Liminal Veil – S/T

Liminal Veil is a raw, visceral, and passionately violent skramz with math-rock influences. Six short but intense tracks of tragedy, passion, and emotional apocalypse. Drums and guitars create a rather dramatic orchestration, while vocals die out in desperation. Each track is unique and tunes are different from each other to keep the listeners engaged… Along the lines of Cowboys Become Folk Heroes, Ampere, and Converge, Liminal Veil holds a true potential of raw, visceral energy. The best gem of 2020.

Read the full review here.

Yaldabaoth, Syzygy, Y/N, Souphl, Jon Hatamiya, and Cocanha

Things You Might Have Missed – 1/10/20

…On paper, Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze should just be another ambient black metal band, but they are a sweet, sweet baby of some of the decade’s best-blackened offerings. While tragically underrated, Offerings of Flesh and Gold is a lovely fusion of sounds ancient and modern, offering furious black tremolos and riffs, doom percussion, hypnotic repetition, and unhinged vocals, all drenched in cold waves of ambiance and noise. It seems a doozy at three tracks and 47 minutes, but there never feels like a moment of filler, resulting in a surprisingly accessible listen. Mark this one down as one of the year’s most surprising…

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Hayduke’s Top 50 of 2019

…I recently made the offhand comment to a friend that they should listen to this album from start to finish uninterrupted, in a dark room, on good quality headphones. And then I told them that it would change their life. The more I think about it, the less sure I am that it was a joke. A truly immersive listen to Offerings of Flesh and Gold is a powerful experience. Rolling between atmospheric parts and blistering black metal, Offerings grabs on in an incredibly visceral way. Meditative and ritualistic, the album takes me to a different place when I allow myself the time to be immersed by it in that manner. I walk away at the end and feel like I’m entering the world anew from somewhere slightly different…

Excerpted from the full article.

Grim Christmas

GRIM CHRISTMAS jsou jen malý úkrok. Nejde o léčbu. Jen zmírnění příznaků. Když už to musí bejt… Stejně jako minulý rok nasazuji sluchátka, když jdu ulovit znojemské okurky do bramborového salátu. Funguje to.

Kolekce deseti blackmetalových rychlovek od coloradského mladého zvukového mága Jona Lervolda mi pomohla přežít minulý rok a skvěle funguje i letos. Multiinstrumentalista tu bere ty nejprofláklejší nástroje černého kovu a kuje s nimi ty nejotravnější koledy pod sluncem. Slyšel jsem již mnohé metalové vánoční covery, ale tady se kloubí mistrovství jak ve věrnosti k předlohám, tak ve znalosti žánru, který je na ně aplikován. Jon tu pracuje s lehkostí a samozřejmostí. Takže, když už to musí bejt…

Converge’s J Bannon’s Favorite Albums of 2019

Here is a list of music that made an impact on me in 2019. Playlists with these releases are available now via Apple Music and Spotify. ⠀
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https://dthw.sh/bestof2019-bannon⠀
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You can also search “Deathwish Playlist” on those services and you should find them.⠀
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Cave In “Final Transmission”⠀
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds “Ghosteen”⠀
Chromatics “Closer to Grey”⠀
Chromatics “The Sound of Silence”⠀
Swans “Leaving Meaning”⠀
Kate Tempest “The Book of Traps and Lessons”⠀
Lana Del Ray “Norman Fucking Rockwell!”⠀
Blood Incantation “Hidden History of the Human Race”⠀
Darkthrone “Old Star”⠀
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Chelsea Wolfe “Birth of Violence”⠀
Purple Mountains “Self Titled”⠀
Greet Death “New Hell”⠀
Blut Aus Nord “Hallucinogen”⠀
Black Mountain “Destroyer”⠀
Candlemass “The Door to Doom”⠀
Idle Hands “Mana”⠀
Spirit Adrift “Divided By Darkness”⠀
Dead To A Dying World “Elegy”⠀
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Mizmor “Cairn”⠀
Waste of Space Orchestra “Syntheosis”⠀
Sanguisugabogg “Pornographic Seizures” ⠀
Better Oblivion Community Center “Self Titled”⠀
False “Portent”⠀
Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze “Offerings of Flesh and Gold”⠀
Frozen Soul “Encased In Ice”⠀
Leviathan “Verrater” Reissue⠀
Angel Witch “Angel Witch”⠀

Bandcamp Daily: This Week’s Essential Releases: Black Metal, Art-Pop, Soul and More

“While they’re a black-metal band through and through on the sonics side, BoABoB (how’s that for an acronym?) aren’t ones for bellowing about spooky skeletons, virgin sacrifices, or eternal damnation, unlike the vast majority of their peers on Encyclopedia Metallum — LARPing while Rome burns is kind of a luxury, after all.”

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Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze Put Hypnotic Black Haze Over Chaos on “Offerings of Flesh and Gold”

“If you haven’t yet woken up to Colorado/Washington black metal blazers Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze, make that correction right now. There’s a link to the record below. Go listen to it immediately. You can do that and read this piece at the same time. The band’s devastating and mind-bending debut record “Offerings of Flesh and Gold” is one of the most amazing first records I’ve heard in a long, long time. Maybe the last time I was this excited was with FALSE’s first EP, and we all know how that story turned out.”

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Bull of Apis, Bull of Bronze make an Offering to the movement

“Many lament the saturation of black metal with politics, but it is deeply necessary. More so than any other genre, black metal has explicit stratifications of ideology. Slayer and Pantera may dabble in thinly veiled racism, but Burzum and Emperor spawned a well defined sub-genre of nazi metal. It makes sense in a way for it to be black metal to succumb to right-wing extremism, and it makes even more sense for the genre to now give voice to the left. The concentration in black metal of theatricality, gravitas, and extremity lends itself to transcendent visions of the future. And visions of the future is exactly what distinguishes opposing radical political ideologies from the mainstream: we see a future rid of hate and control and violence; they see a future rid of us. And as much as the mainstream likes to think the world is static, the future is always coming, and it will be one of those visions. That’s what makes Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze and other explicitly anti-fascist black metal bands so important. ”

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Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze : Offerings of Flesh and Gold

“…The focus, power, and beautiful of these compositions, along with their masterful pacing both internally and over the course of Offerings of Flesh and Gold, place Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze’s debut up in the echelons of truly great affecting extreme metal, alongside other greats like Wolves in the Throne Room and Neurosis. There is no such thing as interior versus exterior politics, and they know this; politics is the material result in the world of some great undeniable motivating force that dwells in the spirit, and it is toward this spirit that Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze so powerfully gesture and attempt to communicate. This is, without a doubt, one of the very finest records of the year and a powerful contribution to the two worlds of black metal and of political music.”

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