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anarchist-satanist · 2 years
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To take a step closer to home, Visions In Fire by is a 3-track EP by Houston based band Necrofier. I happen to live in the Houston-area (technically) and I enjoy supporting local acts, especially a band as good as this!
Necrofier play a pretty nice mix of black metal with melodicism and some elements of death and trad. heavy metal. Each track starts with an immediate bout of rhythmic riffing that comes and goes with more melodic interludes.
The EP is relatively short, just under 12 minutes long, but the play between a solo tremolo picking to sudden rhythmic harmonizing is something I find very fun and helps give the record a swelling and lively feel. The production is clean enough to help each instrument a voice, yet everything melds into a great, open cacophony.
Necrofier recently released a full-length album, Prophecies of Eternal Darkness, that I hope to get around to listening to. With members who have ties to well-regarded acts such as Insect Warfare and Eternal Champion I’m confident that Necrofier’s future prospects are bright.
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anarchist-satanist · 3 years
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This album has been on repeat for me the last couple of days since I found it. To Those We Knew / To Those We Loved / To Those We Lost by Nightmare Lyre, an electric ukulele metal project from a leftist, Norwegian, trans woman. 
A mix of progressive metal, blackgaze, with synth/electronic elements. A unique, melodic, yet abrasive in an almost dream-like manner, this album pulled me right from track 1 and kept my interest throughout with it's synth-scapes and synth hits acting as a backing to blistering tremolo picking. More than well-worth the price of $1 on Bandcamp.
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anarchist-satanist · 3 years
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I’ve recently been on space kick, listening to Gustav Holst’s The Planets and Mare Cognitum’s other album Luminiferous Aether on repeat, but Solar Paroxysm is probably my favorite of their work. A solid cosmic black metal record that I will probably be listening to again for the coming weeks.
Ethereal, a bit atmospheric, and especially grandiose; this cosmic black metal record sort of kicked off me listening to more things under the cosmic genre-label, such as Spectral Lore’s work (mostly because of Spectral Lore and Mare Cognitum’s large split-album, Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine, which is also fantastic).
Particular highlight tracks from this album are the middle three tracks, Frozen Star Divination, Terra Requiem, and Luminous Accretion. The album has a good, consistent pace that uses melodic elements well to contrast the harsher, more traditionally blackened bouts of sonic fury, and also to emphasize the thematic aesthetic of space and galactic expanse.
I really want to listen to more cosmic metal, and music in general, because this album and the others I mentioned have really piqued my interest. Especially lefty projects like Mare Cognitum and Spectral Lore because I know that the ideas of space and cosmic place often conjure ideas of science, existence, and intellectualism, but I am more interested in the naturalistic and spiritual nature of space as groundwork for music (I am not personally spiritual or anything).
I am excited to see where my journey takes me, and what this band will put out next!
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anarchist-satanist · 3 years
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Morteminence’s self-titled is an phenomenal blackgaze album that doesn’t hold back too much of the black metal elements. Each song is an incredibly aggressive journey about “the story of a fictional character struggling through the anguish of facing the cruelty of the capitalist society,” and it captures the sound of those feels so well.
I wish I spoke french so I could understand the lyrics without having to rely on faulty translations, because I’m sure the lyrics really add to the vocal performance. Harsh, and sometimes about to be lost in the dreamy, noisey, melancholic mixing, complimenting the melodic compositions and droning riffs, making songs feel long and oppressive with shades of frustration. The songs, I should clarify, are long (not one track is sub-eight minutes), but they don’t feel longer than they are. They feel long and that works to this album’s benefit, I feel, because of the narrative Morteminence is trying to convey not only through lyrics but through music and composition is a sad, hopeless-feeling one.
I particularly enjoy the first two tracks, Eviel and Fuite. Especially how Eviel leads into Fuite, and Fuite’s energetic start and melodism.
I also really enjoy the aesthetic the band has taken on. The hazy, mid-00s with a touch of edgy urban city and dirt just looks very pleasing. Maybe I’m just very young, in my early 20s, but it isn’t something I have ever seen before. It reminds me of the album are for Amesoeurs’ self-tited release, despite the fact I haven’t listened to that record.
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anarchist-satanist · 3 years
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An incredibly chilling, inconsolable, charged album. I listen to this album so regularly I’m scared I’ll ruin it for myself. The highlight track, for me, is Autumn Shade, a very gazey, slow, melancholic track with lyrics that paint a dusty, ruinous picture of what a hollow-life feels like.
Unfortunately, I cannot find a reliable source for the exact lyrics for Autumn Shade, or most of the album, really. What I can make out, however, feels very hopeless. Not in a personal way which I think might have strengthened the song a bit, but lines like “rotten leaves cover the Earth, like a burial shroud” which evoke vivid scenes of a quite, lonely, sadness only to be emblematized by the death of the natural world during the autumnal season is just so good!
I personally prefer this album over COLDWORLD’s previous, and generally more popular album, Melancholie², because of it’s more melodic, more ambient, more gazey elements. Not to say Melancholie² doesn’t get ambient, but with tracks like Void, with it’s sweet, fuzzy, cave-echoey, almost siren-like vocal flourish really bringing the melodicism to a different level.
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anarchist-satanist · 3 years
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I have been re-listening to this album on repeat recently, and it is wildly good! The riffs are incredibly memorable and it’s cleaner production works very well, lending a bit of a thicker, heavier sound. I love the vocals, especially the animalistic howling peppered through out.
It’s more second-wave worship, which is a-okay by me. I should give opinions over more melodic and gazey stuff soon. Or maybe something from a different genre altogether.
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anarchist-satanist · 3 years
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One of my favorite recent albums, Liturgy’s mix of black metal, orchestral strings, elements of hip-hop, and glitchy flourishes is as intriguing as it is intimidating. Origin of the Alimonies is the best show of what Liturgy calls “Transcendental Black Metal,” so much so that it made me appreciate their last album, H.A.Q.Q., even more because I felt like I understood more clearly what Liturgy lead, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, was trying to create.
Chaotic, grand, experimental; I recommend this album if you are looking to get into more of Liturgy’s work, looking for more avant-garde iterations of post-black metal, and/or looking to support a trans artist in metal.
I wish I knew more about Hunt-Hendrix’s spiritual philosophy that inspires her work, because it permeates so much of the album on it’s face; from the title, to the song names, I know I am missing an integral piece of the music apart from the instrumentation and technicality of the music itself.
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anarchist-satanist · 3 years
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A short, lo-fi, and riff heavy EP that takes heavy influence from the second-wave sound. I particularly enjoyed the tracks Trümmer II and No Gods, No Masters, but those makes up half the EP, which is great in it’s entirety.
Also, Operation Volkstod does have a new album out, Sex with Satan, and it sounds fantastic but I still want to listen through it a couple more times before posting any more detailed opinions.
This post, being the first, will act as a sign for what I am about. Leftist, feminist, pro-queer, pro-choice, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian, etc. So don’t expect any Satanic Warmaster, or Drudkh, or Peste Noir recs anytime soon.
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