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Celebrating 20 years as a band, ATRIUM NOCTIS will release their 5th studio!

Celebrating 20 years as a band, ATRIUM NOCTIS will release their 5th studio album on 2-22-22.
For the new, symbolically self-titled release “Atrium Noctis” the formation around Hydra Gorgonia went to the Gernhart Studio of Martin Buchwalter (Accu§er, Destruction, Perzonal War, Suidakra, Tankard) to let the best songs of already released CDs shine in new splendor.

There, the songs in question were completely re-recorded, mixed and mastered for the 60-minute long-player.

All the material has been rearranged on three guitars, which gives the overall picture on the one hand more melodic possibilities but at the same time more pressure on the part of the guitars.

TRACKLIST:
01. Snow On Thy Epitaph
02. Azazel
03. Ikarus
04. Home
05. Ancient Whispers
06. Die Nacht des Falken
07. Zerberons Erwachen
08. RIP III
09. Spuren eines Wolfes

LINE-UP:
Hein • Vocals
Uhtred • Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Rhadamanthys • Guitar
Sturm • Guitar
Hydra Gorgonia • Keys, Acoustic Guitar, Narrator
Several vocal tracks with screams, growls and classical vocals complete the picture coherently.
ATRIUM NOCTIS play timeless music rooted in symphonic DARK– and BLACK METAL.

Influences from classical music and carried elements from the Pagan Metal area adorn the new output with distinctive independence and special brilliance.

Massive darkness paired with a thick shot of hardness characterizes the new album.

Melancholic, sometimes hymnal and soulful passages are also part of it.
Epic and colorful nuances enrich the whole additionally fitting.
ATRIUM NOCTIS love big soundscapes and have largely broken away from the genre boundaries of Black Metal. 

From the old, already convincing songs ATRIUM NOCTIS have understood to create a new dimension, which skillfully balances between hardness and subtlety:
Hard and delicate mix to a unique symbiosis!

The band members have different musical backgrounds:
They include people who have played Metal all their lives, but bring a lot of joy to other musical genres, as well as a deep black soul from Black Metal, as well as a singer with classical training and two studied musicians who are musically open to everything.
So let yourself be seduced and convinced equally by the new sound experience of the Cologne!
Logo: Atrium Noctis

(recenzija) Goat Torment – Forked Tongues (Season of Mist)

Goat Torment dolaze iz Belgije i ovo im je treći dugosvirajući opus. Ovaj bend svojom glazbom stvara apokaliptičnu atmosferu beznađa, tenkovskih gusjenica koje gaze hrpr lubanja i kostiju mrtvih neprijatelja, ispod čeličnosivog prelijepog neba. Meni slika ljepote, a tebi? Pri tom se uopće ne šalim niti je ovo sarkazam. Ovaj opus nudi 9 pjesama, a glazba Goat Torment je neki blackened death metal, odlično odsviran i napisani koji naginje više na onu death metal stranu od black metala. Znači, blastovi, brzina, blitz gitare sa natruhom melodije tu i tamo i vokalom koji više growla i pjevanje se može reči da je totalno deathersko kao npr Behemoth ili Belphegor. Ima tu i tamo i sporijih atmosferičnijih dijelova kao u mom favoritu Cursed. Pjesme kao što su Forked Tongues, Profanation ili Ravenous Ghouls će vas sigurno usrećiti u vašem tamnom srcu ako volite ovakvu vrstu metala.

7,5/10

(review) Nocturnal Graves – An Outlaw´s Stand (Season of Mist)

Australia has very active and great extreme music underground scene and although it is on the other side of the world, music knows no boundaries. Nocturnal Graves just released their new full length opus with Season of Mist and it is their fourth full length in eighteen years of existence. What can we expect on this one? Total annihilation, brutality, energy and apocalypse! Gutwrenching fast drumming, blistering fast solos with some melody thrown here and there for good measure, some slower rolling parts reminding me of best Morbid Angel times and above all growling angry vocals from pits of Hell themselves. Nocturnal Graves took what they needed from death, black and thrash metal leaving only bloody smoldering corpse on the ground. This one is wicked, fast, no holds barred lesson in blackened death metal. Songs like Death to Pigs, Ruthless Fight or Law of the Blade are for sure winners. Go get this one. Just what you need to lighten up your blackened heart and give you energy for new battles.

8,5/10