poniedziałek, 2 maja 2022
Womit Angel - Sadopunk Finland (Godz Ov War Productions 2022)
niedziela, 10 kwietnia 2022
Vexev - Frater Superior (Under the Sign of Garazel Productions 2022)
English translation:
Uff, where to start, apart from the fact that the album just blew me away from the first listening? Now I'm playing it for the x-time already and I can't get enough. "Frater Superior" is the fourth demo of the Italian Vexev and the first one that I had the opportunity to listen to (but I will make up for it, because it's totally worth it!). The band creates raw black metal, with great keyboard backgrounds (they create an atmosphere that is hard to find). I dare say that they are just as important here as the guitars, both sections go hand in hand like a solid wall of sound. The album is occult, ritualistic in its aesthetics, full of devilish, mystical aura. "Frater Superior" sounds like a black metal score to some ritual taking place in a forgotten temple, cave, in the dark, by the light of candles, with the scent of blood and incense floating in the air. I really liked how the band combined a powerful rhythm section, boosted the whole instrumentation with reverb - giving the material an echo of space, and the vocal served raw, crackling like from some very old demo, when access to good quality equipment was unaccesible for underground bands. It works together givig an amazing experience! It's April and from what I heard, at the moment there is no black metal material that would appeal to much that much and enchant me to the bone. They even surpassed Akathartos, which I also rated very highly. I'm waiting for something equally good, if not, this is the album of the year for me in the subject of black metal! I have spoken!
piątek, 8 kwietnia 2022
Hermodr - Tidens Tand (Wolfspell Records 2022)
wtorek, 22 marca 2022
Amaltheia - Amaltheia (Godz Ov War Productions 2022)
wtorek, 15 marca 2022
Yfel 1710 / Martwa Aura - Kali Yuga Boys (Under the Sign of Garazel 2022)
sobota, 12 marca 2022
Wan - Antichristian Douchebags (Fallen Temple 2022)
czwartek, 10 marca 2022
Ohyda - Ohyda Spustoszenia (Wolfspell Records 2022)
https://www.facebook.com/Ohyda-101157309168939
English translation:
I am announcing a plebiscite for the most obscure, dirty, blasphemous and gloomy material of 2022, ending it and selecting the winner - Ohyda. Ohyda is a new band formed by the well-known underground duo, Bloodwhip and Diabolizer. The gentlemen selected the singer Necheshetrion (Blackphlegm, Halo of Miasma) and the puzzle was completed. This unholy trinity brings to life the EP "Ohyda Spustoszenia" (hey, is the english version of this title "Abomination of Desolation" a coincidence?). What can you expect from musicians forming such bands as Moloch Letalis, Mordhell, Goathrone, Morbid Winds or Zmora? Everything that is best in oldschool, raw metal! "Ohyda Spustoszenia" lasts 23 minutes and is metal, black metal that crawls into the listener from the deepest cellars and oozes all that is evil and tainted. The slow and medium riffs fuel the gloomy, eerie mortuary atmosphere to the steady beat of the Diabolizer's drums. The haunted, wailing vocals complete the piece. We also get Polish lyrics, and the songs gain even more expression and atmosphere. Ohyda does not reproduce the music played by any band of its creators, but by containing their various particles, it presents the most obscure form of them as possible. It turns out to be a hell of a good musical beast. I'm waiting for the full-length album!
czwartek, 24 lutego 2022
Akathartos - Baptized by Darkness (Under the Sign of Garazel 2021)
piątek, 18 lutego 2022
Malediction of Agony - Malediction of Agony (Putrid Cult 2022)
czwartek, 17 lutego 2022
Black Altar / Vulture Lord - Deathiah Manifesto (Odium Records 2022)
Cztery utwory zaserwowane przez Vulture Lord to: "Dominions of Death" (cover Vulcano!) oraz "Hark! The Hymns of War" nagrane podczas sesji do ostatniej płyty, wcześniejsza, oryginalna wersja jednego z utworów z "Desecration Rite" - "Bloodstained Ritualknives" (nowy tytuł to "Bloodbound Militia") - nagrany już częściowo przez Nefasa, z jego wokalami oraz jeszcze jeden numer premierowy - "Usurper, "Thy Name is Death". Zespół prezentuje tu brzmienia znane już dobrze z nowej płyty oraz estetykę grania, którą słyszeliśmy już na ich poprzednich materiałach. To oldschoolowy black metal okraszony black/thrashowym brudem i chwytliwością. To typowy metalowy wpierdol w ich stylu! Należącą do nich splitu Vulture Lord na dobre przypieczętował swój powrót!
https://www.facebook.com/blackaltar
https://www.facebook.com/deathcibel
English translation:
I've been waiting for this premiere! This is another split in the discography of Black Altar, and as I know Shadow he really likes this form of publishing. This time his band has allied with Vulture Lord. The part belonging to Black Altar is a premiere material. I won't say, this band has grown over the years. It was getting better and better in their black metal art in terms of composition and technique, and these two songs - "Scrilegious Congregation" and "Nyx" (I don't count the intros and outros, but they are also powerful - created by Ludo "Evil" Lejeune) are the best proof of that. Despite the sentiment and admiration for the debut album, I can appreciate this musical perfection, being still faithful to this true black metal formula. Especially the song "Nyx" is unique to me. It has a brilliant, slightly melodic leading riff, and the guitar part is spatial in its own way, which harmonizes well with the vocal layer enriched with a slight echo. And the bass has its five minutes in one fragment. Black Altar did this enormous prelude to the slowly upcoming new album, which I am looking forward to. If Shadow, with the newly completed band, especially with Les (Hell-Born, ex Damnation, ex Behemoth) on guitar, will continue to explore the musical regions of this split, it will be a hell of a release.
Four songs served by Vulture Lord are: "Dominions of Death" (cover of Vulcano!) and "Hark! The Hymns of War" recorded during the session for the last album, an earlier, original version of one of the songs from "Desecration Rite" - "Bloodstained Ritualknives" (newly entitled "Bloodbound Militia") - already partially recorded by Nefas, with his vocals, and one more premiere number - "Usurper," Thy Name is Death ". The band presents here the sounds already known from the last album and the aesthetics of playing, which we have already heard from them on their previous materials. It's oldschool black metal with black/thrash dirt and catchiness. It's a typical metal punch in their characteristic style! The Vulture Lord's part of the split has sealed their comeback for good!
poniedziałek, 7 lutego 2022
Imsar - Ciemra Pierad Zołkam (Werewolf Promotion 2022)
https://www.facebook.com/imsarblackmetal
English translation:
The Belarusian Imsar is not a very well-known and recognized band, it rather operates in its niche and only those who know the subject know and listen to it. This year, Werewolf Promotion released the group's third album. What can I say, Imsar can safely be considered one of the best examples of Slavic, pagan black metal and what this style represents in terms of both lyrics and music. Of course, there are also small folk elements here, it could not be missing, but they are only an ornament to the leading intense, typical for black metal, but melodious, guitar parts and a crushing rhythm section. The compositions here also have a bit of epicness and pathos similar to Bathory and Graveland. There are choirs in the background and those characteristic thunder-like drums that were once shown on the album "Hammerhart". You know what' I'm talking about. And in terms of vocals, we have here not only black metal, sinister sounds, but parts sung with a clear voice with a slight hint of melody as well, which in turn reminded me of the Russian Arkona. In summary, there is a lot to listen to and, as I mentioned, you will find here everything that is the best in this genre. It is also worth mentioning the very atmospheric graphic design of the album. Wędrujący Wiatr also uses very similar aesthetics, but there we have accents mainly related to nature, while on "Ciemra Pierad Zołkam" we have elements related to history and mythology, dark accents also appear here. I associate it with the old Russian historical cinema and fairy tales which are screen adaptations of Slavic legends and myths. It harmonizes perfectly with the music of Imsar and adds a lot to the atmosphere of the album. It is worth checking this material. This is only the second or third new release from this year that I am writing about and so far the most interesting.

















