Saturday, December 30, 2023

Top 10 releases of 2023

As per usual, here is the top 10 releases of 2023, for Lachryma Christi.

I must say I had to leave some other very good releases out, because 10 means only 10.

As usual as well, the order in which these releases are displayed doesn't have any meaning. Again, "10 best" means "the 10 best". 

So, here we go:

EREMUS (PT) - Monólogo 














SUPERTERRESTRIAL (UK) - The Fathomless Decay














CIEMRA (BY) - The Thread of Darkness














NETHERMANCY (PT) - Worship Evil Sacrifice














AFSKY (DK) - Om Hundrede År














NATTEHIMMEL (NO) - Mourningstar














MELAN SELAS (GR) - Zephyrean Hymns














ALGHOL (US) - Night Eternal














LIGHTLORN (SE) - At One with the Night Sky














PERDITION Winds - Burning Spiritual Crypts



Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Review: Ringarë's upcoming album "Of Momentous Endless Night"

Today, Lachryma Christi brings you a review for the upcoming album of Ringarë, Of Momentous Endless Night. 
For those who don't know, Ringarë are from the USA, and this will be their third full-length.

So, what can you expect? 
There four tracks of a very interesting melodic Black Metal music.
I'm impressed with how fast those drums can get, and I think I haven't heard anything of the sort in such melodic kind of Black Metal.

The keyboards are as predominant as any other instrument in all the songs. Although they bring a very deep and intense atmosphere to the music, they are not just background sound. They really are a central part of the whole thing, which isn't very common either in Black Metal. And it sounds really good in this particular case.

Besides the usual dragged and more high pitched than not voice, so traditional in Black Metal music, there are clean male voices too, bringing a very epic feeling to the whole release.

Although I've done it before, I don't really like comparing bands, but I can tell there are influences of melodic metal music from late 90s and early 2000s. However, they still can be original. 
Meaning, there is a bit of a nostalgic feeling when listening to Of Momentous Endless Night, but at the same time, this album brings fresh air to this type of music.

So if you like the more melodic, although very fast Black Metal music, with epic clean voices, haunting keyboard strings and melancholic pianos, you'll love this album. 

Of Momentous Endless Night is coming out very soon, on the 15th of December, through Avantgarde Music.



News: Andracca unveil video for track "Ocean of Fire", from upcoming album

Black Metal band from UK Andracca, are releasing a new album called To Bare the Weight of Death next year, through Vendetta Records.

To show us a bit of what we can expect from that much anticipated album, they just released a video for the song Ocean of Fire.

You can watch it here:




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