Ontborg's "Following the Steps of Damnation" The album classic elements of melodic death metal with a touch of melancholy and a distinct atmosphere. The guitar work is a highlight, with plenty of catchy and ominous riffs that stick in your head. The album is well-produced and features impressive artwork by Juanjo Castellano, adding to the overall atmosphere. While most of the album maintains a mid-paced tempo, it flows well and avoids feeling stagnant. The album draws heavily from the Swedish melodic death metal sound of the 90s, particularly bands like Dismember and Benediction. Despite its influences, Ontborg manages to create a sound that is distinctly their own. Some might find the consistent mid-tempo pacing to be predictable or lacking in variety.
The CD."Following the Steps of Damnation" is a highly recommended album for fans of melodic death metal, particularly those who appreciate the Swedish sound of the 90s. It's a well-crafted album with memorable moments, a strong atmosphere, and a distinct identity. The album's professional presentation and artwork further enhance the listening experience.
Membrance's "Undead Island" is a brutal, old-school death metal album from Italy, heavily influenced by the Swedish death metal sound of the 90's, particularly Entombed. The album stays true to the core elements of old-school death metal, with a focus on powerful, guttural vocals, heavy, buzzing guitars, and a relentless, driving rhythm. Membrance heavily utilizes the HM2 "buzzsaw" guitar tone, a hallmark of the Swedish death metal scene, especially bands like Entombed. The album incorporates elements of black and thrash metal, adding layers of intensity and atmosphere. While primarily aggressive, the album includes melodic guitar harmonies that provide some contrast and depth. The lyrics delve into the dark and macabre tales and legends of Venice and its surrounding lagoon. The band incorporates lyrics in the ancient Venetian dialect, adding a unique regional touch. The album is described by emphasizing its aggressive and uncompromising nature. Despite the brutality, the album manages to create a strong atmosphere, drawing the listener into the dark world of Venetian folklore. While drawing on established influences, Membrance manages to carve out its own identity through the use of local themes and lyrical style. In conclusion, "Undead Island" is a potent and compelling death metal album that delivers a visceral and atmospheric experience, blending classic Swedish death metal with unique Venetian lyrical themes. Membrance's CD "Undead Island" is an extreme metal album that blends various sub-genres, incorporating harmonies from bands like Immortal and Belphegor, aggression reminiscent of Testament and Sepultura, melodies from Kreator, and classic death metal/grindcore elements in the style of Entombed, Dismember, Dying Fetus, and early Carcass. The album is characterized by "buzzing" guitar riffs, "skank beat" drumming, vocal inhales, and experimental breakdowns with black metal influences. The album is a fusion of different extreme metal styles, created to reflect the members' diverse listening preferences. Notable influences include Immortal, Belphegor, Kreator, Testament, Sepultura, Entombed, Dismember, Dying Fetus, and Carcass. "Buzzing" and "skank beat" guitar and drum work."Vocal inhales". Experimental breakdowns with black-ish backing lines.The band worked with Luca Cocconi to achieve their desired sound.
"Per chi éla la nòcc" is the Fosch Italian blackers album. A great presentation of this band on an album that stands out entirely. A super extreme and true sound, filthy and very dirty every song that achieves the perfect sound of the genre. Creating the whole atmosphere of perversion and darkness itself by hearing all these notes. 8 songs make up this LP where songs like "Crost, Fosch, Rosen" stand out, the heartbreaking voice vomits you every gore every second and leaves you stupefied as well as each sick riff that becomes a frantic dance with the same death and what to say about the Drums a true brutal blast beat oiled machine on every note. I will continue to recommend under bands and if they are Italian black metal even more. Another success of Vacula Productions.
The 2019 was a great year for Feralia, a great exponent of atmospheric black metal. "Helios Manifesto" brutal plate 5 songs that range from the melody to the most powerful extreme, a fury in each song that is the sound of this album that catches you from the beginning until you finish it. First-rate black metal an impeccable recording and execution and professional siper supported by a sound that is beastly from start to finish nothing to envy the great exponents of the genre. A voice that reminds me of the best frotman of the genre and an offensive atmosphere that truly represents the essence of this style, always confronting and being direct in its proposals. 100% me you will not regret it.
"Martiri dell'odio" is the name of the album so essential for fans of melodic or symphonic black metal. A sound that surrounds you and consumes you the melody in this album is predominant and huge, COF Cradle of Flith lovers can love this band, from Italy we are getting a lot of band immersed in the extreme sound without leaving behind the melody and all that great symphonic sound that they know how to mix with the most ardent and dark hell of the world's extreme metal. The Heathen Black Metal Label "Vacula Production" continues to choose its signings very well and from Ukrania they always look for the best projects. The most melodic passages of this disc where they combine melodic and not so torn voices make a total atmosphere of darkness, songs sung in total Italian is a novelty for a market saturated with bands that only sing in English, few dare to sing in their language Natal and this bet really pleases me and makes this huge band interesting and very unique. https://www.facebook.com/tenebra.arcana https://vaculaproductions.bandcamp.com/album/martiri-dellodio
Torino this beautiful city in Italy brings us its best proposal of black metal of its old school without half measures. Lilyum a black metal with a very apocalyptic and enveloping sound you are caught by the dark atmosphere and death as soon as you start spitting out all its dishes, without having anything to envy to better known bands of the scene, and really produces a huge impact on its sound all the chaos that you are perceiving theme afterleavee without being able to escape from so much evil. We can highlight all the dark atmosphere of the great Italian band and we can make it clear that few bands of this scene that is growing, I mean the Italian has this level of depth and that great interest that can generate you to listen and inquire more about this proposal, I can recommend: "Circle Of Ashes" his most recent album represents and offers all his condensed proposal, Kosmos Reversum gives a sample of all his talent being responsible for each of the instruments and Lord J. H. Psycho also collaborating on all instruments and excelling in the voices, recommended one hundred percent.
Angrenost Italians remind me of the beginnings of Dimmu Borgir especially in his voice and atmosphere. A very melodic and epic black metal of the disc: Where only shadows Remain excellent plate that they bring us just out of the oven very beastly and brutal, the caliber of this sound and the sick and violent execution of this great album have to be qualified. The melodic and extreme and frenetic sound never stop and really to be an independent production because it does not leave bad and has the necessary quality to know how brutal of each of the tracks I recommend it completely.
AntroNero these Italians present us with a sensational album that since its inception is a hymn to total darkness. "Bagliori Nel Buio" is the name of this excellent plaque of this band. An impeccable production and masterful execution. Deadly guitars and bass. A very old school battery and deadly moments. And voices that combine with the guttural as well clean choirs. Black metal without waste and forcefulness in each note. Only heartbreaking as well as its main voice very well executed. We could say that it is an intelligent black metal that transmits you the essence of the darkest and most complex style within our beloved metal. Recommended for those souls already lost in the darkness of this world.
2019 was a year that gave us a lot of metal the pre pandemic year where we would be able to hear so much brutal material from all over the planet, and it was so much that even in 2020 in the middle of the world situation we continue to appreciate brutal records from last year. Today I bring you "Elohim" from the overwhelming band (Gôr Mörgûl) practitioners of well-known blackened or black death metal style, whatever tastes or preferences define each one of this style, but they manage to combine the dark characteristics of the black sound with the brutality and the ruthless impact of death metal. The band manages to create a sound that transmits chaos, violence and hatred in the midst of the darkest atmosphere, thus achieving the true communion of these two extreme genres within the metal universe. A vocalization of 10 points always impressing you from theme to theme by advancing on the album, huge and super virtuous riffs, no bad performances, they are impeccable and admirable, a crushing bass according to the style and a drummer of another dimension never faints and reaches to report even more the global sound of the band. Important point to take into account his first theme: + I Begin, the second: + Elohim "namesake the album" and the third theme: + Portal To Underworld Each of these songs hook you or unhook you, depending on whether you liked the band or not, since they set the tone for the overall sound of the album. In general lines I recommend them excellent metal of great invoice, health and metal.
The atmosphere and everything that transmits this huge band and all its purpose of darkness is incredible. Very interesting and very intelligent is the proposal of this great band "Ghostly Aerie Coven" huge proposal that of the Italians. The 31 of deck was tesigo of the moment where saw to light this great plate of black metal under world. In Casale Monferrato there is this great battle where this gan musical plaque "community" is erected "Bird of Prey" an incredible madness, lakes themes that are hymns powerful and that crush peace in a bloodthirysty way, strings that crush everything in its path, a battery that runs frantically towards the great madness and voices from the same abyss, and gives us an atmosphere that leads you to hallucinate in each of the passages of the album. I recommend this Vacula Prod board should be enjoyed from beginning to end from the theme that opens the album: Inner Spirit Unchained, through: Nyctophilia y Horus Rising among others and ending with: My Tongue Is The Spear Of Longinvs, a proposal that I enjoy a lot from beginning to end we hope the level under in Italy continues like this.
Stormcrow comes from a region of Lombardia in Italy, a great band of dry and powerful black metal. Fierce guitars, a devastating voice that never rests and makes it clear that this band brings us pure and poisonous black metal. It reminds me many of those vocalists of the early 2000s, its sharp tear is impressive, another that impresses me is the drums achieved in a majestic way at times imitating a sampler due to the perfection we hear and a pair of brutal and evil riff brutal strings very influenced In my view of the Marduk of times of Panzer division Marduk, a black metal without rest and without melodic or atmospheric tones. This proposal is very direct and i it a brutal download from start to finish. Vacula productions from Ukrania scored a real score with the release of this great band. I highly recommend it.
Piemonte has dressed the band Hellraisers faithful pillars of Italian black since 1995 making this mudno a darker place to live. They bring us their album "The macabre dance of the keeper" excellent album and quite brutl in every way. The essence of this great group and its entire trajectory brings us a great album. Fierce voices and impeccable instrument performance, I really like all its old school sound that lets us see where they come from and where they are going with their declaration of death to everyone. If you want to know more about Italian metal and its extreme part, I invite you to listen to this band that is the pillar of Italian metal.
Black Metal band from Italy (Rieti, Lazio) Annata Nera, follows the country of the boot giving excellent exponents of the genre that many of us follow and love. This time they present their album "Per Aspera Ad Mortis". A true black mass throughout this album, an atmosphere of death from start to finish and themes so violent and cruel that they incite you to death itself. From today I will follow this band more closely because it leaves me very satisfied with its actions. The Italian for bass and treble in extreme music that really sounds very different is the sound when it comes to joining the instruments and gives more power to everything. Only three members are responsible for such a brutal plate and achieve a sound that blends perfection in each of the six songs that make up this piece of the underground. Do not wait any longer or you will regret not hearing them, long life to blackmetalwillneverdie.
Again Vacula Productions gives us another great band which they signed a while ago. The Italians of Kaiserreich bring us their last year's album "Sigma". Without mediating words, he starts a very direct album and with the energy of a thousand steeds, clean voices combined with the torn, very violent batteries and an atmosphere of chaos caused by all this described above and also by the great execution of strings making mosntruous riff, perfect for all this musical pandemonium. Extreme and forcefulness in each song make it a band to follow and that despite its youth is already located within the world underground. I recommend it.
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