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(recka) Mystic Circle – Mystic Circle (Atomic Fire Records)

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Mystic Circle su mi bili jedan od dražih bendova kada su u drugoj polovici devedesetih izdali svoj prvi album Morgenrote i tada sam jaako volio melodični i simfonični black metal sa vampirskim štihom a la Cradle of Filth, pa mi je ovaj njemački bend jako dobro sjeo sa svojim prvijencem i preslušavao sam ga na kazeti do iznemoglosti. Isto tako, drugi album, Drachenblut čijim konceptom su obradili sagu o Nibelunzima bio mi je još bolji i ovaj bend mi je bio jedan od najdražih bm bendova tada. Kasnije su prešli na neki više satanic death metal štih, koji je bio dopadljiv, ali mi nije toliko bio drag, album The Great Beast mi je prilično drag. Kasnije su se raspali i prešli u sviranje u drugim bendovima. Bio sam jako iznenađen kada sam vidio novi spot i single ovog benda sa dvojicom originalnih članova koji se odazivaju na Graf von Beelzebub i Aaaarrrgon. Ovaj novi album, povratnički, ujedno osmi dugosvirajući sadrži osam pjesama. Ima tu svega, od nemilosrdnog blast beata, potpomognutog melodičnim temama gitare i klavijature u pozadini u singlu Belial Is My Name, te brutalne Seven Headed Dragon, ali tu je i raznoritmična Hell Demons Rising, koja nas pomalo vraća u stari stil benda, ali sa podosta thrash izričaja i izmjena ritma i pomalo groovea. Grafovi vokali su blackerski uz pokoje deathersko growlanje tu i tamo, ali uvijek bih prepoznao taj glas koji me vraća u meni drago doba. Ima tu i atmosferičnih dijelova. Lirikalne teme su sotonističke, antikršćanske plus smrt i demoni, a atmosfera je ratnička i inspirativna na cijelom albumu. Stvari kao što su Letters From The Devil i Curse Of The Wolf Demon pale iskru plamenom jačim no ikad. Odličan povratak.

9/10

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(recka) Toxpack – Zwanzig. Tausend Volt

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Tko bi rekao?! Dvadeset godina je prošlo i berlinski street punkeri Toxpack slave ovu respektabilnu godišnjicu. Kako bolje proslaviti nego izbaciti na scenu novi uradak, novu ploču i odličnu kad smo već kod toga. Njemački jezik i punk mi je nekako uvijek išao skupa i taj jezik zvuči moćno uz ekstremnu muziku, bilo punk, bilo metal, tako da ima nečeg u tome što uvijek razigra moje staro srce. Što možemo očekivati na ovom albumu? Petnaestak vrhunskih upbeat street punk pjesama himničnih refrena koji te naprosto tjeraju da se digneš, pokažeš srednji prst i nastaviš dalje sam protiv svih. Svi tekstovi su na njemačkom jeziku i variraju od obračuna s neprijateljima i bivšom braćom do ljubavi, preživljavanja, usamljenosti, prkosa i odražavaju zapravo sve što ovaj bend zapravo je i o čemu govori sve ove godine. Gitare su melodične, ali producirane taman po mojem ukusu, onako režuće i metalizirane s ponekim thrash ili groove metal utjecajem hardcore 90-ih godina s kakvim sam odrastao. Tko je ikada osjetio miris asfalta, zvjezdano noćno nebo, miris starog motornog ulja na cesti kraj pločnika i smrad mokraće iz haustora u kojem piješ s prijateljima pivo ili bambus ili što već, voljeti će i shvatiti ovaj album. Odlično i preporuka.

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

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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 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) 

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/

Unru – Die Wiederkehr des Verdrängten CD