Trollfest new album out in Aprill

The Norwegian folk black metal band (troll metal as some people call it, this Finntroll inspired sound) will be realeasing a new album entitled "En Kvest For Den Hellige Gral", the album is set to be release in the 29th of Aprill.

On an interview about the album concept and artwork the band stated:

"Just like our second album 'Brakebein,' 'En Kvest For Den Hellige Gral' is also a concept album, which this time centres on the story of five Trolls who set out on a quest to find the Holy Grail that will reputedly deliver all the Trolls from a horrible famine. Exactly how it will do this is not by some heaven sent miracle, but by providing an endless food source in the shape of the hordes of Christians

who will come searching for the Holy Grail themselves! As you can imagine, this rather 'unholy' quest is a somewhat beer-fuelled, blood-soaked adventure in typical Troll tradition! And if you want to know what happens next to the brave questers, there is an epilogue in the form of bonus track on the digipack edition.

"When it came to actually illustrating the story of our five brave and adventurous Trolls for 'En Kvest For Den Hellige Gralm' there was only one choice we could possibly make, and that was Jonas Darnell. Ever since he created the evil Iron Duck for our 'Villanden' album, Jonas has been bringing the characters of the TrollfesT universe to life through his art. It then falls to Terje Johnsen to design and put together all of Jonas’ wonderful creations into a spectacular package. Terje has been part of the TrollfesT crew since Brakebein, and his work has earned him the honorary title of 'Andy WarTroll'."

Tracklisting:

01. Die Verdammte Hungersnot
02. Karve
03. Die Berüchtiges Bande
04. Gjetord
05. Der Sündenbock Gegalte
06. Korstog 
07. Undermålere
08. Jevnes med Jorden
09. En gammel Trollsti
10. Epilog

Band's Myspace (inc. a track from this album)

Anaal Nathrakh's will release new album entitled "Passion"

Anaal Nathrakh are set to release a new album in Europe on the 23rd of May through Candlelight Records titled “Passion”. The album will have contributions from Rainer Landfermann (Pavor), Alan Dubin (Khanate, Gnaw), among others.

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Negură Bunget Announce New Release “Poartă de Dincolo”

Romanian black metal band Negură Bunget has announced the upcoming release of their mini-CD ”Poartă de Dincolo”. The material will be recorded again at Negură Music studio.

It will be released in April 2011. The 28:30 minutes long MCD will be released on digipak and includes 4 tracks. The pre-order can be done at the merchandising section of the official site.

New Primordial's Track is Available for Streaming

"Bloodied Yet Unbowed", a track from pagan black metal band Primordial, is available at this link.

Tracklist:

01. No Grave Deep Enough
02. Lain With The Wolf
03. Bloodied Yet Unbowed
04. God's Old Snake
05. The Mouth Of Judas
06. The Black Hundred
07. The Puritan's Hand
08. Death Of The Gods

The new album will be released on April 23rd in Europe and on April 26th in North America under Metal Blade Records.

R.I.P. Phil Vane

The vocalist of the grindcore/crust punk band "Extreme Noise Terror", Phil Vane was found dead February 17th in a hotel room. No official cause of death has yet been released, but it is rumored that he died in his sleep.

Blut Aus Nord - 777-Sect(s) Pre-order Available

The French band will be releasing their 9th studio album in 19th April in North America and 18th in the rest of the world via Debemur Morti Productions. For now two excerpts can be heard and the pre-orders for the Digipack and Gatefold 12"LP are also available.

Excerpts

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Deferum Sacrum - Septicaemia (Review)

After three years of the Antichristian Disease EP release, Ukrainians Deferum Sacrum bring forth a new work, the album Septicaemia released on February 15, 2011, under the seal of More Hate Productions, seems to show what they're made of.
In the meantime the group has changed not only musically but in their composition, after all, at the end of 2010 after five years of joint work group leaves drummer Yar. To replace his Adopted Equinox (Black Inquisition, Flying, Semargl, Revolt), And also agreed with the Russian label More Hate Productions release of the full-length album in 2011.
In this latter work the maturation of the group is notable, the songs are fuller, more aggressive drums, riffs more worked, and stronger vocal.

The album consists of 8 tracks, 38:18 total time, and the current group is Athamas - Vocals, bass (Raventale) Morthvarg - Guitar (Balance Interruption, Semargl, Den of Winter), Equinox - Drums (Balance Interruption, Den of Winter) Astaroth - Guitar (Raventale, Den of Winter).

Septicaemia (also septicemia) is a related medical term referring to the presence of pathogenic organisms in the bloodstream, leading to sepsis. The body may develop this inflammatory response by the immune system to microbes in the blood, urine, lungs, skin, or other tissues.

The album starts with the track That Name Itself, "Septicaemia, " That starts slow but very aggressive, then, suddenly it goes fast and powerful, specially the riffs and vocals, for sure, matched the responsibility to name the album.

The second track, "The Crawl", follow the firts's same rhythm, starts slow and then attack your tympanum with the high speed of the riffs and the drum. It's a good track.

"All Living Fades" it's the third, and, unlike the others, starts fast and keep this rhythm until after the middle, where turns into a more pace rhythm, what gives a good contrast at the end. At this song it's possible to realize the ripening of the group very well.

The fourth, "‎Emasculating Touch of God" begins with a few screams of terror that soon are substituted by the attack of the drums, at this song, the pace is much shifting among the slow and fast, what makes it almost hypnotic with the distortions at the end. Great Song.

At "Crown Of Degradation" we can realize the solidity of this album and of the group, sometimes makes me remember Dark Funeral a bit.

 The sixth, "Flame Of Extinction Shall Burn", in fact, burns from the beginning to the end, with a small exception at the starts of the last quarter, when the cadence replaces the speed.

The seventh, "Reverential Paralysis" it's instrumental, it's like a horror lullaby, hypnotic, slow, and creepy with the whispers. One of the bests.

The last, "Mass Supression" starts calm following the rhythm of the previous and slowly growing until explode into screams and fast beats, followed again by a slow and calm pace, and, what prevail are just screams at the background finishing with absolute silence.

The More Hate Productions did a good job here, everything is alright.

The highlight in the album is the contrast in tempo and the drummer managed it very well. I felt some monotony in a few moments, but nothing that will get the merit of the work.


There are two tracks with free download:

Septicaemia 
Flame Of Extinction Shall Burn 

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Official Deferum Sacrum Myspace 

Rossomahaar - "Moscow (The sanguine Reign of Terror) II" Review

Rossomahaar are Russian avant-garde melodic black metal band that over the years have started to incorporate influences from other genres, from symphonic to jazz. They were formed in 1995 by Lazar (guitar) and Vlad (drums and vocals), starting as a side project to the band Stonehenge. In 1997 the two members disagreements ended up in the departure of Vlad. Despite being alone Lazar recorded alone the demo “Grotesque" and since there Lazar is in control of theRossomahaar project. Since 1997 Rossomahaar as experimented with symphonic, russian folk and jazz music, their overall sound is a mid paced melodic black metal often using synth and unorthodox acoustic instruments (such as saxophone and trombone). Many of the band works are available for free download from the official site (including this EP).

This EP is the latest release by the band and is composed by three tracks forming a total length of 14 minutes and 21 seconds, and works as promo for their upcoming album.

For this album the collective worked as a trio compromising Lazar on guitar, vocals and keyboards; Kniaz on bass and Artist on drums.

The first track entitled "Ragnaroek 2014" features a brief keyboard intro followed by a sudden change introducing guitars and drums, as the song progresses there are several tempo changes ranging from semi-whispered vocals accompanied by a slow keyboard riff to create some kind of spooky atmosphere to distorted screams featuring blast beats and fast guitar riffs. To me this is the strongest track in this EP.

The second track "Naidi, Ubey!" is the most traditional heavy metal song of the EP. The drums take a key part in the song and the keyboards unlike the first jump to a secondary position appearing in the chorus and few places more, this song also feature a shy guitar solo accompanied by sampled folk sting instruments.

The final track "Generation-Zero" is the most power metal influenced song, with a style reminding Children of Bodom. The song structure is pretty simple and the only thing that really separates Rossomahaar from the finish group in this song is the vocals which have a lower register than Laiho's.

The production isn't bad far from that for a band of this style on their situation they have a good production, sometimes the drums (specially) sound weird, but thats something a black metal fan wont mind.

Overall the EP isn't bad but it's kind of disappointing the departure from the jazz fusion sound, in this EP there is no sax like in the previous albums and no vargan or domra like in the previous EP "Moscow (The sanguine Reign of Terror)" released in 2006, which to me leaves some doubts about the new album yet to be released (entitled "The Reign of Terror"). Anyway this isn't a bad release but still I think you should check out older stuff first, especially if you're a avant-garde or experimental music enthusiast.

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Official band site

Altar of Plagues new album out on April 25th

The Irish ambient black metal trio will be releasing a new album entitled "Mamal" via Profound Lore in North America and Candlelight Records in the rest of the world. The band have also announced that they will contribute an unreleased song to a split with Year Of No Light later this year.

Note: this is the artwork for the Candlelight Records release

Tracklisting:

Neptune is Dead

Feather and Bone

When the Sun Drowns in the Ocean

All Life Converges to Some Center

Official Band Website

Demonaz "March of the Norse" presale ordering available (Europe)

Demonaz Doom Occulta, the Immortal guitarist and lyricist will release the album "March Of The Norse” in April 1 (Europe) and May 17 (US).

The album will be available as a limited edition digipak, limited picture disc and regular black vinyl.
There will also be a limited mail order vinyl edition and a mail order box edition.

The presale is already available at Europe.

Track list

1 - Northern Hymn
2 - All Blackened Sky
3 - March Of The Norse
4 - A Son Of The Sword
5 - Where Gods Once Rode
6 - Under The Great Fires
7 - Over The Mountains
8 - Ode To Battle
9 - Legends Of Fire And Ice
10 - Dying Sun

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