Mourning Lenore – new video online

posted by Zamo on January 18, 2012
After an injection of new blood and renewed hopes, Mourning Lenore are now preparing a whole new set to return to stage and by the fall some new material should be available. The doomsters announced the release of a new song with their new line-up. The song is entitled "Shortcut To Nowhere" and you can listen to it on...
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Mourning Dawn – Working On New Album

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French black/doom metal band Mourning Dawn is currently working on 8-9 songs which will make up their upcoming album scheduled to be released at a later date. The band posted the following on their Facebook page: "As some of you may know, we are just fucking late due to various reasons. Truth is we had to face some...
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Solitude Prod Label Compilation 2011

posted by Zamo on December 25, 2011
Solitude Productions / BadMoodMan Music and Slow Burn Records presents new 2011 promo compilations. Each compilation – is a label’s summary for a 2011 year. All presented tracks are FULL no cuts this time. Compilations won’t be released on CD … Continue reading
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Alcest – Autre Temps official video clip

posted by Zamo on December 8, 2011
"Autre Temps" is the first single of Alcest's third album, "Les Voyages De L'Âme". Since about one week, the breathtaking video clip for Alcest's new single "Autre Temps" is public and in this short time already reached more than 35.000 plays on Youtube! The single is out now as limited etched vinyl 7" and digital download. The album...
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Solitude Productions – new releases

posted by Zamo on November 13, 2011
BadMoodManMusic/SolitudeProductions presents the debut album by an Italian band (EchO)! Outstanding music which cannot be limited by the frames of a certain style combines heavy guitars with atmospheric keyboards, deep growling and clean male vocals while the music varies from extreme death doom metal to aerial post rock. «DevoidOfIllusions» is based on perfect performance and intent attention to details...
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StS Evoken – New Album Details

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Emerald Forest And The Blackbird, the brand-new upcoming album by Finnish doomsters Swallow The Sun is scheduled to be released on February 1st through Spinefarm Records. Guitarist and songwriter Juha Raivio comments: "I found myself listening to an old Finnish lullaby called "Sininen Uni" over and over again, and suddenly images started pouring into my mind of a dad...
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Xasthur – Nightmares at Dawn

posted by Zamo on November 10, 2011
Avantgarde Music is proud to announce to have sealed an agreement with XASTHUR for the release of this giant combo: “Nightmares at Dawn” Unreleased album (consisting of 14 tracks recorded between 2004 and 2009!!) “Summoning the End of Time” Re-issue (split album with Acid Enema) “Sermon in the Name of Death” Re-issue (split album with Angra Mainyu) “t.b.a.” compilation (On top of...
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Alcest – New Album Artwork Revealed

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Alcest’s new single Autre Temps (engl. Other Times) will be released on December 2nd, 2011 and is a harbinger of the band's upcoming album Les Voyages De L'Âme (engl. The Journeys Of The Soul), which is scheduled for release in January 2012. In keeping with Les Voyages De L'Âme, Autre Temps presents itself as a beautiful and magical...
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Cold Body Radiation – Deer Twillight

posted by Zamo on October 20, 2011
After the high worldwide acclaimed debut album “The great white emptiness” Holland’s COLD BODY RADIATION is soon to release the second studio album “Deer Twillight” on fall 2011. So hard to categorise, CBR is becoming a fiercely original reference in the so called post-bm shoegaze movement. The new seven compositions come with a pounding sound structure trying to flout...
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Katatonia video interview

posted by Zamo on October 16, 2011
Jo Schüftan of Horns Up Rocks! conducted an interview with guitarist/co-founder Anders "Blakkheim" Nyström and guitarist Per "Sodomizer" Eriksson of Swedish dark rockers KATATONIA on September 22, 2011 at Webster Hall in New York City. You can now watch the chat below. KATATONIA's ultra-rare 1994 mini-album of death/doom metal mastery, "For Funerals To Come", will be released on vinyl...
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Reido – Minus Eleven

posted by Zamo on January 27, 2012

Reido – Minus Eleven ( -11 )

Country: Belarus

Genre: Sludge Doom / Math Metal

Label: Slow Burn Records

From the beginning until this year Reido have succeeded to put together two albums, “F:\all” in 2006, and the album in question, “Minus 11″ was released on the 11/11/11 by Slow Burn Records.

Unlike the first album “F:\all”, “Minus Eleven” brings major changes in the style of the band. A strong transition was made from the very sludgy and minimalist funeral doom to an aggressive sludge doom, but at the same time quite complex, technical and sometimes even some elements of math metal being present. The atmosphere of the entire album is really, how should I put it, hateful and aggressive, and it is hard to be anything else when among the titles on the cover we find: “Violence & Destruction”, “The Six Day War”, etc.

“- 11” brings us songs that are very well made and quite technical, but this at a time can be quite tedious and one might loose interest, especially if the melodic line sounds almost the same. Well this thing could have happened because there are little rhythm breaks; some exceptions can be heard on “Violence & Destruction” and “Flows & Eruptions”. The riffs on this album are very agressive, heavy and distorted, not as distorted as one could meet in Electric Wizard, but just as heavy, one can hear them from one end to another of the album.

As to what vocal concerns, grunting vocals, somewhat in a hardcore way, very similar to what one can hear in “Cult of Luna”. Overall, not bad vocals but I was not quite impressed, maybe because I prefer a more doomish touch to it.

So “- 11”, aggressive – yes, technically complex – yes, powerful harsh vocals – yes, heavy sludge doom riffs – yes, but for me the “minus” part of the album: too linear for my taste.

All in all, it is not about me here, but if you’re okay with all the “yes-es” above, you can take “Minus Eleven” into consideration.

Songs that attracted my attention: “Violence & Destruction”, “The Six-Day War”, “Arhat” – a slow sludge / funeral doom song.

Rating: 6.5

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