Tuesday, 31 December 2024

Memories Yet To Come 2024



In alphabetical order:
 
 
 
1. African Imperial Wizard – Mbuya Nehanda (Full-length 2024)
 
 
2. At The Altar Of The Horned God – Elements (EP 2024)

 
 
3. Black Curse – Burning In Celestial Poison (Full-length 2024)
 
 
 
4. Clavus – Omnia Mors Aequat (Full-length 2024)
 
 
 
5. Cristobal Tapia De Veer – Smile 2 (Music From The Motion Picture 2024)
  
 
 
6. Feral Spirit – Invoking Spirits Of Ethereal Madness Part II (EP 2024)


7. Five The Hierophant – Apeiron (Full-length 2024)
 
 
 
8. Gnipahålan – Folkstorm (Full-length 2024)
 
 
 
9. Goatpenis – End (Full-length 2024)
 
 
 
10. Inquisition – Veneration Of Medieval Mysticism And Cosmological Violence (Full-length 2024)


11. Invunche – Atavismo (Full-length 2024)
 
 
 
12. Isolert – Wounds Of Desolation (Full-length 2024)
 
 
 
13. Khaos Aura – Born Of This Fire (Full-length 2024)

 
 
14. Luring – Malevolent Lycanthropic Heresy (Full-length 2024)

 
 
15. Lustmord – Much Unseen Is Also Here (Full-length 2024)
 
 
 
16. Mentrix / Gareth Coker – Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown (Original Game Soundtrack 2024)
 
 
 
17. Moon Chalice – Order Of The Black Dragon (Full-length 2024)
 
 
 
18. Nächtlich – Exaltation Of Evil (Full-length 2024)
 
 
 
19. Secrets – Towards The Nightside (Full-length 2024)

 
 
20. Spite – The Third Temple (Full-length 2024)
 
 
 
21. Starcave – Sukta (Full-length 2024)
 
 
 
22. Stygian Ruin – A Violent Egress (Full-length 2024)
 
 
 
23. TeHOM – Legacy (Full-length 2024)
 
 
 
24. Tyranni – Dränkt Av Livets Sekret (Full-length 2024)
 
 
 
25. Törnen – Under Korpens Visdom (Full-length 2024)
 
 
 
26. Unholy Craft – Saa Mø​rkt, Saa Mektig (Full-length 2024)
 
 
 
27. Wrathprayer – Enkoimeterion (Full-length 2024)
 
 
 
28. Xenomorph – Netherverse (Full-length 2024)
 
 
 
29. Ûlairi – Ûlairi (Full-length 2024)

 
 
30. ПОГАНЬ – Відьми Та Вампіри (Demo 2024)
 
 
 

Eternal Frost – Christial Holocaust (Demo 1998)


Country: Netherlands

Tracklist
1. Intro 01:09
2. Final Trip 03:59
3. Eternal Frost 02:34
4. Christial Holocaust 04:31
5. Slagveld 03:17

Melodic Black Metal band formed in 1996 under the name Lord Of Grim (also known as Lord Of Flies at one point).
Eternal Frost only released one demo in 1998 entitled "Christia(n?)l Holocaust" that incorporated a lot of keyboard parts.
Featuring members of Blutvial, Israthoum and Thanatos.

Monday, 30 December 2024

Asmorod – Involution Toward Chtonian Depths (1997)


Country: France

Tracklist
1. Poison - Transcendance 07:37
2. De Cantico Funebri 06:04
3. For A Brighter Faint Light (Fragile Salicacée Sous Un Terne Suaire) 03:16
4. Through Oceanic Calls 05:49
5. Ïa! Ïa! Cthulhu Fhtagn! 12:47
6. Subplutonary Incubation I 12:19
7. Subplutonary Incubation II (Abandon À La Morphine Céleste) 08:29
8. Chtonian Transubtantiation: Lorsqu'ils Rient Mais Ne Sourient Plus 17:19

Dark Ambient project from France, founded by Nicolas D. Faure
 (Dies Sanguini, Kurotokage, Ligeia's Sore Neurosis, Les Amants Maudits, Ephel Duath) in 1994.
The first demo tape, "Dance In The Winter Fog",
was released in the same year and was a mixture of dungeon synth and black metal.
In 1997 Asmorod released on Solistitium Records their first full-length album titled "Involution Toward Chtonian Depths",
which saw the participation of Cédric Codognet (Sator Absentia) and Vanessa Hidden.
With this album the project started to provide its typical mysterious,
deep dark ambient that distinguishes them from other releases of the same style.
Other albums followed, "A Faint Light Below" in 1998, "Derelict" in 1999, and "Hysope" in 2006.

Thursday, 26 December 2024

Βάκχειος – Μάκαρ Κερασφόρε (Demo 1998)

 
Country: Greece

Tracklist
 1. Μάκαρ Κερασφόρε 03:35
2. Νυκτέρι Ευβουλές (Bonus Track) 05:09
 
Greek Pagan/Black Metal project created in late 90s by Voreas (Oct 15th 1979 - Feb 11th 2022,
also member of Dark Mighty Thought, F.R.O.S.T., Goathrone and Drutentus) and who also used to run Druvid Promotion.
Only one demo/promo released in 1998 entitled "Μάκαρ Κερασφόρε" that featured one track under the same title.
Supposedly some copies included a second track entitled "Νυκτέρι Ευβουλές",
which later in 2012 appeared in the compilation "Hellenic Metal Of Black Death".
In 2016 Cryptia Productions re-released both demos of Drutentus and Βάκχειος in a limited edition CD featuring both tracks.

Wednesday, 25 December 2024

Umbra – Unclean Spirit (1999)


Country: United States

Tracklist
1. The Valley Of Dry Bones 06:25
2. Poison Control 08:11
3. Lecher 05:23
4. From The Well 04:24
5. Tangleld Gullet 07:01
6. Washed Up On The Banks 07:52
7. Stacking The Dead 06:12
8. The Conscious Dead (Sallow Mix) 07:09
9. Spiders Under The Skin 02:11
10. Hacking The Root 06:26
11. Husk (Remix - Recontextualization By Azoikum) 03:38

Umbra was a collaborative effort between Scott Candey of Gruntsplatter
 and Stephen Petrus of Murderous Vision (In Death's Throes).
The idea for doing a collaborative project arose in late 1998.
Despite the long distance between them, one being in California and the other in Ohio,
by early 1999 they had completed enough material for a full length release
as well as contributing a track to the "Baited Breath" double cassette compilation.
In early April 1999 Stephen visited San Francisco
and together with Scott they were able to play what would be their one and only show.
This performance was recorded and released as a very limited edition CDR titled, "Perish: A Live Document".
The full length album, "Unclean Spirit", was released by The Rectrix Records as their debut offering.
It shows a varied approach while remaining within the sphere of dark experimental.
Moving from dark ambient to more abusive, grating textures,
"Unclean Spirit" also wove in rhythmic elements that shifted from meditative ritualism to tantruming machinery.
Rooted in a dirty lo-fi aesthetic it emerged as a project unique unto itself.
In addition to nine brand new tracks "Unclean Spirit" also features a track, using the album material as soundsource, reinterpreted by Azoikum and a more ambient mix of "The Conscious Dead",
which appeared on the "Baited Breath" compilation.

Sunday, 22 December 2024

Predominance – Hindenburg (1998)


Country: Germany

Tracklist
1. Ascending Colossus 05:31
2. Luftschiffe 05:05
3. In Through The Eyes Of Heaven 06:48
4. Encoded Pages (Inade Rmx) 06:13
5. Four Symbols 07:00
6. Under The Blackened Sun 04:51
7. Out From The Eyes Of Heaven 05:49
8. Lakehurst - A Tragic Moment Frozen In Time / Luftschiffe 2002 11:17
9. Epilog 00:37

Predominance was a German Dark Ambient/Industrial project of Gerd "G.Z." Zaunig.
Zaunig began his musical career as a drummer of the German Death Metal/Grindcore band Enslaved in 1989.
In early 1991 he decided to go on his own path creating a new project under the name Dogmatized Machinery.
Together with two other members they experimented with heavy guitars, drum-machines
and tape samples but split in 1993 because of personal differences.
Together with one remaining member of Dogmatized Machinery (M. Heiser)
he formed another project called Death Is the Mother Of Beauty.
A short time later, he also founded his solo project Wolverine, that experiment with Power/Death Industrial.
However, as Wolverine became more intense, all of his other activated projects died.
In December 1994, from the ashes of all the experiences and influences of the past, Zaunig created Predominance.
In early 2000s he also created the project Virologic that focused on manipulating raw computer data into sound.
With the album "Hindenburg" Zaunig delivered a historical concept work on the legendary airship disaster
but also tried to draw parallels with the Led Zeppelin band (a decisive spark in his teenage years
that stimulated his interest in music) through various elements.
The cover motif is intentionally based on that of the first Led Zeppelin LP from 1969.
The track "Luftschiffe" begins like their last regular studio album "In Through The Out Door". 
"Encoded Pages", for example, is a multi-track collage that was created on the computer
and consists only of Led Zeppelin samples, which were of course also alienated (encrypted).
At the live presentation in Dresden in 1998, further key symbols were added.
"Hindenburg" was originally released in 1998 as a 6 track Mini-LP through Loki Foundation 
and later re-released on CD featuring three unreleased tracks and a exclusive remix by Inade.
Predominance officially disbanded on 20th November 2017.

Sunday, 15 December 2024

Algiz – Claire-Voie (1998)


Country: Belgium

Tracklist
1. Claire-Voie 01:22
2. Sans Titre 05:34
3. Dehors, La Plénitude I 04:21
4. Dehors, La Plénitude II 06:00
5. Les Heures Aveugles 04:46
6. Les Seigneurs Des Sentiers 05:16
7. Organique 04:58
8. La Chaise (Sur L'Eau) 04:34
9. Fall Apart 04:03
10. Fin De Siècle? 04:17

Algiz was a Belgian neofolk band featuring Leïla Janssens, Jean-François Brohée,
Pierre Kivits, Stéphane Vandezande and Alexandra Debert on additional cello parts.
In 1996 they recorded their first and only album "Claire-Voie" that was co-produced
by Sol Invictus' leader Tony Wakeford and released in 1998 on his own Tursa label.
Strong female vocals in French, haunting ethereal melodies, beautiful weaving strings and cello parts 
compose the structure of the album that also contains a great cover of Death In June's song "Fall Apart".