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(review) Mourning Dawn – Dead End Euphoria (Aesthetic Death)

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French blackened doomsters Mourning Dawn release their new record with Aesthetic Death. Hailing from Paris area, these guys deliver their music for all darkened hearts and fiends out there for years. What can we expect here? There are six songs on this beautiful opus. Songs are longer in duration but they do not get boring at all. Music of Mourning Dawn can be described as doom metal with lots of death and black metal influences, so it is safe to say if I describe it as blackened doom metal. That means slower doom sombre guitar work, rolling drums, distorted bass and sorrow and melancholy underneath the brutality. Vocals vary between growling, screaming and sometimes clean vocals depending on the atmosphere in the song structures. There are also some excursions into fast almost blast beat drums and pure black death metal parts of the songs. Lyrically they deal with personal inner battles, death, life and catharsis. My personal favorites on this one are Never Too Old To Die and Conclusion. This is a superb record to gloom your day under a steel grey sky.

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(review) Next Door To Heaven – Inside

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I am always glad to discover new bands in this vast and beautiful underground scene that I have been a part of for almost three decades now. Next Door To Heaven are hailing from Russia and this is their new e.p. The theme of the e.p. is battle between two sides of one medal, between artificial and natural within one person. There are five songs on this little record. Music of Next Door To Heaven can be described as mixture of metalcore, modern metal and being melodic above all. Catchy and nice guitar hooks are successfully mixing aggression of metalcore with calm of atmospheric metal creating one really fine soundscape for the listener. Vocals are superb with singer Daria Mazunova being able to reach emotion, melancholy and happiness varying of the song. Her voice reminds me a lot of Anneke from The Gathering. My personal favorite is Unleash The Beast being on of the hardest yet melodic song on this e.p. There is an interesting guest performance by none other than Lord Nelson (ex Stuck Mojo) on Flare Up being more of a rapcore song proving variety and creativity of this band. Really enjoyed this one.

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Ossaert release first single – De Geest en de Vervoering & start pre-order!

After spawning one of the most haunting debut releases of 2020, the Dutch enigmatic, blasphemous presence named Ossaert is back with a stellar sophomore album that elevates the sound of the band to new, unreached levels.

While the core and skeleton of the sound of ‘Bedehuis’ remains intact, ‘Pelgrimsoord‘ expands towards vaster horizons and adds an almost majestic layer of dark solemnity to what delivered in the previous release.

Pelgrimsoord‘ immortalises its oath to the dark side with immense class and invigorated heretic ardor, superb riffing and a terrifying vocal performance at times not afraid of paying its tribute to the unholy Gods of Heavy Metal.

Out on ArgentoRecords, ‘Pelgrimsoord‘ is a Black Metal manifestation of abandonment to perdition.

Pelgrimsoord‘ will be limited to 300 LP’s (200 Black & 100 Blood/Smoke,    200 CD’s and 50 hand-numbered tapes.)

Tracklist:
1. De Geest en de Vervoering 09:17
2. De Val en de Beroering 10:03
3. De Nacht en de Verdwijning 10:13
4. De Dag en de Verschijning 11:33
Total: (41:06)

Line-up:
P. – Bass, Guitars, Vocals
W. – Drums

Mixed & Mastered by W. at Catacomben Studio’s in Utrecht, The Netherlands
Music & Lyrics written by Ossaert
Artwork by Reuben Sawyer

Discography:
Bedehuis (Full-Length 2020 / Argento Records)
Pelgrimsoord ( Full-Length 2021 / Argento Records)

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