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German atmospheric black metallers UNRU premiere new track at DEAF FOREVER magazine’s website!!

At present, BABYLON DOOM CULT RECORDS is elated to announce the brand new second full-length album ‘DIE WIEDERKEHR DES VERDRÄNGTEN’ by the German atmospheric black metallers of UNRU !

A release date is set for March 4th, 2022 and shall come in the following formats:
CD / DIGITAL / LP
 

A second track, “Der Hauch der Freiheit” can now be heard on the website of one of Germany’s finest magazines DEAF FOREVER:

https://www.deaf-forever.de/songpremiere-unru?fbclid=IwAR3CpSL_x28o2OjQBH-D9K1jIMxhXsleScagIOJkg9zwd1nbDc-kTL8y2kE

Founded in Bielefeld, Germany in 2012, UNRU made an immediate deep impact with their monumental ‘MMXIII’ demo (re-released on vinyl by Supreme Chaos Records in 2018), to be evolved upon by split recordings with PARAMNESIA, SUN WORSHIP and TONGUE, as well as their disturbing and ferocious debut full-length album ‘Als Tier ist der Mensch nichts’ in 2016.

Babylon Doom Cult Records and UNRU are proud to announce the release of ‘Die Wiederkehr des Verdrängten’ (The Return of the Repressed) – six years in the making, countless hours devoted to revise, retain, revolt, reinvent and survive. It took UNRU strength and time to craft a worthy successor to ‘Als Tier ist der Mensch nichts’, yet with ‘Die Wiederkehr des Verdrängten’ the now 5-piece band finally unleash their second album as a grandiose statement: an unstoppable maelstrom of sound; a five-song sonic tour-de-force, which, aside from the band’s trademark sound, leaves behind the band’s early traces of chaotic German 90’s hardcore or American apocalyptic crust, further opening up the gates of ever so deep blackened gloom and fury, and balancing dissonance and harmony to sheer perfection. 

This album is the distilled essence of all their prior releases, sounding the most black metal the band has ever sounded, without once stumbling into traps of worn out paths this genre ever so often sets. Five emotional songs fueled by the question of what actual freedom and revolution is within the individual as well as the societal I. The five songs reformulate UNRU’s pillars of furious black metalblackened doom, fragile ambient and glorious Mount Eerie-esque immortality to an amalgamation of emotional purity and existential angst.

TRACKLIST: 
1. Kråkstad (7:49) 
2. Die Wiederkehr des Verdrängten (5:06) 
3. Der Hauch der Freiheit (12:59) 
4. Hungersteine (15:47) 
5. Eintausend Stimmen (12:33)
Total: (54:23) 

UNRU exists through: 

E – synth & vocals 
H – drums & percussion 
L – guitar & organ 
S – guitar & vocals 
T – bass & vocals

Recorded in August 2020 and April – May 2021 at Spirit Cave, Berlin and Drum Hard, Bielefeld by L. Ennsen & UNRU
Mixed & mastered at Goblin Sound Studio, Cologne by Andy Rosczyk

Cover painting by Jani Kaunisto, titled “I’m on my hands and knees.” (Acryl on canvas, 130cm x 100cm, 2020)  

Layout by Joscha Bauer

DISCOGRAPHY: 
Demo MMXIII (Demo / 2013) 
Sun Worship / Unru (Split / Sick Man Getting Sick Records 2013) 
Unru / Paramnesia (Split / Boue Records 2014) 
Als Tier ist der Mensch Nichts (Full-length / Supreme Chaos 2016) 
Unru / Tongue (Split / Supreme Chaos Records 2017) 

LINKS:
https://www.facebook.com/unruband

https://unru.bandcamp.com/

https://www.instagram.com/unru_angst/

PRE-ORDER LINKS:
https://www.babylondoomcultrecords.com/product/unru-die-wiederkehr-des-verdra%cc%88ngten-2lp/

ABBATH premieres title track of new album “Dread Reaver”!

Norwegian metal titans ABBATH are now premiering the title track of their upcoming album ‘Dread Reaver‘. The song is streaming at the the official Season of Mist YouTube Channel HERE. The new record will be out on March 25 worldwide.

Pre-orders for ‘Dread Reaver’ are available in the Season of Mist shop HERE. Pre-save the album HERE.

(literatura) Michael Moynihan/Didrik Soderlind – Lords of Chaos

Ovu knjigu sam nedavno kupio, jer se radi o totalno novom re-izdanju, pojačanom sa nekim novim intervjuima i novim dodacima koji nisu bili u originalu kojeg sam čitao, odnosno prvom izdanju kojeg sam čitao davno fotokopiranog odnosno printanog s nekog pdf formata. Isplati se imati original i knjiga u rukama je bolja nego Kindle u rukama, iako koristim Kindle često čitajući knjige koje nisu baš nabavljive na našem području.

Ova knjiga samo djelomično ima veze sa filmom koji je bio po mom mišljenju totalni promašaj u kojem je prikazana burna povijest Mayhem/Burzum/Euronymous/Varg sukoba i ubojstva, odnosno Deadovog samoubojstva. Iako detaljno proučava i objašnjava i taj dio povijesti i uspone norveške black metal scene, knjiga mi je bila zanimljivija u segmentima u kojima opisuje pagan i povijesni kontekst black metala, povezanosti sa nazi i ekstremno desnom scenom u nekim dijelovima, kroz iscrpne intervjue sa Varg Vikernesom ova knjiga pokazuje svu njegovu genijalnost kao i ludilo. Ali, ponekad je teško razlučiti to jedno od drugog, jelda? Odlični su opisi Oskorei, Odinizma kao i ubojstava i ekstremnih scena koji su manje ili više povezani sa black metal muzikom kroz ta djela.

Isto tako, knjiga se dosta dotiče Sotonizma, preko LaVeya i njegove Church of Satan do bestijalnog, primitivnog Sotonizma kakav je bio prezentiran u ranim danima drugog vala black metala. Zanimljivo se čita, nema praznog hoda i pokušava opisati sve strane, čak i policijsku i stranu svećenika iz jedne od spaljenih crkava u Norveškoj. Knjiga je to koja će biti zanimljiva i outsiderima koji nisu sa ove scene i ne znaju pozadinu i insidersku priču o događanjima. Dakle, nije savršena, ali je vrijedan dokument i to ne samo o muzici.