BOSPARANS FALL: ‘Götterspiel: Dunkle Zeiten’ will be released on May 26!
The upcoming album by the German RPG melodic death metallers BOSPARANS FALL is entering the home stretch. The album will be called ‘Götterspiel: Dunkle Zeiten’ and will be released on May 26 via Black Sunset/MDD. The album tells the first part of a trilogy story about the warrior Alrik Immerda, who, 1019 years after the battle on Bosparan’s battlements, is drawn into the preparations for the ancient rituals that have been going on for almost two decades. Role-playing game fans should already be alerted to the band’s name, for the whole thing is actually set in Aventuria, a fantasy world from the German Pen&Paper role-playing game ‘Das Schwarze Auge’. Musically, 10 tracks of predominantly melodic death metal await you, but they don’t stop at bordering extreme metal genres either. Be prepared!
The Finnish folk black metal act KOUTA comes back with a new album, one year after the big success of the debut ‘Aarnihauta‘. ‘Kaarnaköydet’ – this is the name of the band’s first full-length – will be released on April 21 and it will be available as CD, streaming, and digital download.
The 7 new songs weave a dark and intricate web of sound that is both familiar and refreshingly new. Folk elements have permeated the new sound much more deeply, while the production has become much more clear, powerful, and straight. At the heart of ‘Kaarnaköydet’ lies a gripping narrative centered around the tragic story of two brothers. Through their music, KOUTA explores the complex and often tumultuous emotions of shame, guilt, and catharsis, inviting the listener to join them on a powerful and emotional journey of aesthetically peripheral discovery.
The new single ‘Häpeä‘ is now available on the main digital platforms as well as a visualizer video on band’s YouTube channel.
‘Häpeä‘ deepens the three-part story that serves as the backbone of the new album. The song was chosen as the first single and the opening song for the band’s gigs due to its unforgiving and unconventional nature. It deepens the story of fratricide by exploring the state of mind of someone who has just killed a loved one.
‘I wanted the song to reflect this brutality and emotion, so musically Häpeä is grim and cold,‘ summarizes Eemeli Haarala.
The drum parts of ‘Kaarnaköydet‘ were recorded in a remote cabin in Lapland. Guitars and bass recorded at Pekka Posio’s studio in Helsinki. Vocals, choirs and all other instruments together with the live recording of “Äitimaan Laulu” recorded at Sonic Pump Studios, Helsinki. Mixed by Pekka Posio and mastered by Svante Forsbäck.
Dyoxidon is hailing from United States and this is third full length opus. This one man band is in fact spawn of one m_psymorgh and as you might have guessed it, music is different than your average black or death metal band. Dyoxidon delivers armageddon. Point. It delivers apocalyptic vision of man’s future, where machines and meat are equal parts of one, where coldness of space and coldness of surgical steel became prevalent in relation to blood, muscle and meat. This is dark album, pretty chaotic in some song parts, reminding me of harsher version of Norwegian Mysticum, or Italian Aborym, yet lot harsher and even colder. Songs are pretty long and this relentlessness continues grinding all in its path. But, I can hear some melancholic, almost symphonic synth melody coming through the cold machine sound delivering almost cry for help or sigh of conquered humanity for past times, when all was much more simple and better for them. But I love this machine inferno, I love this chaos, I love the synthesis of man and machine and this album is a killer. My personal favorites are ‘Extinction(Errata)’, ‘Parasite Communion’ and ‘Spectravore’.
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