Odium Records announces a split of two Norwegian bands – Kirkerbran and Visegard titled ” Kirkegard “. Each of the bands prepared six songs. About an hour of pure Norwegian Black Metal rooted in the 90s. Split will be out in November in a form of digpack CD.
Among the invited guests you will hear Nattefrost . Daniel Vrangsinn of Carpathian Forest is responsible for the mix of vocals on Kirkebrann’s side whilst Morfeus known from Limbonic Art is behind the whole of Visegard’s production.
Necrolust from Sicily are in no way strangers to the pages of this zine, because we wrote about them before. This Sicilian black thrash metal apocalypse entity released their new e.p. It contains four songs and it sounds better than the previous material and I am glad to see this entity grow and grow. Music is relentless, merciless, all out black thrash metal attack with some death metal influences, mainly in vocal lines, reminding me a lot of bestial side of black metal like Archgoat and similar bands. Beneath all the bestiality, there are also couple of really atmospheric song parts and melancholic melodies like in the awesome title song which is one of my personal favorites on this opus, besides The Creature. So, if you love your black metal raw and bestial with hints of melody and darkened, thick atmosphere, go grab this one.
Alpheratz are hailing from Mexico and this is their latest opus. These guys have been in the scene for a long time and they play a mixture of symphonic black metal and avantgarde black metal reminding me a lot of Arcturus with their song structures, although less bombastic than mentioned Norwegians. This opus contains intro, outro and eight songs in between. Songs are not fast, there is no blast beat on this one, Alpheratz lean more on slower, doomy atmospheric side of things, coldness, synths which emphasize almost eerie dreamlike atmosphere of horror and despair. Vocals are neither too screechy, nor too raspy, fit perfectly to the music. My personal favorites are As Burning Fire and Infinite Sad with almost gothic song structures in the latter. This is a good release.
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