on the road again

See everyone next week. I'll be hittin the road with AMAROK  and we are headed south so check the dates and check out our new recording that we will have on tour with us as a tour EP. DOOM!

PROCER VENEFICUS - How The Heather Mooonlight Shivers

 Amazing release that has go in a different direction conjuring up alot more dark and experimental sounds than the previous black metal outings. Cinematic blackened drone folkness that is haunting, buzzing, low end, melancholic, and psychedelic. and more......

                                                                                 Brilliant!
     

try Just Another Winter for euro ordering
and AQUARIUS for the U.S.

LABYRINTHINE- Evoking The Multiverse

One man black metal atmospheric buzzscapes that are very lo-fi, ethereal, melodic, black, depressive and at times technical and I would say somewhat psychedelic. If its your kinda thing then go check his myspace to listen and order releases. LABYRINTHINE

DETRITIVORE- Pakt

Debut LP.  I hear wide array of influence from drone to noise to doom and even more. With artwork by Justin Bartlett, and mastering done by James Plotkin, already cause some attention. I expect some cool shit from this Norwegian duo following this unique heavy mesmerizing piece of what sounds like a beautiful decent into the darkness.

 available many spots but released on Lyderhorn Records

Monarch - Sabbat Noir

I have not heard this yet, but I assume that its nothing short of Fucking Heavy, I'll tell you that much. French Doom, relentlessly slow and evil. Check anything out by MONARCH. I believe this is the most recent recording (released March 2010) someone correct me if I'm wrong.


  Taken from Heathen Skulls:

Hailing from Bayonne, a small town located in the dark reaches of the south of France, better known as Basque Country, lies a slow as hell, dark as death blackened doom metal band like no other, they call them selves Monarch and they ascended to this earth in the year of 2004 via their previous fast-core power violence incarnation Tetsuo.

Drawing comparisons to the likes of Khanate, Burzum, Corrupted, Melvins and Burning Witch, Monarch are a feedback drenched funeral doom quartet fronted by the very beautiful and devilishly evil screaming banshee Emily Bresson. On bass we have MicHell Hammer on Bass, on guitar Shiran Fabrice and now on drums Robert MacManus, formally of Grey Daturas.

Sabbat Noir is Monarch’s latest long player, it’s one one long piece of music split into two pieces spread across both sides of the Sabbat Noir LP. It was recorded at Amanita Studios, France, in late December 2009 by Stephen Kreiger. Sabbat Noir is strictly limited to 400 180-gram LP’s.

Grief-Come to grief

Reissue on Willowtip. This is a must for all you "Doom-heads", Which if you are one you probably already know about this and own the original.

SardoniS

Cathedral- Forest of Equilibrium (2xcd) digpack reissue

"Return to the Forest was filmed in Coventry in 2009 with the key original band members. It features an interview with famous cover artist, Dave Patchett; an in depth exploration of the formation of Cathedral; and the recording of ‘Forest of Equilibrium’ and the record's impact on the metal scene"

This is by far my favorite Cathedral album, In fact one of the first "newer" Doom bands to catch my attention. Amazing release full of evil riffing and Dorrian's voice was at its best! Those melodies still make the hair (which happens to be a lot at the moment) on my body stand up. If you havnt bought this release pick up this newer version, i dont think they fucked with the recording at all (which is a good thing) Hail Cathedral and the Forest of Equilibrium

The Devils Bride

Autopsy- Awakened by Gore DLP

AUTOPSY. Need I say more?

 order it at NWN

Thou

My band Amarok recently had the opportunity to play with THOU in Redding CA.If you didn't catch THOU on their recent west coast tour, shame on you.Here's some video I shot.

Mania

This guy ripps. A video I shot when i was on tour last may with my band Amarok Live at Nates house aka The Burial Grounds in Salem Oregon.
Also check his other projects, LEECH, Vault Dweller, and Flesh Amulet...
go to Mania's self run label Eternal Warfare. Only good shit coming that label. KVLT  

Another few from THOU

    pre-order it Here

 also this preoder split with Moloch is available for preorder as well right  here!! Get it on either vinyl or a cassette version as well. Look out for the Amazing THOU on tour right now coming to a city near you!!

 check the tour dates here
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ALTAAR

If you can get a hold of Altaar's dodonske consider yourself lucky here are a couple teases.

RUHR HUNTER "Moss & Memory "

Taken from Glass throat Recordings

  From designer Rachel Boaz-Scott, in celebration of RUHR HUNTER'S 10 year anniversary this year, the new "Moss & Memory" full length album will feature a limited edition, hand made & hand numbered box we like to call "The Den". Using the same unique paper stock as the packaged CD, the box will be foil stamped with the RUHR HUNTER Raven Talon logo (inside & out) & will contain elements of Earth (moss & soil), personally gathered from the rain forest here in the Pacific North West. The packaged disc will be buried within the moss & soil, as other contents will be random & may contain the following: A RUHR HUNTER hand burned Buffalo hide patch, Ocean stones, Crow feathers, Mink bones & teeth, insects, branches & White Birch bark collected from the forests of Maine! "The Den" 10 year anniversary box edition will be limited to 175 copies out of 1000 discs pressed!

This production is Only available through GLASS THROAT RECORDINGS exclusively!
Note: This is NOT a RUHR HUNTER discography box set!

 
good stuff.

New.

Check out this newer Samothrace song I found on the tube. 

SPERM OF ANTICHRIST - Blight And Darkness (CASSETTE)

From HHR

Out now on HHR, professionally manufactured cassettes with RED PRINT on black shells (factory sealed), no home-dubbed junk. This RE-PRESS has a louder/better sound than the first pressing of black shells with white print.

One of the finer outputs of American Black Metal in more recent years...

SPERM OF ANTICHRIST conjure forth a down-tuned, vulgar offering in the vein of Drawing Down the Moon mixed with Satanic Blood. With four hypnotic hymns to disease, death and devil worship, "Blight and Darkness" stands as their debut release, with further invocations yet to come... 

                                                                                               HERE

SANGUIS IMPEREM/NOCTURNAL BLOOD SPLIT LP

(Description by J. Campbell)

Despite decades of evidence to the contrary, there is an often-voiced misconception that the environment of Southern California is not conducive to the creation of sincerely dark Black and Death Metal. Seen through the camera lens, the Los Angeles area appears too commercial, too sterile, and too artificial. Yet beneath the sun drenched skies, the entire geographical region seethes with the violence and sickness of a region that is awaiting the first outbreak of the impending apocalypse. Disease ridden and consumed by warfare, this area has already welcomed the coming dark age and radiates nihilistic decadence unlike any other geographic region in the world. This atmosphere is perfectly captured by the two bands on this split release, and the image it produces is of a world precariously balanced at the precipice of its own ruin. Importantly, the bands on this split have contributed extraordinarily strong material for this release. Perhaps it is because both bands are still in their primordial stages and therefore still feel the need to prove themselves with every release or perhaps it is because of the close relationship between the members of Nocturnal Blood and Sanguis Imperem; whatever the reason, the music presented here is the finest that both bands have yet unleashed. Although the foci of the bands may be distinct, there is an intensity that unifies the two and makes for a cohesive split LP. Nocturnal Blood is another outpouring of malefic energy by the same tormented mind that created Hate Kommand and Nuclear Desecration. With this release, Nocturnal Blood pushes this vision of unrelenting evil ever forward beyond anything the band has previously concocted. This is among the most unsettling and atrocious Black Death that the U.S. has produced in years. Sanguis Imperem, members of which often perform as live session members for Nocturnal Blood (which is otherwise a one-man project) and behind Damon Bloodstorm for the Holocaust Wolves of the Apocalypse gigs in the United States, has been among the most promising U.S. death Metal acts since the release of their incredible mCD, “The Stagnation of Centuries.” With the tracks on this release, Sanguis Imperem continue to construct intricate and impenetrable walls of Death Metal terror in their uniquely martial style. Clearly drawing inspiration from Incantation and Disciples of Mockery, Sanguis Imperem integrate into their work a sense of strength and warfare that renders it among the most powerful in the current Death Metal scene. The result is epic, victorious, and devastating and the tracks on this split expand the boundaries of Sanguis Imperem’s conquests. Both of these bands are poised to dominate the U.S. scene in coming years and this split presents each at the apex of their power.

Nwn has got some KVLT shit right now. Buy it 

Volahn "Dimensiones del Trance Kosmico" LP

taken from NWN

OUT NOW! Volahn "Dimensiones del Trance Kosmico" LP (KLX-016) An instant classic. Black metal of the truest spirit. Volahn makes their first statement in music, and the voice virtually silences everything else. It is familiar, deep - what is said has a necessary and true meaning. Anyone who experienced Volahn on their recent US Tour knows what to expect: black metal that competes on every level. You can hear that the music is created with the utmost taste and knowledge of what makes black metal effective. Here you have influences from early Dodheimsgard and Blut Aus Nord, Les Legiones Noires, Ulver, Xibalba, as well as Ashdautas and the other Black Twilight related projects from Long Beach area in California. Although the wide range of inspiration creates a diverse form of black metal, the execution is concise and done with masterful technicality. Volahn are also effective in transcending the context from which they come. The music is recorded in 2008 but sounds of an ancient spirit that has faded long ago. The music is contemporary, but it is lyrically concerned with ancient cultures, rituals, and a time when the spirit world was only a knife or drug away. The music is new, but it will mean the same thing now as it did then, in 4 hours, and in ten years. Rest assured that in listening to 'Dimensiones' you are listening to timeless black metal. The heavy weight LP comes in a handsome all black with silver print jacket. Included are insert and album poster.

tHIS IS PRETTY AMAZING STUFF. Somone wanna pick one up for me?

You can this one over at NWN Here

This is the only somewhat good audio quality i could find. I highly recommend searching the song " Uno Con Kaos"it's on youtube. I would have posted but someone decided to disable the embed option...
~ObsidianGrave~ 

too long

fuck.  Ive been busy. Its hard to keep a blog going but i promise a bunch of new shit in this next week. Keep your eyes peeled back and your crosses inverted!