pyramids vs nadja



this album is a colab between said bands. this is some of the best blissful droney stuff ive ever heard. it goes too far in the indie department at some points, but its still a solid beice of shoegazey lush heavyness. if you dont smoke weed or abuse downers you might not enjoy this.

link: http://rapidshare.com/files/299399235/Prmds_W_Ndj-Slf_Ttld.rar