Local store findings!

I got lucky roaming my local recordshop Sound Pollution today!
Four bittersweet albums:
 

Hetroertzen (i got the nice cd but this vinyl version got some tasty extras in it etc, yeah i´m a sucker for Hetro...)
Arckanum - Grimalkinz Skaldi
Acherontas - Hermeticism
Sonne Adam - Transformation

I´m waiting just now also for an minor order from Scythe of Death Productions, some Ormgård & Tomhet etc etc...

Repulsive Record Rape-Christmas sale!

The great webshop Repulsive Records had an end-of-year sale (25-50% off!!!).... so i dug a hole through my soul and bought these unpleasant creations!

 (I´ll write the band titles soon when i got some time over.)

Link to the store:

http://www.repulsive.se/sv/

Weapon - From the Devil´s Tomb

Time for some blackened death metal!

This Canadian hord is one of the "New Millenium" bands that have studied the original school of death and taken that inspiration and cultivation and morphed it into their own "neo-blood" thus birthing a new golden dawn of misery and soundscapes!

Weapon combines the old primal anguish & anger from death & black (Morbid Angel, Deicide) metal of the early 90´s with a new more calculated approach without loosing the "true" aspect of it all.

Even "occult" nostalgia is felt here between the brutal riffs and smashing drumbeats, the songs is quite long (from 3 to 8 min) but they are evolving in a good piece and the ritualistic vibes is poured into your blood in an pleasing way.
Many interesting and varid parts flows into one to another and some oriental compositions gives the whole impression an extra push to the black skies.

 Epic guttural dark mysticism!


Track List:

1.     From the Devil's Tomb    
2.     Vested in Surplice, and Violet Stole    
3.     Furor Divinus    
4.     Vortex - 11724    
5.     Lefthandpathyoga    
6.     The Inner Wolf    
7.     Sardonyx    
8.     Trishul    
9.     Towards the Uncreated    

Atra - Of Demise, Evil & Necromancy (Demo Collection)

As the title says this is Atras demo collection!

It contains the complete first four demo tapes and all together it has 14 tracks, You surely get a lot of meat for your cash!

First thing that strikes me (soflty) is that these demos compared to the later albums is that they have more of a introverted melancholy and not so much in the way of anger etc, the production is more like tape demos(duh!) and has a lesser clear production but it works fine, just cram up the volume and listen carefully!!

I personally prefer the albums with their stronger feelings and hatefull vibes but this demos has many other qualities like the foggy & depressive internal landscapes.... that grows and twists under your skin.

I like myself best the first and the last demos mainly for the first one to be really muddy and gloomy and the last for speeding things up a bit and has more of a stingy sound & putrid emotion.

All in all this is Atras respectable but filthy birth and if you like Atra you should own it!
And this is cd is your only chance now.

Track list:

1.     Worship         
2.     Atra Sacramentum         
3.     Soul Demise         
4.     The Altar
       
5.     The Chalice         
6.     Black Elegy         
7.     Beneath the Silent Souls
        
8.     Black Storms of Suffering         
9.     Winds of Madness Obscure    
10.     Twilight and Ruin         
11.     The Darkest Salvation
        
12.     Harbinger        
13.     Horizons Eclipsed with Burning Witchery         
14.     Through Night & Bloodred Dawn...         

The running time is around 55 minutes.

Grá & Styggelse Concert!

If you live in Sweden and close to Stockholm you should consider to go to this concert with the perverted Styggelse and the dark & bloody Grá!
The gig will be in Gamla stan in a place called The Liffey!

For more info follow this link:

http://pussyagogo.blogspot.se/p/51-lor-gra-styggelse.html

My Art - Vampire -

The new year was boring (well i was tired cuz i happened to have to much fun the day before new years eve..) so i drew a little fanart on the Death metal band Vampire.

Drowning the Light - A World Long Dead

I slowly drag up this classic from 2006/07 as my number one post to this first teenaging millenium year 2013!

I thought it would be fitting to once again look back in anguish of a world long dead.

This release is stated by Azgorh to be the last cd reprinting (1000 copies) so buy it now if you want it!
This release even has the 4-track Ep "Vampyric Winter" as a bonus!

Over to the music, it all starts with one of the best, melancholic & beautiful keyboard intros i heard from DTL after that the first song cracks open and the grim & raw buzz rolls up and engulfs you, this sea of melodic but black sorrow flows a long through one song into the next, it feels like you standing on a vast and cold shore and you know your life will soon come to an end...
The vocals is in the same raspy hatred as in your typical DTL release but on this album the utter grief is more present and it cementes the the ground vibe of the whole record.

Songs like "Fate Forged in the Name of Satan" & "Mysteriis Anguis" attacks from both sides and speeds up the war greatly, after the little interlude the last & also the titletrack "A World Long Dead (Time Heals Nothing)" ends this part of the cd, it is a ten minutes somewhat medetative and depressive closure to it all and it is a fitting song for just that to.

All in all a great DTL album with strong compositions and arrangements with true emotions!

Track list of "A World Long Dead":

1.     Tears of a Dead God         
2.     The Haunted Ruins of a Vampyric Soul        
3.     Dark Whispers of Torment         
4.     Fate Forged in the Name of Satan         
5.     Mysteriis Anguis         
6.     Nostalgic Grief         
7.     A World Long Dead (Time Heals Nothing)     


And now the bonus ep starts with another keyboard intro but this time not as masterly as the first but it has enough of dark aura in it to feel motivated, the two "real" songs here is of high standard and is a bit sharper mixed and is a bit more agro at least in my eardrums.
The the last track "Frozen Stare" is an nice guitar outro that leaves you with an lonly chill when it ends, this bonus fits right in with the main title.

 I´m glad to get it in this physical form now when it is hard to get, but i think i´m sic enough to buy Vampyric Winter if i come across it in its original  vinyl outing though.
Love the cover also! (both of them!!!)

Track list of "Vampyric Winter":

1.     Black Candles Burning Out         
2.     Vampyric Winter         
3.     Last Sunset of a Dying Autumn         
4.     Frozen Stare        

The only thing i miss is the text to the lyrics...