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(review) Coltaine – Brandung

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Coltaine are hailing from Karlsruhe. Germany and they have been in the scene since 2022. This is their brand new sixth full length opus and it contains 9 songs. Coltaine is a name taken from Steven Erikson’s fantasy book series Malazan Book Of The Fallen. Music of Coltaine is a mixture of mainly post metal and post rock with doom and sludge metal influences. Lyrics deal mainly with themes like nature, life, death but also kind of fantasy in my humble opinion. Some of the songs get quite long but they are in no way boring. What I love about this record is eerie voice and melodies of vocalist Julia Frasch who is a really talented singer ranging from growls to more etherial gentle voice. If I must compare it to some bands it would be early The Gathering but without death metal singing. My personal favorites on this one are Above The Burning Sand and also Brandung. This is nice atmospheric music opus and have a listen. 8,5/10

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Phenomenal CUNABULA (prog/sludge/black/post) released single from debut album!

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CUNABULA hails from Vilnius, Lithuania. A dark, deep and crushing phenomenon with disturbing female growls is unlike anything local, or further, metal bands offer. While trying to categorize CUNABULA‘s music one may find that stylistic boundaries are non-existent. Compositions carry post, sludge, progressive, ambient, even black metal sound. And everything melts into a strange organism that breathes relentless darkness.

CUNABULA started in 2016. Their live performances leave listeners in a state of fear and hypnosis. The same would apply to their upcoming new music.

The music for this release was recorded in several Lithuanian recording studios: Lapės Records (drums), Black Box Recordings (vocals), Agirdi Audio (guitar and bass). A Latvian artist, Gints Lundbergs, is responsible for mixing and mastering. His portfolio includes cooperation with, among others, Dissection, Frailty and Skyforger. The album cover was created by Nojus Petrauskas.

Date of release is scheduled for August 11, 2023. The CD will be released by Sleaszy Rider SRL, pre-order here. The album will also be released on vinyl via the American label Adirondack Black Mass.

Tracklist:1. Bruxa
2. Drown to Become Water
3. We Are the Prey
4. The Weight of Sleep
5. Silent Somber Suns
6. Sh’eenaz
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(news) Spanish sludge/death metal band Halflighted signs record deal with Wormholedeath!

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Catalan-based metal rising force Halflighted is thrilled to announce they have signed a record deal with Wormholedeath Records.
The band has been hard at work creating their debut album, ‘Obloquy,’ set to release on June 2nd, 2023.

‘We’re excited to finally show the world what we’ve been creating in the shadows these last years,’ says Halflighted. ‘This debut album is the fusion of five completely different influences that have landed at a midpoint, far from any compromise with the listener. These five years of hard work have spawned an uncompromising offering that won’t hide in the dark any longer.‘
‘Obloquy’ combines Gothic undertones, Death Metal forces, Progressive tints, classic Rock drumming, a fair amount of Psychedelia, and many other hidden influences. The exact genre of this uncompromising soundscape is left up to the listener to decide. Sung in English, Catalan, and German, the lyrics of the album explore themes of war, inner struggles, and despair through various points of view.
Recorded in the spring and summer of 2022 by Varg The Mighty in Redrum Studios and mixed and mastered by Javi Félez in Moontower Studios, ‘Obloquy’ is a highly anticipated debut. The album art has been masterfully designed by Óskart, the band’s guitarist.
Halflighted was conceived in 2018 by the minds of Óskart and Mark in Catalonia after the split of Mark’s previous Death Metal band Dryzer. Their initial idea for a Death Doom Metal project slowly evolved into an eclectic and genre-defying opus as the current line-up consolidated itself in the following years.
The current line-up includes Óskart on guitar, Mark on bass and vocals, Varg The Mighty on guitar, synth, and vocals, Pepe on drums, and MAD on vocals.
The band invites fans to join them on their journey by following them on Instagram at www.instagram.com/halflightedband.