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(record review)SATORI JUNK-“The Golden Dwarf”(Endless Winter)

Satori Junk is the band hailing from Milan, Italy and this is their second full length album out on mighty Endless Winter Label. I listened to the record and reviewed it for this webzine.

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The album contains intro plus six songs, one of them being The Doors cover of “Light my Fire”. The music Satori Junk are playing is some hybrid of doom metal with a lot of atmosphere and darkened, almost psychodelical passages with lyrics which draw inspiration from horror movies and literature combined with nightmares. Sound interesting? It bloody is. “All Gods Die” starts like a dreamy, atmospheric voyage, evolves into full blooded up tempo doom metal song only to die down in murky atmosphere again. “Cosmic Prison” starts almost as sludgy, rolling song being very tortured and very painful, like being trapped in the atmosphere of Lovecraftian cosmic horror. The electronic back sounds only add to the eerie feeling of this song. “Blood Red Shrine” is for me the best song on this record, having almost tribal, ritualistic primal vibe in its song structure. “Death Dog” is the longest song on this record and it reminds me a lot of old Hammer horror movies, I don´t know why, but it is a good thing. The title song is slow and dreamy, nightmarish doom horror anthem. I don´t like The Doors and their music but this cover of “Light my Fire” in doomy, sludgy version was just great. I am not a fan of music such as this, but this is a decent effort.

7/10

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(record review)ADRAGARD-“From the burning mist”(Perkun Records)

Italy has one of the richest and in my opinion most awesome underground scene in Europe and I am always very happy when I have the opportunity to listen and discover new bands from that scene. This time I listened and reviewed the latest Adragard album out on Perkun Records.

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I think that it was circa 1996.or 1997.when I read in one old Metal Hammer of Rock Hard issue and interview with Infernus from Gorgoroth where he stated that black metal is not music for everyone´s ears and it is ugly, grim, emotional but also aggressive and desperate art, it went somehow like that. Now, 20 and something years after, I still couldn´t agree more. Black metal is art and it is hard, grim and not everyone finds beauty inside of it. Adragard have been started in 1997.as a project but now they have full lineup and new full length album. What to expect? 7  songs of old school pure underground black metal. The guitar work is grim, fast but also has some parts that make this album great. What I found interesting are many slower atmospheric parts like for example “Eremo”, the only song in Italian language, others are all in English. The lyrics deal with personal demons and desolation, nature, end of the world, that it how I interpreted them for myself while listening to the album. This is grim, raw, a bit necro, but also melodic and heartfelt album that all the fans of such style will love. I know I did. Bands like these show that the scene is alive and well which is a great thing.

7,5/10

Buy at::http://perkunrecords.8merch.com/adrag…

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(new video)KEEP THE PROMISE: WATCH THE NEW LYRIC VIDEO FOR “STORM OF CURSING” THE NEW ALBUM “GHOSTS OF REVENGE” OUT ON JUNE 29TH VIA BLEEDING NOSE RECORDS!

After the release of the first video/single “Please Kill Yourself Now” feat. Marcella Spaggiari  (End Of A Season, Gufonero), hardcore/metal act Keep The Promise has revealed a new lyric video for “Storm Of Cursing”, second track taken from the new album “Ghosts Of Revenge”, who will be available on June 29th via Bleeding Nose  Records.

“Ghosts Of Revenge” artwork and track listing

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01 Storm Of Cursing
02 Please Kill Yourself Now (feat. Marcella Spaggiari, End Of Season)
03 Your Race Doesn’t Exist (feat. Dome Diego, Face Your Enemy)
04 Corrosion Of A Rotten Soul (feat. Alex, Damn City)
05 Ghost Animal
06 Hell Bedroom
07 The Stench Of Evil
08 A Dying Planet
09 The Abyss Of Innocents

Listen “Please Kill Yourself Now” on Spotify
Buy “Please Kill Yourself Now” on iTunes

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