Evil Tentacle Records experienced some printing plant delays with its re-issue of Sorcier Des Glaces Snowland on vinyl but is still taking pre-orders.
A black metal classic originally released as a CD-R, Snowland offers a highly effective and visionary form of epic melodic black metal. That this was originally released in 1998 is a wonder considering the tepid and downright flaccid nature of black metal at the time.
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Before Immortal came to life, guitarist Demonaz worked on a hybrid of primitive death metal and Bathory in a band he formed with later Hades drummer Jørn Inge Tunsberg. Nuclear War Now! productions will release the two Amputation demos as a single CD/LP entitled Slaughtered in the Arms of God on August 20, 2020.
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Italian late-1980s style proto-black metal (Morbid, Venom, Tormentor, Goatlord) at its core, Tenebra speeds up the process somewhat and incorporates 1990s black metal of the Teutonic and Nordic varieties, eschewing the traditional melodic approach of Southern European bands for an advancing front of sawing riffs, using these to produce the backdrop for the slow emergence of atmospheric melody which stays minor-key without getting maudlin.
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Nuclear War Now Productions will re-issue The Oath of the Black Blood by seminal Finnish black metal band Beherit in the fall or winter of 2020.
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History will not remember war metal well, since it took aspects of black metal and intensified them but in doing so, missed the point of the atmosphere and sense of a world changing in parallax, where it drifts backward as time thrusts us forward, that black metal captured.
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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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Often the demo speaks louder because ideas remained at their core, instead of becoming infiltrated and confused with aesthetics, market positioning (including the market of popularity among the underground), label demands, technicalities, and other confusions.
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Melodic atmospheric black metal band Wiking 1940 releases its latest album, W, on April 28, 2020, but has allowed one track, “Acquainted with the dead,” to escape in advance. This solitary song shows a melodic yet recursive style similar to Infamous or Rotting Christ.
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Vampyric/Ooccult black metal veterans Black Funeral released a single entitled “Kassaptu Lemuttu (Incantations of Zaqiqu-Demons of the Underworld)” in preparation for their upcoming album entitled Scourge of Lamashtu, set to be released on July 3rd throughIron Bonehead Productions.
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Antisocial and violent black metal band Sammath unleashed a video of the band playing in Moscow, using the track “Ferocious Mortar Fire” from Across the Rhine is only death as the canvas for a newly elitist and intolerant sound. Expect all of the violent of war metal, with the precision of death metal, and the melody of black metal.
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