Streaming: Realm Of Wolves - Shores Of Nothingness EP

Band: Realm Of Wolves
Album: Shores Of Nothingness EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2018








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01. Laurentia
02. Shores Of Nothingness
03. Fragments Of The Self
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Realm Of Wolves was formed early in 2018 by the members of vvilderness, Silent Island and other projects. It's the manifestation of their dark side - they intended to make music that is somber and sad but also melodic and beautiful. 

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Video Premiere: Cataya - Vis À Vis

We are honored to premiere the new video by Cataya. Track taken from the forthcoming split with Milanku later this year.

Album: Echoes Of The Moon - Entropy

Band: Echoes Of The Moon
Album: Entropy
Label: Self Released
Year: 2015








Tracklist
01. Entropy
02. Cognitive Dissonance
03. The Tower Of Babel
04. Ideologue
05. Adaptation
06. Acceptance
07. All Is Good
08. Find the Silence
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Echoes Of The Moon is an one man black-metal band from Indiana. All music is recorded on a very DIY budget and self released. Recorded from November, 2014 to July 17, 2015 using Acid Music Studio 7. All music was self done using various instruments from guitars to keyboards.

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Album: Celeste - Animale(s)

Band: Celeste
Album: Animale(s)
Label: Denovali
Year: 2013








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01. Laissé pour compte comme un bâtard
02. Au pied d'une bicoque peu séduisante
03. Sans crainte de s'avouer un jour naufragée
04. (X)
05. Tes âmes soeurs immaculées
06. Dans ta salive, sur sa peau
07. D'errances en inimitiés
08. Cette silhouette paumée et délabrée qui sanglote et meurt
09. Empreinte d'érotisme
10. (Y)
11. Serrés comme son coeur lacéré
12. Outro
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Expressionistic, sophisticated, evolved, overflowing, pitch-black. Just a few words, a desperate attempt to properly approach ANIMALE(S), the fifth full-length record of the French combo CELESTE from Lyon. While their former albums PESSIMISTE(S) (2006), NIHILISTE(S) (2008), MISANTHROPE(S) (2009) and MORTE(S) NEE(S) (2010) have all been finished in a few months, it took them all the last three years to craft this concept album. Unsurprisingly, the result of this long process is an opus which is so loaded and dense that it can bearly withstand its inner pressure. 

The concept behind ANIMALE(S) is the bleak story of a boy and a girl, a kind of love story with a tragic ending. A story about how tough youth can be if parents discard their responsibilities. For once in metal-oriented music, a closer look at artwork and lyrics gives a new dimension to a record and is indispensible for a comprehensive and complete experience of this album. 

Musically, ANIMALE(S) sees CELESTE developing their metal and hardcore oriented sound in different directions. Their music was always characterised by the interaction of monumental melodies, dark riffs, violent drums and expressive lyrics, but on the new album all these ingrediences are more expressed. The last three years' time has carved out the contrasts in Celeste's music like a stream carves out a rugged canyon. The melodies are more melodic, but also more sparse. Many parts are much darker and more noisy than the past albums. The lyrics are as savage as they can be without being vulgar. At the same time, ANIMALE(S) features exceptional collaborations with artists such as the experimental musician Ben Chatwin from TALVHORROS -- also on Denovali Records - and the composers and sound designers Sabrina Duval and Jean Charles Bastion. 

CELESTE truly managed to finish this album at the right moment, before the amount of concept, composition and artistic skill would have been too much for a single album. Exactly for this reason, ANIMALE(S) is a unique piece of art, a coherent album which does not allow for anything to be added without destroying it. Simply put, it is just perfect.

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Single: Anniversary - Transcendencia​.​.​. Destrucción Entero

Band: Anniversary
Album: Transcendencia​.​.​. Destrucción Entero (Single)
Label: Self Released
Year: 2013








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01. Vacío
02. Transcendencia... Destrucción Entero
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Anniversary is a black metal band from DC, USA.

 

Album: Caves Of Glass - Caves Of Glass

Band: Caves Of Glass
Album: Caves Of Glass
Label: Self Released
Year: 2013









Tracklist
01. The Hollow
02. Gone From Oceania
03. Mariana
04. Barren Earth
05. The End
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A collaboration that includes work from Larry Hansen (Zora, Anatomy of a Lost Soul), Jim Tobakos (Amanita), Dan Leader (Qualia, Varuna) and Zach Galkin (Lethargy ,Varuna).

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Album: Falls Of Rauros - The Light That Dwells In Rotten Wood

Band: Falls Of Rauros
Album: The Light That Dwells In Rotten Wood
Label: Replenish Records
Year: 2013









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01. Earth's Old Timid Grace
02. Banished
03. Awaiting The Fire Or Flood That Awakens It
04. Nonesuch River Chant
05. Silence
06. The Cormorants Shiver On Their Rocks
07. All That Howling Fog
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Falls Of Rauros is a black metal band hailing from Maine. Forming in 2005 as a 2 piece, they later expanded into a quartet and since 2010 have been performing live with a consistent line-up. Designated instruments and roles on recordings are handled by various band members and are not set in stone. “The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood” features Austin Lunn (Panopticon, Seidr) on drums due to the band being between drummers at the time of its conception. The name is a reference to J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel “The Lord of the Rings” in tradition but is not reflected in subject matter.

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Album: Autumn, Leaves, Scars - The Story Of A Life

Band: Autumn, Leaves, Scars
Album: The Story Of A Life
Label: Self Released
Year: 2013










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01. Things That Shall Be Burned
02. Beyond Dark Clouds, Deep Into The Burning Sun Pt. 1
03. Beyond Dark Clouds, Deep Into The Burning Sun Pt. 2
04. Highest Walls
05. Fast Traveling Knives. Something Broken. Yes. My Heart
06. Is Said This Is Forever Pt. 1
07. Is Said This Is Forever Pt. 2
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Autumn, Leaves, Scares is a post-black metal band from Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
R. started composing music of this kind a few years ago but only in 2011 he managed to record something with decent quality. The old material is all lost. His friend V. Razvan from Anxiety Disorder encouraged R. to write more music since he could record it. This project begun during the summer of 2011 and then in 2012 was all settled and they released the first EP.

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Album: Downfall of Gaia - Suffocating In The Swarm Of Cranes

Band: Downfall of Gaia
Album: Suffocating In The Swarm Of Cranes
Label: Metal Blade
Year: 2012









Tracklist
01. [Vulnus]
02. Drowning By Wing Beats
03. In The Rivers Bleak
04. I Fade Away
05. Beneath The Crown Of Cranes
06. Giving Their Heir To The Masses
07. [Asphyxia]
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Downfall of Gaia's sophomore effort features the band's now signature dark atmosphere while effortlessly conveying a sense of hopelessness without quite reaching the desolation that has made Neurosis a household name. This time around though, the German outfit sacrifices a bit of density for a more sustained and thorough album. Reaching almost an hour, Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes showcases a bit more of a melodic side, like with the beginning of track “I Fade Away”. These almost harmonious moments serve as an incredibly well executed contrast to the dark depths of the remainder of the record while also offering some reprieve before the onslaught progresses yet again. 

The most impressive thing present in the record is the band's reluctance to rush their sound. Too many times has a band found a unique riff or melody only to accelerate headfirst into it, instead of letting yourself ease into it naturally. One of the defining moments in the record is towards the end, during the build up in the beginning of the track “Giving Their Heir to the Masses”. Rather than speed into the crescendo of the climax, the band plays a trick on you and actually slows the pace down to an almost unbearable crawl. As the listener, you can feel the summit of the mountain you've been climbing throughout the album, but it's just out of your grasp. Finally, after what seems like thousands of aeons, the height of your aural enterprise is reached, and made all the sweeter because of the tumultuous journey you experienced to get there. This is entirely indicative of the exploration required to penetrate the shell of this monstrosity. 

Sophomore releases are almost always defined as a maturing point in a young band's career, and Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes is an incredible example of growth and advancement. The album displays the ensemble becoming more confident in their sound, which only contributes to the overall experience. With the amalgamation of all these elements, and the execution of a band beyond its years, Downfall of Gaia make a huge statement with what could be one of the finest post metal records in recent memory.

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Album: Hypomanie - Calm Down, You Weren't Set On Fire

Band: Hypomanie
Album: Calm Down, You Weren't Set On Fire
Label: Valse Sinistre Productions
Year: 2012








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01. 19 Stars And The Sweet Smell Of Cinnamon
02. Alissa Loves Perfume
03. If Only The Seas Were Merciful
04. Lullabye For Ian
05. Pale Blue
06. You Never Listened To The Birds
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Hypomanie was founded in Arnhem, Netherlands as a black metal project and stayed so for the first three releases. With the release of the self-titled EP, a more post-punk orientated sound was used, mixed together with the vocals from his earlier work. After, Selwin decided to leave black metal and began to play an instrumental shoegaze style, with some slight post-black metal influences.

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Album: Falloch - Where Distant Spirits Remain

Band: Falloch
Album: Where Distant Spirits Remain
Label: Candlelight Records
Year: 2011










Tracklist
01. We Are Gathering Dust
02. Beyond Embers And The Earth
03. Horizons
04. Where We Believe
05. The Carrying Light
06. To Walk Amongst The Dead
07. Solace
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Falloch was formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 2010 by Andy Marshall and Scott McLean.

Their sound draws inspiration from a variety of musical styles such as atmospheric rock, metal, post-rock, Scottish folk as well as minimalist composers such as Arvo Pärt and Yann Tiersen.

Having a deep connection with nature the band is named after the Falls of Falloch waterfall in Crianlarich. Falloch (“Falach” in Scottish Gaelic) means “hidden/in hiding”.

They started recording their debut album ’Where Distant Spirits Remain’ in 2010. Upon completion they managed to secure legendary producer Ronan Chris Murphy (Ulver, King Crimson etc.) to master the album in early 2011, with the chance to sign to the revered Candlelight Records following shortly after. Their album was released on 26th September to a great critical reception.

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Album: ((NAVTILVS°)) - Polaris°

Band: ((NAVTILVS°))
Album: Polaris°
Label: Fuel the Fire, shitpiece.records
Year: 2011










Tracklist
01. Plagve Carrier
02. Mother Monolith
03. Ville Couverte
04. Pilvm° 
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((NAVTILVS°)), not influenced by a specific style of music, but by our nightmares; the cataclysmic prospects of the downfall of this cursed world experienced daily.

This is a band working differently. First there is a lyrical concept in which they put their musical ideas. Somewhere in between heavy, dark post-hardcore, dissonant instrumental eruptions, ambient soundscapes. Apart from the inner circle of the band, which manifests itself in a five piece, they work with artists/musicians of all genres that are willing to put pieces of themselves into the creative process.

They shared the stage with: Wolves In The Throne Room, Celeste, Omega Massif, The Arson Project, Ritual, Count Raven, Long Distance Calling.

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Album: Ära Krâ - Ferne Tage

Band: Ära Krâ
Album: Ferne Tage
Label:  Self Released
Year: 2011










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01. September
02. Ofem
03. Verschlafene Tage
04. Neuschnee
05. Eos & Eis
06. Licht
07. Flieder
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Ära Krâ is a band form Germany, and Ferne Tage is their debut album, which is an impressive one. Try it if you like Buried Inside and Vestiges.

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Album: As We Draw & Euglena & Hexis - Split

Band: As We Draw & Euglena & Hexis
Album: Split
Label: Throatruiner Records
Year: 2011









Tracklist
As We Draw
01. Fingers To Point
02. Fingers To Stab

Euglena
03. Before After
04. After The Before
05. Renaissance

Hexis
06. Crux
07. Nex
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As We Draw •• Nearly one year after their first album "Lines Breaking Circles" which propel them into the rank of the biggest european outsiders of their style, the young princes of french post-metal are back to punish everybody once again with these two tracks, more muscular and tighter than never before. Five-stars songwriting, outrageous emotional power and contagious anxiety, this is caviar filled with cyanide.

For fans of : Breach, Ken Mode, Old Man Gloom

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EUGLENA •• They are coming from the red nation but could have come from the pink city; the hardcore from russians Euglena is as dissonant as buzzing, not so far from the know-how of toulousians I Pilot Daemon & Plebeian Grandstand. These three tracks are a good session of revigorating apnea, slower and dirtier continuation of their previous EP "An Anxious Surface".

For fans of : Buried Inside, Plebeian Grandstand, Botch

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HEXIS •• A Danish butchery : hardcore, black metal, sludge and blast beats thrown in the most epic and brutal way. If their first eponymous EP has already teared a strip off some people, "Crux" and "Nex" are following the going-over by stepping up their urgency and helped by a nauseous as-fuck sound.

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Album: Cobalt - Gin

Band: Cobalt
Album: Gin
Label: Profound Lore Records
Year: 2009

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01. Gin

02. Dry Body

03. Arsonry

04. Throat

05. Stomach

06. A Clean Well Lighted Place

07. Pregnant Insect

08. Two Thumbed Fist

09. The Old Man Who Lied His Entire Life

10. A Starved Horror

11. Hidden Track

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Ever since their inception in the late nineties, Colorado’s (sometimes controversial) Cobalt have slowly, and slyly, made a reputation within the underground black metal scene, more or less amongst the “war metal” sphere of the scene…

Their debut album (which followed their awesome “Hammerfight” EP), aptly titled “War Metal” (released on Displeased Records) showed Cobalt’s creative prowess within the genre by offering a shape-shifting dose of war metal brutality and black metal rawness that made them one of the more unique and underrated acts within the scene.

With the band’s surging new epic, “Eater of Birds”, Cobalt are pretty much destined to set a new standard as Cobalt have taken an immense leap forward, tenfold, from their debut. But that’s just only scratching the surface…

Recorded at Flatline Audio and produced by Dave Otero (Cephalic Carnage) “Eater of Birds” not only embraces the band’s vicious take on chaotic brutal avant-garde black/war metal and blackthrash, but take things to a new artistic level in every possible manner. By incorporating the epic crushing monolithicism of Neurosis and Swans, and taking blackened war metal to new unconventional brutally warped levels, amongst ritualistic shaman-like rhythms and pulsations, through its 70-plus minute pillage, “Eater of Birds” is an unforgettable audial scourge through vast bizarre landscapes and ocean-like terrain.

And speaking of Swans, “Eater of Birds” features a guest appearance by none other than Jarboe on the tracks “Invincible Sun” and a moving appearance on “Androids, Automatons, And Nihilists”, her first official foray into extreme metal.

On March 17th 2009, Cobalt released their magnum opus, “Gin”.

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