Sunday 30 December 2012

Memories Yet To Come 2012


Another year is passing by and hopefully we are still here, 
so these are my suggestions for some of this year's releases that kept my ears busy:


1. A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays (Full-length 2012)
2. Absum - Odz Manouk (Split 7'' EP 2012)
3. Acrimonious - Sunyata (Full-length 2012)
4. Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock (Full-length 2012)
5. Arcana - As Bright As A Thousand Suns (Full-length 2012)
6. Bilskirnir - Der Wolkenwanderer (7'' EP 2012)
7. Borgne - Royaume des Ombres (Full-length 2012)
8. Burial Hordes - Descent (7'' EP 2012)
9. Dala Sun - Gegenschein (Full-length 2012)
10. Dead Can Dance - Anastasis (Full-length 2012)
11. Die Antwoord - Ten$ion (Full-length 2012)
12. Eïs - Wetterkreuz (Full-length 2012)
13. Elysian Blaze - Blood Geometry (Full-length 2012)
14. ForestMuse - The Land of Tall Trees (Full-length 2012)
15. Formloff - Spyhorelandet (Full-length 2012)
16. God Seed - I Begin (Full-length 2012)
17. Hail Spirit Noir - Pneuma (Full-length 2012)
18. Hexvessel - No Holier Temple (Full-length 2012)
19. Igorrr - Hallelujah (Full-length 2012)
20. Kawir - ΙΣΟΘΕΟΣ (Full-length 2012)
21. Mgła - With Hearts Toward None (Full-length 2012) 
22. Netra - Sørbyen (Full-length 2012)
23. NettleCarrier - NettleCarrier (Full-length 2012)
24. Open Grave - Fear (Full-length 2012)
25. Skygge - Knokkelkraft (Full-length 2012)
26. Svartidauði - Flesh Cathedral (Full-length 2012)
27. Tatir - Cave of Ephyras... To the Infernal Fields (Compilation 2012)
28. The Ascendant - The Spiritual Death (7'' EP 2012)
29. Vattnet Viskar - Vattnet Viskar (10'' EP 2012)
30. Vemod - Venter på stormene (Full-length 2012)

Tuesday 25 December 2012

Grimm – Nordisk Vinter (Demo 1993)


Country: Norway

Tracklist
1. Intro: Darkest Depths 03:27
2. The Embrace Of The Cold 03:50
3. Born In The Hands Of Doom 04:49

Pre-Carpathian Forest demo featuring the two main founders of the band Nattefrost and J. Nordavind.
Some of the other Grimm members also participated in "Journey Through the Cold Moors of Svarttjern"
demo release as guests (Grimm and Damnatus).
Well this is a very good demo pointing the direction that the future relases of Carpathian Forest would follow.
With very few words what you get from this cult release is one intro, a black'n'roll track (in Carpathian Forest style)
and a more slow-atmospheric-black metal composition.
Re-released as a bootleg 7" EP in 2001 by Vinyl Maniac Records (sublabel of No Colours Records).


Memory

Thursday 20 December 2012

Skrol – Martyria (10'' EP 1998)


Country: Czech Republic

Tracklist
1. Soaking / Movie Martyr 10:22
2, Insomnia 08:00
3. Dei Irae 07:18

Skrol is a Czech avant-garde martial industrial band from Prague, formed in autumn 1995.
Bands activity started to evolve in 1996, consisting of composer, instrumentalist and sound alchemist Vladimir Hirsch

singer Martina Sanollova and lyricist and producer Tom Saivon.
The creative principle of the band is based on neo-classical concepts with a congregation of martial industrial, 
with an attempt to attain an organic amalgam of the two on rudiments of rock music patterns.
Martyria was released as a 10-inch LP on the LOKI Foundation/Power & Steel label 

in August 1998 as a limited edition of 300 copies. 
These tracks were also included in their later full-length album Insomnia Dei, released in 2001.

Memory

Wednesday 19 December 2012

Bethel – Northern Supremacy (Demo 1997)


Country: Finland

Tracklist
1. Ave Inferno... 01:53
2. Wandering in the Lands of Dark and Frost 07:19
3. Triumph for the lost Azure 07:18

First and only release from Finland's Bethel playing melodic-atmospheric black metal
with a lot of variety in their compositions.
Keyboard parts,clean vocals,fast black metal,mid-tempo-acoustic parts
all these under a very good productions for a Demo release.

Memory