Cult Never Dies je odlična izdavačka kuća koju je osnovao Dayal Patterson, freelancer i novinar koji je između ostalog pisao i za Metal Hammer, ali ono što je Dayal Pattersonova najveća kvaliteta je to što je radio mnoge fanzine u životu i svoje fanzinaštvo je prenio u izdavaštvo i knjige. Napisao je trilogiju Black Metal Cult, koja je jedna od najboljih studija ovog pravca black metal glazbe ikada. U ovoj knjizi koju je Dayal napisao zajedno sa Sakis Tolisem, mainmanom benda, koncentrirao se na bogatu više od 30-godišnju povijest grčkih legendi Rotting Christ, braće Tolis, gitarista/vokala Sakisa i bubnjara Temisa, koji su izdali mnoge albume koji se smatraju kultnim i legendarnim u svijetu ekstremne metal glazbe. Kroz intervjue sa braćom Tolis, bivšim članovima Jim Mutilatorom, Morbidom preko glazbenika kao što su Erik iz Wataina, Ross iz Immolation, Dani iz Cradle of Filth i nikada viđenih fotografija, iscrpnog opisa diskografije i procesa nastanka, kao i meni najzanimljivijih anegdota s turneja, ova knjiga je odličan dokument ovog benda koji je totalni opozit nordijskim black metal bendovima i benda koji se smatra tvorcem mediteranske black metal scene. Obavezno pročitati, ne samo ako se smatrate fanom benda.
Odlično je što, unatoč ovoj kugi i histeriji vezanoj uz nju, underground scena u Hrvata funkcionira odlično i postoje fenomenalni bendovi, pojedinci, promotori, koji se marljivo trude održati ovu malu scenu na svjetskoj underground mapi.
SitiS je bend baziran u Zagrebu, no njegovi članovi dolaze iz različitih dijelova zemlje i ispekli su zanat kao iskusni borci u mnogim bendovima kao što su Kozjak, Clouds of Cancer, Life in Peril, Hesperian Death Horse, Shin, Proslov i mnogim drugima. SitiS je izdao album prvijenac i riječ je o sirovom odličnom black metalu, s povremenim death i sludge uletima. Opus je snimio miksao i masterirao Jakić iz Ponora i produkcija je odlična za ovakvu atmosferu i napad koji pruža SitiS. Album sadrži osam pjesama i od toga je većina s tekstovima na hrvatskom jeziku što daje dodatnu draž i veselje mom crnom srcu. Muzika je brutalan black sa jako puno blast beat napada, ali i nekim doom i sludgy sporijim dijelovima koji jednostavno dodaju na težini i na atmosferi crnila i smrti, beznađa i ludila. Moram napomenuti i odlične bas dionice, genijalne gitarske dijelove i blackerske vokale Laca, koji odlično prate kako melodije, tako i brutalne dijelove opusa. Meni nekako najdraže su Hladna Logika i najduža na albumu Otrovni Snovi, a vi podržite svoju scenu i čekirajte ovaj odličan black bend.
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:
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 metal, blackened 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)
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