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Mourning Dawn – The Foam Of Despair
The Parisian band Mourning Dawn are a new band to me, but in actually they’ve been around for over 20 years. Starting off as a one-man band, they became a fully fledged band in 2005. With ‘The Foam Of Despair’, their 6th album, Mourning Dawn bridge the gap between black metal and doom metal. The…
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A/ORATOS – ECCLESIA GNOSTICA
A/Oratos is a Parisian band founded in 2016 by Wilhelm. He provides the concept, lyrics and guitar playing for this melodic black metal band. After their self-published EP ‘Epignosis’, this ‘Ecclesia Gnostica’ is their first full-length album. The central theme here is Gnosticism, a religion that dates from the first centuries AD and focused mainly…
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Hulder – Verses In Oath
US based black metal act Hulder is a solo project by Belgium-born Marlies Beeuwsaert. The first demo was released in 2018 and in 2021, the first full-length album entitled ‘Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry’ was released via Iron Bonehead Productions. Since then, Hulder has enjoyed a formidable rise in popularity, especially in the United…
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Morbid Saint – Swallowed By Hell
The American Morbid Saint is known and loved for their cult death / thrash album ‘Spectrum Of Death’, released in 1990. After this they released a few more demos, but the band finally broke up in 1994, when the genre lost almost all popularity. In 2010, a number of members decided to revive the band…
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Vemod – The Deepening
The Norwegian Vemod is a band that was founded in 2000 but only occasionally releases new material. After a few demos, they released their only album, ‘Venter På Stormene’, in 2012, which I enjoyed very much. Fortunately, the Norwegians have now awakened from their deep hibernation and bring us forty-eight minutes of their own mix…