EMPYRIUM gaidāms jauns albums (pēc 7.gadu pauzes) februāra beigās. Iespējams, ka būs zināms ''back to roots'', jo, vismaz šajā gabalā, ir kāds growliņs un smagāks rifs:
January 2021
01.01 Transilvania - Of Sleep And Death
01.01 Mechina - Siege
08.01 Michael Schenker Fest - Immortal
08.01 Frozen Soul - Crypt Of Ice
08.01 Sammy Hagar & The Circle - Lockdown 2020
11.01 Kultika - Capricorn Wolves
12.01 Need - Norchestrion: A Song For The End
15.01 Crystal Viper - The Cult
15.01 Voodoo Circle - Locked & Loaded
15.01 Dragony - Viribus Unitis
15.01 Bloody Hammers - Songs Of Unspeakable Terror
15.01 Ruins Of Elysium - Amphitrite: Ancient Sanctuary In The Sea
15.01 Minas Morgul - Heimkehr
15.01 Dread Sovereign - Alchemical Warfare
15.01 Accept - Too Mean To Die
15.01 Winterage - The Inheritance Of Beauty
16.01 Diocletian - Darkness Swallows All [EP]
21.01 Ektomorf - Reborn
21.01 Bhleg - Ödhin
22.01 Therion - Leviathan
22.01 Ellende - Triebe
22.01 Endezzma - The Archer, Fjord And The Thunder
22.01 Asphyx - Necroceros
22.01 Phantom Elite - Titanium
22.01 Nervosa - Perpetual Chaos
22.01 Wardruna - Kvitravn
22.01 Human Fortress - Epic Tales & Untold Stories
22.01 Labyrinth - Welcome To The Absurd Circus
25.01 Yoth Iria - As The Flame Withers
29.01 Demon Head - Demon Head
29.01 Eximperituserqethhzebibšiptugakkathš... - Šahrartu
29.01 Vulvodynia / Acrania (UK) - Societal Lobotomisation [Split] [EP]
29.01 Harakiri For The Sky - Mӕre
29.01 Aonarach - 1
29.01 Rezet - Truth In Between
29.01 Tribulation - Where The Gloom Becomes Sound
29.01 Steven Wilson - The Future Bites
29.01 Werewolves - What A Time To Be Alive
29.01 The Body - I've Seen All I Need To See
29.01 Souls Of Diotima - Janas
29.01 Soen - Imperial
29.01 Pounder - Breaking The World
29.01 Maestitium - Tale Of The Endless [EP]
Februāra beigās iznāks IOTUNN disks. Laikam debijas EP bija Prog/Power, bet šajā jau dzied Hamferd/Barren Earth vokālists un vairāk velk uz viņa bandām (~Melodic Death/Doom vai Powerdesu, kā kāds YT komentos minējis):
^ jā, šos jau manīju. Skan jau labi. Tikai interesanti, kā praktiski nevienam nezināma, divus gadus pastāvoša banda, bez slaveniem dalībniekiem, ar debijas albumu pa taisno uz Century Media trāpījusi.
Grieķu bleka scēnas veterāni (Rotting Christ un Necromantia džeki) apvienojušies vienā projektā - YOTH IRIA. skan apmēram tā, kā sagaidāms - episki un melodiski.
February 2021
01.02 Evil - Possessed By Evil
01.02 StarGazer - Psychic Secretions
01.02 Purulent Jacuzzi - Natural Method Of Turning To Dust
01.02 Revulsion - Revulsion
02.02 Sintax - Nano3000
05.02 Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe: Forevermore (Extended Version)
05.02 Keys Of Orthanc - Of The Lineage Of Kings
05.02 The Ruins Of Beverast - The Thule Grimoires
05.02 Angelus Apatrida - Angelus Apatrida
05.02 Komatsu - Rose Of Jericho
05.02 Omination - NGR
05.02 Incursed - Baskavígin
05.02 Kalidia - Lies' Device (2021 Edition)
05.02 Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe: The Breath Of Life (Abridged Version)
05.02 DSKNT - Vacuum γ-Noise Transition
05.02 Korpiklaani - Jylhä
05.02 Cult Of Luna - The Raging River [EP]
05.02 Maestitium - Tale Of The Endless [EP]
12.02 Humanity's Last Breath - Välde
12.02 Sur Austru - Obârşie
12.02 Toledo Steel - Heading For The Fire
12.02 Malist - Karst Relict
12.02 Aborym - Hostile
12.02 Abiotic - Ikigai
12.02 Ablaze My Sorrow - Among Ashes And Monoliths
12.02 Déhà / Humanity Defiled - So Humanity Burns [Split] [EP]
12.02 Sirenia - Riddles, Ruins & Revelations
12.02 Emptiness - Vide
12.02 God Is An Astronaut - Ghost Tapes #10
12.02 Simulacrum - Genesis
12.02 Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse
15.02 Kjeld - Ôfstân
19.02 Merzbow - Coma Test
19.02 The Scalar Process - Coagulative Matter
19.02 Harakiri For The Sky - Mӕre
19.02 In Tormentata Quiete - Krononota
19.02 Merzbow - Bloodour
19.02 The Amenta - Revelator
19.02 Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning
19.02 Lake Of Tears - Ominous
19.02 Mogwai - As The Love Continues
19.02 Magic Opera - The Golden Pentacle
19.02 Spire (AUS) - Temple Of Khronos
21.02 Empyrium - Über Den Sternen
22.02 Alice Cooper - Detroit Stories
25.02 Vektor / Cryptosis - Transmissions Of Chaos [Split] [EP]
25.02 Todd La Torre - Rejoice In The Suffering
26.02 Earthshine - My Bones Shall Rest Upon The Mountain
26.02 Scald - There Flies Our Wail! [EP]
26.02 Five The Hierophant - Through Aureate Void
26.02 Sister - Vengeance Ignited
26.02 16 / Grime - Doom Sessions Vol. 3 [Split] [EP]
26.02 Attika - Metal Lands
26.02 Cannibal Accident - Nekrokluster
26.02 Ominous Ruin - Amidst Voices That Echo In Stone
26.02 Paranorm - Empyrean
26.02 Iotunn - Access All Worlds
26.02 Vulgaris - Asundre
26.02 Black Sheep Wall - Songs For The Enamel Queen
26.02 LANDMVRKS - Lost In The Waves
26.02 InHuman - InHuman
26.02 Anneke Van Giersbergen - The Darkest Skies Are The Brightest
26.02 Architects - For Those That Wish To Exist
26.02 Culted - Nous
26.02 Sunnata - Burning In Heaven, Melting On Earth
26.02 Einherjer - North Star
26.02 Epica - Omega
26.02 Melvins - Working With God
26.02 Of Mice & Men - Timeless [EP]
26.02 Evergrey - Escape Of The Phoenix
26.02 Moonspell - Hermitage
26.02 Age Of Woe - Envenom
27.02 Carnivored - Labirin
^^ oo, Kauan kaut kas līdzīgs growliem. Izskatās, ka varētu būt OK. Savādāk kopš Tietäjän Laulu un Aava Tuulen Maa laikiem viss ir licies pagarlaicīgs.
^ Mare Cognitum liekas, ka mazāk atmosfēriski palikuši šeit. Lai gan izklausās pretty decent.
Lai arī iepriekš atrādītā dziesma no Lake of Tears jaunā albuma neviesa cerības, ka tas varētu mani interesēt, bet noklausoties visu, tīri labi patika. Metāla tur, protams, ir pamaz, tomēr mūzika laba. Būs jāklausās vēl!
^ interesants efekts: tas ievada rifs ne smagāks par tādu Judas Priest līmeņa hevīti, bet tālāk dzirdamais trekni mironīgais vokāls toč padara visu iznākumu par kārtīgi ekstrēmu miroņnieku.
Moonspell jaunais skan diezgan labi, kā liekas pirmajā piegājienā. Es pat uz neko dižu necerēju, taču, lai arī tādu momentālu hitu īstit nav, kopumā rādās visai baudāms. Stilistiskā ziņā tāds diezgan nenosakāms, it kā gana atpazīstams, kā Moonspell, bet bišku uz proga pusi vairāk velk. Par pēdējiem 2-3 rādās labāks.
Nu 1755 bija pavisam garām. Pat man, kā diezgan lielam fanbojam, nepatika. Jaunais gan pēc pāris reizēm izklausās diezgan labs. Pietrūkst gan tas "tumšums", kas bija agŗāk. Tas laikam zudis pavisam.
March 2021
01.03 Last Days Of Humanity - Horrific Compositions Of Decomposition
01.03 Shadows Ground - Shadows Ground / Altar In Darkness [Split] [EP]
01.03 Nuclear Vomit - Bitches, Drugs And Broken Dreams
02.03 Golgotha - Remembering The Past - Writing The Future [EP]
05.03 Witherfall - The Curse Of Autumn
05.03 Reaper - The Atonality Of Flesh
05.03 Acid Mammoth - Caravan
05.03 Chevelle - Niratias
05.03 Nightfall - At Night We Prey
05.03 Wolvennest - Temple
05.03 Númenor - Draconian Age
05.03 Terror (USA-LA) - Trapped In A World
05.03 Bog Wizard / Dust Lord - Four Tales Of The Strange [Split] [EP]
05.03 Baest - Necro Sapiens
05.03 Brand Of Sacrifice - Lifeblood
05.03 Noora Louhimo Experience - Eternal Wheel Of Time And Space
05.03 :Nodfyr: - Eigenheid
05.03 Wolfheart - Skull Soldiers [EP]
05.03 Mork - Katedralen
05.03 Warrior Path - The Mad King
05.03 The Harvest Trail - Instinct
05.03 Taake / Helheim - Henholdsvis [Split] [EP]
12.03 Blackmore's Night - Nature's Light
12.03 Necropanther - In Depths We Sleep [EP]
12.03 Minutian - Magical Thinking
12.03 Marianas Rest - Fata Morgana
12.03 Sunstorm - Afterlife
12.03 Malist - Karst Relict
12.03 Turbulence - Frontal
12.03 The Crown - Royal Destroyer
12.03 Varmia - Bal Lada
12.03 Autarkh - Form In Motion
12.03 Eyehategod - A History Of Nomadic Behavior
12.03 Secret Sphere - Lifeblood
12.03 Rise To The Sky - Let Me Drown With You
12.03 Saga - Symmetry
12.03 Rob Zombie - The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy
12.03 Thunder - All The Right Noises
12.03 Heart Healer - The Metal Opera By Magnus Karlsson
12.03 Enforced - Kill Grid
12.03 Stortregn - Impermanence
12.03 Orden Ogan - Final Days
12.03 Crown - The End Of All Things
14.03 Miasmata - Unlight: Songs Of Earth And Atrophy
15.03 Valtari - Titans Call
15.03 Turris Eburnea - Turris Eburnea [EP]
16.03 Dead Sun - Night Terrors
19.03 Trollfest - Happy Heroes [EP]
19.03 Depths Of Hatred - Inheritance
19.03 Dvne - Etemen Ænka
19.03 Crypts - Coven Of The Dead
19.03 Batushka - Царю Небесный / Carju Niebiesnyj [EP]
19.03 Agent Steel - No Other Godz Before Me
19.03 Lucifer / Kadavar - Lucifer / Kadavar [Split] [EP]
19.03 Midnight Odyssey - Biolume Part 2 - The Golden Orb
19.03 Erra - Erra
19.03 Mare Cognitum - Solar Paroxysm
19.03 Ildaruni - Beyond Unseen Gateways
19.03 Aversed - Impermanent
19.03 Fuath - II
19.03 Serj Tankian - Elasticity [EP]
19.03 Saxon - Inspirations
19.03 Lunar Shadow - Wish To Leave
22.03 Meth Leppard - Meth Leppard / Infanticide [Split] [EP]
22.03 Nazxul - Irkalla
26.03 Greenleaf - Echoes From A Mass
26.03 Cryptosis - Bionic Swarm
26.03 Smith/Kotzen - Smith/Kotzen
26.03 Rapture (GRE) - Malevolent Demise Incarnation
26.03 Paladine - Entering The Abyss
26.03 Decline Of The I - Johannes
26.03 George Tsalikis - Return To Power
26.03 Cauldron Of Hate - Scourge
26.03 Drakkar - Chaos Lord
26.03 Band Of Spice - By The Corner Of Tomorrow
26.03 Odd Dimension - The Blue Dawn
26.03 Genghis Tron - Dream Weapon
26.03 Aara - Triade I: Eos
26.03 Septagon - We Only Die Once
26.03 Ghosts Of Atlantis - 3.6.2.4
26.03 Marasmus - Necrotic Overlord
26.03 Sanguisugabogg - Tortured Whole
26.03 Necronomicon - The Final Chapter
26.03 Memoriam - To The End
26.03 Wheel - Resident Human
26.03 Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 3
26.03 Imperia - The Last Horizon
26.03 Metalite - A Virtual World
26.03 Tomahawk - Tonic Immobility
26.03 1782 - From The Graveyard
Marianas Rest - Fata Morgana, uzdoros vienkārši randomā, spotifajam ļaujot piedāvāt to, ko viņš grib. Albums 12. martā iznācis. Vismaz singls - South Of Vostok man iecepīja baigi.
April 2021
01.04 Mass Burial - Soulless Legions
02.04 Fuoco Fatuo - Obsidian Katabasis
02.04 Rorcal - Witch Coven [Collaboration] [EP]
02.04 Haunt - Beautiful Distraction
02.04 Steel Bearing Hand - Slay In Hell
02.04 Sacred Oath - Return Of The Dragon
02.04 Crust - Stoic
02.04 Muyubyosha - Noč Na Krayu Sveta
02.04 The Black Mysteries - ...And The Opening Of The Shadowy Sepulchre That Yawns Behind It
02.04 Wode - Burn In Many Mirrors
02.04 Lungtoucher - The Battle Of Jórvík [EP]
04.04 Phreneticum - Der Stille Zerfall
06.04 Killing Addiction - Mind Of A New God
08.04 Inoculation - Celestial Putridity
09.04 Soothsayer - Echoes Of The Earth
09.04 Infinite & Divine - Silver Lining
09.04 Dark The Suns - Suru Raivosi Sydämeni Pimeydessä
09.04 Wolfchant - Omega : Bestia
09.04 Kauan - Ice Fleet
09.04 Sweet Oblivion - Relentless
09.04 The End Machine - Phase2
09.04 Zao - The Crimson Corridor
09.04 Blaze Bayley - War Within Me
09.04 ScreaMachine - ScreaMachine
09.04 Saille - V
09.04 Arion - Vultures Die Alone
09.04 Phlebotomized - Pain, Resistance, Suffering [EP]
09.04 Dalriada - Őszelő
09.04 The Lion's Daughter - Skin Show
09.04 Carnal Savagery - Fiendish
09.04 Horndal - Lake Drinker
09.04 Motorjesus - Hellbreaker
09.04 Devil Sold His Soul - Loss
10.04 Staurophagia - Spaceforming
14.04 Liv Kristine - Have Courage Dear Heart [EP]
16.04 Intonate - Severed Within
16.04 While She Sleeps - Sleeps Society
16.04 Spectral Wound - A Diabolic Thirst
16.04 Icon Of Sin - Icon Of Sin
16.04 Mustasch - A Final Warning - Chapter One
16.04 Endseeker - Mount Carcass
16.04 Temple Balls - Pyromide
16.04 Superlynx - Electric Temple
16.04 Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 3
16.04 Incarceration - Empiricism [EP]
16.04 Ildaruni - Beyond Unseen Gateways
16.04 Bewitcher - Cursed Be Thy Kingdom
16.04 Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined
16.04 Crown - The End Of All Things
18.04 Ande - Bos
20.04 Bongzilla - Weedsconsin
23.04 FireWing - Resurrection
23.04 Frozen Crown - Winterbane
23.04 Motörhead - Louder Than Noise… Live In Berlin [DVD]
23.04 Bodom After Midnight - Paint The Sky With Blood [EP]
23.04 Blackbriar - The Cause Of Shipwreck
23.04 Vexillum - When Good Men Go To War
23.04 Desolate Realm - Desolate Realm
23.04 Hideous Divinity - LV-426 [EP]
23.04 Velvet Viper - Cosmic Healer
23.04 Body Void - Bury Me Beneath This Rotting Earth
23.04 Solstice (USA) - Casting The Die
23.04 Big Brave - Vital
23.04 Crypts Of Despair - All Light Swallowed
23.04 Omega - Nebra
23.04 Paysage d'Hiver - Geister
23.04 Feanor - Power Of The Chosen One
23.04 Minas Morgul - Heimkehr
23.04 Spectral Lore - Ετερόφωτος
23.04 Helslave - From The Sulphur Depths
23.04 Altarage - Succumb
23.04 Wheel (GER) - Preserved In Time
23.04 Cold Cell - The Greater Evil
26.04 Luciferian - Luciferian
29.04 Ice War / Whipstriker - Whipstriker / Ice War [Split] [EP]
30.04 Insane (SWE) - Victims
30.04 Axewitch - Out Of The Ashes Into The Fire
30.04 Ophiuchi - Shibboleth
30.04 Ildfar - Som Vinden Farer Vil
30.04 Plasmodium - Towers Of Silence
30.04 Evile - Hell Unleashed
30.04 Ewïg Frost - Aïn't No Saïnt
30.04 The Very End - Zeitgeist
30.04 Vallendusk - Heralds Of Strife
30.04 Poverty's No Crime - A Secret To Hide
30.04 Vreid - Wild North West
30.04 Gojira - Fortitude
30.04 Gary Moore - How Blue Can You Get
30.04 Devoured - The Curse Of Sabda Palon
30.04 Nekromantheon - Visions Of Trismegistos
30.04 Oceans - We Are Nøt Okay [EP]
^^ Nez, daudzi to Kanonfieber slavē, bet man nepaķer. Bet man arī 1914 nešķiet nekas ārprātīgi ģeniāls, kā to nereti mālē. Kaut kas it kā ir, bet kaut kā pagarlaicīgi.
April 2021
30.04 Goregäng - Long Live The Grime [EP]
30.04 Snail - Fractal Altar
30.04 Trauma - Acrimony [EP]
30.04 Insane (SWE) - Victims
30.04 Oceans - We Are Nøt Okay [EP]
30.04 Ninkharsag - The Dread March Of Solemn Gods
30.04 Devoured - The Curse Of Sabda Palon
30.04 Gojira - Fortitude
30.04 Vreid - Wild North West
30.04 Axewitch - Out Of The Ashes Into The Fire
30.04 Ossian - A Teljesség
30.04 Ildfar - Som Vinden Farer Vil
30.04 Tetrarch - Unstable
30.04 Steve Von Till - A Deep Voiceless Wilderness
30.04 Poverty's No Crime - A Secret To Hide
30.04 Ophiuchi - Shibboleth
30.04 Akhenaten - The Emerald Tablets Of Thoth
30.04 Ageless Oblivion - Suspended Between Earth And Sky
30.04 Fyrnask - VII: Kenoma
30.04 Occultum - Apokatastasis
30.04 Vallendusk - Heralds Of Strife
30.04 Ewïg Frost - Aïn't No Saïnt
30.04 Gary Moore - How Blue Can You Get
30.04 Nekromantheon - Visions Of Trismegistos
30.04 Evile - Hell Unleashed
30.04 Malämmar - Mazza
30.04 The Very End - Zeitgeist
30.04 Plasmodium - Towers Of Silence
30.04 Nattverd - Vandring
30.04 Oryx - Lamenting A Dead World
30.04 Ungfell - Es Grauet
May 2021
01.05 Medium - Habitat [EP]
04.05 Vola - Witness
07.05 Ereb Altor - Eldens Boning [EP]
07.05 Ghost Iris - Comatose
07.05 Todd Michael Hall - Sonic Healing
07.05 Feed Them Death - Negative
07.05 Wormlight - Nightmother
07.05 Sumo Cyco - Initiation
07.05 Kataan - Kataan [EP]
07.05 Inferno - Paradeigma (Phosphenes Of Aphotic Eternity)
07.05 Grey Aura - Zwart Vierkant
07.05 Sonic Haven - Vagabond
07.05 Immortal Sÿnn - Force Of Habit
07.05 Seth - La Morsure Du Christ
07.05 Nordjevel - Fenriir [EP]
07.05 Solstice (USA) - Casting The Die
07.05 Artillery - X
07.05 Robin McAuley - Standing On The Edge
07.05 Methadone Skies - Retrofuture Caveman
11.05 Teramaze - Sorella Minore
12.05 Åskog - Varþnaþer
14.05 Djevel - Tanker Som Rir Natten
14.05 Project: Roenwolfe - Edge Of Saturn
14.05 Scar Of The Sun - Inertia
14.05 Subterranean Masquerade - Mountain Fever
14.05 Bala - Maleza
14.05 Grave Miasma - Abyss Of Wrathful Deities
14.05 Canvas Solaris - Chromosphere
14.05 Cadaveric Incubator - Nightmare Necropolis
14.05 Dordeduh - Har
14.05 The Ember, The Ash - Fixation
14.05 The Monolith Deathcult - V3 - Vernedering: Connect The Goddamn Dots
14.05 Zombi - Liquid Crystal [EP]
14.05 Sunbomb - Evil And Divine
15.05 Panopticon - ...And Again Into The Light
20.05 Anatomia - Corporeal Torment
21.05 Sabhankra - Death To Traitors
21.05 Esoctrilihum - Dy'th Requiem For The Serpent Telepath
21.05 Yautja - The Lurch
21.05 Herman Frank - Two For A Lie
21.05 Nadja - Luminous Rot
21.05 Jess And The Ancient Ones - Vertigo
21.05 Vexed - Culling Culture
21.05 Wytch - Exordium
21.05 Nuclear Winter - Greystone
21.05 Havamal - The Shadow Chapter
21.05 Debauchery - Monster Metal
21.05 Gåte - Til Nord [EP]
21.05 An Autumn For Crippled Children - As The Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes
21.05 Impure Wilhelmina - Antidote
21.05 Majestic Downfall - Aorta
21.05 Vulture - Dealin' Death
21.05 Borgne - Temps Morts
25.05 Sunrise - Equilibria
26.05 Birdflesh - All The Memories [EP]
28.05 Burning Witches - The Witch Of The North
28.05 Unfathomable Ruination - Decennium Ruinae [EP]
28.05 Khandra - All Occupied By Sole Death
28.05 Mental Cruelty - A Hill To Die Upøn
28.05 Sadistik Forest - Obscure Old Remains [EP]
28.05 The Flight Of Sleipnir - Eventide
28.05 King Of Asgard - Svartrviðr
28.05 Infest (SER) - Psychosis
28.05 Noctiferia - Reforma
28.05 Dödsrit - Mortal Coil
28.05 Impaled Nazarene - Eight Headed Serpent
28.05 Alluvial - Sarcoma
28.05 Gwar - The Disc With No Name [EP]
28.05 Bleeth - Harbinger
28.05 Ghastly - Mercurial Passages
28.05 Alastor (SWE) - Onwards And Downwards
28.05 Portal - Avow
28.05 Cirith Ungol - Half Past Human [EP]
28.05 Silver Lake - Silver Lake By Esa Holopainen
28.05 Bloodbound - Creatures Of The Dark Realm
31.05 Goats Of Doom - Shiva
Labs bleķis, lai arī ar dižu oriģinalitāti neizceļas, iznācis jaunam zviedru grupējumam Åskog. Bungas iespēlējis mūsu pašu Rodions Belševics (Urskumug, Kolotun).
Patīkami oldskūlīgs un kvalitatīvs dusmīgais trešs no vecajiem amurkāņiem Solstice. Vispār jau skaitās, ka viņi death/thrash spēlē, bet te īpaši daudz desas nesaklausīju.
Artillery jaunais arī ir laukā, pagaidām iet pirmais riņķis, tāpēc daudz nekomentēšu, bet izklausās pēc tāda paša lādzīga power/thrash, kā daži iepriekšējie:
June 2021
04.06 Code - Flyblown Prince
04.06 Atreyu - Baptize
04.06 Van Canto - The Power Of Eight
04.06 King Buffalo - The Burden Of Restlessness
04.06 Flotsam And Jetsam - Blood In The Water
04.06 Sordide - Les Idées Blanches
04.06 Red Fang - Arrows
04.06 Boss Keloid - Family The Smiling Thrush
04.06 Desaster - Churches Without Saints
04.06 Ancient Wisdom - A Celebration In Honor Of Death
04.06 Rhapsody Of Fire - I'll Be Your Hero [EP]
04.06 Sojourner - Perennial [EP]
04.06 Cloak Of Altering - Sheathed Swords Drip With Poisonous Honey
04.06 Casket - Urn [EP]
04.06 Inhuman Condition - Rat°God
04.06 Lowen - Unceasing Lamentations
04.06 Soul Grinder - Lifeless Obsession
04.06 Winter Eternal - Land Of Darkness
04.06 Crimson Dimension - Crimson Dimension
02.06 Starlight Ritual - Sealed In Starlight
02.06 Seputus - Phantom Indigo
01.06 Killing Addiction - Mind Of A New God
01.06 Vomitron - RighteousNES
01.06 Hannes Grossmann - To Where The Light Retreats
01.06 Massemord - Contra Legem Naturae [EP]
10.06 Staurophagia - Spaceforming
11.06 Interloper - Search Party
11.06 Go Ahead And Die - Go Ahead And Die
11.06 Hammer King - Hammer King
11.06 Gorgon (FRA-PAC) - Traditio Satanae
11.06 Dornenreich - Du Wilde Liebe Sei
11.06 Witch Cross - Angel Of Death
11.06 Eremit - Bearer Of Many Names
11.06 Metalwings - A Whole New Land
11.06 Joe Bonamassa - Now Serving: Royal Tea Live From The Ryman [DVD]
11.06 Grief Collector - En Delirium
11.06 Crypta - Echoes Of The Soul
11.06 Mother Of All - Age Of The Solipsist
11.06 This Ending - Needles Of Rust
11.06 Path Of Destiny - The Seed Of All Evil
11.06 Wristmeetrazor - Replica Of A Strange Love
11.06 Lucifer's Hammer - The Trip
16.06 Galneryus - Union Gives Strength [EP]
18.06 Decayed - Old Ghosts And Primeval Demons
18.06 Fear Factory - Aggression Continuum
18.06 Salduie - Ambaxtos
18.06 Timo Tolkki's Avalon - The Enigma Birth
18.06 Korgonthurus - XX [EP]
18.06 The Day Of The Beast - Indisputably Carnivorous
18.06 Hacktivist - Hyperdialect
18.06 Heavy Temple - Lupi Amoris
18.06 Helloween - Helloween
18.06 Bossk - Migration
18.06 Pharaoh - The Powers That Be
18.06 Alustrium - A Monument To Silence
18.06 Thy Kingdom Will Burn - Thy Kingdom Will Burn
18.06 Eye Of Purgatory - The Lighthouse
21.06 Irae - Dangerovz Magick Zpells From The Mesziah Of Death [EP]
25.06 Crescent - Carving The Fires Of Akhet
25.06 Death Toll 80k - The Future Is Yours [EP]
25.06 Cerebral Rot - Excretion Of Morality
25.06 Mangog - Economic Violence
25.06 Suffer Yourself - Rip Tide
25.06 Darkthrone - Eternal Hails
25.06 Stöner - Stoners Rule
25.06 White Ward - Debemur Morti [EP]
25.06 Suidakra - Wolfbite
25.06 Amenra - De Doorn
25.06 Fractal Universe - The Impassable Horizon
25.06 Celtian - Sendas De Leyenda
25.06 Withered - Verloren
25.06 Urne - Serpent & Spirit
25.06 Pestilence - Exitivm
25.06 Requiem - Collapse Into Chaos
25.06 The Absence - Coffinized
25.06 Hellish Form - Remains
25.06 71TONMAN - War Is Peace // Peace Is Slavery [EP]
25.06 Thy Catafalque - Vadak
25.06 Light The Torch - You Will Be The Death Of Me
25.06 Hiraes - Solitary
25.06 Dark Vision - Ianos
25.06 SkyEye - Soldiers Of Light
25.06 Beartooth - Below
26.06 Pandemic Outbreak - Skulls Beneath The Cross
26.06 Scale The Summit - Subjects
Varbūt tāds jēdziens kā vieglais blekmetāls, tipa "light black-metal" ? An Autumn for Crippled Children kaut kā baigi labi paietu zem šī nosaukuma, manuprāt.
Jaunais Deafheaven. No sākuma pilnīgs WTF ? Kāpēc man jāklausās The Smiths ? Pēc 3 reizes jau piesitu ar kāju un dungoju līdz. Tad jau redzēs kāds būs pilnais albums, bet šis noteikti ir pavisam kaut kas cits nekā pierasts dzirdēt no Deafheaven.
Jāteic, ka jaunais HELLOWEEN priecē. Pārsteigumu, protams īsti tur nav, bet viss ir ļoti labā līmenī, pārlieku neizklausoties pēc sevis atražošanas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tu_zh6N4hE...
''U loh mi do lo wohne... näbem Wasser im Tau...
loh mi bie lo läbe... de schiint d Sunne scho ban...
uf de Hügle liegt dr Schnee... was wott ig no me...
aus hie blibe u z si... schunnt dr Chummer nie me''
^^^^ tas Chotzä nav gluži jauns - pārrakstīts vai pārmiksēts pirmais albums ar pāris bonus gabaliem.
Pa vienai reizei ir noklausīti sekojošie:
Thy Catafalque - Vadak: likās ļoti labs, meldijas līmenī, kā vienmēr, bet metāla vairāk par dažiem iepriekšējiem. Laikam smagākais kopš Meta, bet varbūt pat Rengeteg.
Dakthrone - Eternal Hails: šo to varbūt varēja saīsināt, bet kopumā vispār patika. Jēls, kā jau ierasts, šoreiz arī lēns, taču rifi un noskaņa der. Tāds pirmā viļņa black/doom.
Pestilence - Exitium: par šo laikam visgrūtāk no vienas reizes izteikties - it kā viss, no šiem sagaidāms. Tehniski, brīžiem ar kaut kādām avangarda piešpricēm, bet to laiks rādīs, vai kāds rifs arī prātā aizķersies.
July 2021
02.07 At The Gates - The Nightmare Of Being
02.07 Die Apokalyptischen Reiter - The Divine Horsemen
02.07 Noctambulist - The Barren Form
02.07 Year Of No Light - Consolamentum
02.07 Born Of Osiris - Angel Or Alien
02.07 Godhead Machinery - Masquerade Among Gods [EP]
02.07 Felled - The Intimate Earth
02.07 Lost In Grey - Under The Surface
02.07 Enshine - Transcending Fire [EP]
02.07 Lord Of The Lost - Judas
02.07 Drawn And Quartered - Congregation Pestilence
02.07 Bizarrekult - Vi Overlevde
02.07 Agrypnie - Metamorphosis
02.07 Nanowar Of Steel - Italian Folk Metal
07.07 Sepiroth - Condemned To Suffer
09.07 Mayhem - Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando [EP]
09.07 Domination Campaign - Onward To Glory
09.07 Night Crowned - Hädanfärd
09.07 Kambrium - Synthetic ERA
09.07 Ruadh - Eternal
09.07 Laurenne/Louhimo - The Reckoning
09.07 71TONMAN - War Is Peace // Peace Is Slavery [EP]
09.07 Xasthur - Victims Of The Times
15.07 Necrogod - In Extremis
15.07 Spasm - Mystery Of Obsession
16.07 Wizardthrone - Hypercube Necrodimensions
16.07 Big City - Testify X
16.07 Space Chaser - Give Us Life
16.07 Spiral Grave - Legacy Of The Anointed
16.07 Nothing Sacred - No Gods
16.07 Ophidian I - Desolate
16.07 Powerwolf - Call Of The Wild
16.07 Times Of Grace - Songs Of Loss And Separation
16.07 Vouna - Atropos
16.07 Marta Gabriel - Metal Queens
16.07 Crescent - Carving The Fires Of Akhet
16.07 Resurrection Kings - Skygazer
23.07 Yngwie Malmsteen - Parabellum
23.07 Erdve - Savigaila
23.07 Heavy Water - Red Brick City
23.07 Mordred - The Dark Parade
23.07 Rebellion - We Are The People
26.07 Grieving - Songs For The Weary
30.07 Eonean - Forsaken Memories
30.07 Groza - The Redemptive End
30.07 Swallow The Sun - 20 Years Of Gloom, Beauty And Despair - Live In Helsinki [DVD]
30.07 Ingested - The Surreption II
30.07 Netherbird - Arete
30.07 Tombstoner - Victims Of Vile Torture
30.07 King Woman - Celestial Blues
30.07 Praise The Plague - The Obsidian Gate
30.07 Dee Snider - Leave A Scar
30.07 Galvanizer - Prying Sight Of Imperception
30.07 Lantlôs - Wildhund
31.07 Dantalion - Time To Pass Away
^^ BladeOfDarkness, šodien, plkst. 10:25
Katafalkam īpašu smagumu nejutu (varbūt par iepriekšējo smagāks) - iekrita ausī, ka pa pusei instrumentāls
Ir jau tāds nevienmērīgs tas smagums, kā vienmēr, un vairāk koncentrēts pirmajā pusē. Bet nu teiksim, šitas gabals normāls kratgalverts, pirms beigu galā aiziet solstafīrerā.
August 2021
01.08 Unreqvited - Beautiful Ghosts
01.08 Gnosis - Omens From The Dead Realm
03.08 Grisly - Salting The Earth
03.08 Diskord - Degenerations
06.08 Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready
06.08 Vessel Of Iniquity - The Doorway
06.08 Within The Fall - Veil Of Winter
13.08 Fawn Limbs - Darwin Falls
13.08 Burial In The Sky - The Consumed Self
13.08 Lorna Shore - …And I Return To Nothingness [EP]
13.08 Killing - Face The Madness
13.08 Slaughter To Prevail - Kostolom
13.08 Ænigmatum - Deconsecrate
13.08 Prestige - Reveal The Ravage
20.08 Warkings - Revolution
20.08 Necronautical - Slain In The Spirit
20.08 The Amenta - Solipschism [EP]
20.08 Mentalist - A Journey Into The Unknown
20.08 Bonehunter - Dark Blood Reincarnation System
20.08 Daemonicus - Eschaton
20.08 Witchcryer - When Their Gods Come For You
20.08 Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
20.08 Wolves In The Throne Room - Primordial Arcana
20.08 Sodom - Bombenhagel [EP]
20.08 Between The Buried And Me - Colors II
25.08 Mitochondrial Sun - Bodies And Gold [EP]
27.08 The Slow Death - Siege
27.08 Spirit Adrift - Forge Your Future [EP]
27.08 White Stones - Dancing Into Oblivion
27.08 Nunslaughter - Red Is The Color Of Ripping Death
27.08 Phinehas - The Fire Itself
27.08 Dark Arena - Worlds Of Horror
27.08 Our Place Of Worship Is Silence - Disavowed, And Left Hopeless
27.08 Obscurity - Skogarmaors
27.08 Wormwood - Arkivet
27.08 Transport League - Kaiserschnitt
27.08 Fluisteraars - Gegrepen Door De Geest Der Zielsontluiking
27.08 Jinjer - Wallflowers
27.08 Sculptured - The Liminal Phase
27.08 Ex Deo - The Thirteen Years Of Nero
27.08 Hooded Menace - The Tritonus Bell
27.08 Neal Morse - Innocence & Danger
27.08 Thyrfing - Vanagandr
27.08 Wormwitch - Wolf Hex
27.08 Leprous - Aphelion
30.08 Eonean - Forsaken Memories
September 2021
01.09 Claymorean - Eulogy For The Gods
01.09 Antediluvian - The Divine Punishment
03.09 Forever Autumn - Hail, The Forest Dark [EP]
03.09 Defacement - Defacement
03.09 Bokassa - Molotov Rocktail
03.09 Carnifex - Graveside Confessions
03.09 Beyond Grace - Our Kingdom Undone
03.09 Portrait - At One With None
03.09 Apallic - Edge Of Desolation
03.09 Rise To The Sky - Per Aspera Ad Astra
03.09 Mägo De Oz - Bandera Negra
03.09 Trna - Istok
03.09 Auri - II - Those We Don't Speak Of
03.09 Apophis - Excess
03.09 Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
05.09 Human Cull - To Weep For Unconquered Worlds
08.09 Infamia - Crisálida
10.09 Replicant - Malignant Reality
10.09 Chrome Waves - The Rain Will Cleanse
10.09 Dawn Fades - Ode
10.09 Letzte Instanz - Ehrenwort
10.09 Pa Vesh En - Maniac Manifest
10.09 Mastiff - Leave Me The Ashes Of The Earth
10.09 Aborted - ManiaCult
10.09 Seven Spires - Gods Of Debauchery
10.09 Inferi - Vile Genesis
10.09 Crisix - The Pizza EP [EP]
10.09 Hail Spirit Noir - Mannequins
11.09 Regardless Of Me - Black Flowers Blossom
13.09 Phobophilic - Undimensioned Identities [EP]
17.09 Criminal - Sacrificio
17.09 Brainstorm - Wall Of Skulls
17.09 Insomnium - Argent Moon [EP]
17.09 Mono - Pilgrimage Of The Soul
17.09 The Raven Age - Exile
17.09 Edge Of Paradise - The Unknown
17.09 Ghostheart Nebula - Ascension
17.09 Joe Stump - Diabolical Ferocity
17.09 Spiritbox - Eternal Blue
17.09 Carcass - Torn Arteries
17.09 Rage - Resurrection Day
17.09 Vulvodynia - Praenuntius Infiniti
17.09 Occulsed - Crepitation Of Phlegethon
17.09 Whyzdom - Of Wonders And Wars
17.09 Employed To Serve - Conquering
17.09 Alien Weaponry - Tangaroa
17.09 Kadabra - Ultra
24.09 Dead Summer Society - Decades
24.09 Waldgeflüster - Dahoam
24.09 Aorlhac - Pierres Brûlées
24.09 Veilburner - Lurkers In The Capsule Of Skull
24.09 Insect Ark - Future Fossils [EP]
24.09 Rivers Of Nihil - The Work
24.09 Unto Others - Strength
24.09 Orbit Culture - Shaman [EP]
24.09 Iskandr - Vergezicht
24.09 Poppy - Flux
24.09 Succumb - XXI
24.09 LLNN - Unmaker
24.09 Big Brave / The Body - Leaving None But Small Birds [Collaboration]
24.09 A Pale Horse Named Death - Infernum In Terra
24.09 Signs Of The Swarm - Absolvere
24.09 Cripta Blue - Cripta Blue
24.09 The Ossuary - Oltretomba
24.09 Bummer - Dead Horse
24.09 Tentation - Le Berceau Des Dieux
24.09 Cognizance - Upheaval
24.09 Dark Redeemer - Into The Deep Black
24.09 Tremonti - Marching In Time
24.09 Paradox - Heresy II - End Of A Legend
24.09 Aeon Zen - Transversal
24.09 Wraith - Undo The Chains
24.09 Skepticism - Companion
P.S. izrādās, ka augustē vēl vesela kaudze papildus:
August 2021
27.08 Obscurity - Skogarmaors
27.08 Low Flying Hawks - Fuyu
27.08 Thyrfing - Vanagandr
27.08 Ruin - Spread Plague Death
27.08 Sculptured - The Liminal Phase
27.08 Neal Morse - Innocence & Danger
27.08 Jinjer - Wallflowers
27.08 Wormwitch - Wolf Hex
27.08 Besatt - Supreme And True At Night
27.08 Ex Deo - The Thirteen Years Of Nero
27.08 Ravenlight - Intermission [EP]
27.08 Oxygen Destroyer - Sinister Monstrosities Spawned By The Unfathomable Ignorance Of Humankind
27.08 Wulfgar - From The Ashes
27.08 Fluisteraars - Gegrepen Door De Geest Der Zielsontluiking
27.08 Shihad - Old Gods
27.08 The Order - Out Of Order [EP]
27.08 White Stones - Dancing Into Oblivion
27.08 The Slow Death - Siege
27.08 Life Artist - Lifelines
27.08 Wormwood - Arkivet
27.08 Toxic Ruin - Nightmare Eclipse
27.08 Dark Arena - Worlds Of Horror
27.08 Phinehas - The Fire Itself
27.08 Spirit Adrift - Forge Your Future [EP]
27.08 Nunslaughter - Red Is The Color Of Ripping Death
27.08 Our Place Of Worship Is Silence - Disavowed, And Left Hopeless
27.08 Windfaerer - Breaths Of Elder Dawns
27.08 Kenn Nardi - Trauma
27.08 Transport League - Kaiserschnitt
27.08 Hooded Menace - The Tritonus Bell
27.08 Nocturnal (GER) - Serpent Death
27.08 Leprous - Aphelion
28.08 Serpent Column - Katartisis [EP]
30.08 Eonean - Forsaken Memories
31.08 Brodequin - Perpetuation Of Suffering [EP]
Pēdējā laikā saskāros ar viedokļiem, ka Ministry lēnie gabali esot kopumā labāki un interesantāki par ātri dragājošajiem un tresījošajiem. Jāatzīst, sāku piekrist un ceru, ka jaunajā albumā būs vēl tādi!
Interesanti, vai arī šeit iet vaļā kancelešana, vai arī tā ir tīri nejaušība...
3.sept. ir iznācis jauns Peste Noire albums Le retour des pastoureaux.
p.s. Neatbalstu nazi ideoloģiju, bet tāpēc jau nepārstāšu klausīties PN, Burzum u.c. Ja neklausītos muzonu, kurā pausti man nepieņemami uzskati, tad vispār metāls pie malas būtu jāmet, un labi tālu....
Vai tad nezini par kipišu ap Steelfest? Bleids jau tikai pārpublicē mēneša albumu sarakstus no citiem avotiem, un, ja tur nav iekļauts kāds albums, tad nav arī šeit.. Bet Peste Noire albums septembra sarakstā nebija... :)
The criticism towards such issues as artist roster and artists’ personal lives has reached us at times, but we also haven’t avoided getting threats from people who think that artists from certain nationalities or artists having a certain skin color shouldn’t be allowed to perform. The latter example may sounds baffling to some, but among all this it is a good reminder that Steelfest has never been about catering to certain extremist groups but always about musical aesthetics.
Some of these extremist groups, however, seem to imply that by pressuring, accusing and even sabotaging the festival will finally bring a consensus on who is allowed to perform at the stage. When a band shares the same stage with an ”artista non grata”, they are condemned for ”accepting the artist’s views” by some twisted logic, and are carrying this eternal stigma from then on. And at the end, we are facing a situation where the only acceptable artists are the ones who are approved by these extremist groups- until the criteria changes and the rope gets a bit tighter, of course.
It would be intellectually rather lazy to just state that ”by not booking controversial artists you avoid all the criticism and threats”. I understand perfectly well that some of the performers at Steelfest may have caused irritation, anger and even sheer hate based on how they have expressed their personal thoughts. Yet, I don’t believe that by only booking bands based on their approval from certain groups would bring us a sustainable festival or musical diversity.
A Finnish politician once brought up the concept about ”art based on well-being” in opposite to ill-being, and expressed her concerns on it’s absurdity as a possible societal demand. I would kindly ask the opposers of Steelfest to think for a second what that would mean in a democratic society and how we would live in a dystopia where the purpose of art is to be solely odourless, flavourless and perfectly safe.
-Steelfest-''
Ko domājat par jauno Iron Maiden? Man tembrāli un skanējumā izklausījās tāds savecējis (un ne labā nozīmē, ne tā kā pilns ar retro skaņu, bet vienkārši vecišķs). Bet varbūt tā ir pareiza atšķirība no citiem viņu albumiem?
Hooded Menace jaunais ir ņevjebenna ahujennijs. Pirmajā piegājienā likās, ka bez Blood Ornaments, kas ir neapšaubāms hits, tur nekā daudz nav, bet ka paklausās - zelts!
Esa Holopainen - Silver Lake - nedaudz mīkstāks Amorphis vai kā liriskā gala Ayreon (Prog. Metal ar Hard Rock) - čupa viesvokālistu un daudz labu gabalu: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IShWUw-ijPw...
CARCASS jaunais ir tā nekas; labāks, nekā pēc singliem likās, bet nav arī baigi ideāls. Stilistiski apmēram pa vidu starp Necroticism un Heartwork, bet ar kopumā švakāku kompozīciju un vairāk sōliņiem.
STEEL BEARING HAND ir prīmā death/thrash, kam izdodas izklausīties diezgan svaigi; vairāk tur ir tā thrash daļa, bet brīžiem vairāk uz Destroyer 666 pat velk, taču kaut kā tas ir salikts ar tādu mūsdienīgāku elpu, pēc 90-tajiem īsti neskan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UPYLaaBfYk...
P. S. Ja būtu zināmāka banda varētu likt pie greizajiem tulkojumiem - sauja bleķa gultņu :D
ENFORCED - Kill Grid ir kvalitatīvs thrash (nejaukt ar Enforcer), principā ~Slaykultura, ar Power Trip piešprici. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1loT9DadlI...
Ļoti labs krievu episkais thrash MYSTIC STORM, ar sievišķi pie vokāla. Pie tā vokāla ir drusku jāpierod, bet tas nav pārlieku grūti, bet muzons ir izcils.
Krievi forumā baigi par vokālu cepās - man jau liekas klasisks Speed/Thrash vokāls. Diezgan labs albums. Episkais tāpēc, ka reizēm noņem kāju no pedāļa ?
October 2021
01.10 KK's Priest - Sermons Of The Sinner
01.10 Kryptos - Force Of Danger
01.10 Hex A.D. - Funeral Tango For Gods And Men
01.10 Big Brave / The Body - Leaving None But Small Birds [Collaboration]
01.10 Duel - In Carne Persona
01.10 Caveman Cult - Blood And Extinction
01.10 Crystal Spiders - Morieris
01.10 Bummer - Dead Horse
01.10 Gloosh - Sylvan Coven
01.10 Ministry - Moral Hygiene
01.10 Venefixion - A Sigh From Below
01.10 Full Of Hell - Garden Of Burning Apparitions
01.10 Enslaved - Caravans To The Outer Worlds [EP]
01.10 Katavasia - Invoking The Spirit Of Doom [EP]
01.10 Light Of The Morning Star - Charnel Noir
01.10 Churchburn - Genocidal Rite
01.10 Abstracter - Abominion
01.10 6:33 - Feary Tales For Strange Lullabies: The Dome
01.10 Foul Body Autopsy - Shadows Without Light - Part One [EP]
01.10 Anima Hereticae - Ov Behest [EP]
01.10 Cataleptic - The Tragedy
05.10 Putrevore - Miasmal Monstrosity
05.10 Teramaze - And The Beauty They Perceive
05.10 Anomalie - Tranceformation
05.10 ZAÄAR - Magická Džungl’a
06.10 Le Chant Noir - La Société Satanique Des Poètes Morts
08.10 The Breathing Process - Labyrinthian
08.10 Blood Red Throne - Imperial Congregation
08.10 Eclipse - Wired
08.10 Black Sites - Untrue
08.10 Norse - Ascetic
08.10 Antichrist Siege Machine - Pruifying Blade
08.10 Manimal - Armageddon
08.10 Hegemon - Sidereus Nuncius
08.10 Untamed Land - Like Creatures Seeking Their Own Forms
08.10 Trivium - In The Court Of The Dragon
08.10 Alda - A Distant Fire
08.10 Atræ Bilis - Apexapien
08.10 Creeping Death - The Edge Of Existence [EP]
08.10 Gus G. - Quantum Leap
08.10 Desalmado - Mass Mental Devolution
08.10 Alkuharmonian Kantaja - Shadowy Peripherals
08.10 Kowloon Walled City - Piecework
08.10 Havukruunu - Kuu Erkylän Yllä [EP]
09.10 Between Worlds - Between Worlds
13.10 Cenotaph (TUR) - Precognition To Eradicate
15.10 Avdagata - Damnatio Cursus [EP]
15.10 Alcatrazz - V
15.10 Gemini Syndrome - 3rd Degree - The Raising
15.10 Destinity - In Continuum
15.10 Leverage - Above The Beyond
15.10 Lords Of Black - Alchemy Of Souls - Part 2
15.10 Hate - Rugia
15.10 Aeon - God Ends Here
15.10 Vildhjarta - Måsstaden Under Vatten
15.10 Extreme Cold Winter - World Exit
15.10 Necromantia - To The Depths We Descend...
15.10 The Agonist - Days Before The World Wept [EP]
15.10 The Lucid - The Lucid
15.10 She Said Destroy - Succession
19.10 Deimler - A Thousand Suns
20.10 Bizarre - Invocation Codex
21.10 Mercury Circle - Killing Moons
22.10 Burning Point - Arsonist Of The Soul
22.10 Green Lung - Black Harvest
22.10 U.D.O. - Game Over
22.10 Waking The Cadaver - Authority Through Intimidation
22.10 Necrofier - Prophecies Of Eternal Darkness
22.10 Dream Theater - A View From The Top Of The World
22.10 Cradle Of Filth - Existence Is Futile
22.10 Catalyst Crime - Catalyst Crime
22.10 Zornheym - The Zornheim Sleep Experiment
22.10 1914 - Where Fear And Weapons Meet
22.10 Every Time I Die - Radical
22.10 Bloodred Hourglass - Your Highness
22.10 Sixx:A.M. - Hits
22.10 Livløs - And Then There Were None
22.10 Massacre - Resurgence
22.10 Shadowland (USA) - The Necromancer's Castle
22.10 Sulphurous - The Black Mouth Of Sepulchre
22.10 Worm - Foreverglade
26.10 Outre-Tombe - Abysse Mortifère
29.10 Teeth - Finite
29.10 First Fragment - Gloire Éternelle
29.10 Running Wild - Blood On Blood
29.10 Kayo Dot - Moss Grew On The Swords And Plowshares Alike
29.10 Archspire - Bleed The Future
29.10 Helheim - WoduridaR
29.10 Ghost Bath - Self Loather
29.10 A Secret Revealed - When The Day Yearns For Light
29.10 Lucifer - Lucifer IV
29.10 Beast In Black - Dark Connection
29.10 Be'lakor - Coherence
29.10 Joe Bonamassa - Time Clocks
29.10 Ad Infinitum - Chapter II: Legacy
29.10 Count Raven - The Sixth Storm
29.10 Ophis - Spew Forth Odium
29.10 Cult Of Eibon - Black Flame Dominion
29.10 Doedsvangr - Serpents Ov Old
29.10 Whitechapel - Kin
29.10 Mastodon - Hushed & Grim
29.10 Begat The Nephilim - II: The Grand Procession
29.10 Thulcandra - A Dying Wish
29.10 David Reece - Blacklist Utopia
29.10 Holy Death - Separate Mind From Flesh
31.10 Gutalax - The Shitpendables
31.10 When The Deadbolt Breaks - As Hope Valley Burns: Eulogy
PARADOX ir izlaiduši "Heresy II" - pagaidām klausos pirmo reizi, bet izklausās viss pēc poņāķijiem - tāds pats spēcīgs power/thrash, kā jau no šiem ierasts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyq9ig5COhM...
PORTRAIT - At One With None arī patika, tādā pašā Judas Diamond garā turpina, ar epizodiskiem modernākiem iespraudumiem (kāds blāstbītiņš, kāds bleķīgs rifiņš šur tur). www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjA5zhIqTFY...
Savukārt pēc Hate jaunās pirmās dziesmas vēl neko nevar pateikt. Potenciāls ir, bet ne pārliecinošs, lai sacenstos ar 2019 - bet jautājums vēl atklāts.
YT izmeta klipu, pārliecināja iečekot visu albumu: spēcīgs bleķis no Venecuēlas SELBST - Relatos de Angustia. Apmēram tākā pa vidu starp Mgla un Ulcerate.
KK'S PRIEST ir visai meh. Ir jau kaut kādi momenti, bet kopumā šausmīgi banāls, pašmērķīgas zoles un vājš songwritings, un Manowar tipa teksti to labāku nepadara.
1914 laikam ir pagaidām vislabākais no šamiem. Sākumā drusku viebos par tiem orķestriem, bet jāsecina, ka vispār labi iederas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u3MOvWuLH4...
MASSACRE ir pa vienu ausi iekšā, pa otru ārā. It kā nekāda vaina, bet arī nekā interesanta, tie paši Rogga Johansson rifi, kas visās citās viņa bandās. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYYu-Ao-GkU...
jauno Putraskatlu (PUTREVORE) noklausījos un tieši līdzīgs secinājums par Roggas bandām. Reizēm gan viņam sanāk izšaut, piem. Rogas ''solo'' albums man ļoti tīk
1914 ir spēcīgs.
Kredli nav slikti, bet labākais tur pagaidām šķiet Bērziņa vāciņš - vot to vajag uz kādas sienas uzmālēt, lai tauta var gārkt no šausmām :D - distortedsoundmag.com/wp-content/uploads/...
No Power labs ir Powerwolf un tieši albuma beigas vislabāk patika. Tam ir neslikts bonus CD, kur vecos gabalus mauc dažādi viesvokālisti un vairākas dziesmas tiešām labi sanācis ''koverot''. Šis gabals gan man rēku uzdzen dēļ lirikas (vai izrunas): www.youtube.com/watch?v=po-u-V6GiEk...
Vēl visnotaļ jestrs ir SILVER TALON - kārtīgas US Power - ar pautiem un bez ņuņām - man nedaudz Brainstorm atgādina, bet MA spiež uz Nevermore/Sanctuary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5qkZp2ZCrY...
Melodiskā bleķa lauciņā turpina spīdēt zviedri WORMWOOD: Arkivet ir jau trešais zaibis albums pēc kārtas, un iespējams, ka pats labākais. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6vNmSeeOlk...
Noklausījos to Cradļu veikumu. Nu nav jau itkā ne kāda vaina, vismaz nav tie gotiskie vājprāti kas tur vienbrīd viņiem nāca ārā... bet... Beast, protams, feināks. 6. dziesma uzreiz lika uzmeklēt "13 autumns and a widow" no Cruetly and the Beast :>
02.11 Diablo Swing Orchestra - Swagger & Stroll Down The Rabbit Hole
02.11 Abysmal Grief - Funeral Cult Of Personality
05.11 Bullet For My Valentine - Bullet For My Valentine
05.11 Møl - Diorama
05.11 Sarke - Allsighr
05.11 Fornhem - Stämman Från Berget
05.11 Omnium Gatherum - Origin
05.11 Mortiferum - Preserved In Torment
05.11 Autokrator - Persecution
05.11 Portrayal Of Guilt - Christfucker
05.11 Bornholm - Apotheosis
05.11 Anomalie - Tranceformation
05.11 Skuggsjá - Hardanger [EP]
05.11 In Aphelion - Luciferian Age [EP]
05.11 Emma Ruth Rundle - Engine Of Hell
05.11 ZAÄAR - Magická Džungl’a
05.11 Glassing - Twin Dream
05.11 Extinction A.D. - Chaos, Collusion, Carnage & Propaganda [EP]
05.11 Saratoga - XXX
05.11 Gaahls Wyrd - The Humming Mountain [EP]
05.11 The Three Tremors - Guardians Of The Void
05.11 Bent Knee - Frosting
05.11 Mystras - Empires Vanquished And Dismantled
05.11 Déhà - Ave Maria II
05.11 The Sound That Ends Creation - Boomers, Zoomers, Desperate Coomer
10.11 Black Soul Horde - Horrors From The Void
11.11 Serpent Lord (GR) - Apocrypha
11.11 Goregamel - VOL. 4 (Allegedly... But Who Smurfin' Cares?!)
12.11 The Ossuary - Oltretomba
12.11 Dawn Of Solace - Flames Of Perdition
12.11 Monument Of Misanthropy - Unterweger
12.11 Dold Vorde Ens Navn - Mørkere
12.11 Fueled By Fire - Past...Present...No Future Pt. 1 [EP]
12.11 Eucharist - I Am The Void
12.11 Darkwoods My Betrothed - Angel Of Carnage Unleashed
12.11 Knights Of The Realm - Knights Of The Realm
12.11 L.A. Guns - Checkered Past
12.11 Bonded - Into Blackness
12.11 Insania - V (Praeparatus Supervivet)
12.11 Unleashed - No Sign Of Life
12.11 Vertebra Atlantis - Lustral Purge In Cerulean Bliss
12.11 Ars Magna Umbrae - Throne Between Worlds
12.11 Creature (FRA) - Eloge De l'Ombre
12.11 Predictor - ...Thus Spoke Death [EP]
12.11 Belore - Artefacts
12.11 Cân Bardd - Devoured By The Oak
12.11 Hyperdontia - Hideous Entity
12.11 Minenfeld - Night Raid [EP]
12.11 NorthTale - Eternal Flame
12.11 Astrophobos - Corpus
12.11 Dauþuz - Vom Schwarzen Schmied
12.11 Sijjin - Sumerian Promises
12.11 Apostle Of Solitude - Until The Darkness Goes
12.11 Vomit The Soul - Cold
19.11 Obscura - A Valediction
19.11 Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers
19.11 Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Noktvrn
19.11 Exodus - Persona Non Grata
19.11 Nervochaos - Dug Up (Diabolical Reincarnations)
19.11 E-Force - Mindbender
19.11 Pathology - The Everlasting Plague
19.11 Abscession - Rot Of Ages
19.11 Aephanemer - A Dream Of Wilderness
19.11 Khemmis - Deceiver
19.11 Nightland - The Great Nothing
19.11 Eldritch - Eos
19.11 Theatres Des Vampires - In Nomine Sanguinis
19.11 The Lurking Fear - Death, Madness, Horror, Decay
19.11 Plebeian Grandstand - Rien Ne Suffit
19.11 Converge / Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: I [Collaboration]
19.11 Thank You Scientist - Plague Accommodations [EP]
19.11 Stillbirth - Strain Of Gods [EP]
19.11 Nightshade - Sounds Of Dark Matter
19.11 Temperance - Diamanti
19.11 Stormkeep - Tales Of Othertime
19.11 Dakhma - Blessings Of Amurdad
19.11 Nightstryke - Children Of The Stars [EP]
19.11 Volumes - Happier?
26.11 Rhapsody Of Fire - Glory For Salvation
26.11 Victory - Gods Of Tomorrow
26.11 Archgoat - Worship The Eternal Darkness
26.11 Eternity's End - Embers Of War
26.11 Godhead Machinery - Monotheistic Enslavement
26.11 Alien Force - We Meet Again
26.11 Negură Bunget - Zău
26.11 Black Label Society - Doom Crew Inc.
26.11 Imperialist - Zenith
26.11 Hypocrisy - Worship
26.11 Waltari - 3rd Decade – The Anniversary Edition
26.11 Cynic - Ascension Codes
26.11 In Mourning - The Bleeding Veil
26.11 Lock Up - The Dregs Of Hades
26.11 Noise Trail Immersion - Curia
26.11 Deep Purple - Turning To Crime
26.11 Opera Diabolicus - Death On A Pale Horse
26.11 Hunters Moon - The Great Pandemonium
26.11 We Are The Catalyst - Perseverance
26.11 Hollow - Tower
26.11 Morgul Blade - Fell Sorcery Abounds
Nu jau trīs nedēļas kā ir laukā arī jaunais HATE. Pa šo laiku ir noklausīts reizes 4-5, bet vēl aizvien īsti neko nevaru pateikt. Katru reizi klausoties, secinu, ka ir labs, bet kaut kad vēl jāpaklausās, vairāk iedziļinoties. Un pēc tam uzreiz aizmirstu, kā skanēja, un ka gribēju iedziļināties. Nē nu principā, ja iepriekšējie pāris patika, tad arī šim vajadzētu patikt, visādā ziņā gana līdzīgs.
Ak jā, un jāteic, ka ARCHSPIRE iet labāk iekšā, nekā gribētos atzīt. Vispār jau es neesmu sporta metāla cienītājs, vismaz vairs ne, taču šis satur pietiekami daudz mūzikas, lai diezgan veiksmīgi balansētu uz tās trauslās robežas, aiz kuras sākas tikai zīmēšanās ar prasmēm. Tai pašā laikā arī zīmulības, protams, te netrūkst, ļurināšana brīžiem sasniedz teju vai nereālus ātrumus - ieskaitot arī vokālu, kas droši varētu ar labiem panākumiem piedalīties ātrrunāšanas sacensībās. Bet kopumā, pateicoties veelīgai kačkai un patīkamām meldijām, tas viss skan itin baudāmi.
^ izklausās OK, bet manuprāt vairāk uz vokālista bandu velk:
''After some teasing and much hype, The Halo Effect is finally streaming their debut single "Shadowminds." It should come as no surprise how good this is given the band is comprised entirely of '90s In Flames members.
For those unaware, The Halo Effect is:
Guitarist Jesper Strömblad, who was in the band between 1990 and 2010
Guitarist Niclas Engelin, who was in the band between 1997 and 1998, and then again from 2011 until now (but hasn't played with In Flames live since 2019)
Bassist Peter Iwers, between 1997 and 2016
Drummer Daniel Svensson, between 1998 and 2015
Vocalist Mikael Stanne, who was In Flames' live vocalist in 1994 and performed on both Lunar Strain and Subterranean. Stanne has since found great success with Dark Tranquillity"
UNLEASHED kopumā nav gluži zemē metams, lai gan divi dzirdētie singli šķita diezgan sūdīgi. līdz dažiem iepriekšējiem, īpaši jau Odalheim gan laikam nevelk.
December 2021
01.12 Catastrofy - Taký Je Život
02.12 Darkestrah - Chong Aryk [EP]
03.12 Manimal - Armageddon
03.12 Epica - Omega Alive [DVD]
03.12 Cutterred Flesh - Sharing Is Caring
03.12 Aquilus - Bellum I
03.12 Crom - Into The Glory Land [EP]
03.12 Unanimated - Victory In Blood
03.12 Volbeat - Servant Of The Mind
03.12 Genocide Pact - Genocide Pact
03.12 Coronatus - Atmosphere
03.12 Under The Church - Total Burial [EP]
03.12 Weedpecker - IV: The Stream Of Forgotten Thoughts
03.12 King Buffalo - Acheron
03.12 Bog Wizard - Miasmic Purple Smoke
03.12 Elder / Kadavar - Eldovar - A Story Of Darkness And Light [Collaboration]
03.12 Pantheïst - Closer To God
03.12 Custard - Imperium Rapax
03.12 Lethian Dreams - Last Echoes Of Silence [EP]
03.12 So Hideous - None But A Pure Heart Can Sing
03.12 Redemptor - Agonia
03.12 Of Mice & Men - Echo
08.12 Rage Of Light - Redemption
10.12 Otargos - Fleshborer Soulflayer
10.12 Atlas - Ukko
10.12 Psilocybe Larvae - Where Silence Dwells
10.12 Maladie - The Sick Is Dead - Long Live The Sick
10.12 The Murder Of My Sweet - A Gentleman's Legacy
10.12 Pyrexia - Gravitas Maximus
10.12 Mercury X - Imprisoned
10.12 Spaceslug - Memorial
10.12 Spidergawd - Spidergawd VI
10.12 Inherits The Void - Monolith Of Light
12.12 Toledo Steel - Heading For The Fire
12.12 Bekëth Nexëhmü - De Fornas Likgaldrar
17.12 Serpent Lord (GR) - Apocrypha
17.12 Memory Garden - 1349
17.12 Agnes Vein - Deathcall
17.12 Charnel Altar - Abatement Of The Sun
17.12 Wound - Serpent Crown
17.12 Age Of Athena - Gate To Oblivion
17.12 Iron Fate - Crimson Messiah
18.12 Just Before Dawn - In The Realm Of Ash And Sorrow [EP]
21.12 Krolok - Funeral Winds & Crimson Sky
24.12 Lacrimosa - Leidenschaft
25.12 In Aphelion - Moribund
31.12 Feuerschwanz - Memento Mori
31.12 Wombbath - Agma
31.12 Hadal Maw - Oblique Order
31.12 Barús - Fanges [EP]
Andris Ēķis, tb Anders Eek no Funeral paklausījās, ka Frailty izlaiduši albumu latviešu valodā, un arī nolēma jauno albumu taisīt dzimtajā valodā. Protams, līdz From These Wounds nepavelk, bet kopumā albums labs sanācis.
Funeral tīri labi patika, bet vēl pāris reižu jānoklausās, lai varētu izteikties.
Pamazām apaļojot gada topu, procesā apgūti šādi, iepriekš te nepieminēti:
BOHEMYST - Čerň a Smrt. Čehu black/death, agrāk zināmi ar nosaukumu Avenger. Ļoti labu iespaidu atstāja, tiešām daudzveidīgs un atmosfērīgs albums. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af-ljZuElnE...
SIJJIN - Sumerian Promises. Vācu death thrash, banda izveidojusies no Necros Christos dalībniekiem pēc NC izjukšanas (šņuk). Lai arī šis ir jestrs, tresīgs desis, NC vēsmas tomēr var manīt, kaut vai vokālā. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK0-c84ntnM...
NEKROMATHEON - Visions of Trismegistos. Norvēģu thrash, pēc vislabākajiem žanra kanoniem un sirdsapziņas. Vietām maķenīt tuvāk uz death/thrash pavelk, bet kopumā tomēr es to par diezgan tīru thrash sauktu. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K_CDyDyLlk...
DEMISER - Through the Gate Eternal. Black/thrash no Dienvidkarolīnas ASV. Arī viss ļoti zolīdi un pēc poņāķijiem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3PMX9mHDRo...
HORRENDUM VERMIS - Cvlt ov Malignant Entities. Death metal, Argentīna. Tematika - Lovecraft, kā nav grūti no albuma nosaukuma uzminēt. Skan pamatīgi, "dziļi", lielisks vokāls. Pirms kāda gada nejauši uzskrēju šo iepriekšējam albumam, kas kārtīgi noravēja jumtu; šis varbūt par kapeiku atpaliek, bet tāpat labs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKngA8okTzw...
UNANIMATED - Victory of Blood. Zviedru melodic death/black, ja vajadzīgs iepazīstināt. Pagaidām tikai vienreiz noklausīts, bet daži gabali noteikti bija lieliski, jāklausās vēl. Nav jau tik lipīgs kā citi, ko ar tādiem pašiem vārdiem apzīmē, pat ne kā Necrophobic, kas stilistiski varētu būt tāds tuvākais salīdzinājums. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHsPBHH-w1c...
CRYPTS OF DESPAIR - All Light Swallowed. Leišu death, drusku modernāk skanošs par pirmo albumu, ar bišku dissonansēm šur un tur, bet visnotaļ cienījams. Tagad drusku žēl, ka KŽ šogad šos tā normāli nepaklausījos, bet nu gan jau vēl sanāks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V23yc6mcLo...
SPECTRAL WOUND - A Diabolic Thirst. Black metal, Kanāda. Daudzviet internetos redzu pieminam un slavējam, bet man tas skanējums drusku par tradicionālu, lai man būtu interesanti - diezgan tipisks otrā viļņa stils, tiesa, bagātināts ar gana cepīgu rifāžu un arī diezgan ekspresīviem ģitārsōlō. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IhRNtur6Ig...
AT THE GATES - The Nightmare of Being. Grupa laikam komentārus neprasa, bet albums man šķita intriģējošāks, nekā iepriekšējie - te atkal ir mēģinājuši kaut kādu progresīvismu un variācijas ieviest, un nevar teikt, ka galīgi nebūtu sanācis. Pat saksofonu ir kaut kur iespieduši. Arī prasās paklausīties vēl, lai formulētu viedokli. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W3avpbtmM0...
MEFITIS - Offscourings. Kalifornijas death/black, vairāk no melodiski progresīvā gala; kaut kas apmēram pa vidu starp Enslaved un Sentenced otro albumu North From Here. Pagaidām tikai vienreiz noklausīts, un no vienas reizes maz ko sapratu. Bet iepriekšējais bija izcils, un šķiet, ka šis, kā minimums nav daudz sūdīgāks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1RfLb6ISjw...
THE TEMPLE - The Temple. Death/black, Jaunzēlande. Ja jums šķiet, ka izklausās pēc Ulcerate, tad tas ir tāpēc, ka tā arī ir - tas principā ir Ulcerate vokālista/basista blakusprojekts, pie bungām nosēdinot bijušo Ulcerate vokālistu. Attiecīgi skan līdzīgi, tikai ne tik samudrīti un drūmi. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCdWXTgzKZM...
PROSCRIPTOR MCGOVERNS APSU. Technical black/thrash, Teksasa. Īsi sakot, Absu jauns sastāvs, pieminēšanas vērts, ka taustiņus spēlē Zemial džeks Vorskaaath. Reti jau tie tur parādās, vairāk uz albuma beigām, bet kur ir, tur liek vēlēties, kaut nebūtu tik maz. Bet nu kopumā ļoti spēcīgs; man šķiet, ka ir sajūtamas arī kādas vēsmas no Voivod un Vektor. Viens no galvenajiem favorītiem uz personīgo topu. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC5L4yBxD5E...
Exodus jaunais man gan neaizgāja - šķiet, ka paši savus rifus (no pāris iepriekšējiem albumiem) atgremo. Par Exibit B labāks ir, protams, bet iepriekšējais un Exibit A man šķiet labāki (kaut arī tie nav nekas diži labs).
No tur minētajiem vairāki tikuši manā Thrash TOP. Īpaši var izcelt vismazāk zināmās bandas
BLACK MASS - Sulīgi-ugārīgs Speed/Thrash Venom/Slayer garā. Viens gabals ( 07 They Speak in Tongues 24:32 ) izklausās pēc 1983.gada Metallicas, kas kovero Mercyful Fate ;).
Savukārt WRAITH vistuvākais analogs ir agrīnais Slayer (metru augstāk šos jau minēju).
THRASH TOP varētu būt šāds:
Artillery / Black Mass
Flotsam & Jetsam
Angelus Apatrida / Wraith
Enforced, Paranorm un The Crown arī varētu tikt atzīti par labiem esam, bet tie vēl jāpaklausās, tāpat kā Ēvele un krievu Hren. Ukrainas Bestial Invasion MA par Technical Thrash nosaukti, bet man pēc Prog/Power izklausās. Tīri labs albums, kur tehniskie vipendroni nenomāc muzikālās kompozīcijas daļu:
Artillery nebija slikts, tāpat arī Flotsiks. Te jau vēl Paradox var pieminēt, kam arī nebija ne vainas. Enforced arī normāls, bet ne diži vairāk. Paranorm kaut kad noklausījos, bet neaizķērās atmiņā. Evile it kā normāli, bet pa vienu ausi iekšā, pa otru ārā.
Var ievērtēt Demoniac - So it Goes (it kā Čīlē iznāca 2020. gadā, citur šogad). Daudzi slavē, man nepavilka. Un tā klarnete 20 (!) minūšu tituldziemā vispār var iet dirst.
No +/- thrash šogad manā top 25 ir Proscriptor Mcgoverns Apsu, Nekromantheon, Mystic Storm. The Crown, Craven Idol, Frigftful, Sijjin arī ir, bet tiem jau tie piejaukumi lielāki. Vēl nesūdīgi likās Exodus, Demiser, Steel Bearing Hand, Demonztrator, Bonehunter.
Izrādās, bijušais rīdzinieks Jevgenerators (ex-Nightwing, -Fimoz, -A.N.T.I.) arī pērn izlaidis kārtējo savas Zviedrijā bāzētās bandas HLADOMRAK ierakstu. Krietns solis uz priekšu kvalitātē, bungas iespēlējis Nils "Dominator" Fjellström, kas izpaudies tādās bandās, kā Dark Funeral, Aeon, 1249, In Battle, Nordjevel u.c.
