Review: Finnr's Cane's recent album "A Portrait Painted By The Sun"

Finnr's Cane released recently their second album called A Portrait Painted By The Sun, through Prophecy Productions.
For those who don't know, Finnr's Cane are a doom post black metal band from Canada. Well, in fact it is not as much post black metal. Maybe we can say it is a melodic atmospheric black metal.
Well, labels and definitions aside, these guys are good. This album is quite melancholic, but quite emotional and introspective.
In a time when this kind of music is so trendy, it is important to see which bands do it naturally and well, and which bands do it to follow the trend, ending up doing everything wrong and sounding really fake. Finnr's Cane are a good example of the first group and A Portrait Painted By The Sun is here to show us exactly that. So if this is your kind of thing, or if you simply like to listen to different and varied stuff, still with a strong black metal presence, go for this album. It is really good.
You can expect a lot of heaviness, as well as some acoustic parts, some atmospheric sounds, as in winds for example, and a very nice combination of every instrument with the voices. Beautiful details here and there. Really a great work.

Review: Falkenbach's recent album "Asa"

German one man band Falkenbach just released a new album called Asa, the first one to be released through Prophecy Productions.
Asa is the sixth album of the band, all of them have been really good. Asa is one of the best. It is quite melodic, at the same time heavy, never losing any quality in any of their different and varied bits. Yes, because Falkenbach has their own style, their very proper thing, that very special voice, and they have quite a lot of different influences, from viking stuff, too black metal stuff. Asa is just another masterpiece of the band, but maybe more catchy, more melodic, more interesting.
Falkenbach truly seem to be very genuine in everything they do, very honest very transparent. This album just shows their purity once again. Really majestic, strong, emotional, huge, an album to listen to over and over again, and to never get bored of.
Definitely a great musician behind all this.
Go for it!

Review: Endstille's latest album "Kapitulation 2013"

German Black Metal band released recently their new album called Kapitulation 2013 through Season of Mist.
What is good about this album? Everything. Honestly, really hard to find even one thing to point out as bad. Endstille prove once again that they are really great at what they do. Again they present us a very angry and powerful album, full of good stuff, each track stronger and more intense than the other. Full of rhythm as well, full of so much goodness, really hard to describe in words.
Endstille definitely work out much better on studio than live, as their sound is so full of detail, that in a show it is hard to listen to everything so clearly and to notice so many bits that make their music so great.
Once again, if you like Endstille, go for it, you won't regret. It is full of what any fan of Black Metal would like to hear, and surprisingly it is still original, and not just more of the same.
Not much more to say, really. In the meanwhile you can read an interview with Endstille here:
http://lachrymachristizine.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/interview-with-endstille.html

Review: Australasia's first album "Vertebra"

Not a long time ago, arrived at Lachryma Christi's mailbox the first album of Australasia. Australasia are a post instrumental Black Metal band from Italy. Lachryma Christi had the pleasure to listen and review their previous work Sin4tr4 and became a big fan of the band right away. It is with an enormous delight that Vertebra is heard and reviewed as well. It is just great, from the artwork to the music. Released earlier this year through Immortal Frost Productions, the album is as mentioned before, instrumental. There are some female chorus, but don't expect any main singer, because there is none. And don't expect it to be boring either, because it is not. It is absolutely amazing.
Vertebra has 10 tracks, all of them with interesting and short titles, and all the songs manage to match the titles somehow.
It is not just a random post Black Metal album, it has great professionalism, from the compositions to the production. Great musicians, great details and influences along all the album.
It is varied. You can find proper heavy bits with great heavy guitars, you can also find great electronic details, and also acoustic passages.
Vertebra is so entertaining, so easy to get into, so captivating, it is really hard to not like it.

News: Eindhoven Metal Meeting

Eindhoven Metal Meeting is starting on the 12th of December.
Please find below the official flyer and the list of bands:

Aborym
Accept
Accuser
Arcturus
Arkona
Asrai
Belphegor
Bodyfarm
Brutal Truth
Carpathian Forest
Centurian
The Church of Pungent Stench 

Coroner

Death Angel
Deströyer 666
Deranged
Deus Mortem
Dew-Scented
Disastrous Murmur
Downfall Of Empires
Elvenking featuring Martin Walkyier’s Skyclad
Entrapment

Extrema
Fleshgod Apocalypse
Gothminister
Hail Of Bullets

Hatriot

Heavenshine

Hooded Menace
Impaled Nazarene
In Solitude
Islay
Izegrim
The Monolith Deathcult
Morgoth
Napalm Death
Nargaroth
Natron
The Rotted
Sabaton
Sound Storm

Ostrogoth
Therion
Tiamat
Vomitory
Watain

Read more in:

www.eindhovenmetalmeeting.com

http://www.facebook.com/eindhovenmetalmeeting

Review: A Land Beyond the Sea's first release "Weltenwandere"

A while back, Lachryma Christi received an e-mail from a Black Metal band from Finland called A Land Beyond the Sea, with their first release called Weltenwandere. It happens to be an EP, self-released in June.
Weltenwandere has some Death Metal influences, but it is mostly Black Metal music.
The EP has four tracks and it is really great. Really fast, really melodic and obscure.
It is a shame that only now Lachryma Christi had the chance to lay hands on this (hectic times lately!), because it is really nice.
There is nothing extraordinarily different here, buy these guys are good at what they do. Very good in fact.
Give it a go, you won't regret.
The band is quite recent, formed in 2012, but they are already very "together", very cohesive, very strong and the melodies are so deep and majestic.
Hopefully next release will be as good or even better!!

Review: Negura Bunget's recent single "Gînd a-prins"

Romanian band Negura Bunget released recently a single called Gînd a-prins through Prophecy Productions. It has two songs.
Negura Bunget have changed a lot with time. Ten years ago they were completely different. Still, they haven't lost their atmospheric thing.
Gînd a-prins is very calm, quiet, silent in it's musicality, if that makes sense. It is deep, immersed in a great mystical and nature oriented atmosphere.
It was a good surprise, after all the changes they have shown us, after all the Black Metal characteristics that make sure we notice they have left behind. This is a release that works out. It is very pure, very relaxed, very beautiful.
Certainly Negura Bunget still has it in them, and still can share with all of us a great amount of professionalism and quality. All of it works much better like this, on a studio work, and sadly not live anymore. So anyway if you like this kind of thing, give this single a listen, it is good.