RESTLESS MIND new single available for streaming
A New Breed Invented from The Kolkata Based Metal Music Stalwarts
After a long time (almost after a decade) heard something new from Kolkata based metal music pioneers. “Silent Wars” is a single track consisting of Kolkata-based death metal veterans Argo Mitra (Purgatory, Ground Zero, Warpath), brilliant and well-renowned guitarist Biswarup Bardhan (Chronic Xorn) and Vineeta Ghosh. Members mentioned above had their ups and down and experiments in the early stages of its career.
The horrendous track extended play "Silent Wars" with its
unbalanced genre mixture and terrible production was followed by the much
smoother and more structured effort Spirit. This is a perfect mixture of heavy
metal instruments, inspired lyrics, uplifting melodies on one side, energetic
guitar riffs, and harsh vocals on the other.
Production-wise, this is almost flawless. This is truly a
master of their craft and I'm not sure that I've ever heard a single track come
from them that isn't amazing. Portraying nothing but fantastic accuracy. Its
pounding highs and foreboding lows create a unique, reflective atmosphere. This
juxtaposition is typical, but they’re damn good at it. Make sure to give this one
a listen!
There is ample room given to flourish. This is so vivid and palpable that it seems unlikely that it will ever be supplanted on the highest throne of the metal world along with abrupt mood and tempo changes, and enthralling atmosphere showed that is spectacular. “Silent Wars" is your cosmic key. This is astonishing in its all-encompassing aura and endless streams of brilliant song writing.
Album of The Year: ~ Top 15 Best Releases of 2022
1.
Deathspell Omega - The Long Defeat
2. Mortuus
- Diablerie
3. Darvaza
- Ascending into Perdition
International black metal super-group Darvaza unveiled their debut album on this year "Ascending Into Perdition" that savages the senses with its raw and rapacious malevolence with an unavoidable feeling that it is a long-overdue violation. Vocals from start to end with no glaringly weak moments found anywhere on this hike through the light-less catacombs of Satan's abode. It’ll scramble your trusty scythe to cut through it. This leaving the genre’s boundaries safe from rupturing into new pastures but with a causticity and vitriol which ignites the senses and provides a healthy level of satisfaction. Blazing forward with the rage of the bear and the fire of a thousand suns.
4. Ritual
Death - Ritual Death
Norwegian orthodox black metal outfit Ritual Death (Consist with Behexen, Darvaza, One Tail, One Head, Mare, Celestial Bloodshed member) unveiled their self-titled debut album on this year that surpasses the usual stereotypes and presents something enjoyable, chaotic and decidedly well-presented. Trondheim based Norwegian black metal band Ritual Death has been quietly busying itself to recapture the essence of their nation’s golden age. It’s harsh, dark, atmospheric, horrific, and raw but there are also loads of brilliant style of dissonant, chaotic riffs, devilish melody in the songs. Plenty haunting lead guitars to reinforce that uneasy and ominous mood. It’s tumultuous, furious, and rather unrelenting. Such an execution of classic.
5. Sotherion
– Schwarmgeist
French black metal band Sotherionis BST's (VI, EX – Aosoth, The Order of Apollyon) new project and unveiled their debut demo "Schwarmgeist" this year via World Terror Committee. This one-man black metal band has been making unholy noise and effortlessly combined with rumbling black metal angst. French misanthropic bile Sotherion unrelentingly continues to create primitive, aggressive, violent, misanthropic black metal accompanied with disgust for the modern world and its deification. The band combines the feelings of enmity, anger, aggression with anguish. Sotherion still intent on bruising the cranium with their ashen style of hateful metal. Overall, it's raw, fast and heretic. Such an appropriate introductory kick-off. Their latest effort “Schwarmgeist” has emerged onto a new level of musical growth which provides an irrevocable fixation consumed with indisputable darkness, a Methodical and unique piece of black metal. Thus, an unbreakable synergy is born that's all about the experience of misanthropic, nihilistic, bleak, gritty unsettling noise.
6. Desolate
Shrine - Fires of the Dying World
7. Funeral Harvest
- Redemptio
Satanic black metal quartet Funeral Harvest shared their musical and ideological goals through their debut album of this year “Redemptio”. They are playing the type of scathing, otherworldly black metal and manage to strike between raw, atavistic aggression and a more sophisticated, occult approach as they are directly assaulting with extreme malice. This record has an unspeakably unsettling quality, its inflections quickly turning feverish and nightmarish in its claustrophobic way. They have instant appeal also as depth and substance. The energy and intensity of the band members individually are also quite noteworthy, as is the nearly complete absence of purity and light that they have snuffed out with all the dark forces of the underworld.
8. Serpent Noir / Sargeist
- Transcendental Black Magic
Athens, Attica based Greek trio religious, ritualistic, occult, Kabbalah black metal enigma Serpent Noir and Finnish dark, suffocating, dissonant, ghastly black metal stalwart Sargeist's latest split album on this year entitled "Transcendental Black Magic" is a good mix of fast and slow, gloomy black metal that marries the raw style with the more epic, melodic, cleaner style that would become popular a few years later accompanied by a strong dose of a guitar line and some choir inspired backing vocals this hymn is a definite bright spot. Serpent Noir is controlled, ghost-like ghouls that draw you into their Kabbalah fold of yoga, meditation, and concentration via melody, perversion and complete depravity also represent the two faces of the Kabbalah religion or some such pagan notion. I bow my head once more with respect to the never-ending stream of evil Hellenic blood. Sargeist’s approach to the music is a very traditional, clad in darkness and spreading like a deadly plague, directed by fast, sharp riffs that would rip one’s ear drum from time to time and guarded by a legion of fast as hell drum blasting. Sargeist are simply being their most succulent version of themselves here. They expose to the impenetrable darkness that shrouds. Both black metal hybrid has built up steam, showing their ultimate culmination thus far with claustrophobic, heretic, evil flatulence from below the Earth's crust.
9. Negative Plane - The
Pact...
Negative Plane plays a very exciting & passionate form of black metal and they have taken the clear and refined focus on their latest release of this year "The Pact..." and are embracing their darkened melodies and disharmonic vision into a tighter and clearer whole than ever before to get more spectacular while also adding guitar leads, synthesized keyboards onto the recording and start utilizing more tremolo picking with intricate songs full of instrumental acrobatics and contrasting interludes. "The Pact..." develops into a cleverly insane display of black metal easing the listener in with an ominous atmosphere before unceremoniously crashing into visceral riff work accompanied by vocals. The drum patterns are unorthodox and seem to be laid down with a calculated coarseness. Its allegiance to all things unfiltered, unclean, unholy. The lead guitar, gliding back and forth between weird, twisty riffs and classical motifs and virtuosity delivered with more mystique than conceit and weirdly awesome departures that it renders the contrast necessary to define evil obsolete. It's a nice flowing material that captivates your attention and keeps you involved until the end; I'd say it's a successful effort that deserves your attention. Vast emptiness is now choked by a tortuous sonic web spanning the breadth and depth of this unholy place and the deathly temple is drained to an inanimate void, save towering calcite cylinders piping hymnal blasphemies. It demonstrates this facet to such a wholly unyielding degree of worship as to make its output nearly unimportant by comparison. Time to invite the darkness, both literally and figuratively.
10. Chaos Invocation
- Devil, Stone & Man
Luciferian terror chorale German black metal horde Chaos Invocation's latest full-length ritual "Devil, Stone & Man" is insane, evil black metal fury. The band becoming more experimental and ritualistic, much like we’d expect with other black metal bands these days. This is even more caustic, poisonous, Luciferian and chaotic. The legacy would Chaos Invocation pass through music is fed with beliefs that many such acts adopt. Beliefs that revolve around Satanism, which are totally against the current of Christianity with the enhancement of the role of the fallen angel.
11. Adaestuo - Purge of the
Night Cloak
12. Dunkelheit - Inner
Awakening
Hungary based orthodox, infernal black metal outfit Dunkelheit have seamlessly adopted a nuanced sound that almost straddles borders with power at many junctures. Their debut release " Inner Awakening" surpasses the usual stereotypes and presents something enjoyable, chaotic, and decidedly well-presented. This savages the senses with its raw and rapacious malevolence with an unavoidable feeling that it is a long-overdue violation. It’s harsh, dark, horrific, and raw but there are also loads of brilliant style of chaotic riffs, devilish melody in the songs leaving the genre’s boundaries safe from rupturing into new pastures but with a causticity and vitriol which ignites the senses and provides a healthy level of satisfaction. They have always executed with the utmost confidence but never with overt creativity that made them truly rise above their black metal compatriots. Plenty haunting lead guitars to reinforce that uneasy and ominous mood. Everything they strove to accomplish with this album was unequivocally achieved, and the extra dose of heaviness fleshed out by a punishingly passionate performance really keeps this album fresh even after multiple playthroughs. Vocals from start to end with no glaringly weak moments found anywhere on this hike through the lightless catacombs of Satan's abode.
13. Deströyer 666 - Never
Surrender
Seminal Australian cruel, nasty, brutish blackened thrash nomads Destroyer 666 added disgust and anger to the atmosphere as well as linking riff transitions to the next which somehow adds to the brutality. Brooding opening before a lead spiral its way out and bridging into a veritable onslaught of a verse riff is inevitable. This fastest material and rips through its run time with pauses for a chorus that builds behind the tracks lyrical themes before descending into madness once again with solo’s and Thrash-influences broadly displayed.
14. Piołun - Rzeki Goryczy
Another fantastic Polish black metal undertaking in the form of a debut album this year entitled "Rzeki goryczy" by Piołun. People out there who say that the genre has landed in a repetitive style, and rarely there is a band with fresh ideas, well, just listen to this piece of black art forged in caustic atmospheres. In their debut album, they deliver a wide range of searing chord cascades and body-wracking riffs that lend the music an air of grandeur. The vocals are fantastic and wide-ranging from vicious throat-cutting snarls to crazed screams and ugly growls which have their allure. This album provides precisely the feeling that permeates plenty of the record and it rarely persists but always delivers a unique sense of euphoria where this band shines in a completely different light than before. The music combines malevolent atmospheres with occult stylings to create a masterpiece of supreme black metal art and indeed manages to mix trauma with fear, and anger, embodying the grimmest atmospheres that we could ever experience.
15. Ritualization - Hema
Ignis Necros
Ritualization is dedicated to keeping the spirit of the black arts alive in their true form and unveiling them through uncompromising music. Raising the darkness since their inception in 2007, this French quintet latest grimoire " Hema Ignis Necros" is malevolent, evil black metal with some old-school death metal and doom elements and embraces the blackened aesthetic and frozen Satanic evil of the style, while still acknowledging and weaponizing death metal’s more misanthropic qualities. These guys flow onwards and upwards in their endeavors, a solid effort brimming with darkness and the black arts. Embodies a dark descent into madness with the vocalist’s savage screams, pounding tribal drums, growling bass and droning guitars but then the madness ensues with blast beats and ferocious riffing. The album has a solid underground sound that does the material justice, allowing it to glow with a cold, infernal light, telling a tale of exorcism, the music dips deep into the realm of the occult and otherworldly, fashioning hymns to blackened evil that firmly make their mark on the listener also unsettle and disturb with their dark ambience and morbid atmospheres. The band is equally adept at blasting with hateful speed, slowing down to a doom-infected crawl that’s relentlessly aggressive. Ritualization gave the impression that they have settled well into their sound, there’s a sureness to their performance throughout the album. Warchangel remaining that mocking presence, merely commentating on what is to be your eventual demise at the hands of a far greater, darker force. Their debut is an exercise in total filth, delivered with unnerving levels of aggression, dark, dirty, and proudly invidious eruption of unholy noise. Bludgeoning black/death attack.
Published by: Souvik Basu
Published on: 16-12-2022
KORELLA new album available for streaming
Dreamworld new single is available for streaming
After the most mystical Halloween holiday, the Barnaul Melodic/Neoclassical band «Dreamworld» celebrated with the release of a new release. The result of the painstaking work of the band's musicians Alexander Cheremisin, Dmitry Godnya and the guest vocalist of Anton Gruzinsky (Restless Mind) was the single "The Devil in Two Steps", which was positively received by connoisseurs of the genre.
Nora new single available for streaming
At the end of October, Russian project «Nora» presented to the audience a new single, called “Played”. Recorded by Anna Maloletneva (vocal, music, text, concept) and Vlad Konovalov (piano part), the song-story tells the listener about the wrong prioritization, selfishness, the inability to appreciate those who are nearby and about drug addiction that destroys everything that was once - it's expensive.
Fidite Nemini released new single
Also the band new video clip on the song "Insanity Reality" is available on YouTube here:
New single from Electromaniac and Mr. Kto!
“Whatever happens, there will always be a total in the end ...” - this is exactly what the press release of the single “Итоги” sounds like, created in the creative union of Tyumen musicians Sergey Salnikov (Electromaniac) and Dmitry Pronkin (Mr. Kto!).
Russian Rock band Magnet released new single
Are you one of those who appreciate every minute, not used to wasting time? Then you will surely like «Magnet» new track - “Get Up”. The song, written in the classical traditions of melodic Russian rock, combines the best created in this genre. The song "Get up" does not have a marching pace and slogan appeals. At the same time, after listening, an irrepressible thirst for activity appears, an inexhaustible desire to live, create, empathize, and help those in need. This, perhaps, is the meaning of life, for this every person is born. It is gratifying that in our difficult times such pure, sincere, soul-turning songs appear inside out. Stop lying on the couch: listen to the track "Get up" and get down to business - this world is waiting for you!
The Faceless Hunter released new album
Russian Progressive Death Metal/Alternative Metal band The Faceless Hunter released their new album «One Minute To Midnight». The release was recorded in "Holy Tube Studio", mixed/mastered by Andrew Ivanenko and released by PATRIOT LABEL.
I.C.Wiener released new maxi-single
Russian Alternative Rock/Metal band «I.C.Wiener» from Komi Republic released their new maxi-single "На Атомы"
Stellagen released debut album
INFERNO Unveils Official Video for "Ekstasis Of The Continuum"
When Theia Created the Moon released debut EP
Restless Mind released new video
Mister Kto released new album