Eternal Armageddon - Black Trash Bastards

This is the second and updated demo from the Bangladesh based horde Eternal Armageddon, what we find here is a rehearsal sounding demo which by nature includes a organic live vibe and a bit distant sounding which is nice but it somewhat clips my wings to really dig deep into their music.... but that i guess will changed for a possible Ep or full length release.

Their blackened thrash metal is old school (80´s) sounding and also includes a clear rock vain that helps the headbanging to be resurrected, the 4 songs here (the fifth is a Sodom cover) have quite dark cellar sound to it and many parts of the tracks have a certain playfulness which includes nice tempo changes and unorthodox fits like the end of "Satanic Whispers" with its solo bass interlude.


I am optimistic about the bands direction and personal quirks and as long as they continue to create their hymns they will conjure better and better stuff for sure.
Keep an rotting eye open!

Riffing violence and putrid screams !

Track list:

Darkness Shalt Reign (Intro)
Hate Reincarnated
Black Thrash Bastards
Satanic Whispers
Blasphemer (Sodom cover)

RAW WAR #3 -coming out soon-

Here is some photos again on the first test print plus photos (deluxe version) on the posters, the cd bonus is also soon finished.
Also a regular binding with regular price (6-7 euros plus shipping) will be posted photos of soon.

Jarnvidr - Landzplågor

Here we have the second full length from the Swedish Jarnvidr!

This is the first time i come in contact with their music so i cant compare to the earlier work (3 demos, 1 album) but what i can say is that this is like good cold storm attack!

It would be wrong to say this material is raw & primitive rather then raw & cultivated... even as the sound is necro in some ways the production is well balanced and strong & avoids becoming some thin buzzing meadow without a spine and they have interest in melodies...in the best sense that is!

By the "cultivated " i mean that the compositions has its legs in both a personal evolved state and in its old & dark Nordic soul. Aggressive but with a flair of ancient gloom. And the lyrical themes has also interest in  Swedish history/Folklore.

Winds from old times (and i mean older then our modern times!) is soaring and plowing through out (as an example) Jarnvidrs veins like the Gryningsräd (fans of Likvann should like this by the way.) & Vapenoffer!
There is some eccentric taste in intermissions/intro/outros with the quite positive sounding acoustic intro to the cheery military march outro on track 6, all considered this creates a solid persona and i feel that this band will not just be quickly forgotten and buried like so many other bands in this territory.

This release should/could be enjoyed by most BM minions  as i see/hear it!

An all around strong album with no fillers and no excuses.

The cd is released by the great Fallen Temple!

Track list:

1.     Salutation
2.     Der Hammer     
3.     Längs midnattens stråk     
4.     Ett brinnande hat som aldrig slocknar    
5.     Gryningsräd     
6.     Vapenoffer     
7.     För tvedräkt och uppror    
8.     I förbund med makterna         
9.     Edsvuren

Auztaroth Interview

1.Hails Auztaroth D. Dragon!
How is your day?

- I am perfectly fine, thank you!
And I thank you also for giving me space for my work!

2.Let start of with the usual question about
 who you are and when & why you started this band entity?

- My name is Alfredo, and I am Brazilian.
I started in November 2014 this band called Auztaroth, which
 is my particular solo project. My AKA is Auztaroth D. Dragon.
 I started in a single day, talking to my wife. I have other
bands, including Black, Viking and Folk. She said that in addition
 to bands that had already, why not create something according to
my personality and tastes? Something only mine, to show the content
 of what I am, and taste.
So I thought to do many things, until the
 idea of Orchestral Dark Ambient worked very well, so I put forward
the Auztaroth, and I'm really happy with it!

3.What is your first release and can you describe your thoughts behind its creation?

- In fact, my first release is a tribute to the series that I really like!
 The album is free, and is called DARK TALES FROM IMAGINATIONS.
In this album I tribute to renowned titles such as Harry Potter,
Lord of the Rings, Castlevania, Zelda, and others.
What I think about this album?
I believe just what are my sincere views and heart on each series, showing my admiration!

4.I saw something about a split soon coming out?
With which band do you split with?

- In March I will be releasing an album-split with Almofar,
Epic Dungeon Dark Ambient Argentina. This split, I consider
 another work demonstrating a loyal friendship. Unsilent, besides
 being a brother, was very supportive at first. And we already had
 ideas to make a split ... Just did not have a fixed idea about what to do.
 After a while, we talked more and decided to make the album
WENN DIE FLUF BRINGT KEINE HOFFNUNG, translated from German, WHEN THE TIDE
 NOT BRING NO HOPE.
We approach the classical theme of the dangers of great
voyages during the Modern Age. Almofar contains a song, and I am conducting
 four songs. I honestly can not wait to launch this album-split.
Will be in DVD digipack A5.

5.I see you have a firm grasp on your visual directions, can you please tell
 something about the visual artistic ideas?

- I've been practicing for many years to visual art. To my every project I do a
 different type of image. For Auztaroth, I thought about doing epic, beautiful,
 classic images, trying to maintain the authenticity and essence of the modern age.
 For now I have worked in old boats images, Victorian Gothic images, autumn
 mountains. Always keeping golden brown accent colors. But is not always so.
 Here in Brazil it's summer right now, and the next season will come the autumn.
 The golden brown is a typical color of autumn.
When the autumn, I'll start making music with winter themes.
That is, depending on the season as I'm living, I'm always
 thinking about the future composing station.
That is, the next it will be winter, I will use black, white and gray. Classical to Dark
Ambient mode. I'm still wondering if I will use Black Metal in the middle.

6.How do you vision Auztaroth to be in say like 5-10 years from now?

- Difficult to answer this HAHA!
I'm married, and I want to have children! The least we can say is that I will be making
 music with the same love that I have my family I love very much.
But trying to answer ... Success is good?
 Yes, it's good, but it is only a consequence. I just want to make music
using my feeling. It may happen one day Auztaroth end up becoming a Raw Black Metal,
 do not know the future. But my main intention is to never stop the music.

7.How are the musical landscape where you live? Are the many other bands active
now that one should know about?

- I will answer in two options. About my country, Brazil, there are many, many bands it.
 Since metal to the environment. There are GREAT bands, but also there are bands
 that do not appreciate. But I'm proud of my country. About my city, the bands here
 are very hardworking ... All try their way to make your job. Like all I know here.
 Now the public in my city, sad to say this, but they are not united. I try to do
my part, but unfortunately can not possibly please everyone.

8.Are you active in some other band?

- I own the Warlord, Viking Metal

(https://www.facebook.com/pages/Warlord-BR/303090703233468?ref=ts&fref=ts)

and I'm standing on a project called Ars Goetia, Symphonic Black Metal

( https://www.facebook.com/arsgoetiabr?fref=ts).

 Ars Goetia has my wife and I doing the songs, but walked out of time for that.
 I am also on a project called Karkav, Folk / Viking Metal. We have no page yet.
 The band consists of me, and my dear friend from Argentina, called Funes.

9.I saw some nice t-shirt merch etc, where should one turn to if one
like to buy something from Auztaroth?

To acquire Materials Auztaroth, it follows the links below:

Facebook Official: https://www.facebook.com/auztaroth1269?fref=ts
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alfredo.annie
E-Mail: auztaroth-ws@outlook.com
Panzer Records:
https://www.facebook.com/panzerrecords
https://panzerrecords.blogspot.com
panzerrecords@outlook.com

Winterwolf Records:

https://www.facebook.com/winterwolfrecords666?fref=ts
http://www.ebay.de/usr/winterwolf-records

To purchase SHIRTS and MATERIALS LIMITED, only by Facebook Official of Auztaroth.

10.Thanks for your time & good luck with all!

- I should give thanks.
Warriors, never give up. And also my beloved family, mother, and wife, and friends!

All Hail!

Here is the cover of the second album!

CHALICE of BLOOD Interview!

1. Hails! Fresh of the fiery breath of your new EP "Helig, Helig, Helig" I must say I liked it much! 
Both a classic sound and powerful! I am though pretty new to your horde and have only heard before this the split with ISRATHOUM but I can see your progress even so. 
As with this EP how do you feel CHALICE of BLOOD has grown? Have this creation enable you to grasp your goals? As this is a stepping stone towards a full opus (I hope and guess) how does your visions look like if your glance in to the future on that?

- Thank you. We are indeed very pleased with how the MLP turned out, and it is surely a huge leap from our earlier recordings. Funny that you hear a progression between the split 7” EP with ISRATHOUM and the 12” MLP though, since they were recorded at the same time. However, “Sacrament of Death” from the split is indeed a bit different from what we usually do, and perhaps it is also musically somewhat more naïve, in a sense, than the MLP. Regarding our future plans, only time will tell. I can’t promise a full-length record anytime soon, but this is surely not the end of CHALICE of BLOOD. We will emerge from the darkness yet again when the time is right. We will however soon participate with an exclusive track for a quite extraordinary compilation album which I hope will finally be released later this year.

 
2. Let´s go a bit downward into the depths of the EPs songs, the opening track "Hoor-Paar-Kraat" from what I understand has to do with the "Lord of the Two-in-One" of Thelema path written of in Crowleys The Book of the Law? I have no big knowledge on these stuff but what where your ideas of it and also was there a meaning by putting it at the start of the Ep?

- Yes, you are indeed at the right track. Aiwass, the intermediate being revealing the Book of the Law (or Liber Al vel Legis) to Crowley in 1904, describes himself as “the minister of Hoor-Paar-Kraat”. Hoor-Paar-Kraat has for instance been identified (by e.g. occult writer Kenneth Grant) as Set, Shaitan or Satan, the concealed aspect of Horus (whose manifest side is Ra-Hoor-Khuit) – the true formula of Illumination, called evil to conceal its holiness. Hoor-Paar-Kraat can also been seen as to represent the Higher Self, or the Holy Guardian Angel (from the Abramelin grimoire), and in relation to this, in the capacity of the “Lord of Silence”, or the silent Self (i.e. HGA), what better way than to ascribe him to the instrumental opening track that sets the tone for the whole endeavour?

3. On the "Nightside Serpent" I can guess but please describe your side of it. A bit melancholic vibe it has also...

- The track sure has a melancholic vibe to it, but it also has some major chords which I think, without over-selling it, makes the sound somewhat more interesting than the ordinary black metal approach. To put it simple, the track deals with Luciferian illumination and the attempt to capture the gnostic spark – set in a specific conceptual setting. It is a very basic narrative in that sense, but that is also of course a part of what makes it highly relevant for the “Helig, Helig, Helig” effort as a whole. I believe most of this track was composed right after the recordings of the split 10” with ARKHA SVA, i.e. some time in 2007, so it’s not exactly brand new and might thus perhaps be a bit more akin to that era than anything else.

4. “Shemot” is extra interesting because I have myself thought about writing something regarding Moses & the ordered baby killings...but what’s behind your lyrics?

- The term “Shemot” is certainly lifted from the Book of Exodus, as you implicitly have pointed out. However, I can assure you that it does not deal with killing babies or anything of the sort. The lyrical frame work is rather inspired by a curiosity regarding a problematic verb in the Hebrew Torah, or Pentateuch, and its translation into Latin, i.e. the Vulgate translation from the fourth-century. This curiosity has to do with the notion of the horned face of Moses, or rather, in this specific discourse of speculation, Moses is, or becomes, horned as a direct consequence of the Lord himself being horned. Fascinating as this is, it certainly also suggests some interesting associations and parallels as you can imagine, but that’s a completely different story. In any case, this is merely the context for the initial inspiration for the lyrics, and it did eventually evolve and take other forms from there.

5. The “Communicants”? And what’s the spoken words/ sample at the end of the song?

- The words at the end of “The Communicants” are spoken by the renowned actor Gunnar Björnstrand, and it is taken from the incredible Swedish film “Winter Light” (1963). The film itself, dealing with the notion of God’s silence, was certainly a great inspiration for this track and especially its lyrics. “The Communicants” can in a sense be seen as a continuation of the musical direction of the early days of CHALICE of BLOOD – an outlook on the religious art which is black metal that we have no intention to abandon.

6. And last but not least "Transcend the Endless" which is pretty self spoken title and very fitting as an ending song. Grand never ending darkness!

- Indeed, it’s an epic in a very condensed form, and a fitting end to complete the work. It deals with some of our spiritual goals on a quite straight forward and comprehensible level, and can thus be seen as a general statement of sorts, with regard to your next question. Personally, I think this is one of the finer moments of the “Helig, Helig, Helig” 12” MLP, even though it is a bit more melodic and in a few other ways quite different from most of our other hymns so far.

7. Regarding your Luciferian paths what personally do you see/feel you gain from this knowledge?

- We have never, as far as I can remember, claimed to be following a “Luciferian path” ourselves, although the epithet “Luciferian” might surely work as a description of our agenda one some levels. Not least as a way of distancing ourselves from the many Satanism-s that we do not wish to be associated with. For instance, we do not wish to take part in any reactive satanic discourse primarily based on an inverted Christian demonology. That being said, our spiritual and religious interests are esoteric in character, and as such, through various techniques and methods, we do aspire to access a certain kind of higher spiritual knowledge, that perhaps best can be described as gnosis. On another level of abstraction, it can be said that we seek to attain a form of both carnal and spiritual liberation – to become, and to transcend.

8. Is MLO and similar things something that attracts you?

- For sure, I have been interested in the MLO and the Temple of the Black Light for a long time now, but rather from a scholarly point of view than from a practitioner’s’. We are not working with the 218-tradition, and to be honest, it’s a bit ridiculous to see all these bands of attention seeking nobodies pretending that they do when they, in fact, do not. I guess that is what happens when a band like DISSECTION becomes so incredibly influential that they, in the popular opinion, unfortunately are seen as synonymous with an entire esoteric tradition.

9. Regarding the time voids between releases I guess there are many reasons for this but what would you say is the biggest time thief?

- Over the years, the main reasons have been geographical constraints and an excessive amount of other undertakings on the side. The band members have all been living in different parts of the country for almost a decade now, and that certainly limits the possibilities of getting together on the physical plane. However, we have never been a rehearsing band – that is not a necessity – but we prefer to record the music together, rather than from a distance. All of us are also very busy with other commitments, such as other musical projects, as well as profane activities like university studies, work, and so on.

10. I must say the covers on all your releases is of very high quality, how has it been to work with these artists?

- It is indeed very satisfying to time and time again be able to work with excellent artists who are able to convey our visions and sometimes even improve on it. For the first two releases, in the 00’s, we worked with E. Danielsson and A., the man behind the record label Sigilla Malae, for the visuals. For the two new releases, the split 7” EP with ISRATHOUM and the “Helig, Helig, Helig” 12” MLP, we have worked with A. Held of Ubertragic Art and Brianvdp respectively. These artworks turned out amazing, and I think that they perfectly capture the essence of our craft and the concepts behind it.

 
11. Are there plans on playing live sometime? Your music would fit greatly echoing out in "reality".

- Any plans are at this point still very far from being realized, but we have actually discussed it and even approached some potential session members that we would need in order to complete the live line-up. If we were to play live though, we would make sure to do it in worthy circumstances. We are not interested in playing live just for the sake of it. We are not in the entertainment business nor just another pastime for middle class kids with some identity crisis.

12. Thanks for your time! 
By the way to order the EP is it Daemon Worship Productions one turns to?

- Thank you. Yes, it is possible to order our releases from the record label (based in the USA), but also, if you’d prefer, directly from us in the band (based in Sweden). If you happen to live in Europe, the latter option might be a bit cheaper.

Link:

https://chaliceofblood.bandcamp.com/

New album from DEW OF NOTHING out soon!

Here we have a band that goes back to the 90´s thats both deadly and have that personal touch that existed more freely back in the days, Dew of Nothing is ripping hard!

Last release was almost 15 years ago and now they are back with a big fat album called "OUTSIDER"! I write this "heads-up" because i think it is really worth keeping your eyes open for this one by all means! (i know cuz i have heard some songs from it) And don´t be turned-off by the "technical death metal" description because it is not just a technical show off for the sake of it DoN is of flesh & blood!
Much more then "nothing" in other words. ;)

Here is a brief text on the bands background.
OVERVIEW:

DEW OF NOTHING WAS BORN IN DECEMBER OF 1996, WITH THE IDEA TO PLAYFAST AND TECHNICAL DEATH METAL, SOME MONTHS LATER OF REHEARSING AND COMPOSE SOME SONGS, THEY STARTED THE PROMOTION OF THE BAND BY PLAYING IN SOME PLACE OF MEXICO CITY.

THEN THEY BEGAN TO PREPARE THEIR FIRST DEMO, IN AUG-97 THEY RECORDED THEIR FIRST WORK AT M.A.T. STUDIOS, HAVING AS RESULTS A FIVE SONGS+INTRO+OUTRO DEMO, AT LEAST IT HELPED IN 1998 TO GET A CONTRACT WITH TOAJ RECS FROM MEXICO CITY TO RECORD IN A PROFESSIONAL STUDIO EIGHT SONGS+INTRO+OUTRO BEING IT RELEASED AS CASSETTE-LP WITH THE TITLE OF “DOUBLEUEIRD” WITH EXCELLENT ART WORK AND SOUND, AS THIS CASSETTE-LP HAS BEEN PRETTY WELL ACCEPTED THEY REALIZED THAT THEY HAVE TO MOVE ON TO ANOTHER LEVEL OF PROMOTION AND EXPOSURE OF THEIR MUSIC , THE SAME 1998 IMMEDIATELY THEY FOUND CHICAGO’S BASED SEMPITERNAL PRODUCTIONS AS THE PROPER LABEL TO RELEASE “DOUBLEUEIRD”ON CD VERSION AND ALSO TAKING CARE OF WORLDWIDE PROMO AND DISTRIBUTION WHILE DEW OF NOTHING PERFORMS LIVE SHOWS IN DIFFERENT STATES OF THE COUNTRY WITH THE MOST REPRESENTATIVE BANDS OF THE DEATH METAL GENRE IN MEXICO.

 IN 2000 THE BAND WENT TO THE STUDIO TO RECORD “THE HATEHUNGER” IT WAS RELEASED BY SEMPITERNAL PRODUCTIONS AND UTTERLY SOMBER CREATIONS FROM CHICAGO ON VINIL  7”,TWO BRAND NEW TRACKS OF PURE DEATH METAL WAS PRETTY WELL ACCEPTED, AND SEMPITERNAL PRODUCTIONS/UTTERLYSOMBER  CREATIONS DECIDED TO RE-ISSUE ON FORMAT MCD INCLUDED TWO BONUS TRACKS FROM OUR ALBUM  “DOUBLEUEIRD” TO PROMOTE THE NEXT STEP OF THE BAND, SOME MONTHS LATER THE BAND SPLITED UP.

IN 2014 THE FOUNDER OF THE BAND RENE DEWBOMBER AND KENT KANT H.Q.  COME BACK TO THE SCENE TO RECORD A NEW CD, IT WILL BE RELEASED BY THE WELL KNOWN AMERICAN LINE PRODS RECORDING 10

*THE PRESENT LINE UP:

ANZVZ NAASSENE: VOCALS.

MARTIN.: DRUMS ATTACK, GUITARS, KEYBOARDS.

RENE DEWBOMBER:GUITARS,BASS GUITAR.

Contact:
dewbomber@gmail.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/DewOfNothing

RAW WAR ISSUE 3 TEST PRINT PHOTOS!

Some small niggles to sort out but the arrival is soon upon us!

There will probably be two alternative bindings to the zine one (the one shown here) thats costs some extra and one other option with ordinary clam binding but the zine split in two parts.... reason for this is a did to many pages for the print shop to do regular clam binding to all 108 pages!

I will update more on this soon.... but in the meantime rest your slimy eyes on these pics.