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(review) Cradle Of Filth – ‘Trouble and Their Double Livcs’ (Napalm Records)

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Cradle Of Filth have been one of my favorite bands since I listened to their ‘Dusk And Her Embrace’ and ‘Cruelty And The Beast’ many moons ago. They grew old like fine wine, delivering albums filled with their melodic vision of dark gothic black metal with lots of symphonic and dramatic pathos to the songs and recognizable voice by charismatic frontman and only original member Dani Filth.

This time, Cradle released live album, first one after twenty years combining all the classics with fan favorites and blinding good setlist but also containing two new studio songs, being ‘Demon Prince Regent’ being fast and dramatic yet also melodic song, like we are used to from Cradle on last two albums. ‘She is a Fire’, second new song, was chosen as single announcing the album and has such contagious melody that made me listen to over and over again with all the gothic darkened vampiric drama that only this band can provide. Definitely, my favorite of the two. New keyboardist/backing female singer fit into band perfectly and I think that this current line-up is possibly one of the strongest line-ups of this band ever, especially drummer Marthus who is one of the best drummers in extreme metal in my humble opinion. Considering live songs, hits like ‘Born In A Burial Gown’, ‘Nymphetamine’ older ‘Haunted Shores’ and part of ‘Cruelty And The Beast’ set is sure to win you over if you are a fan. Sound is perfect and this one captures the eternal greatness of this legendary band.

8,5/10

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(new single) Finnish symphonic and melodic black metal act Wooden Shadow released a new single Chaosreign from the upcoming debut album!

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Promo pic by Wooden Shadow.

Finnish symphonic and melodic black metal act Wooden Shadow is set to release the debut album ‘Eternal Land Of Wrath And Mourn’ on June 16th via Inverse Records. A new single Chaosreign is release today.

LISTEN to Chaosreign single: https://push.fm/fl/wooden-shadow-chaosreign 

Chaosreign single from Wooden Shadow’s debut album ‘Eternal Land Of Wrath And Mourn’ is a mixture of hostility and darkness brought by chaos, offering music with an abundance of melodies and varied section changes. Wooden Shadow’s front man, multi-instrumentalist Jeremia Ponto offers more versatility with his vocals, both black metal’s characteristic high screaming and clean vocals, which can also be found in other songs on the album!

Digital PRE-ORDER available on Bandcamp

BIOGRAPHY:
Wooden Shadow is a melodic/symphonic black metal solo project/band founded by Jeremia Ponto, who turns 23 this year. Strong influences can be found in Finnish folk music and church music. The lyrics deal with human inner darkness, sadness and life/death thoughts.

Since 2020, Jeremia Ponto is a multi-tasker of Wooden Shadow, which he founded, and is responsible for the compositions, lyrics, recordings and all instruments in his own home studio in Ylöjärvi, where he originally comes from.

Wooden Shadow has self-published 3 singles and one EP, and during the last months, Wooden Shadow’s debut album ‘Eternal Land Of Wrath And Mourn’ has been in the works, which is finally finished and it is set to be released via Inverse Records on June 16th 2023.

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(review) Caedeous – ‘Malum Supllicium’

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Horror and metal go hand in hand so this combination fits perfectly to extreme metal genre. Portuguese Caedeous released their third opus revolving conceptually around horror, whether it is cosmic horror atmosphere in the vein of great H.P. Lovecraft, or more meaty body horror of Clive Barker or esotherica of Dante, this band delivers with their new opus. This one contains nine songs, one being intro using samples which I always condone and love. Music of Caedeous is a mixture between high energy death metal full of blast beats and growling death metal vocals sometimes mixing with black metal screams, technicality meeting brutality and also symphonic black metal where symphonic and keyboard passages with their eerie melodies add to the overall horror and murky darkened atmosphere of the record as a whole. I also love the use of melodic, clean female vocals in ‘Obscura Ascensions’. If I must choose some songs as highlights for me, that would be ‘Cruxis Inferni’, ‘Pandemonium’ and the title song. If you are looking for brutality with added horror and sympho passages this one is the right one for you.

8,5/10