Christof Niederwieser er eneste medlem i dette bandet. Bandets merkverdige album "PhantasmaChronica" er en reise gjennom et helt merkverdig landskap. Du vet aldri hva som kommer bak neste sving. Jeg tok kontakt med mannen bak Chryst for å høre hvordan han har kommet frem til det vanvittige verket "Phantasmachronica".
Roy Kristensen og Bjørn Nørsterud (Scream magazine) inviterte Sjodogg på et atmosfærisk besøk i området like utenfor hovedstaden. Bandet gav ut et progressivt black metal album for et par år siden og nå var tiden kommer for mer psykotisk og minimalistisk black metal. Norsk ja, men samtidig unorsk.
I think atmosphere is the essential word. As in, this is atmospheric doom black metal and you probably need to be in a certain state of mind to really get something from the music. I mean, the music is flowing and comfortable, but there’s not that much that happens. When they go acoustic, you know…
Are there words in the English language that are able to do justice to this song, this song that contains everything, EVERYTHING, everything that I like about music? You know this certain feeling, you feel it every time you listen to the song but you don’t know which word or words that are most suitable.…
Let me first tell you that even though I’ve written lyrics for this album, I have had nothing to do with the music. I am not a part of the band per se. I’ve always been a sucker for symphonic extremities, such as Tartaros ("The Red Jewel" is still one of my favourites), Limbonic Art,…
Damn… …nation. Heri… …tage… Clean vocals. No, them two albums are not two for the price of one. Where the premium is an amazing journey through silent darkness, "Heritage" is an excellent progressive rock album. The sound is impeccable, Åkerfeldt’s singing is immaculate and the songs are ear candy for those who give it more…
Hvordan skal så black metal egentlig være, når det kommer til formidling av musikken via en sceneopptreden? Det er delte meninger der noen foretrekker full pakke like i nærheten av det Watain presenterer, mens andre vil ha ting mer rett frem og uten noen form for staffasje. Gehenna tilhører siste leiren, der de fremfører sin…
No doubt that Bjeima, responsible for Yurei and cooperating in Delerium Bound and more, is a talented force in the underground black metal scene. I guess it’s his ear for dissonance that makes his works worth while. You kind of get a feeling what’s lurking behind the next corner, but you cannot be really sure.…
The band has rearranged the original tracks, recorded new bass and laid new vocal arrangements on this 2011 version of the 1999 album. The lyrics are revised. I do rarely like rereleases. Rerecordings are really not my cup of tea. That the 2011 version of "Channelling…" is a mix of both is not favourable either.…
French lyrics rarely do the trick for me. Not that I give a shit about understand the words, but it’s more a question of the sound of the words, related to extreme metal. The grimness that in example English possesses is more my cup of black tea. Language aside, Malevoentia’s orchestral/symphonic black metal is of…
Helloween light. That’s perhaps a bit too easy, or as the band/label definitely will claim: unserious. But what I hear is what I hear, and any new day I will claim exactly the same when we speak about the Italian’s sixth full-lenght album. The sound is too thin, and the vocalist has a hard time…
(…this article is in English…)Eternal Terrors Roy Kristensen har vært i kontakt med Lord K. Philipson i THE PROJECT HATE MCMXCIX og her kommer den andre og siste delen av et 2 delers intervju der de blant annet prater om bandets syvende fullengder "Bleeding the New Apocalypse".
(…this article is in English…)Eternal Terrors Roy Kristensen har vært i kontakt med Lord K. Philipson i THE PROJECT HATE MCMXCIX og her kommer den første av et 2 delers intervju der de blant annet prater om bandets syvende fullengder "Bleeding the New Apocalypse".
(…this article is in English…)En Europaturne. En konsert på Hole in the Sky 2011. Et fantastisk album kalt "Stained Glass Revelations". Et intervju med et band. Negative Plane.
Jeg har mang en gang forsøkt å få med meg Imbalance, men det har alltid dukket opp noe. Og nå dukket bandet opp i Drammen. Endelig fikk jeg med meg bandet. Og dæven døtte (som det heter på dårlig nordnorsk), dette er jævlig bra liv. Tre stykker i bandet, og så mye bråk og ståk……
Oppmøtet var bra nok det, der mye av den nokså lille salen på Gamla var fylt opp med venner, kjente og fans. Dermed var det duket for nok en feiende flott Madder Mortem konsert. Det er en stund siden sist, og jeg må si at jeg var nysgjerrig på det nye materialet, siden vi var…
I’m not going to deny that this is a much anticipated release, and I must admit that I was more than sceptic towards it, since their former "In A Flesh Aquarium" means so much to me. (read review of that album HERE). And it took me some time to break the codex within " Fables…
Part I – the asylum If this isn’t the hardest to get metal album of all ages, then you can call me a clown. And I am no clown. I have tried to understand this, but when I see one picture in my head…
I have a dream. If Djevel opened, Koldbrann continued and a dynamic 1349 closed, that would’ve been a dream come true. True Norwegian Black Metal? Who gives a fuck. This is simply put great Norwegian black metal. Great songs. Great riffs. Surprising parts. The sound is great. The musicianship is great. The vocals are great.…
(…this article is in English…)Fjorårets "Psychogrotesque" er et album fullt av overraskelser. Det er urovekkende, variert og det er et album som krever tålmodighet. Eternal Terrors Roy Kristensen tok kontakt med ABORYM og Fabban, H: I0: K og den norske trommeslageren Faust svarte på vår inkvisisjon.
Sometimes, when the music is good and the sun shines and life is good, I’m here, in my life, thinking about the band’s music. Yes, I do listen to music almost all the time, except when I’m a work. And I’m thinking about why I should bother about those albums that do not reach the…
"I’ve got my special save-the-world boots on", Devin claims in "The Mighty Masturbator" from the new album "Deconstruction". If he saves the world with this album is rather uncertain, but rest assured that this wild trip inside the mind of Devin Towsend is one helluva ride. You really have no idea what to expect, and…
Norwegian rockers playing metal with attitude. And no, I’m not thinking "Pantera-angriness" here, but rather rockish songs with attitude and a vocalist that stands out. "Djerv" is proof that you don’t need to complicate things to make things roll. The album is varied enough, yet the beat is somewhat the same throughout the whole album.…
Ok, so you have Autopsy and the youngsters Obliteration doing dirty death metal with heavy riffing. Then you have the thousands of clean and technical bands with albums that are quite impressive, yet leave you quite dead inside. And you have all these boring unimpressive bands with growling vocals, bands that do nothing but duplicating…
Some would say that 90 minutes, where three tracks are orchestral, excluding the intro and outro, are too short. And this means that 12 tracks are metal symphonies. Well, personally I’d like a couple of songs from the older school, without the symphony, perhaps as bonus tracks or in the middle of the show. Aside…
Om du ikke er han eller hun som absolutt må stå først i rekken i køen utenfor Sentrum, så er sjansen for at du får med deg første bandet ikke særlig stor. Jeg er ikke en av de første, og derfor fikk jeg ikke med meg Amaranthe. Men Circus Maximus fikk jeg med meg. Og…
Two fast one, one slower. A fine EP filled with Marduk-ian hate and intensity. Insane vocals from black metal’s best vocalist. What more can you ask for? Ah yes, a full-length. But that’s for 2012… And we know that Marduk can be trusted! www.marduk.nuwww.regainrecords.com
Det er bortimot umulig å si sikkert hva som venter en, når dette bandet står på scenen. Da jeg så dem for noen år siden, var det egentlig nokså kjedelig. De spilte låtene sine og alt hørtes egentlig likt ut. Men denne kvelden var annerledes, det skal være sikkert og visst. Med projektor og diverse…
Ashmedi er vokalist i det israelske bandet MELECHESH. Han har tidigere vært med i The G-String Series, men denne gangen er det hans vokal det skal handle om. Han gjorde sine første growl som 15-16 åring. I begynnelsen hadde han en mer death metal vinkling, men har i de senere årene gått mer og mer over til black metal stilen. Hans viktigste råd til unge growlere er at de må varme opp mens Barney fra Napalm Death, Chuck Bily fra Testament, Ronnie James Dio og Klaus Meine fra Scorpions er hans største inspirasjoneskilder og vokalister han ser opp til. Her er Ashmedi fra MELECHESH og hans bidrag til The Deepthroat Series.
Insidious Disease er brutal death metal av den enkle sorten, med nødvendige breaks og nødvendig brutalitet. Det blir nok noe ensformig for et utrent øre etter noen låter, og vokalen til Marc Crewe (Morgoth) blir litt monoton. Men han forsøker å få et tregt publikum med seg, det skal han virkelig ha. Konserten i seg…
I love the underground. To be more precise, the black metal underground. I read in magazines and webzines that there are 99 % shit, while every now and then there is a noteworthy band arising from the surface of the said underground. And when these artists or journalists, or both, don’t dare to mention any…
Life has it’s beginning. Life has it’s end. And life has it’s breathing moments that is called living. Some live in pain. Some live in joy. Some live in indifference. Ascension’s "Consolamentum", if I have understood what is to be understood, is about life and death and what’s in between. Musically speaking, which is the…
And there, in the middle of "Naturan Demonto" I just got that feeling… You know, shouldn’t I rather play "Season Of The Dead" instead of wasting much time with music made after 1987? Of course not, but the great homage to that album, as well as being the third chapter in Necrophagia’s respect to the…
A strange monster, this Radiohead thingie. When I sit down, take a listen or two, think for a while…, I’m pondering on the strangeness therein. I cannot come up with one band too similar to Radiohead, which probably means that I know few pop and rock bands, but it is also possible that this band…
A brand of death metal that never really appealed to me. Heavy riffing in the vein of some Amon Amarth, with all the necessary ingredients. You know, brutal vocal, lyrics on war, solos and whatnot. Sadly the outcome is too generic, with songs really going nowhere. When the next song come up, I’m not expecting…
I wouldn’t really call me a fan of any band, but I like Keep Of Kalessin, Carach Angren and Tartaros quite a lot. So far, so good… But claiming that I will love the debut of Saille, being that it is majestic and threatening black metal is exceeding the expectations. And no, this is not…
Buddy i Drammen er en liten og dermed intim scene. Om et band skulle bestå av mer enn 6 personer, kan det raskt være at en eller flere av artistene måtte stå midt blant publikum. Men liten scene hindret ikke thrasherne Dead Trooper i å kose seg der fremme. De spilte (og spiller vel fremdeles)…
Where Deathspell Omega spent ca. 9 years making their trilogy, Blut Aus Nord spend like 9 months. And if the two following parts to "Sect(s)" are on par with the first part, then I predict that Blut Aus Nord’s trilogy will stand strong as well. On the more technical aspect, the drums are machinemade, the…
Jeg liker The Flower Kings veldig, veldig godt. Når ene halvdelen av vokalistdelene i nevnte band tar med seg noen venner og varmer oss opp til kveldens høydepunkt, er livet verdt å leve. Det er rett og slett koselig. Og til metal band som sliter med lyden i løpet av sine konserter, ta dere…
It’s all cool with the Arabian flick flacks and all, but sometimes too much is just that, namely too much. I mean, it’s cool with the variation and the choice of tunes and all, but what is it that Arkan really wants? Sarah Layssac’s Eastern-sounding vocal is great, but at the same time it takes…
Fourth album in, and the identity is set and written in stone. I mean, don’t expect any blastbeats or progressive tracks going in all directions every thirty seconds. Carmen and Rune and their two depressed ones, Jaime and Joâo, have created another spellbinding effort where the music is cool, but the atmosphere is most important.…
It’s not enough with distorted guitars and a vocal that is run through the effectbox in order to create a necessary kind of evil. It simply doesn’t sound true, but more like an attempt to make black metal that doesn’t sound too much like something else. Haeiresis actually succeed, which doesn’t mean the album is…
Jeg ble overrasket over den manglende køen, siden konserten var utsolgt. Men det at dørene åpnet 1900, mens det stod 2000 på billettene bidro med sitt. Men, da Megadeth startet sitt rundt før ni, var det i hvert fall folk nok til at det ikke føltes helt teit. Og med den forferdelige konserten fra Tuska…
If an album is clinically produced and the sound is sterile, can we then speak of death metal? I mean, no matter how cool Hate Eternal, Origin and Cannibal Corpse is, we cannot speak of music with the stench of putrefaction, now can we? Personally I do listen to the aforementioned bands on regular basis…
Dere kan selv få et inntrykk via videoen som ligger med her, men de ord jeg skriver er valgt fra en sitteplass lange oppe i salen. Sitteplass? Ja, dette var en konsert på Kulturhuset på Jessheim, der stolradene slynget seg oppover fra scenen. Hadde kjæresten min vært med, skulle vi sittet bakerst og klint. Men…
Jeg ble ikke helt venn med Iskalds nyeste utgivelse, og har tidligere ikke fått ørene opp for de to albumene bandet har på samvittigheten før 2011. Men det er alltid gledelig etter en konsert å tenke at dette må jeg høre nøyere på (om jeg finner tid). Iskalds iskalde (hah, det måtte komme) ekstrem metal…
Det står å lese på billetten, sier de som kjøpte nettopp en slik en, at dørene åpner 2100. Jeg vet ikke om dette er riktig, men jeg hadde fått med meg at det skulle spille fem band denne aftenen, og da måtte de vel starte tidligere. Og nettopp det gjorde at Goat The Head spilte…
This album is getting older as we speak, and in today’s fastfood materialistic society I guess a review that’s written a couple of years after the album’s release is closer to being words for the historians rather than the metal fans reading this now. Such nonsense aside, Varathron do in fact feel old. The Greek…
Underground black metal. Three tracks MCD clocking in at 28 minutes. Despite the ‘heard it before’-feeling, Insidous Omen has an atmosphere and some sections that do justice to the release, even though it won’t change your life, I suppose. "Anoitned With The Blood Of Chaos" is at its best when they slow down, since the…
Now, this is something slightly different. Some kind of slow dark rockish metal, but in a very weird vein. When you take a closer listen, or make it 10 spins, you will still remain confused. What is this? There main confusion lays in the rhythm-section, where the ear-opening straightforward approach is not as easy as…
