Sorcier Des Glaces released a trailer for its new album Un Monde de Glace et de Sang to be released in October 2020 on CD by Obscure Abhorrence Productions and on cassette through Dread Records.
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Analysis of Beethoven’s Symphony No.9
Even if the main part of the work was composed between 1822 and 1824, the Symphony n°9 is the fruit of a long maturation which lasted more than thirty years. Thirty years for the idea of a symphony with choir to progressively take hold in the mind of Beethoven. Thirty years during which the music and the text of the “Ode to Joy” will evolve in parallel, each one gradually taking shape over the course of Beethoven’s compositions, before finally being reunited in their last symphony.
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Century Media Records Hosts Isolation Festival Live Stream On May 14, 2020
As the civilized world dithers over whether to open back up and suffer some ‘rona casualties or stay closed for a prolonged sequel to the Great Depression, business including the music business goes on where it can, even if it must be done from home, which is where you can stream Voivod, Borknagar, Insomnium and a bunch of random bands on May 14th.
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RIP: Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk
Years go by, and more of the greats of the past move on to either afterlife or nonexistence, leaving us to wonder what the point of it all is. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” We must announce that sadly, Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk perished today at the age of 73.
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Hetsheads …We Hail The Possessed Sees Vinyl Re-Issue On Buio Omega Records
Second-wave Swedish death metal band Hetsheads sees their solitary debut re-issued this month on Buio Omega Records as a vinyl release limited to four hundred copies. Picking up on the later Swedish sound, Hetsheads resemble a cross between Hypocrisy and Entombed with a darker atmosphere but the same playful heavy metal elements.
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More Evidence For Breath Smoking As The Original Method Of Pipe-Smoking
As detailed in articles about how to smoke a pipe and general pipe-smoking knowledge, the “breath-smoking” method provides optimum enjoyment and safety.
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Disfear Re-Issues Soul Scars On Vinyl For 25-Year Anniversary
Swedish crust punks Disfear have announced that their debut record Soul Scars will be reissued on vinyl LP on May 8th, 2020. The band, famous for their hybrid of d-beat hardcore, grindcore, and Swedish style melodic death metal introduced the most complete form of their sound on that album.
7 CommentsHow Tobacco Can Save Us From The Coronavirus
Panic continues among the unpunished herd. They know, in their guts, that humanity has grown too large and with no qualitative controls, so now we have a vast army of locust-like human morons consuming everything they can reach, leaving behind dystopian idiocracies run by cynical shopkeepers.
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Kill or Be Killed! – The Warfare Behind Deeds of Flesh’s Mark Of The Legion
Guest Article by Svennerick
Deeds Of Flesh’s music is known for breaking from the conventional, but unlike many other bands who resolve to untypical instruments or gimmicks, Deeds Of Flesh portray their own variety of death metal through the war that rages within their song structures and riffs.
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Quarantine descended on the West just at the point when the madness seemed too much to bear. Tax sheep in the crucible of tedium, we found that spinning plates just to keep the GDP high had lost its gleam, and now we could see life as the endless procession of documents, obligations, and smiles with gritted teeth that it was.
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