Godse - Live @ Blur cafe, Moscow, 16.01.2012

Free jazz meets noise meets metal.

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Harvey Milk - Special Wishes

Equal(?) parts metal, noise, grunge and pure emotions, of that fuck you all kind.

he's got a LOOOOOO(aaargh)OOOOOOVE

The Wizar'd - Pathways Into Darkness

The Wizar'd used to be a medicore, slightly underinspired trad.doom band. It took them 6 years and numerous releases to find their sound and create something really worthy. 2010's "Pathways Into Darkness" brings us great, harsh trad.doom with amazing expressive vocals. Yeah, the singer is bad. But was Ozzy a good singer, technically? No. Is Albert Witchfinder? Not really. Ol' Rusty Vintage Wizard Master (hail cheesy doom stage names) has this raw, indeed rusty voice and he's finally not affraid to use it.

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Lunar Sex - Lunar Sex

Look, something you usually don't see 'round here: an 80's band. An obscure little female-fronted band, they played pretty awesome fast-paced hard rock/heavy metal with some punkish overtones... And, well, they are called Lunar Sex, how cool is that??.

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As Light Dies - Ars Subtilior From Within The Cage

Not the stuff you usually see here (because the stuff you usually see here is ABSCENCE get it -snort snort-). This is progressive gothic metal, or something along those lines.They mix a whole lot of styles. Complex songs, dramatic vocal delivery (male clean & growl, female clean sometimes), violins. But not in your usual "gothicslash folk metal" way when the violin is just used to repeat a simple catchy melody from time to time. No. As Light Dies, and G-d blesss 'em for it, use the violin as a real instrument. Way to go!

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The Devil's Blood - Come, Reap EP

Long time, no posts. Sorry guys... I had/have all kinds of computer & internet access problems, work, study, you know the drill. Right now I'm exploiting my girlfriend's fast broadband connection, so here's a quick one, the total 70's worship "occult rock" EP by The Devil's Blood. It's all epic riffs, driving beats, choruses, with a dark atmosphere and sometimes a nifty touch of kitsch. Not the kind of thing I usually go for, but this 5-song record is a masterpiece. Great compositions, catchy melodies, a nice female voice; music reaching straight-ahead rock songs to more psychedelic jams (e.g. closer "Voodoo Dust", a 10-minute monster). Hard rock has never been so soft. It's a pity their 2009 full-length kinda sucks, it's just mehh, lame and bland.

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Horseback - The Invisible Moutain

A very decent release. I'm tired to write an overview... so
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The Book of Knots - The Book of Knots

"The First Book of Knots Project. Featuring the founding quatro of Tony Maimone, Joel Hamilton, Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi. Joining them are Luminaries: Jon Langford, Brandon Seabrook, Catherine Oberg, Matthew Waugh, Megan Reilly, Jason Mills, Norman Westberg, Dave Curran, Alice Lee and Cassis. Loosely inspired by growing up in a small depressed fishing community."
An amazingly atmospheric, varied and interesting record. I don't even know to what it could possibly be likened. Just get it and listen.

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Black Murder - Feasts

Some more French Black Metal, this time a real LLN band. Raw and harsh and misantrophic, just the way I like my black metal. I think I mistyped the release date in the file description, the correct year's 1995... Whatever. Good musick.
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Umbra Nihil - Gnoia

The guy from Aarni. Great doom/funeral doom, with down-tuned guitars and some synths. Garrgarr, fuckin great.
And this time I extracted the archive and checked each song. Should be fine and corruption-free.
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Aarni & Umbra Nihil split

Doomy sweetness... Mmmm... Basically two albums. Or two huge EPs at least. Amaaaazing stuff.

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Note to self: double-check files before uploading. I'll upload track 3 again soon. Sorry guys. Edit: it's up.

Made Out of Babies - Trophy

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Aarni - Tohcoth

Aarni is back, with an album so good that I almost feel guilty for sharing it. Actually, their previous effort Bathos achieved the same effect. So please, if you like the music, head over to their site (aarni.info) and buy these albums.
Tohcoth evolves the same recipe and takes it to the next level. We have doom metal in the base, with lots of prog, folk and experimental elements. Very atmospheric layered songs. Amazing instrumentals. Chanting!! Secret societies!! It's only April, but this album might just be the best of 2008.
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Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics...

You just can't have enough Electric Wizard. Okay, the new album kinda sucks, but both Dopethrone and Come My Fanatics... are masterpieces.
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(oh, and I uploaded it to shareonall.com, not sharebee.com. I will be using shareonall from now on, a bit faster for me and more options. In this case five: rapid, mediafire, depositfiles, megaupload, zshare)

Have heavy fun.

Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

Description comin' soon. Fucking heavy stuff.
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Darvulia - L'alliance Des Venins

Ooookay, lamest artwork EVER. I mean... waaaaaaaaaah!!??? WTF??? But an amazing black metal album from the French underground. Not LLN, but almost. Very raw vocals, distorted riffs. Yepp. Not much to talk about.
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Aarni - Bathos

I'm back, with this occult-themed Cthulhuian funeral doom, call it whatever you like. Aarni's Bathos is a hilarious record, with doom riffs, growls, synth passages, clarinet, good solos (yes, I, the non-solo-lover like the solos on this album!). Finland, Finland, Finland, the country where I want to be.
Good stuff.
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Godflesh - Us and Them

Another good album. 5 minute long Jesu tracks with more drums, basically. "I, Me, Mine" is one of my favourite songs right now... Too tired to write a normal description, so I'll just stick to the adjective+noun stuff: industrial metal, cool drum patterns, aggressive vocals. Download, enjoy.
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Church of Misery - The Second Coming

This is what you get after some delay: a kick-ass album by Japanese band Church of Misery. The Second Coming, which is waaaay superior to their first release imho, contains seven fuzzy, raw and heavy-as-hell songs about serial killers. Yeah. Mass murderers, notorious rapists and co. are the Church of Misery guys' obsession. As in every stoner/doom outfit, there's a healthy amount of Black Sabbath, but in a faster and dirtier way.
Damn, what's up with Japanese bands and stoner/doom metal? Seems like the southern gods of America moved to the east. Boris, Solar Anus, Church of Misery - all great stuff and as doom as it gets.
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Ufomammut - Godlike Snake

I couldn't find a decent quality pic of the cover-art, but I'm trying hard.
So, Ufomammut's Godlike Snake. It's heavy. It's psychedelic. It's stoner-elevator music, as described by a reviewer on stonerrock.com. Yeah, he's right. You get trippy bass-lines, down-down-down-tuned riffs, a shitload of effects and synthetic sounds. Get it, it's tasty.

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