Lachryma Christi

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

News: Ildjarn

Season of Mist will be re-releasing the full back catalogue of Norwegian one man band Ildjarn, as well as the Ildjarn-Nifhogg and Sort Vokter productions. This the list of the reissues:

Norse (EP)
Ildjarn (album)
Strength and Anger (album)
Landscapes (album)
Svartfråd (EP)
Forest Poetry (album)
Hardangervidda (album)
Hardangervidda part 2 (EP)
1992-1995 (compilation)
Eksistensens Jeger (single)
Nocturnal Visions (EP)
Minnesjord – The Dark Soil (EP)
Ildjarn 93 (EP)
Ildjarn Is Dead (compilation)
Sort Vokter - Folkloric Necro Metal (album)

All these 15 reissues will be available digitally in the next following weeks and most of them will be available to purchase in physical editions later on.

As mostly of you know, Ildjarn ceased their musical activities in 2005. These are only reissues of past releases.

News: Endezzma

Norwegian Black Metal band Endezzma just released their first official video for the song Junkyard Oblivion, which is the first song from the album Erotik Nekrosis.
(Please see the review to the same by Lachryma Christi on the following link: http://lachrymachristizine.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/review-endezzmas-new-album-erotik.html)

The video features appearances by Urgehal’s Enzifer and Beastcraft’s Sorath Northgrove. It was produced by the Effektor Film Company and was directed by Endezzma's frontman Morten Shax and R.M. Camera and editing are by R.M.
It is dedicated to the late Endezzma guitarist and Urgehal frontman Trondr Nefas.

You can see the video in the youtube link below.

Read more in:

http://www.facebook.com/endezzma

Monday, December 3, 2012

Lachryma Christi's playlist for the week

Well, as last week, here is Lachryma Christi's playlist for the current week. Again, please notice this is not a "Top 10" thing. It's just a list of 10 albums which make part of the music that will be on the player of Lachryma Christi this week. Doesn't matter which band is first or last on this list, the intention is only to give you suggestions. Some of them were in the player last week too and not all of them are recent.

Furia - Marzannie, Królowej Polski
Forgotten Tomb - And Dont't Deliver us From Evil
Eïs - Wetterkreuz
Necromantia - Scarlet Witching Black
Pandemonium - Misanthropy
Endezzma - Erotik Nekrosis
Marduk - Serpent Sermon
Mayhem - Wolf's Lair Abyss
Sathanas - La Hora de Lucifer
Svartrit - III

Review: Hellveto's latest album "Damnaretis"

Hellveto, Orchestral Pagan Black Metal one man band from Polland, has been proving us how dinamic and imaginative a band can be. Not many bands can release so many albums in only ten years! Their latest one was released in September 2012 and its called Damnaretis.
Artwork represents a skull within which you can see the woods in a very gelid image. Very pretty and romantic.
The album contains 10 tracks all following the same line of composition.
Every song is very strong, full, warm, there are no empty spaces here, everything is filled up to the top.
Almost all the songs have a very interesting orchestration at the beginning, introducing us to what is the core of Hellveto: The emotional melody, sometimes filled with growling voice, sometimes filled with clean transparent voices, accompanied by the potent guitar riffs and the always crescent atmosphere and rhythm and the folk influence. Very symphonic, this album really makes a perfect connection and exotic mixture between the folk and pagan music and sounds with the traditional Black Metal. All the songs seem to be linked to each other as a whole. The medieval sounds are there as expected, as well as the mystic sounds supporting everything else.
Doesn't matter how many albums Hellveto already released, that doesn't make the band more trivial. Damnaretis is truly enchanting, just like a battle soundtrack.
There's not much more to say about it really. If you are looking for something different, something more organic and potent with a little bit of chaos in between, give a listen to Damnaretis.

Review: Furia's latest album "Marzannie, Krolowej Polski"

Polish Black Metal band Furia released in March 2012 their third album through Pagan Records called Marzannie, Krolowej Polski. For those who haven't heard this album yet, here is a short description.
The artwork is very icy and grey, a bit ghostly with the snow and the moon, some creepy figure... Well, take a look at the picture below and you will know what we are talking about here!
Well, this is quite experimental, quite different from the traditional and from the trendy Black Metal albums and bands we have been used to. Very groovy, very unconventional, very melodic, powerful and unexpected.
Yes, there are growls and suffered voices and moaning, but also a very assured singer who knows for sure what is the perfect time for the growl and for the moaning and for the suffered throaty voice. Please, don't mistake the unexpected with the confused, because there is nothing or no one confused in here! These masters know very well what they are doing. So if besides the normal Black Metal stuff you are also ready for some atmosphere (not the obscure one, but the ugly one, in a very good way), melody, broken passages, acoustic riffs, repetitive interludes, slow doomish beats, clean voices, a very prominent bass, heaviness, then this is what you should look for.
It's so full, so engaging, so majestic and marvelous, so sinister and melancholic, making words meaningless. Really impressive, and one of the 10 best Black Metal albums in 2012 for Lachryma Christi.
Definitely Furia is a very different band and this album is just another masterpiece that will not leave you disappointed, if this is your kind of thing. If not, it's always worth a try, who knows if it doesn't become your kind of thing? Nowadays we are bombed by so many music and bands that it's hard to find something that really feels like fresh air and like something that makes a very good point. Lachryma Christi has been pleasantly surprised with some albums that came out this year and Marzannie, Krolowej Polski is undoubtfully one of the best.

Sunday, December 2, 2012

News: Flammensturm

Pagan Black Metal band from Austria Flammensturm just released their second album called Nur Für Den Augenblick through Black Light Music.
You can order the album on the following website:

http://www.black-light-music.com/webshop/Flammensturm-Nur-fuer-den-Augenblick-Special-woodbox-CD-pre-order

Nur Für Den Augenblick tracklist:

01. Intro
02. Unter rotem Mond
03. Drachenwege
04. All´ die Briefe die ich schrieb
05. Alte Geschichten
06. Des Waldes Geister
07. Trinklied
08. Feuer
09. Nicht eine Träne
10. Kälte
11. Vergewaltigt und am Boden
12. Soweit der Wind mich trägt
13. Schärfe dein Schwert
14. Nur für den Augenblick

Friday, November 30, 2012

News: Throne of Malediction

USA Black Metal band Throne of Malediction just released a new split album with the band's side-project Irreverant Soul, titled Rites.
The EP contains 13 tracks, including the Candlemass cover by Throne Of Malediction, the Sepultura cover by Irreverant Soul, and a collaboration with Vrangsinn of Carpathian Forest on the track What Will Never Be.

You can download Rites from the band's Bandcamp profile:

http://throneofmalediction.bandcamp.com/download?enc=mp3-320&id=402569794&ts=1353586937.1209812277&tsig=968f45cd233a54df39cfa2f3a30880c4&type=album

Or you can listen to it only:

http://throneofmalediction.bandcamp.com/album/rites

Rites tracklist:

01. Throne of Malediction - Born of Innocence
02. Throne of Malediction - A Burden of Ages
03. Throne of Malediction - Not Meant For Me
04. Throne of Malediction - What Will Never Be - (Featuring Vrangsinn from Carpathian Forest)
05. Throne of Malediction - The Circle
06. Throne of Malediction - Solitude - (Candlemass cover)
07. Throne of Malediction - The Sins Within
08. Throne of Malediction - Sweet Sorrow - (Demo)
09. Irreverant Soul - Waltz of The Macabre
10. Irreverant Soul - From What Is Dead
11. Irreverant Soul - Moonlight and Death
12. Irreverant Soul - Troops of Doom - (Sepultura cover)
13. Irreverant Soul - Grief