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Avdagata | The Faceless One | 2023
Swedish Melodic Black/Death Metal
#Avdagata#The Faceless One#Sweden#Swedish Black Metal#Black Metal#Melodic Black Metal#Melodic Death Metal#Death Metal#Black Death Metal#music#band#Black Lion Records#Bandcamp
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(EchO) reveal stirring new song, “Fate Takes Its Course”
~Doomed & Stoned Debuts~
By Billy Goate
Italian melodic death-doom unit (EchO) comes from the rich tradition of Katatonia, Saturnus, and Novembers Doom, with a contemporary metal edge. There is great attention to detail on the Brescia quartet's forthcoming LP, 'Witnesses' (2022), and I'm not just talking about the intricate artwork. Here we have musicians thoughtfully appointed to their instruments, and they've obviously taken care in crafting their songs.
Take, for example, the third track and latest single from the band's fourth album. Taut guitar strings pick and strum ominously. Verses are gnarled and frothy, but a transcendent chorus soon prevails ("I will be free") soaring over a guitar solo with sharp tone. Then the mood suddenly shifts, as "Fate Takes Its Course." In the closing minutes, it felt like I was strolling through the shambled halls of a forgotten Gothic cathedral. On a damp autumn's morning, no less!
Vocalist Fabio Urietti tells Doomed & Stoned:
"Fate Takes Its Course" may be one of the catchiest songs we've ever written. Here melodies and smooth choirs reveal themselves, shining through every instrument. The moments of light, though, are sudden and are often roughly interrupted. As dusk gives way to twilight, peace becomes rage and fear again. Inevitability involves a series of realizations that not everyone is able to manage.
"Fate Takes Its Course" features the picturesque keyboard playing of guest artist Don Zaros, longtime member of the New Jersey band Evoken. On the record, it is followed by "Wanderer" which was previously released as a single.
Witnesses is sometimes uncanny and haunting, even beautiful. On the whole, the album is seismically convincing. Look for it November 25th in CD & digital formats from Black Lion Records (pre-order here).
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Witnesses by (EchO)
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Formed in 2007, Brescia unit (Echo) has established itself as one of the strongest forces in the Italian underground doom metal scene with two self-produced demos, three acclaimed full-lengths, and incessant live activities across Italy and Europe.
Witnesses is the 4th full-length album of (EchO), was written through the first lockdown imposed for the pandemic in 2020 and finished in the following summer and autumn. Although it’s not a concept album, all the lyrics written by singer and lyricist Fabio Urietti reflect all the distress and various feelings that the whole band felt during those strange and alienating days. In a nutshell, the album is a collection of images and thoughts — sometimes more explicit, sometimes more ambiguous.
The album was recorded between September and October 2021, with Francesco Genduso (Onda Studio, Plateau Sigma) taking care of the recording of drums and mix, Jei Doublerice (Exiled Media, Despite Exile) producing and recording vocals, Greg Chandler (Priory Recording Studios, Esoteric) taking care of the mastering, while guitars and bass have been recorded by the band’s guitarist Simone Saccheri.
The album features four guest musicians, Francesco Bassi on Drums, Heike Langhans (ex-Draconian) on vocals, Alex Högbom (October Tide) on vocals, and Don Zaros (Evoken) on keys.
Photo Credit: Quest For Fire Photography
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#D&S Debuts#(Echo)#Brescia#Italy#death doom#doom metal#Black Lion Records#D&S Reviews#Doomed and Stoned
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Beneath The Crimson Eclipse Imperial Demonic
Melodic black metal in the style of Dark Funeral, Dissection, and Dimmu Borgir. The vocals in particular stand out for clarity, and like any good band in this style, the riffs are blistering and catchy.
It is available on Bandcamp and physical copies are up for pre-order through Black Lion Records.
#Bandcamp#black metal#irish black metal#heavy metal#imperial demonic#black lion records#melodic black metal
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Black Lion Records Announcing Compilation Album "Afterlife In Darkness Part 4" for Free Download
We’re thrilled to unveil our newest creation: “Afterlife in Darkness Part 4.” This compilation showcases fresh, unreleased material from emerging artists of 2023-2024, offering an immersive journey into a diverse array of sounds.
Best of all, the album is available as a free download, ensuring accessibility for all music enthusiasts, HERE.
Additionally:The artwork for this compilation carries a…
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Album Review: Farsoth - Morbid Symphonies (Black Lion Records)
The simplicity of Farsoth’s death metal sound is extremely lovable, even if it is ugly as sin.
Swedish death metal band, Farsoth, will release their brand-new album ‘Morbid Symphonies’ on October 27th, 2023, via Black Lion Records.
The simplicity of Farsoth’s death metal sound is extremely lovable, even if it is ugly as sin. Morbid Symphonies features ten tracks of unbridled aggression, undeniable savagery, and uncompromising destructiveness. Nothing more, and nothing less. It’s ten…
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vananidr [sweden] // atmospheric/symphonic black metal.
"dressed in pain” is from the album “beneath the mold”, released via black lion records in 2022.
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IATT - Magnum Opus
IATT – Magnum Opus
Residing from brotherly love in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania comes IATT, a extreme metal band who’s style is catapulted into the deepest, darkest and most diverse sounding albums that I’ve listened to throughout 2022. Magnum Opus is the latest chapter by these Pennsylvanians and musically speaking, talk about a huge leaps and bounds in terms of structure, craftsmanship and delivering qualities over…
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#2022#Album Review#Black Lion Records#blackened melodic death metal#I Am the Trireme#IATT#Magnum Opus#metal#United States
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IATT Magnum Opus Out Now onBlack Lion Records
IATT Magnum Opus Out Now onBlack Lion Records
Philadelphia-based extreme metallers IATT is pleased to once again team up with Black Lion Records for the follow-up to 2019’s Nomenclature; the band’s new full-length album entitled Magnum Opus.
Stream and purchase Magnum Opus:
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The album is also streaming on Spotify!
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The band is celebrating the arrival of Magnum Opus with the official visualizer of album track “Ouroboros.”…
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#black lion records#extreme metal#IATT#Magnum Opus#Music#New album#New single#New video#Ouroboros#Out now
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IATT Magnum Opus Out Now onBlack Lion Records
IATT Magnum Opus Out Now onBlack Lion Records
Philadelphia-based extreme metallers IATT is pleased to once again team up with Black Lion Records for the follow-up to 2019’s Nomenclature; the band’s new full-length album entitled Magnum Opus.
Stream and purchase Magnum Opus:
Here
The album is also streaming on Spotify!
Spotify
The band is celebrating the arrival of Magnum Opus with the official visualizer of album track “Ouroboros.”…
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#black lion records#extreme metal#IATT#Magnum Opus#Music#New album#New single#New video#Ouroboros#Out now
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IATT - Magnum Opus - Album Review
IATT – Magnum Opus – Album Review
Artist: IATT
Album Title: Magnum Opus
Label: Black Lion Records
Date of Release: 27 May 2022
This is my first experience of IATT, and I’m listening to ‘Magnum Opus’, their third album, having read some positive reviews elsewhere of previous records. I’m also taking the plunge because the band find themselves on Black Lion Records, a label that has released some very good albums in the last…
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It all loops back to 3 houses baby
my wonderful brain gave me the thought process of "what if the factions in magia record arc 2 that poke doesn't shut up about were actually the houses in 3 houses" and now we're humoring that thought process one at a time
Also major 3H and Magia Record arc 2 spoilers
anyway
Starting with Tokime Clan cause they're the easiest. Blue Lions. Tokime's ideals with defending the land of the rising sun fits perfectly with the knightly ideals the Blue Lions represents. They're more traditional, a model standard of an older age, and both are deeply connected to a religious standard or figure (the Tokime Clan with their temples and connection to Bhuddism and Blue Lions with their connection to the Church of Serios.)
Helping their case is also their leader has A Moment where they lose their way and need their friends to bring them back and remind them of what they fought for. In 3H it was Dimitri getting consumed with his vengeance on Edelgard. In Magia Record it was Shizuka getting caught up in the natural goodness of people and needing to protect them by enforcing her morals upon them.
Eventually both routes culminate in attempting to make peace between both sides with the only difference being that in 3H that peace does not come to pass (Edelgard, while agreeing to meet with Dimitri, will not back down for the sake of her ideals) while in Record it does (between the factions, at least. We're ignoring Mikoto.)
Next is Promised Blood, who after a while I'm classifying them as Black Eagles. They're the revolutionaries, the ones who see the problem before them (the problem being the actions of the Wings of the Magius and how the consequences of their actions affected the other towns thus causing the Bloody Tragedy) and deciding "we're going to fix this, no matter what it takes." Not unlike Edelgard who saw the issues of the Crest System (the consequences that it caused as a result of someone's (the church's) actions) and deciding she was going to take the path to fix this, no matter what it took. Both routes are also identified with the color red, Promised Blood's special event being called Crimson Resolve to help with a visual comparison.
Much like the Tokime, there's some comparisons to be made between Yuna and Edelgard. Both experienced a large amount of death at a young age, Edelgard experiencing it at the hands of Those Who Slither In The Dark and their twisted experiments and Yuna experiencing it in the Bloody Tragedy and the war between the factions in Futatsugi City.
Much like in 3H, Promised Blood are the aggressors of the war, the ones who initiate it. They make the first moves and are incredibly difficult to talk down. Between the two, Promised Blood was only capable of being talked down through Iroha's pure heartedness. Fodlan doesn't have an Iroha.
That leaves Neo Magius as Golden Deer, which initially I had these pegged as Black Eagles I think Deer fits them WAYYY more. Neo Magius comes off, much like the Golden Deer, as a joke at first. The Deer have the most silly and rambunctious house out of the 3 pickable ones in 3H. Likewise, Neo Magius initially comes off as a pushover. The weakest faction with Shigure and Hagumu in charge. But let them settle for a while, let them build up their skills, and you have a dangerous faction if you leave them unattended. In 3H this is seen with Golden Deer being far more radical than the Black Eagles (in 3 Hopes Claude fully intends to kill Rhea. Edelgard just wanted to remove her from power, not intending to kill her unless it came to that.) and accomplishing more and growing as a military force as their drive is established.
They start with a messy Alliance and go on to defeat the Empire and conquer the church with Byleth taking charge. Meanwhile, Neo Magius fell into obscurity in the early chapters, but once Himena came to be in charge she led the Neo Magius to become incredibly fearsome, her first appearance she had Miyuri cut someone's hand off. They were the final faction to fall and were the closest to succeeding with their plan before Himena was ultimately talked down by the other Neo Magius members.
Claude and Himena are both jokesters on the surface, quick to make a quip and never revealing their full hand unless it's absolutely necessary. They both specialize in long range (Claude and his bow and Himena with her ribbons and aquatic attacks). They're both tacticians, preferring to think off the field but still being able to hold their own on it. Not only that, but both aren't afraid to play dirty, in fact that's their preferred method if it comes down to fighting. They both love a well placed scheme.
That being said the two would absolutely despise each other if they ever met in real life. Both would try and pick the other for answers they won't give, and Claude would hate the idea of any kind of supremacy.
Lastly that leaves us with Folklore of Zero as the Ashen Wolves. The elusive faction that nobody realizes is there until it's too late. Folklore has members in all factions, much like how the wolves have members from all over Fodlan, and were formerly members in each house (Balthus was a Deer, Yuri was a Lion, and while Constance never enrolled in the academy, due to her former status as an Empire noble, it's safe to assume she'd be an Eagle.). Each member also has one member who isn't apart of any previous faction, Rabi for Record and Hapi for Houses.
Both factions are watchers, preferring to not take a stand in the major combat that's occurring around them. It's simply not their problem, they have their own things to deal with (Wolves with the thieves in Abyss and Folklore with the persecution of Magical Girls in Yukuni city, along with the threat of Doomsday they're prophesizing about.) That isn't to say they won't step up, each of the spies in Record are more than capable of acting in accordance with the factions they're spying for, along with fighting in general if it comes down to it. In 3 Hopes (not Houses) we see each of the factions in that game recruiting various members of the Wolves and having them fight the players chosen faction. It's opposite recruitment to how Folklore did it, but the end result is the same.
That being said, I can't find many similarities between Rabi and Yuri. Rabi is quieter, more resigned to her fate of witchification while Yuri will actively take a stand against anything that gets in the way of his own justice. Rabi has a far more grand end goal than Yuri, with Rabi's clock ticking down until she erases Magical Girls meanwhile Yuri is perfectly content to work with his gang of thieves instead of some grand path and goal like the other house leaders in 3 Houses.
Sorry for the long post I don't normally do these but the idea was really interesting to me and I wanted to write it down somewhere so I'm throwing it on Tumblr. Play Fire Emblem 3 Houses. Watch a translation of Magia Record because the game got discontinued in EN. Please I need more people to scream about this with.
#“every 3h fan was irreparably damaged by 3h” -my friend#magia record#fire emblem#fire emblem three houses#neo magius#promised blood#tokime clan#folklore of zero#folklore of 0#black eagles#blue lions#golden deer#ashen wolves#today you get an essay by me#tomorrow? who knows!
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god I fucking love vinyl records it's like you own a copy of the song that the internet can't take away and it also looks pretty as fuck when you're storing it and also when you're playing it and there's no adverts and they come in cool colours too
#parents took off for switzerland this week so I'm just blasting all my vinyls#tonight so far we've had Head Above Water and we're onto Palomino#also on the list for the week are Speak Now (Taylor's Version) and Who By Fire and Ruins and The Lion's Roar and The Big Black And The Blue#and Back To Black and The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars and Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band#coco speaks#vinyl records#important info: Palomino is white and Speak Now is lavender and marbled and Who By Fire is electric blue
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Black Lion Records Releases Label Sampler "Afterlife in Darkness Pt.III"
Black Lion Records Releases Label Sampler “Afterlife in Darkness Pt.III”
Swedish powerhouse label Black Lion Records has released its brand new sampler “Afterlife in Darkness Pt. III”, featuring tracks from such artists as Fatal Embrace, Kvaen, Credic, Vananidr, RF Force and many more! From the genres of black, death and heavy metal, the sampler decently unites the amazing blend of artists the label currently represents. A download of the compilation is…
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Album Review: Riddles of the Sycophants by Ghosts of Atlantis (Hammerheart Records)
Ghosts of Atlantis rise from the depths once again to deliver their second album, Riddles of the Sycophants, due for release on the 27th of October, 2023 via Hammerheart Records.
The UK based symphonic black/exteme metal band arrived on the scene in early 2021 with their debut album, 3.6.2.4 in some style. An album that had a real impact on me personally, but also on the UK metal scene. A debut…
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#3.6.2.4#Al Todd#Behemoth#Black Lion Records#Bloodstock Festival#Butcher Babies#Colin Parks#Comfortably Numb#Cradle of Filth#Devilhead Studios#Devils Dawn#Dex Jezierski#Dimmu Borgir#Fear Factory#Ghosts of Atlantis#Hammerheart Records#Ignea#Phil Primmer#Pink Floyd#Riddles of the Sycophants!#Rob Garner#Ronnie Björnström#Sophie Lancaster Stage
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Tfw you hear a cool bird but it's so distant and quiet that merlin doesn't even show it's hearing anything
#merlin i love you but i'm not walking through the forest alone at 1am to identify an owl#if i were on the east coast i probably would but i am actively aware of several bears and possibly more than 1 mountain lion in my vicinity#one of said bears is a black bear that i s2g is probably capable of setting records. he is so fucking large#when he stood next to my car his shoulders came nearly up to the roof#BLACK BEARS AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE THAT BIG
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