News: Handful of Hate

Handful of Hate, one of the most appreciated Black Metal bands in Italy, are planning to release a new album on 2013, to mark their 20th anniversary. This record will be released through Code666 that is planning to issue a very special edition for the album.

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http://www.handfulofhate.com/

News: Blutmond

Labeled like Avant-garde Black Metal by many, the Swiss Metallers Blutmond are about to release a new album, called The Revolution is Dead!, through Code666, on late November.

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http://www.facebook.com/blutmond.official

News: FEN

Progressive Black Metal band from uk, FEN, have just finished working on their third album, which will be called Dustwalker.

Theyhave also renewed their contract with Code666 Records for the release of a further three albums.

FEN played at the three-day Winter is Coming Festival in New London, Connecticut on the 13th of October, marking the band’s first appearance in the USA and will be playing at the Aurora Infernalis Festival in Arnhem, Netherlands on the 27th of October.

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www.facebook.com/fenofficial

(Lachryma Christi apologises for eventual errors on the text, but there is some kind of bug on blogspot today that is not allowing the correct formatting - i.e. spaces between some words ,etc.)

News: Shining frontman Niklas Kvarforth

When Prozac No Longer Helps is the name of the book written by Niklas Kvarforth, frontman of Swedish band Shining, containing all the lyrics he ever wrote for the band. This book will be published on the 7th of December 2012. The first paperback edition will be hand numbered in Niklas Kvarforth's own blood.

When Prozac No Longer Helps will be available only through Shining's webshop and you can pre-order it now on the following website:

http://www.shininglegions.com/product/niklas-kvarforth-when-prozac-no-longer-helps-first-edition-paperback

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News: Blodarv

Black Metal band from Denmark, Blodarv, are about to release their fourth album Gâst. The album is supposed to come out in early December, and will be available in two versions on Self Mutilation Services: there will be a regular CD format, and a limited edition in A5 format, with a different artwork, but both will have a 16 page booklet with lyrics.

You can listen to the song Surrounded By Dust, from the same album, on the following link:

http://soundcloud.com/blodarv/blodarv-surrounded-by-dust

A "Gâst", In the Bornholmsk (Burgundian) dialect of Bornholm (Danish island), is a type of a ghost demon or energy that possesses a mortal and inspires them like a muse, with visions, stories, smells, sounds, emotions and pictures. 

Gâst tracklist:

01. Indelukket
02. A Snowy Night In November
03. I Blaek Og Blod
04. Korset Paa Baalet
05. The Heart Of Art
06. Lonely Journey
07. Surrounded By Dust
08. Into The Halls Of Orion

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http://www.facebook.com/blodarvofficial

Interview: Buio (ITA)

Today, Lachryma Christi wants to introduce you to a very peculiar one man band. This band is called Buio, and this man is called Count Morgul, and he is from Italy. Buio released the Demo I (interestingly instrumental only) and Count Morgul is currently working on Demo II already. He thinks Black Metal is not only music but also a journey, a way of living. Let's see what else he has to tell us.

What does Buio mean?

 Buio is a spell,a spirit from an ancient unknown age. Buio means "Obscurity", "Darkness", in its purest form.

Why is it only an instrumental project? Why have you not included voices on it?

"Demo I" was recorded during January to June 2012. All songs were written before this year and at the beginning I wrote also lyrics, but during realization I decided to not include vocals.
This was because my microphone was not so good and the quality was really "raw".

Your Demo I was totally issued by yourself, since the songs, to the recordings and cases for copies (apart from the artwork cover, right?) How does it feel to have your own work totally done by you? And why did you do it that way?

When I finished recording this demo, I started to decide the publishing. I usually do all by myself in my life, without no one around me, the "solitary" way.
Initially I realized an artwork (totally made by me) with trees, mist, marshes and dark tones, but when all the cases where done I chose a drawing of the Norwegian artist Theodor Kittelsen.
I chose it because  for me it has definite meanings.The most important thing to say about my mentality is one:
Buio is a personal "essence", during recordings and realization I must be alone. Also when I write lyrics I'm alone.

The feelings are unique, bleak. That's why I do all in this way.

Still about your Demo I, why only 30 copies?

My demo is not for everyone, to understand it you must leave this plane of perception. The 30 hand numbered copies are strongly related to this concept.

I received e-mails from people who asked me to send them a copy, now, after 15 days from the printings, some of them hadn't received an answer.
The reason is simple, you might understand it from my words.

What are your main influences? Is it wrong to say Burzum is one of them?

The first influences of Buio's music are my visions transformed in music, all is ruled by this. When night arrives I usually don't sleep and I can feel the essence of darkness embracing me, my mind is within her. Also the mystical woods of my town are special for me,they are silent and obscure. Through the trees shadows and feelings combined with them. Musically my first influence is Burzum, as you said in the question...
("Det Som Engang Var", "Burzum" and "Aske"). But other (Not so marked) influences came from Forgotten Woods.

What does Black Metal mean to you? As music and as concept.

Black Metal is a form of life, a complex philosophy to understand in all its ways. For me is not only music, I can compare it with a journey.
This obscure path is here and I'm walking on it, enshrouded in my darkness. A wanderer on the steps of the ancients. But, there is another thing to say... Some have forgotten its meaning, what it was in the beginning. You can see a group of so called "poser" who plays black metal only for mood, destroying it. I wish to see them lost in this path, lost in this journey that does not belong to them. Buio is here for this.

As your songs have no lyrics, what do you mean to transmit to your followers through your songs?

Sensations of Sorrow and Hate, my songs are supposed to be listened in total darkness, alone.
Hear the notes, keep your mind silent and start your journey into total obscurity. Let Buio become your
instrument for dreams and perceptions.

You are currently working on your new demo, what can we expect of it? Will you keep it instrumental only?

My next demo is supposed to be released during the cold month of January 2013. I'm working upon the songs since June of this year and I've also included some old pieces wrote 2 and 3 years ago. I bought a new microphone and this time you can hear my voice. If you liked my first demo, check out my new production.
I will surely print only 30 or 40 copies of it, doing everything by myself, staying alone in my dungeon. Only chosen people will receive it.

How do you see the future for Buio? 

The future of Buio is releated to me, it is my essence. That's all, no other words must be used.

Any last message you want to leave?

Until now, no one has understood the essence of pure darkness, since the ancient times human race had
forgotten the meanings of this word. Let your spirits touch it...
Finally,thanks for the interview and interest!

(All photos are courtesy of Count Morgul)

Release:

"Demo I" (2012)

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 There are only 30 copies of this demo. Everything was done by Count Morgul, apart from the artwork of the cover,  The copies are hand-numbered and were distributed only by special people. Last song is more clean than the others but in all of them you can expect a clear influence of Burzum. It's a very atmospheric work, very raw and very similar to what used to be done many years ago in Black Metal, but that is so rare to happen nowadays. It's an instrumental demo, but next work should have vocals. 
It should be very hard, if not impossible to get a copy of Demo I but if you like atmospheric Black Metal, very influenced by nature and dark feelings, you would like this work for sure.

News: Rage Nucléaire

Rage Nucléaire, Black Metal band from Canada, will release their first album Unrelenting Fucking Hatred today the 19th of October 2012 in Europe, and on the 6th of November in North America through Season of Mist. 
In North America, there will be a 2PL vinyl edition limited to 300 copies. 

You can listen to the song Endziel, from the same album, on the following link:

http://soundcloud.com/ragenucleaire/05-endziel

Rage Nucléaire have already started working on their second album, which is supposed to be called Annihilation Frenzy.


Unrelenting Fucking Hatred tracklist:

01. Violence Is Golden
02. Hunt With Murderworms, Sculpt With Flies
03. The Gift Of The Furnace
04. Fields Of The Crucified
05. Endziel
06. The Sorrow Children At Mourningside
07. 30 Seconds In The Killhouse
08. Unrelenting Fucking Hatred
09. The Gallows And The Black Coffin
10. The Feeding Habits Of Homo Horriblis

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http://www.facebook.com/RageNucleaire