GorillaSquad6
A mesmerising album, combining post-metal, doom and black metal to create a deeply moving and atmospheric experience. That last track, Kinsoil, is particularly cathartic.
Favorite track: Kinsoil.
Inner Reflexions
An amazing collective of musicians, utilizing blackened metal to create a narrative on human regression and evolution.
One of my countries best heavy bands, can't wait for the album tour!
Favorite track: Bloodstone.
'Hearken' is the fourth full-length record from Australian outfit Encircling Sea. Since 2009 the band has toiled deeply within Melbourne and various regional surrounds. Possessing a creative sensibility that merges the hustle of industrialised civilization with the primitive beauty of nature, words such as sludge, black, death, doom, and post become lost within the band’s own enveloping abyss. To Hearken is to pay attention - in this case to those who came before us - to their failures, triumphs, and the ritualistic junctures that defined the spiritual growth of humanity. The roots run deeply from both the trees into the earth, and from man into the fading pages of history.
Launch shows:
April 13 - The Bald Faced Stag, Sydney w/ Norse, Somnium Nox, Ploughshare, Oar
April 14 - Crowbar, Brisbane w/ Shackles, YLVA, Siberian Hell Sounds, Mosquito, Sam Haven
May 5 - Direct Underground Fest, Sydney w/ Ihsahn, Belphegor, Revocation, Diocletian, Wiegedood
May 6 - Direct Underground Fest, Melbourne w/ Ihsahn, Belphegor, Revocation, Diocletian, Wiegedood
June 1 - Crown & Anchor, Adelaide w/ TBC
Oublier le monde qui se trouve autour de vous, projeter son esprit autre part. Wolves in the Throne Room a toujours eu une façon singulière de nous faire voir les choses sous un autre angle bien plus grand.
Thrice Woven part en des temps immémoriaux dans laquelle la Nature est exaltée ("The Old Ones are With Us"), les mythes — nordiques ? — célébrés (qui d'autre que Anna von Hausswolff et sa voix magnifique pour faire ça ?) avec un black metal rapide qui s'inspire de la vague finlandaise. Jordan Vauvert
36 choice cuts - one from each 2015 LP, plus music from new signings on the mighty and 25-years-strong Relapse label. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 4, 2015
Swirling guitars, furious drums, vocals that at the same time howl from infinite distance and are right up in your head; everything put into dissonant form with the help of unconventional songwriting. This album is my personal key to the icelanding black metal madness that I've ignored for way too long! Lukas Kaufmann