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Album Review :~ Necrowretch - Satanic Slavery

The geographical shift in the propagation of black/death metal has changed drastically over the past three decades. France also steadily outputting hundreds out worthy purveyors. France is currently spewing forth the most interesting mix of blackened acts.  France itself is known for producing blackened acts with an aptitude for dark atmospheres and a mild pompous flair. Among all of them another French purveyors of chaos and wrath,bringer of darkness Valence, Rhone-Alpes based blackened death metal horde Necrowretch unleashed their third full length incantation entitled “Satanic Slavery” in the middle of this month via Season of Mist record label with 38:34 min running time along with hellish,skin-ripping ,blood-chilling, raven black and deeply evil death metal artistry. Necrowretch have ended the trilogy with a bang. Mixing death metal with some black and thrash aesthetic was always their forte.Necrowretch serve hellish,satanic,fully blistering, devastatingly sacrilegious, old school death metal. New album is filled with more unearthly, astounding,critical acclaimed,heavy, claustrophobic misery ,enigmatic melodies . This new album is consist with 8 tracks. Basically Necrowretch was formed in 2008. Now I’m straight diving to the point about this new album .
This new albums whole compositions are extremely filthy and unsettling piece of sinister euphoria and unearthly ambiance .Necrowretch delivers an enjoyable black/death album with some thrashy accoutrements. when at first I’ve checked out their first released track off this album probably "Sprawl of Sin" I was just overwhelmed and awaited "Satanic Slavery" with great eagerness, anticipated album of this year. This bands each and every members are excellent musician appreciate their unsurpassed quality,ability and skill. All of their tremendous effort portrayed in this album in radiant way with excellent diligence and nailed it. After a multiple listen their latest studio effort  infused me with  their Unrelenting, powerful,blasting ,overarching,chromatic, chaotic , multi-layered ,ultra-dense,monolithic, blasphemous death metal musical style laced with black,thrash metal accompaniment just  blew me away . Their undeniably destructive death metal assault, full to the brim with gnarly black metal and grindcore fringes makes for a record that is deeply unsettling and touches on demented themes with little care for the sanity of its listener.Their musical style ,vocals and other parts of the riffing is straight forward furious simultaneously . 
This whole album reflects the grand diversity of sound brought together on this album . It is really not easy to describe their complex musical style . Death Metal with unconventional influences enjoys indeed tend quite popular .A natural synthesis of dissonant sounds and disparate styles all combined in one bold, enlightened display of unbound creativity. Despite the often fast ,furious,cacophonous ,heavy and barbarous form of black/death metal assaults  laced with dark eerie,gloomy  and occult,arcane atmosphere with a lots of segments of slower,mid-paced tempo too where Necrowretch combines cavernous drum thrashes, evil,devilish guitars ,previously mentioned all  aspects  enriched this album that is very powerful,strong and excellent all at the same time along with a good  balance  of black/death metal music, melody and brutality with strangulated ,filthy,thick,doomy riffs work and those effective rasps simultaneously borrow blackened,gloomy,sinister vibe. "Satanic Slavery"fueled by an immediately magnetic riff and an equally gripping, bubbling bass line, the song is vibrant and fiery. This kind of music dedicated to total aural subversion you need to steel yourself, yet no matter how you gird your loins there is rarely a true escape from the pummelling magic of death metal. The kind of music that swells the heart even as it rips with a fury and speaking of fury, the song eventually ignites in a conflagration of seething riffs and blasting percussion, only then to segue into yet further bounding and barbarous variations, becoming even more dark and predatory by the end. I highly appreciate and embrace this album because of their distinct style . 
well, this albums opening track “Sprawl of Sin” starts with sonic assailment,obtuse,grotesque,atmospheric sound followed by an onslaught of tremulous ,dark eerie, savage, dense swarm of pestilential riffing  and a wall of blast beating ,spectacular, jolting thunder of attacking  drums laced with aggression,deliberate cadence and easily the song throws open the gates to black chaos . "Satanic Slavery" is replacing gothic imagery and symbolism with satanic and occult references and themes,brutal and nostalgic as the horror. Their whole composition and musical style is impeccable also borrow great atmosphere. They have injected some thrash metal riffs into furious black/death metal style. There’s true savagery in Vlad's growls, and there’s also a morphing of the sensations conveyed by the music as the song progresses, with the seething riffs reaching heights of incendiary ecstasy and the melody turning from grim and ominous to elevating and inspirational.Their musical representation evolves into souls wandering vicious, crushing and ominous wasteland . This whole album gives u pitch-black feel from beginning to the end and I warn you this is a gloomy,blasphemous,vile, infernal journey.
This album is filled with a slew of cadence, apocalyptic, squalid, ominous,hellish,filthy, crawling, powerful riffs work .In each track breathtaking,morbidly delicious, scalding,macabre,soaring riffs,bass lineups matched in well manner with hellish,devilish chords and horror,mournful sounds are rightly used as an additional uncanny harmonic layer. This whole albums sound  deliver a dissonant,grim feeling,sinister,gruesome,ghastly black/death metal with pure energy . This album indulge strong songwriting and brilliant musicianship .The lyrical segment is lending a somewhat more esoteric and philosophical aesthetic to the entire mysticism of Satanic beliefs. Vocals large, inhuman voice that does well for Necrowretch . Vocals howling  hideous screams, hoarse , reverb-soaked, deep rasps , deep lung-burning roars, immense voice emerged on this album in a well manner and intertwined perfectly with their utterly  spellbinding,obtuse,bizarrely arrogant, mysterious,fully blistering, grandiose,blasphemous  black/death  metal,distant musical style with a lots of thrash metal riffs accompaniment  and  embedded perfectly .The vocals are also a match for the boiling intensity of the music, ranging dynamically through savage growls and lung-bursting cries to make this electrifying song even more intense. Overall you will get  sinister,gloomy,desolate,mysterious ambient from this whole album . I really worship this band . 
Each songs are utterly bloodthirsty,fast, savage and blasphemous odes to early extreme metal .They have incinerate with horrid power.These tracks are designed to fit the mold of manic death metal taking large cues from the black metal aesthetic and hammering out an unholy concoction like thus. Stand out tracks are all of them .Album artwork is fiendish,infernal,vile, nefarious,primordial . The production gives the music a powerful clarity, the blood-rushing drum propulsion and vibrant bass performance producing a non-stop surge of adrenaline. The rocketing rhythmic drive subsides past the mid-point, making way for a new and electrifying riff accompanied by the boom and tumble of percussion before Necrowretch return to the grim ferocity and tumultuous explosiveness of the song’s main course, with the vocals reaching a crescendo of wild barbarity just before this expression of draconic fury comes to an end. Overall “Satanic Slavery” whole album is Spectacular,engrossing ,significant,rich .The old school approach to death metal here is almost ancestral in its atavism. Chances are the song structures themselves won’t captivate, but the unholy bedlam spewed out of “Satanic Slavery” will more than do the trick. When it comes to records like this one, the ability to maintain that old-school feel is key, and they for sure stick to old tradition. If you are looking for  something different, epic this pure unadulterated,elegantly and savagely decomposed black/death metal album is perfect. Their new opus is incredibly refreshing, riff-dense monster of an album embedded with crust, rust and cadaverous unmentionables. Outstanding another one release of this year so far .This is strongly recommend to add it in your collection .

My Rating – 5/5 Review done by – Souvik Basu . Published on 26.04.2017

DIMMU BORGIR: 'Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse' Performance Clip From 'Forces Of The Northern Night' DVD





"Forces Of The Northern Night", the highly anticipated double DVD from Norwegian symphonic black metallers DIMMU BORGIR, will be released on April 28 via Nuclear Blast. The set will contain two of the band's live performances: their legendary show in Oslo, presenting DIMMU BORGIR on stage with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and a bombastic choir, as well as their entire performance at Wacken Open Air festival in 2012 in Wacken, Germany with almost a hundred musicians on stage. Both concerts present a spectacular sound scenario of raging black metal in front of an epic orchestral landscape plus the band's unique visuals.
A performance clip of the song "Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse", taken from "Forces Of The Northern Night", can be seen below.



Split Album Review :~ Onirik/Grimfaug - MMXIV-MMXVI

Nowadays a lots of excellent black metal albums are releasing.In my opinion previous year was remarkable for black metal. Already a lots of good black metal album released on this year and looking forward till the end of this year. In this extreme metal music genre first wave black metal and second wave black metal bands are full of reverence. The experimentation isn’t the only part of the music that’s carefully measured and blended into the mix. Some moments are triumphantly filled with expansive and engrossing melodies, others upbeat and many are just plain weird. Everything on here is pretty damn interesting, yet it’s clear that Onirik and Grimfaug values quality over novelty because the dazzling split is never overbearingly experimental. When it comes to notoriety in terms of black metal bands Onirik and Grimfaug is usually not the first place that comes to mind to a vast majority of people. While some clueless,fully underground band attempting to sell their flavor of the month band to potential listeners, there are some bands that simply exist and create milestone. "MMXIV-MMXVI" a phenomenal addition to the Black metal archive.

On this year Lisbon,Portugal  based  black metal band Onirik pairs with Houtland,Belgium's enigmatic,terrifying  hermit Grimfaug and  Unveiled a split on this year entitled “MMXIV-MMXVI” via Iron Bonehead Productions record label with 1:00:24 min running time along with relentless unnerving, foggy, almost-medieval music. This new rituals consist with 8 tracks . New Split exploding with righteous resolve, hysteric, miasma-inducing malestorm of classic coldness.

When I first heard this Split I was stunned. It was immediate and I was overwhelmed. Black metal coming from a deep, non-physical place. When I listened to this I didn’t feel that instant calling from the frost covered lands of death which black metal so often provokes. It’s dark but the rest is abstract, it’s open to the interpretation and feeling each one gets from the listen. Aforementioned both bands delivers distinctly experimental, atmospherically evil form of black metal with a little bit of the atmospheric leanings. Both bands each and every musician (Gonius Rex - Onirik, Norgaath - Grimfaug and Menthor - Grimfaug,Onirik) did fantastic job on this Split in radiant way . This whole studio effort reflects the grand diversity of sound brought together on this new release . A natural synthesis of dissonant sounds and disparate styles all combined in one bold, enlightened display of unbound creativity Despite the often fast ,furious,cacophonous black metal assaults with a lots of segments of slower tempo too where Onirik/Grimfaug combines Frozen guitars output, creepy atmospheric passages,noisy,mid paced black metal arpeggios  with cavernous drum thrashes, melancholic guitars and those effective,croaking Vocals. The big kicker here are all the choir voices. Indeed, Onirik and Grimfaug both bands could have the soundtrack to where you continually get killed by horrific, strange beasts. Controller throwing is optional so, I warn you before enter this journey.

well,their latest opus opened by Onirik with avant-garde style black metal with slow burn of long term fright where Grimfaug opts for a more straightforward harmonic sense, instead communicating all fear purely in unbridled aggression. Grimfaug creates standard cold, tremolo picked chords, raspy screams and raw drums blast beaten away with a snare that clunks. Their whole composition and musical style is impeccable also borrow great atmosphere with sour ,dissonant riffs work . The guitar melodies here have something sublime and evoke memories of snow-capped peaks in the loneliness of Norway. Norgaath and Menthor’s atmospheric heavy black metal is absolutely uncompromising, recalling the early No Fashion releases through a lens of expressionist fury. 

This new Split's whole compositions are extremely filthy and unsettling piece of sinister euphoria and unearthly ambiance . Their distinct entity infused me by a lot in invaded my ears again . Their musical style have a quite soft and smooth edge in the guitar playing which adds to the more atmospheric,unique kind of black metal but at the same time the vocals and other parts of the riffing is straight forward brutal simultaneously along with nasty quickly picked lines, guitar harmonies and high, tortured screams. After a multiple listen this incantation just blew me away with their ethereal abyss,multidimensional ,the multi-layered,ominous musical style . Each musicians have exudes tremendous effort on this Split with excellent diligence and nailed it . I highly cite and embrace them. It’s a moment of pure inspiration in the black metal atmosphere.

 This Split is filled with a slew of cadence, apocalyptic, ominous,hellish, slow but powerful , frozen riffs work . As well bass line up is whopping,intense,strong ,rumbling, slithering . Drumming,percussion line up is bleak, frantic,solid,clattering and powerful . In each track morbidly delicious,slow,macabre,soaring,dark eerie riffs,bass lineups matched in well manner . The most striking thing you’ll notice about the sound of Onirik and Grimfaug is the air of agression,atmosphere,foggy, medieval that quite literally drips from the noise they create . This whole materials sound deliver a dissonant,grim feeling,sinister,melancholic,gruesome black metal with raw emotion and pure energy . “MMXIV-MMXVI” endures beauty of black metal and rinse purity of black flame . This Split indulge strong songwriting and brilliant musicianship . vocals occupy the other spot on the podium and despite the fact that it isn’t too grating. Vocals decently large voice that does well for their own band. Vocals drags on in concordance with the slower parts of the compositions, sometimes recurring to subtle effects that exacerbate the threat in his words or even to demented moans that look like they come from the most unbridled melancholic facet present in all of us. Vocals howling scream, menacing ,immense,deep rasps ,hoarse voice emerged on this Split in a well manner and intertwined perfectly with their anticlimactic ,utterly spellbinding,obtuse,bizarrely arrogant, mysterious,fully blistering,aggressive  black metal,distant musical style with a lots of melodic,atmospheric,accompaniment and embedded perfectly . Overall you will get sinister,gloomy,desolate,mysterious ambient from this whole Split .This is another of those monumental release which has taken me a spell to ponder. I really worship this band. They have masterfully treads the fine line between antiquated grandeur and hollow, cobweb-coated emptiness.

Each song have an energy ,fluency and draw a savage,atmospherc,foggy landscape .Stand out tracks are all of them . I personally Cherish both bands each and every single track and enjoyed Grimfaug's portion a little bit more than Onirik part but again saying appreciate Onirik and Grimfaug both bands all track. Artwork is macabre, gorgeously hideous, Pretty neat,atrocious,grisly . 

Overall “MMXIV-MMXVI” whole Split is Spectacular,engrossing ,significant. The production is absolutely impeccable,capable of handling both the massive atmospheric and gargantuan heft.  Indeed this Split is such an true hidden gem of this year . The Portugal/Belgium bruisers still possess all the necessary skills and hard-won experience to put younger,newcomer challengers in their place.Both bands (Onirik and Grimfaug) has welded the styles together  and has created something greater than the sum of its influences. The black metal production makes the riffs come to the mind indistinctively but perceptible to the anima, simultaneously becoming a memorable experience though never repetitive. It’s always possible to detect secondary melodies that weren’t there the last time and won’t be there the next. 

Onirik in MMXIV-MMXVI - 4.9/5
Grimfaug in MMXIV-MMXVI - 5/5

Overall My Rating –  5/5, Review done by Souvik Basu, Published on 18/04/2017

Santtu Niemelä Streaming "Forgotten Souls" Title Track



Finnish power / progressive metal musician Santtu Niemelä has released his second album "Forgotten Souls." The album was recorded in Skulldozer Studio and all the songs were written, mixed and mastered by Santtu Niemelä, and promoted over Europe by GlobMetal Promotions.
Check out the title track below, and you can also pick up the full album at Amazon or via iTunes here. The full track listing is as follows:

1. Intro
2. Night of the Witch
3. Forgotten Souls
4. The Wicked Mind
5. Through Space and Time
6. Running Wild
7. Fly Like an Eagle
8. Wild & Free We Ride
9. Die by the Sword
10. Calm Before the Storm
11. Sail Away
12. Burning Sea (Bonus Track)
13. Destruction (Bonus Track)
14. Freedom (Bonus Track)


Album Review :~ Coldborn - Lingering Voidwards

When some one tells you about atmospheric black metal at first a landscape will click automatically in your imaginary such as blurry, cold,wintery night and you are standing at the top of the distant mountains under funeral moon while wood sprites and grim,sinister,gloomy vibe help them compose their melodies.While some excellent ,unique band attempting to sell their flavor of the month band to potential listeners, there are some that simply exist outside of pre-existing molds. Some challengers exist, such as Coldborn, a phenomenal addition to the Black metal roster. The geographical shift in the propagation of black metal has changed drastically over the past three decades. Belgium is currently spewing forth the most interesting mix of blackened acts. Coldborn producing black metal with an aptitude for dark atmospheres and a mild pompous flair. Coldborn unveiled their debut full length album entitled “Lingering Voidwards” in the end of previous year via Final Sacrifice Records record label with 47:15 min running time along with sheer amount of wintery,spine-chilling,atmospheric experience. Mixing black metal with atmospheric,gloomy,frozen vibe was their forte. New album is filled with more unearthly, astounding,critical acclaimed,heavy, claustrophobic misery ,enigmatic melodies.This new album is consist with 5 tracks. Basically Coldborn was formed in 2007. Coldborn is the brainchild and solo project of Norgaath from Nightbringer, Grimfaug. In this album he include Menthor (Nightbringer.Lvcifyre),Nocturnus Horrendus and A. Krieg. This albums Mixing and mastering done by Jeremie Bezier off Emptiness. Easily Coldbon became one of my favorite atmospheric black metal band with their mystique and epic musical style . now I’m straight diving to the point about this new album .
This new studio efforts whole compositions are extremely filthy and unsettling piece of sinister euphoria and unearthly ambiance, atmosphere and the right amount of brutality. The rawness of it makes it ideal for the nostalgic,Bringing back the past days when Black Metal was intended to be unsettling and highly creepy. When I was spinning their latest studio effort for the first time I was overwhelmed, invaded my ears and this album sounds so authentic,mature and truly epic. This is triumphant sophisticated,spine-chilling atmospheric black metal. Norgaath himself banishes all our doubts regarding the genre describing the music of "Lingering Voidwards" and putting particular emphasis on the first word and rekindle my endless love  for atmospheric black metal. I cherish his unsurpassed quality,ability and skill along with tremendous effort portrayed in this album in radiant way with excellent diligence and nailed it. After a multiple listen their debut studio effort  infused me with  their unabating, powerful,overarching,chromatic, multi-layered ,ultra-dense,monolithic black metal musical style laced with grimness which the cold icy following riffs accelerate towards and a melodic interlude that follows just  blew me away . Their musical style have a hypnotic effect and especially more atmospheric kind of black metal but at the same time the vocals and other parts of the riffing is straight forward furious simultaneously.
This whole album reflects the grand diversity of sound brought together on this album . Black Metal with unconventional influences enjoys indeed tend quite popular .It has the familiar uniqueness yet flow of a black metal record that was common back when the second wave began. A natural synthesis of dissonant sounds and disparate styles all combined in one bold, enlightened display of unbound creativity. It’s a melody devoted to death the way black metal ought to be. Coldborn utilizes guitars, drums, bass, horns, piano, and vocals to create something that is a gimmick-less work of gloomy art. Despite the often fast ,furious,cacophonous ,heavy and barbarous form of black metal assaults  laced with dark eerie,gloomy  and occult, dark, bone-chilling atmosphere with a lots of segments of slower,mid-paced tempo too where Coldborn combines cavernous drum thrashes, melodic guitars ,previously mentioned all  aspects  enriched this album that is very powerful,strong and excellent all at the same time along with a good  balance  of black metal music, melody and brutality with strangulated ,filthy,melodic riffs work and those effective rasps simultaneously borrow blackened,gloomy,sinister vibe. "Lingering Voidwards"fueled by an immediately magnetic riff and an equally gripping, bubbling bass line, the song is vibrant and fiery. The kind of music that swells the heart even as it rips with a fury and speaking of fury, the song eventually ignites in a conflagration of seething riffs and blasting percussion, only then to segue into yet further bounding and barbarous variations, becoming even more dark and predatory by the end. I highly appreciate and embrace this album and worship this band.
Lingering Voidwards opens with a dungeon crawl of synth, guitar drone and military grade horns,sonic assailment,obtuse,grotesque,atmospheric sound followed by an onslaught of tremulous ,dark eerie, savage, dense swarm of pestilential riffing  and a wall of blast beating ,spectacular, jolting thunder of attacking  drums laced with aggression,deliberate cadence that immediately set the mood then blaze into the darkness with virulent strength and fury and easily the song throws open the gates to black chaos. There’s true savagery in Norgaath's growls, and there’s also a morphing of the sensations conveyed by the music as the song progresses, with the seething riffs reaching heights of incendiary ecstasy and the melody turning from grim and ominous to elevating and inspirational.Their musical representation evolves into souls wandering vicious, crushing and ominous wasteland . This whole album gives u pitch-black feel from beginning to the end and I warn you this is a gloomy journey.
This album is filled with a slew of cadence, apocalyptic, squalid, ominous,hellish,filthy, crawling, powerful riffs work .In each track breathtaking,morbidly delicious, scalding,macabre,soaring riffs,bass lineups matched in well manner with hellish,devilish chords and horror,mournful sounds are rightly used as an additional uncanny harmonic layer laced with dazzling piano laden melodies. This whole albums sound  deliver a dissonant,grim feeling,sinister,gruesome,ghastly black metal with pure energy . A massive piece of musical brutality and so damn immersive and evil. “Lingering Voidwards”  endures beauty of black metal . This album indulge strong songwriting and brilliant musicianship .Vocals howling scream, hoarse , inhuman , deep rasps , deep lung-burning roars, immense,large voice emerged on this album in a well manner and intertwined perfectly with their utterly  spellbinding,obtuse,bizarrely arrogant, mysterious,fully blistering, grandiose,hellish  black  metal,distant musical style with a lots of melodic,atmospheric accompaniment, piano leads  and  embedded perfectly .The vocals ranging dynamically through savage growls and lung-bursting cries to make this electrifying song even more intense. Overall you will get  sinister,gloomy,desolate,mysterious ambient from this whole album.
Each song have an energy ,fluency and  draw a wintery,solitude,cold landscape under full moon.Stand out tracks are all of them . I personally cherish The Call of Death's Clarion,In the Absence of Light, Death Gazes,In Solitude, Lingering Voidwards, Withered tracks. Wait!! did I mention all 5 tracks ?? Yes I'm pretty damn sure about it and all of them are splendid. Album artwork is atrocious,grisly, indelible . The production gives the music a powerful clarity, the blood-rushing atmosphere,drum propulsion and vibrant bass performance producing a non-stop surge of adrenaline. The rocketing rhythmic drive subsides past the mid-point before Coldborn return to the grim ferocity and tumultuous explosiveness of the song’s main course, with the vocals reaching a crescendo of barbarity just before this expression of fury comes to an end. Overall “Lingering Voidwards” whole album Perfectly balancing eerie atmospheres with ravaging Black Metal. This album is is Spectacular,engrossing ,significant,rich and another terrific atmospheric piece that oozes rawness and dissonance. Coldborn manages to catch that grim and hateful atmosphere of Katharsis and the likes of that. This album sounds so authentic  and a truly remarkable sonic journey from beginning to end . Indeed this album is such an true gem. This is highly recommend to add it in your collection .Coldborn strip back the black metal aesthetic and explore new avenues. If you are looking for  something different, epic this pure unadulterated black metal album is perfect. "Lingering Voidwards" is a persistent attraction towards the void of existence, which translates to lyrics adorned in death and desperation. If you can get past some of the production woes,"Lingering Voidwards" will reward you in repeated plays. so, enter the void.
My Rating – 5/5 Review done by – Souvik Basu . Published on 12.04.2017

Album Review :~ Nightbringer - Terra Damnata

The obsession with anything outre is not exactly a novelty in the metal scene, but occasionally it will assume a much more complex and nuanced dimension owing to musicians who insist on addressing such topics with utmost maturity and profundity. Numerous bands have created albums based around their own ideas that take insight from creative writing, but few bands will dedicate the entire span of an album to relevant interpretation of the belief With the emergence and escalation of the novel and notorious tendency. Nightbringer are, and have always been, a cut above the rest. Spawning from the depths of Occultism, Philosophy, Chaos, Knowledge, Esoteric Literatureis the newest record from orthodox black metal sextet Nightbringer - Terra Damnata. Nightbringer this Colorado based American group married the ritualistic fury of esoteric,occult black metal with a creeping dose of mystical,ominous,sinister madness. Nightbringer expand their orthodoxy around nordeuropean classical music. The atmosphere and tightly plotted albums were based on mystical, occult, incantation while still employing their own take on black metal.
On this year Colorado based American black metallers Nightbringer Unveiled their fifth full length opus on this year entitled “Terra Damnata” via Season of Mist record label with 52:15 min running time along with hellish,skin-ripping artistry. This new album consist with 8 tracks . Nightbringer was formed in 1999. They have developed into an independent mystical, occult and grand entity with their release Ego Domnius Tuus (2014) and Hierophany of the Open Grave (2011). Now I am straight going to the point about this new album .
When at first checked out their manifestation I was overwhelmed and track sounds so authentic,ferocious,mature from then I was clinched  that I have to check this whole material for sure and this would be savage beast. Nightbringer delivers distinctly experimental, atmospherically evil,vivid,horrifying form of black metal.This bands each and every musician did fantastic job on this album in radiant way and It’s really great when your high hopes are not misplaced. This whole album reflects the grand diversity of sound brought together on this album . It is really not easy to describe their musical style . A natural synthesis of dissonant sounds and disparate styles all combined in one bold, enlightened display of unbound creativity Despite the often crushing,fast ,furious,cacophonous black metal assaults with a lots of segments of slower tempo too where Nightbringer combines a atmospheric, mysterious, introspective passages with cavernous drum thrashes, melodic guitars and those effective rasps.

well,their latest incantations opening track is “As Wolves Amongst Ruins” . This track starts with massive,fast paced, technical black metal. The layered tapestry of duo-tonal whirlwind of guitar noise laced with aggression,deliberate cadence and progression seasonings supporting the likewise duo vocals drown a bit in the almost unhuman-like drumming, although this evolves to a more dynamic sound on the rest of the album. Their whole composition and musical style is impeccable also borrow great atmosphere with sour ,dissonant riffs work .
 This new albums whole compositions are extremely filthy and unsettling piece of sinister,grim euphoria and unearthly ambiance . “Terra Damnata”  commences chronologically invigorating and destructive. Their distinct entity infused me by a lot . Their musical style have a quite soft and smooth edge in the synth playing which adds to the more atmospheric,unique kind of black metal but at the same time the vocals and other parts of the riffing is straight forward brutal,ferocious simultaneously . Honestly, after a multiple listen this album just blew me away with their ethereal abyss,multi-dimensional,the multi-layered,ominous musical style . Each musicians have exudes tremendous,cohesive effort on this album with excellent diligence and nailed it .Nightbringer really does the trick for the atmosphere is the overall murky,mysterious, Juxtapositions of darkness and light, misty sound that comes from the music. I highly cite and embrace this album .

This album is filled with a slew of cadence, apocalyptic,pummeling, ominous,hellish, powerful riffs work . As well bass line up is whopping,intense,strong ,rumbling, slithering . Drumming,percussion line up is bleak, frantic,solid,clattering and powerful . The guitars are solely focused on creating a grandiose atmosphere, but predominantly rely on walls of sound and swerving rhythms.In each track morbidly delicious,macabre,soaring,dark eerie,ghastly riffs,bass lineups matched in well manner .This whole albums sound deliver a dissonant,grim feeling,sinister,melancholic,gruesome black metal with raw emotion and pure energy . “Terra Damnata” endures beauty of black metal . This album indulge strong songwriting and brilliant musicianship . This album have a hypnotic effect on the listener . Vocals decently large voice that does well for Nightbringer . Especially his chants are menacing and hoarse voice are excellent . Vocals howling scream,immense,deep rasps ,serene chanting voice emerged on this album in a well manner adds a thick murky sound and intertwined perfectly with their utterly spellbinding,obtuse,bizarrely arrogant, mysterious,fully blistering black metal,distant musical style with a lots of melodic,atmospheric accompaniment and embedded perfectly . Their sound,musicianship is absolute prime, with every song unleashing a seething torrent of scalding dissonance and insidious melody, scorching distortion, and barbaric, blasphemous invective, all of which combine to produce an overarching atmosphere of creeping, crippling dread. Overall you will get sinister,gloomy,desolate,mysterious ambient from this whole album .I really worship this band.

Each song have an energy ,fluency and draw a savage landscape .Stand out tracks are all of them .Every song, every hellish, skin-stripping riff and vile vocal incantation, is delivered with the righteous fury and unwavering conviction of the true believer. I personally Cherish As Wolves Amongst Ruins, Misrule, Midnight's Crown, Of the Key and Crossed Bones, Inheritor of a Dying World, The Lamp of Inverse Light, Serpent Sun. Vision of the album cover is Pretty neat,solid,atrocious,grisly, macabre, gorgeously hideous. Overall “Terra Damnata” whole album is Spectacular,engrossing ,significant and goes all the way through with a relentless rage from the beginning. The sound has a depth to it, that with brief distortion. This album sounds so authentic and a truly remarkable sonic journey from beginning to end . Indeed this album is such an true gem of this year . The production is absolutely impeccable,capable of handling both the massive atmospheric and gargantuan heft.Outstanding another one release of this year so far .“Terra Damnata” is shattering culmination in black metal evolution. The American bruisers still possess all the necessary skills and hard-won experience to put younger,newcomer challengers in their place.With "Terra Damnata", Nightbringer writes another chapter in their book of successive masterpieces. If you looking for something different, epic this album will take you on a sophisticated and weighty black metal journey into another universe where music has the power to transcend the spoken word.

My Rating – 4.9/5   Review done by - Souvik Basu. Published on 11/04/2017

Album Review :~ Gnosis Kardias (Of Transcension and Involution)

Czech Republic's purveyors of chaos,Ritual whispering ,invocation, wrath,bringer of darkness Inferno unleashed their seventh full length album entitled “Gnosis Kardias (Of Transcension and Involution)” in the beginning of this month via World Terror Committee. Inferno have ended the quintet with a bang. Mixing black metal with esoteric,obscure,mysterious, introspective passages,dense otherworldly blasting,avant garde together was always their forte. New album is filled with more unearthly, astounding,critical acclaimed,heavy, claustrophobic misery ,enigmatic melodies. This new album is consist with 6 tracks.Basically Inferno was formed in 1996 . They have been slinging noxious, elevated Czech Republic's extreme metal scene. An ever-increasing number of black metal bands feature dissonance and accessibility in equally impressive amounts. Certain black metal bands were able to gain proper attention and actually attempt to cross both realms and unite them under one cohesive effort.Indeed Inferno is a well established group of bands who can make a fully sound and creative and with a lots of excellence,ritualistic,hatred,blasphemy in his lyrics,with well crafted,distinct content.After so long in existence they have gathered a wealth of experience and dark talents, which they liberally pour into their music.Now I’m straight diving to the point about this new album .
Their seventh incantations whole compositions are extremely filthy and unsettling piece of sinister euphoria and unearthly ambiance .when at first I’ve checked out their first released track “The Innermost Disillusion” from this album I was just overwhelmed and this album was one of my long awaited,anticipated album of this year . This bands each and every members are excellent musician appreciate their unsurpassed quality,ability and skill. All of their tremendous effort portrayed in this album in radiant way with excellent diligence and nailed it. After a multiple listen their latest studio effort  infused me with  their Unrelenting, powerful,blasting ,overarching,chromatic, chaotic , multi-layered ,ultra-dense,ritualistic, monolithic black metal musical style laced with atmospheric vibe just  blew me away .Inferno's collective wisdom and expels it as almost 45 minutes of shadowy artistry.Their musical style have a hypnotic effect and especially ritualistic,esoteric,arcane vibe which adds to the more atmospheric kind of black metal but at the same time the vocals and other parts of the riffing is straight forward blasphemous simultaneously .
This whole album reflects the grand diversity of sound brought together on this album . It is really not easy to describe their complex musical style . Black Metal with unconventional influences enjoys indeed tend quite popular .A natural synthesis of dissonant sounds and disparate styles all combined in one bold, enlightened display of unbound creativity. Despite the often mysterious ,furious,cacophonous ,heavy and barbarous form of black metal assaults  laced with dark eerie,gloomy  and occult  atmosphere with a lots of segments of slower,mid-paced tempo too where Inferno combines cavernous drum thrashes, melancholic guitars ,previously mentioned all  aspects  enriched this album that is very powerful,strong and excellent all at the same time along with a good  balance  of black metal music, melody and brutality with strangulated ,filthy,horrific riffs work and those effective chants simultaneously borrow blackened,gloomy,sinister vibe.Inferno know how to hone their aggression to deal some grievous wounds. I highly appreciate and embrace this album because of their distinct style .
well, this albums opening track “The Innermost Disillusion” starts with sonic assailment,obtuse,grotesque,atmospheric sound followed by an onslaught of tremulous ,dark eerie, savage riffs  and a wall of blast beating ,spectacular drums laced with aggression,deliberate cadence . Their whole composition and musical style is impeccable also borrow great atmosphere. They have injected ritualistic essence,obscure,arcane,esoteric vibes into blasphemous black metal style.Their musical representation evolves into souls wandering vicious, crushing and ominous wasteland . This whole album gives u pitch-black feel from beginning to the end and I warn you this is a gloomy journey.
This album is filled with a slew of cadence, apocalyptic, squalid, ominous,hellish, crawling, slow but powerful riffs work . Drumming,percussion line up is bleak, frantic,solid,clattering and powerful . In each track breathtaking,morbidly delicious, scalding,macabre,soaring riffs,bass lineups matched in well manner with hellish,devilish chords and horror,mournful sounds are rightly used as an additional uncanny harmonic layer. The most striking thing you’ll notice about the sound of Inferno is the air of darkened auras, occult moods and haunting melodies that quite literally drips from the noise they create . This whole albums sound  deliver a dissonant,grim feeling,sinister,occult,gruesome black metal with raw emotion and pure energy . “Gnosis Kardias (Of Transcension and Involution)”  endures beauty of black metal . This album indulge strong songwriting and brilliant musicianship . This album have a hypnotic effect on the listener . Vocals large, inhuman voice that does well for Inferno . Vocals howling scream, hoarse , immense voice and effective chants emerged on this album in a well manner and intertwined perfectly with their utterly  spellbinding,obtuse, mysterious,fully blistering, blasphemous, ritualistic, grandiose  black metal,distant musical style with a lots of melodic,atmospheric,occult,ritualization accompaniment  and  embedded perfectly . Here I want to mention Acherontas V.Priest because he also did additional vocals in this album. Overall you will get  sinister,gloomy,desolate,mysterious ambient from this whole album . I really worship this band .
Each song have an energy ,fluency .Stand out tracks are all of them . I personally Cherish The Innermost Disillusion,Upheaval of Silence,Ω ≻ 1 (Oscillation in Timelessness),Gate-eye of Fractal Spiral track those are remarkable,appreciable too.  Album artwork is atrocious,grisly, indelible . Overall “Gnosis Kardias (Of Transcension and Involution)” whole album is Spectacular,engrossing ,significant,rich,Spirituality full of evil, Scary shaking of dark vibration. This album sounds so authentic  and a truly remarkable sonic journey from beginning to end . Indeed this album is such an true gem of this year . I’ll say this whole album is aesthetics of black metal .Outstanding another one release of this year so far .This is highly recommend to add it in your collection .If you are looking for  something different, epic this pure unadulterated black metal utterance is perfect and it will pull out your soul from your body and take you on a journey into another universe . so, enter the void and I am sure definitely u will come out stronger,darker,gloomier than ever before.

My Rating - 4.9/5, Review done by – Souvik Basu, Published on 11/04/2017.

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