Sabato 4 Gen 2014, 9:28

an overview of interesting releases:
or just a reminder to myself… oh, and if you know a release i might like, let me know…

BLACK
♫ Abigor - Leytmotif Luzifer
♫ Angrepp - Libido
☐ Balfor - Heralds Of The Fall
☐ Blodhemn - H7
♫ Burial Hordes - Incendium
☐ Brütal Wülfsex / Bewitcher - TBA
♫ Carn Dûm - Khamûl
☐ Chasse-Galerie / Mêlée des Aurores - D’Ost et de Verve / Musique d'Expatriés
♫ Darkenhöld - Castellum
☐ Darkflight - Closure
♫ Dark Fortress - Venereal Dawn
♫ Darkspace - Dark Space III I
♫ Den Saakaldte - Kapittel II: Faen i helvete
✓ De Profundis - This Winter in My Heart * *
☐ Djevel - TBA
♫ Djevelkult - I Djevelens Tegn
☐ Emyn Muil / Caladan Brood - TBA
☐ Entartung - Peccata Mortalia
♫ Enthroned - Sovereigns
♫ Ered Wethrin (United States) - Tides of War
♫ Eterul - Shrine of Impassivity
♫ Exsequor - For the Fallen
✓ Fides Inversa - Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans * * (biggest disappointment of 2014)
♫ Forteresse / Monarque / Csejthe / Chasse-Galerie - Légendes
✓ Frozen Dawn - Those of the Cursed Light * * * (3,5) (damn good cold sounding MBM in vein of Dissection, but something is missing…)
☐ Gallowbraid - TBA
☐ Graveborne - Through the Window of the Night
☐ Grimoire - L'aorasie des spectres rêveurs
☐ Gris / Sombres Forêts - Miserere Luminis
☐ Grisâtre - Paroxystique
☐ Haeres - Trom
☐ Heretoir - TBA
☐ Hermóðr - Vinter
♫ Immorior - Herbstmär
☐ Impaled Nazarene - Vigorous and Liberating Death
♫ Infestus - The Reflecting Void
✓ Iskald - Nedom og Nord * * * * (Melodic/Black-Thrash)
✓ IXXI - Skulls n Dust * * * (Black-Thrash/Orthodox)
♫ Janvs - Nigredo
♫ Khold - Til endes
♫ Midnattsvrede - Ripe Fruit on the Gallows Tree
♫ Midnight - No Mercy for Mayhem
☐ Misþyrming - Söngvar elds og óreiðu
☐ Moongates Guardian - Malbeth the Seer's Words
☐ Morrigan / Blizzard - Split
♫ Nasheim - Solens Vemod
♫ Necrodeath - The 7 Deadly Sins
♫ Nemesis Sopor - Glas
☐ NettleCarrier - Black Coffin Rites
♫ Nightbringer - Ego Dominus Tuus
☐ Nightforest - TBA
✓ Nivlhel - Nivlhel * * * * (Melodic/Istapp-like)
♫ Nocturnal - Storming Evil
♫ Nocturnal Breed - Napalm Nights
✓ Nocturnal Witch - Summoning Hell * * * * (3,5) (Blackened Thrash)
♫ Old Wainds - Nordraum
♫ Posthum - The Black Northern Ritual
♫ Sado Sathanas - Nomos Hamartia
♫ Sargeist - Feeding the Crawling Shadows
♫ Schammasch - Contradiction
♫ Serpents Lair - Demo MMXIV
♫ Shylmagoghnar - Emergence
✓ Skáphe - Skáphe * *
✓ Skogen - I Döden * * * * (4,5) (Atmospheric/Nature)
♫ Skroth - Skys Over Westeros
♫ Skialykon - Vestigio
♫ Slagbjørn - Mørkt og Jævlig
♫ Solbrud - Jærtegn
♫ Stigmhate - Zodacare Od Zodameranu
♫ Stilla - Ensamhetens Andar
✓ Svarttjern - Ultimatum Necrophilia * * * (3,5) (Black Metal)
☐ Taake - Stridens hus
♫ The Committee - Power Through Unity
♫ Thyruz - Svik
♫ Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
♫ Vargsang - In The Mist Of Night
♫ Verlies - Le Domaine Des Hommes
♫ Vinterbris - Solace
♫ Vredehammer - Vinteroffer
☐ Weltschmerz - Odium Humani Generis
♫ Windbruch - No Stars, Only Full Dark
♫ Woods of Desolation - As the Stars
☐ Zorn - Gegen alles

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✓ Ered Wethrin (Sweden) - All Song Ceased (Atmospheric/Epic/Tolkien)

PAGAN/FOLK/VIKING
♫ Árstíðir Lífsins - Aldafǫðr ok munka dróttinn
♫ Árstíðir Lífsins - Þættir úr sögu norðrs
☐ Belenos - TBA
☐ Cruachan - Blood For The Blood God
☐ Dråpsnatt - TBA
☐ Drudkh - Eastern Frontier in Flames
♫ Einherjer - Av oss, for oss
✓ Eluvietie - Origins * (just another uninspired, boring and vacuous folkpop release)
☐ Ereb Altor - The Lake of Blood
♫ Falls of Rauros / Panopticon - Falls of Rauros / Panopticon
♫ Falls of Rauros - Believe in No Coming Shore
♫ Fimbulvet - Frostbrand - Eines Bildnis Tracht * * (maybe i'm not in mood for this at the moment but damn, this is so boring, i'm not even able to listen to the whole album… i can't really belive it… what happened to this once so awesome band?)
☐ Fortíð - TBA
♫ Frostwork / Cruelty's Heart - Beyond Bloodied Banners Far and Haunted Winters Graven
☐ Galar - De Gjenlevende
♫ Hangatyr - Elemente
♫ Ifing - Against This Weald
✓ Kampfar - Djevelmakt * * * * (Pagan Black)
✓ King of Asgard - Karg * * *
☐ Kroda - GinnungaGap-GinnungaGaldr-GinnungaKaos
☐ Menhir - Varus
☐ Mistur - TBA
♫ Munarheim - Nacht und Stürme werden Licht
♫ Myrkgrav - Vonde Auer
☐ Nàttsòl - TBA
♫ Panopticon - Roads to the North
♫ Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
♫ Sivyj Yar (Сивый Яр) - From the Dead Villages' Darkness
♫ Skogmark - Sworn to Paganism
♫ Sverdkamp - Fraa Ryfylke
♫ Sviatibor - From Yav To Nav
♫ The Wolves of Avalon - Boudicca's Last Stand
☐ Thyrgrim - Erwachen
♫ Ulvegr - The Call Of Glacial Emptiness
☐ Valknacht - Le Sacrifice D'Ymir
♫ Vintersorg - Naturbål
☐ Virvatulet - TBA
✓ Waldgeflüster - Meine Fesseln * * * * (Atmospheric/Pagan/Nature)
☐ Winterfylleth / Drudkh - Thousands of Moons Ago / The Gates
♫ Winterfylleth - The Divination Of Antiquity
♫ Yarek Ovich - A Place Of Solitude

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✓ Saor - Aura (Atmospheric/Pagan/Celtic)

DEATH
☐ Acheron - Kult des Hasses
♫ Allegaeon - Elements of the Infinite
♫ Arroganz - Tod & Teufel
♫ At The Gates - At War With Reality
✓ Behemoth - The Satanist * * (2,5)
♫ Blood & Banjos - Blood & Banjos
♫ Bloodbath - Grand Morbid Funeral
✓ Bombs of Hades - Atomic Temples * * *
♫ Centinex - Redeeming Filth
♫ Creeping Flesh - Unravelled by War
♫ Dark Lunacy - The Day of Victory
♫ Dawn - The Eternal Forest - Demo Years 91-93
♫ Entombed A.D. - Back to the Front
☐ Fireborn - TBA
☐ Horizon Ablaze - Dødsverk
♫ Inferi - The Path of Apotheosis
♫ Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun
♫ Legion of the Damned - Ravenous Plague
☐ Maat - As We Create the Hope from Above
♫ Miasmal - Cursed Redeemer
☐ Mors Principium Est - Dawn of the 5th Era
♫ Noctem - Exilium
♫ Organic - Death Battalion - (South-Tyrolean Band)
✓ Seprevation - Consumed * * * * (3,5) (Death-Thrash)
✓ The Duskfall - Where the Tree Stands Dead * *
♫ The Haunted - Exit Wounds
☐ Vader - Tibi Et Igni
♫ Vampire - Vampire

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✓ Deserted Fear - Kingdom of Worms (oldschool death metal from germany)

HEAVY/POWER/THRASH
♫ Darkest Era - Severance
☐ Dust Bolt - Awake the Riot
♫ Grand Magus - Triumph and Power
♫ Lost Society - Terror Hungry
✓ Sabaton - Heroes * * (Power)

CORE
only for promotional reasons for a friend of mine
✓ Depreciate The Liar - Dethrone Humanity - (South-Tyrolean Band)

* * * * * - simply perfect

* * * * - great

* * * - good but nothing extraordinary

* * - there are a few good moments but overall it's boring

* - there's nothing i like

✓ listened
♫ still listening
☐ not listened yet

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