About 3 months after the official release of its brand new full-length album ‘Freedom Won’t Save Our Souls’, French metal/melo-death/thrash crossover trio Haundead just premiered another music video, illustrating the song “Survive” on YouTube.
For reminder, ‘Freedom Won’t Save Our Souls’ is still available on CD & Digital with the help of the Domino Media Group (Colossus Of Destiny, Jian, Sound Of Memories…) while a digital release will follow soon on the main legal platforms.
Black Valley Moon are hailing from America and this band was formed by Down By Law guitarist Sam Williams and drummer Dave Kamrath. This new album contains 13 songs of dark atmosphere, Why? Because this band manages to incorporate punk rock, namely horrorpunk, gothabilly, throw in some surf for good measure and create an atmosphere of old school sixties horror movies like those awesome American International old horror movies. This record is very guitar oriented and I must warn you that, if you search for horrorpunk played in the vein of more straightforward bands of the genre, rather choose something else, this one is more rock, surf and rock/gothabilly oriented with vocals being kinda nervous at time and shouted, but at the same time fitting perfectly to the songs and the atmosphere that this band creates. And that is, besides music, in my opinion one of the greatest advantages a band can have, when their music takes me as a listener to some other place, atmosphere and dimension, thus the art penetrates straight to the heart of the one that it is intended for. I love underground. I love how much freedom, art and discovery it provides, making each one of us find their own new favorites. Go have a listen to this one. Songs like Don´t Lie My Succubi, Sons of Dracula or Christmas In The Castle Of Blood won´t disappoint you, plus you will hear Descendents cover like you never listened to before.
This is a bit older release, but no matter, never too late for good music, eh? Odium Records will be releasing this beauty on vinyl and digipack cd soon, so what better time to have a listen. This is a seven song split release of two black metal bands, namely Black Altar from Poland and Kirkebrann from Norway.
Polish black metal veterans Black Altar, led by founder Shadow offer two songs and an instrumental outro, more dark ambient styled short outro. For the recording of this material by Black Altar, there were some really prominent guests like Mauser(ex Vader), Lars Broddesson (Funeral Mist, ex Marduk) and Alexandros(Macabre Omen). The songs by Black Altar on this record are fast, brutal and full of blast beats, more nineties style of old school black metal and I love the atmosphere of aggression and melancholy they create with awesome melodies provided between carefully constructed merciless onslaught.
Kirkebrann are hailing from Norway and they represent a newer tide of black metal bands from that country, who still hold the black flame of true Norwegian black metal band burning proudly, with bands like 1349, Tsjuder, Urgehal coming to mind while listening to the music of Kirkebrann, but besides that, they still sound a lot like that old first wave of Norse black metal, from the legendary early first half of the nineties. Their for songs on this record are a lesson in raw, yet at times melodic black metal sung in Norwegian language. This is a great split record. Odium Records do such a fine job with all their roster and released opuses.
https://odiumrecords.bandcamp.com/album/black-altar-kirkebrann-deus-inversus
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