Review: Saille's upcoming album "Gnosis"

So, our beloved band Saille, from Belgium, are releasing a new album called Gnosis on the 17th of March, through Code666.
Saille have always brought us a very powerful music. Very artistic and introspective covers as well.
This time, it looks like they are more aggressive and heavy than ever.
Gnosis has 9 tracks and they are all a lot more dark and powerful and a bit less catchy than the previous albums.
These guys know how to make music, and know how to take a band to a even superior level.
Such an underrated band, really.
So, Gnosis. Drags you to a very deep journey. You can still find the keyboards and the bells, and those sounds that bring a great atmosphere, very horrory type of atmosphere in fact. But, most of it is very fast and full of fury and rage. From the melody through the guitars, or even from the voice. It all matches together.
It feels like we also get to a higher level while listening to it, So good, so introspective still, so full of nature and forces, dark forces. Disturbing in a very good way. Maybe because this is a concept album which explores the world of the Promethean ideal and it's Luciferian counterpart.
Before the Crawling Chaos is just indescribably good. So much greatness in just one song. So much melody and power and strength all together as one.
This album live should be something!
Alright, do a favor to yourselves and get it. Not long to go now. Only a month and a half. You won't regret.
Oh, and very possibly  there is an interview on the way. Keep an eye out!

News: VI, Temple of Baal and The Order of Apollyon split details

VI, Temple of Baal and The Order of Apollyon are releasing a split on the 31st of March, featuring a brande new song from each of the bands.

The split will be divided into three chapters, with a total running time of about 25 minutes. It will be available through Agonia Records.

Tracklist:
- Chapter One: "Trident Of Flesh" (The Order Of Apollyon),
- Caput Secundum: "Non Sum Dignus" (Temple Of Baal),
- Troisème Chapitre: "Aucun d'entre vous ne sera sauvé. Car c'est impossible aux hommes et tout est possible à dieu. Il ne va rien rester de vous, rien de votre nombre, de votre grandeur" (VI).


The split will be available in the following formats:

- regular black LP (with laser etching on side B),
- limited to 200 copies red LP (with similar laser etching),
- limited to 100 copies gold LP (with a patch and similar laser etching).

You can also order it here:

https://tinyurl.com/vitobtoo

And this is what the bands have to say about it:

"Being a part of this split along with Temple of Baal and The Order Of Apollyon was an opportunity for us to release a new single track. We thought we were done for a while with creating new music since the release of De Praestigiis Angelorum, but it appeared that we still had more to do. Expect something slightly different from what we're known for. Expect something unique" (VI).

"Split releases have paved Temple Of Baal’s history through the years as special items in the band’s discography, done with special bands strictly chosen for their common views on Black and Death Metal as sacred works of Left Hand Path dedication. Once more, Temple Of Baal teams up with bearers of the Black Flame to bring a three-fold testimony of Faith" (TEMPLE OF BAAL).

"Joining forces with Agonia for a fresh new start for The Order, we deemed appropriate to release something special. We chose to share this one with artists that we respect not only as musicians, but also as genuinely devoted human beings. The song we wrote for this EP is also meant to give you a taste of what's to come on our side in the near future" (THE ORDER OF APOLLYON).

Read more in:

VI on-line:
https://www.facebook.com/VIthdevotion

THE ORDER OF APOLLYON on-line:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theorderofapollyon
Website: http://www.tooa.org/

TEMPLE OF BAAL on-line:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Temple-Of-Baal
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Templeofbaal
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Templeofbaal
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/templeofbaal

Agonia Records:
Website: http://agoniarecords.com
Webshop: http://tinyurl.com/agoniashop
Facebook: https://facebook.com/agoniarecords
Twitter: https://twitter.com/agoniarecords
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/agoniarecords
Bandcamp: https://agoniarecords.bandcamp.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/agoniarecordsofficial
YouTube: http://youtube.com/AgoniaRec

News: Mord'A'Stigmata

Upcoming album of Mord'A'Stigmata, Hope, is scheduled o be released on the 17th of February through Pagan Records, and it is now available for Pre-Orders.

The album comes in LP, CD and digital formats. Three special T-shirt designs have also been prepared by the author of the album artwork, Bartek Rogalewicz (Behemoth, Rogi, Non Opus Dei).

Pre-Order links:

CD: http://bit.ly/2j8wqXx  
LP: http://bit.ly/2iHC16f  
T-Shirt Hope: http://bit.ly/2jYSuUm  
T-Shirt Tangle: http://bit.ly/2iHBhOr  
T-Shirt & LP: http://bit.ly/2j8xpqx  
T-Shirt & CD: http://bit.ly/2jw3BHT
Digital/Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2jJZyVB

Tracklist:
1. Hope
2. The Tomb from Fear and Doubt
3. To Keep the Blood
4. In Less Than No Time

Read more in:
https://www.facebook.com/mordastigmata
https://mordastigmata.bandcamp.com/
http://www.pagan-records.com/
https://www.facebook.com/paganrecords
https://paganrecords.bandcamp.com/

News: Crest of Darkness debut video from upcoming album on youtube

Norwegian Black Metal band Crest of Darkness are releasing a new album tomorrow, the 25th of November. This will be their 7th full-length album, and will be called Welcome the Dead.

In the meanwhile, the band released a video for the title track, and you can watch it here:

Founder and frontman of the band, Ingar Amlein has this to say about  it:
"We wanted to make a video that offers a glimpse into the dark world of CREST OF DARKNESS.  Perhaps we are just story tellers recounting a fairytale,  and the video can certainly be viewed and enjoyed at that level, but we are also  touching on aspects of Life itself and those eternal questions that people ask themselves about life and death and the meaning of it all.

"We might not have all the answers, and in all honesty we don't even want to pretend that we do, but what we do want is to make people think for themselves, and find their own answers .  Let's face it, we are all Gods.  Each of us builds their own universe, and it just happens that the world of CREST OF DARKNESS is my universe".

Welcome the Dead was recorded at the at MLP Studio by Nils H. Mæhlum, and mastered at the Kvålsonic Lab by Tom Kvålsvoll, and it will be released on My Kingdom Music in both CD and Digital formats, as well as a double LP format which will feature a special bonus track. 

artwork by Andrea Falaschi

Tracklist:

1. Welcome The Dead
2. Chosen By The Devil
3. Scourged And Crucified
4. My Black Bride
5. Borrowed Life
6. The Almighty
7. Memento Mori
8. The Noble Art
9. Katharsis

Read more in:

http://www.facebook.com/crestofdarknessofficial  

http://www.crestofdarkness.com/

http://soundcloud.com/crest-of-darkness

https://crestofdarkness.bandcamp.com 

Band Contact and Booking: contact@crestofdarkness.com
Management and Booking:  patriciathomas@btinternet.com
http://patriciathomasmanagement.com/

Review: Aborym's upcoming album "Shifting.negative"

As mostly of you know, Aborym, from Italy, are not a Black Metal band, but have been involved in Black Metal projects and bands in the past, and is always interesting to see what these musicians are up to.
Lachryma Christi has reviewed some of their stuff before and Shifting.negative is not going to be an exception. 
So, there was a big change in the line-up of the band, and at the moment the only member that remains from old members is singer Fabban.
There is a new album coming up, through Agonia Records.
Shifting.negative was reorded by Fabban, as mentioned, Dan V (multi-instrumentalist), RG Narchost (bassist and guitarist), Davide Tiso (guitarist), Stefano Anguilli (keyboardist) and many guest musicians.
The album is very varied, although industrial. Very experimental. You can find loads of influences, such as Nine Inch Nails or even Marilyn Manson, and even more strangely, Mike Patton. Seems strange but in fact it isn't, since it was mixed and mastered by Marc Urselli at Eastside Sound Studios (Lou Reed, John Zorn, Mike Patton), in New York.
If you're looking for catchy melodies, you probably won'd find as many, although there is a lot of musicality. 
You will certainly find acoustic bits, as well as very heavy guitar riffs that still remind us of the previous releases, but this one sounds very different. There are more exquisite songs, more of a healthy noise, more of a controlled confusion, it is good. Very good.
So if you are interested in some very heavy and sometimes a bit disturbing industrial music, give it a go. Coming out on the 25th of January, 2017, and will be available as Limite Box CD (which inclues jewelcase CD with two bonus tracks, rounded embroidered patch and wine coaster), Black vinyl (limited to 500 numbered copies), brown vinyl (limited to 100 handnumbered copies), or digital.

Tracklist:
1. Unpleasantness
2. Precarious
3. Decadence in a nutshell
4. 10050 cielo drive
5. Slipping through the cracks
6. You can't handle the truth
7. For a better past
8. Tragedies for sales
9. Going new places
10. Big h

Read more in:https://aborym.bandcamp.comhttps://www.facebook.com/aborymofficialhttp://www.aborym.it/

News: Sarkom reveal second track from upcoming album

Norwegian Black Metal band Sarkom are releasing a new album on the 2nd of December through Dark Essence Records and it will be called Anti-Cosmic Art.
They are releasing a second track called Previous associates, now as targets for the gun, and you can listen to it here:

Zero Tolerance Magazine
Ultraje
No Clean Singing
Friedhof Magazine
Metal.de
Shoot me Again Magazine
La Grosse Radio

Quite an impressive work of traditional old school Black Metal, with everything it implies, Anti-Cosmic Art count on appearances of guest musicians such as Peter Huss from Shining, Ronni Le Tekrø from TNT, and Sagstad from Roquefire and from Trollfest, as well as Perh Skjoldhammer from Alfahanne. 

(artwork by Spectrvm Lvsitani)

Tracklist:

1.Previous associates, now as targets for the gun
2.Mind-abscess
3.Ruiners of our family tree
4.Seen through the eyes of a paedophile priest
5.Come, dear cancer
6.Black metal necrophilia
7.Sodomy and lust (Sodom cover)

To celebrate the release of the album, Sarkom will be playing the following date sin Norway:

03 Dec:  Good Omens, Trondheim

17 Dec:  Revolver, Oslo  

You can now pre-order Anti-Cosmic Art in CD format from:

https://www.darkessencerecords.no/artists/sarkom/

and 

https://darkessence.aisamerch.com

or digital format on band's bandcamp page:

https://sarkom.bandcamp.com

Read more in:

https://www.facebook.com/sarkom
https://sarkom.bandcamp.com
http://www.sarkomsect.com/
https://myspace.com/sarkom

Band contact:
e.unsgaard@gmail.com

Dark Essence Records: 
www.darkessencerecords.no

Review: Harrow's "Fragments of a Fallen Star" release now on CD

Harrow just re-released their album Fragments of a Fall Star, previously released in 2013. This album came out first digitally and on tape, and now just came out as a CD. You may find the artwork below.
The album has four tracks, all of them with a high atmospheric touch to them.
First track, Fragments of a Fallen Star, has an intro with acoustic and sort of spiritual sounds, if that makes sense. Soon slowly starts transforming into something different with delicate and spooky voices, which introduce you to the guitar filled strong and passionate melodies of the rest of the track and the album. Voice is quite powerful and the whole thing together takes you to a great journey where music merges with feelings and emotions.
However heavy and fast and proper Black Metalish music, this album is full or surprises, as sometimes there are some quite dark doom passages as well and then again more introspective parts. Very satisfying to listen to and some bits stay in your ear for quite a long time, for the best reasons.
Is a very energetic and vibrating release that everyone should have the pleasure to listen to and to feel.