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Sjenovik - Circle One

Experimental death metal with drone and industrial elements. The combination works, resulting in a very thick, oppressive atmosphere that still possesses brutal, grotesque riffing along with its more experimental tendencies. Sort of like if 'Black One' was a death metal album. Comes in a slim DVD case, so this item costs an extra dollar for bulk when shipped.

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Godless (Puerto Rico) - Church Arsonist

Raw yet epic anti-Judeo-Christian black metal from Puerto Rico. A thick mist of production clings to poisonously melodic riffs and howling vocals, with a sound that is as visceral and hateful as it is sorrowful and beautiful. A very deep and rewarding listen.

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Equinox (US) - The Immortal Kind

Speedy, grooving black/death metal like Angelcorpse meets Impaled. Good mix of brutality and melody with a bit more emphasis on the latter; lots of '80s style soloing and double bass. Recommended for any death metal fan, modern or staunchly oldschool. Gets a lot of plays from me; reminds me of Behemoth at points.

Onward - The Neverending Sun

Almost impossibly catchy traditional/US style power metal. NO keyboards; just riff after awesome riff with fantastic lead guitar work and soaring vocal melodies. Exactly the sort of thing for people who love Jag Panzer and other USPM greats. I may be a death/black/grind person most of the time, but I can't get enough of this.

Unburied/Seeking Obscure - Split

Brutal, chaotic death metal meets progressive-tinged mid-'90s style death. Side one is savage and unique band Unburied, who rip through four tracks of gore-soaked insanity, and side two is the excellent Seeking Obscure who plays his custom brand of rolling, experimental death complete with a Cancer cover. Good stuff from both bands.

Additionally, a new review of Necro Cult's CD at the Metal Archives has been added:

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Total fucking CHAOS. - 73%
Written by Bezerko on February 3rd, 2008

“What the fuck is this?” is probably going to be any person’s reaction when listening to Necro Cult. As the songs continue to play, one of two distinct opinions are going to be formed. The first, and most likely reaction is going to be “this is noise, turn it off, it sucks”. The second reaction, which you’re not going to hear very often, is “wow this is awesome!”. Now this is a compilation of all Necro Cult’s previous outputs, so I’m going to try and split this review up a bit, as it would be ridiculous to take this in as something of a full-length album, and it’s an attempt to give a short summary of the individual Necro Cult releases. The compilation as a whole will be mentioned after.

Of the six releases (!) that “Total Fuckin’ Necro: Demos 2007” comprises, we’re first treated to the “Total Fucking Necro” demo. The sound is very thin, drums barely audible, and the vocals are way too high. In fact, so high and so distorted that they drown out everything else in certain segments. The demo is awash with noise (as the rest of the Necro Cult material is), and this is generally the point that people are split over. Is it just random shit, or is it plain fucking awesome? Well, my personal opinion on its effect on this demo is split. Quite simply, it does nothing to add or take from the overall sound. When the riffing comes through, it’s pretty indistinct, so it blurs the bad shit, but it just doesn’t really fit in. Five out of ten for “Total Fucking Necro”.

Next up is the “Utter Darkness” demo. I must say, much better, the sound isn’t as thin, the vocals are better (instead of AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH DISTORTION!), and it generally sounds cooler. “Utter Darkness” has what is probably the most clear sounding track on this compilation, “Absolute Hate”. The riffing still isn’t in this demo though. It’s black metal, and nothing more. It’s not so much bad, but it’s generic and boring. Blasting, fast, it’s like a noisy “Blizzard Beasts” (an Immortal album for the uninitiated), without the frostbitten “winteriness” of course. The exception is a slow bit in “Utter Darkness”, which slays. Audible drums as well! Six out of ten this time around.
Getting better Nocturous…

Oh yeah, “Chaotic Black Fuckin’ Metal”. This demo is just great. Think Carpathian Forest and Sadistik Exekution chucked into a bag full of noise. When you take out the result of your concoction, you get “Chaotic Black Fuckin’ Metal”. Even when it’s just blasting along like the first two demos, it just sounds so much better. It feels like it’s rocking, yet it’s not. It’s chaotic, it’s black metal, and it’s probably fucking as well. This is the best stuff yet, nine out of ten, or to make that sound more impressive, ninety out of one hundred! Grimness!

“Ultimate Death” is like “Chaotic Black Fuckin’ Metal”, minus the chaos. It seems more coherent than previous demos. The most accessible Necro Cult material available, though if you don’t like ear rape, you’d still stay away from it. The “rocking” feel is still there in certain sections, though not as present as it was on previous demos. In particular, “For the Glory of Satan” sounds like an improvised Carpathian Forest outtake and “Unholy Cult” sounds like Necro Cult’s version of Sodom. Down to a seven, just doesn’t feel as good as “CNFM”.

The “Revolt” demo consists of very fuzzy, thin guitars while the vocals take a backdrop. It’s fast, but it’s not as insane as the other material. It’s similar to much of the black metal coming out nowadays, just with a very noisy Necro Cult twist. The title track is pretty cool, but otherwise it’s standard stuff, just a bit noisier. Back down to a five for “Revolt”.

The final two tracks are taken from Necro Cult’s split with Kroatoan, another U.S black metal band. Some cool riffage on both tracks and “Nekro Slut” even has a sample! The songs from the split are the best Necro Cult stuff other than the “Chaotic Black Fuckin’ Metal” demo. A fine way to finish off the split, eight out of ten.

Now, that is how this release shapes up when taken as separate demos, but what if you want to listen to the whole thing in one go? Well, “Total Fuckin’ Necro: Demos 2007” will test your patience. While individual demos may be really cool, the style gets grating after 66 minutes of it. If Necro Cult ever makes a full-length album, it better not be more than 30 minutes long. There’s not a huge difference demo to demo, so it’s likely that you’ll loose interest while listening to it. When you loose interest, you won’t hear any of the great bits, and just hear two things; black metal and noise. Not to say it’s a bad listen, but it’s boring when taken as a whole. Necro Cult is great when you just listen to one or two demos, but 66 minutes of it? No thanks.

“Total Fuckin’ Necro: Demos 2007” is a good document of the band’s material thus far. The band and Nocturnal Transmission Records should be commended for releasing this for the metal community. I dare say I’m going to be spinning some of the material on here for quite a while to come. Enjoy or suffer, it’s an interesting listen and even if you hate it, you will take something from this release. To sum it up, fucking CHAOS.
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Aurvandil - Futile Rehearsal 2007

Eleven tracks of frosty, savage black metal from this Frenchman. Influences range from traditional Norwegian artists to more obscure French ones, but still with a unique style. Very riff-based and carefully written music; worth the time of any looking for great music in the underground black metal scene. Limited to only 77 copies.

Tchernobyl -75666-/Aurvandil - Nuclear Devastation

Electronic industrial meets brutal militaristic black metal in a split between these two French artists. Nine fun tracks about slowly dying of radiation poisoning and watching your world end around you. Great music to play Fallout to! Limited to 100 copies.

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Pagan Hammer - Foresight (tape edition)

This is the ultra-limited tape version of Pagan Hammer's second demo. Pagan Hammer's style of ambient black metal is as strong as ever, and this tape includes the same tracks found on the CDr version. There are ONLY 11 copies of this tape in existence, and NTR is holding the LAST 3 COPIES. After these are sold, they will NOT be restocked or reprinted. Get yours quickly!

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Pagan Hammer - Pagan Wolves

Perhaps one of the finest artists in the USBM scene today, Pagan Hammer stands as a monolithic force in that too often mediocre community. The music of Pagan Hammer can be compared to Animus, Bloodaxe, Northland, or Graveland, but is, in the end, too unique to compare to any other. Droning, ambient, frigid black metal with some of the best riffs conceived in the genre can be found on this disc, which is indeed a must-buy on all counts.

Pagan Hammer - Foresight

Another excellent demo from Pagan Hammer here, playing more of his unique style of ambient black metal, but with a slight added edge of traditional Norwegian sound. This demo contains two new excellent originals as well as great covers of Satanic Warmaster and the true Mayhem. If you enjoyed 'Pagan Wolves', this should be acquired immediately as well. This is the unlimited CDr version; the ultra-limited tape version is also available.

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Underdark (Ukraine) - I Am Above All

From the mastermind of Astrofaes and Drudkh comes a rather surprising release from this project: a brutal, bassy, slightly death metal influenced full-length of blasting black metal. There's no folk or progressive influences like on Amorth's more well-known projects; just cold, completely unyielding Swedish-style black metal. Good for fans of Dark Funeral or Marduk who want a bit more depth in their music.

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Malveillance - Just Fuck Off

Ultra-distorted black metal meets d-beat/crust punk! There's exactly two songs on this album that are over two minutes, and that should say everything. Malveillance rips through a collection of brutal, punk-flavored and riff-oriented songs, like newer Darkthrone but with Amebix replacing good spirits. Great music to get drunk and rip the piercings out of some retard to.

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Taarma - Remnants Of A Tormenting Black Shadow

Taarma could be described as resembling an artist like Xasthur or Elysian Blaze but with a much faster delivery and much more actually going on. Unlike those bands, Taarma has varied songs and a more mystical, foresty atmosphere amid the extreme depression and hatred. Just remember: he's Afghani, NOT Pakistani.

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Septic Warfare/Talk Sick Earth - Split

Two excellent crossover/thrash bands from Jacksonville, Florida meet on this split. Septic Warfare and Talk Sick Earth each play a similar style of Nuclear Assault-style punky thrash metal that's made fresh through very good production, memorable yet classic riffing, and vicious, yelping vocals. Tremendously fun; Talk Sick Earth is also stunning live! Comes in a slim DVD cases.

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Pagan Hammer - Ode To My Fathers

The master of epic, ambient black metal return's with his latest opus! 'Ode To My Fathers' is an EP of stirring American brilliance, released on the anniversery of the Iwo Jima flag raising as depicted on the cover. This is Pagan Hammer's greatest work yet, and should not be missed by those who loved his previous demos. Limited to 123 hand-numbered copies.

Rellik (USA, Illinois) - Heritage Of Abomination

Brutal yet epic death metal, like 'Formulas Fatal To The Flesh' and onward-era Morbid Angel meets earlier Hate Eternal. An awful combination in theory, surely, but it actually manages to work by focusing on majestic, warlike riffing amidst perpetual blast beats. Almost a black metal album played as a death metal one. Very good for all the straightforward DM fans out there.

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Paracoccidioidomicosisproctitissarcomucosis/Butcher ABC - Split

The Mexican goregrinding madmen return with this split with Japanese deathgrinders Butcher ABC! This split is nearly fifty minutes of nonstop porngoredeathgrinding mayhem sure to make you headbang and/or touch yourself inappropriately in front of small children and the elderly! I haven't seen this item available in ANY other American distro, so this is your best chance to get it.

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Aurvandil - Futile Rehearsal 2007

Eleven tracks of frosty, savage black metal from this Frenchman. Influences range from traditional Norwegian artists to more obscure French ones, but still with a unique style. Very riff-based and carefully written music; worth the time of any looking for great music in the underground black metal scene. Limited to only 77 copies.

Tchernobyl -75666-/Aurvandil - Nuclear Devastation

Electronic industrial meets brutal militaristic black metal in a split between these two French artists. Nine fun tracks about slowly dying of radiation poisoning and watching your world end around you. Great music to play Fallout to! Limited to 100 copies.

Additionally, a new interview with Pagan Hammer has been posted in the Artists section.

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Blodfest - I Kong Skjolds Navn

Oldschool, atmospheric black metal from Denmark. Very mystical and occult music (not pagan) from times long ago, though the presence of electric guitars, blast beats, and violent vocal performance might detract from the medieval atmosphere slightly. Makes you want to burn a church! Fun for everyone.

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Bloodaxe - Raping The Ancient

Easily one of my favorite albums of all time. Bloodaxe plays raw black/viking metal like no one else. Think about Vikings: proud, brutal, victorious, and dangerous. Do lilting keyboards and homoerotic hand-holding by firelight fit into that equation? Fuck no! This is viking metal the way it was meant to be played: uncompromising, savage, and with the atmosphere of the tundra itself.

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Enoid - Dodssyklus

VERY brutal and intense, straightforward black metal from Switzerland. Yet another one-man project, but in this case, it focuses on Dark Funeral-style blasting and tremolo riffing over weepy, self-pitying sections. This might cause you to eat babies and vomit ANGER, so listener discretion is most certainly advised.

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Ruina/Tundra (Italy)/Operation Winter Mist - Allegiance Of The Profane Pack

An excellent three-way split from the fine folks at None More Black Records. Brutal Ukranian black/death meets Italian black metal and Canadian black/war metal for a release full antihuman cruelty and excellent songwriting. Highly recommended, this has great material from all three bands.

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Sacrificial Blood/Zombie - Split

Oldschool thrashy death metal on one side meets classic speed/thrash on the other. Two bands with a craving for human blood thrash together through ten tracks of gore-splattered b-movie brilliance. Think of the music on this disc as an uglier, meaner version of Ghoul.

V.A.C.K. - L'ombre De La Solitude

Primitive, raw black metal which takes most of its influence from Hellhammer and similar bands. Atonal, highly distorted, and weirdly wandering music that surely sounds like nothing you've heard before - unless you own the Vinland Anti-Christan Kommando's first album. A party full of drunken Nazi vampires would be a very accurate description of the sound.

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Profundis Tenebrarum - Hate Decade

Total oldschool black metal like a blend of Norwegian and Russian styles! You can practically think of it as a blend of old Darkthrone and old Dub Buk; really fantastic material on every level. This is a compilation of the band's three demos, each of which are stunning black metal art. Limited to only 500 copies.

Riphead/Drogheda - Land Of Ruin/Violencia

Very underground death/thrash metal meets nearly as underground oldschool grindcore. Riphead sounds a bit like a blend of Slayer and Bolt Thrower (pretty good, though they never really went anywhere) and Drogheda is spazzing blurring blasting hi-low vocal'd grindcore with songs about assassinations and setting the white house on fire. That's pretty cool.

Svarrogh - Lady Vitosha

Fast, dark, occult Slavic-style black metal from Bulgaria. Lots of drum machine beats and murky tremolo riffing along with particularly violent vocals in the early Dub Buk style. Good for fans of that band or for those generally into the eastern European style of BM; there's a lot of strange ambient breaks as well. Very good.

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Hrizg - Oaken Path Of Grief

Atmospheric black/doom/folk metal from Spain. Mostly mid-paced in tempo and possessing a very narrative style, comparisons can be drawn to artists like Summoning, the slower moments of Bloodaxe, or even more unusual artists like Windham Hell. Every moment of this album is soaked in subtle, folky melody; very Tolkienesque, actually. Great for any fans of atmospheric black metal.

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Black Hole Generator - Black Karma

This is sort of like if a somewhat less openly bizarre Furze joined up with a mid-era Anaal Nathrakh who was able to put the epic, melodic sections in their music without sounding like a cheap Keep Of Kalessin knock-off and became a single band. There's lots of 1349-esque blasting (but with genuinely memorable riffs) as well as more subtle, intricate mid-paced sections which stand as some of the best I've heard in the style. It's not mind-bendingly unique, but it is almost perfectly executed industrial-influenced black metal.

Trist - Stíny

Traditional suicidal black/doom metal from the Czech Republic. The re-release of this classic album contains only the finest in depressive extreme metal, employing the traditional elements of slow pace, shrieking vocals, and winding guitar to create an album that is deeply unique though grounded in the hallmark elements of the style.

Zargof - Departure For The Cosmic Twilight

One of my favorite metal releases of all time is finally for sale. If you think you've heard quality symphonic black metal before, you're sadly mistaken, because this EP destroys all but the most tremendous of classics. This CD is indescribably good, with every single moment absolutely dripping with the unique Brazilian atmosphere that this band cultivates. Let's put it this way: on good days, this rivals 'In The Nightside Eclipse'. An excellent sort of midpoint between Aura Of Aquila and Xanthos.