Category Archives: News

OSR: January 23rd, 2016

by Dæv Tremblay
Lost Salt Blood Purges just released Only the Youngest Grave, an intriguing experimental ambient double-album that really is worth letting yourself drift into. On quite the opposite end of the spectrum, we’ve got 0‘s 2014 song-album, Null & Void – quite the nihilistic type, eh? -, a very well made depressive and doomy black metal piece! Noise-rockers Baklavaa are releasing Dane On in early March. It’s a pretty decent, gnarly rock album but you might want to wait for a few more previews to be released in order to make your mind. Oh Iceland, your glaciers and black… Read more

Axon-Neuron premieres “Eyes”, from their upcoming album, Metamorphosis

by Dæv Tremblay

Announced some time last year, with a little bit of a line-up change, as a follow-up to their sophomore album, “Dreamstate”, Metamorphosis will come out January 28th! As a reminder, here’s the songs “Euclid”, “Shattered” and “Suspicion” that were also debuted, but in a live setting instead of a studio one!

Euclid

Shattered

Suspicion

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OSR: January 9th, 2016

by Dæv Tremblay
Let’s begin with a 2011 album because why not. And it’s not even metal, for a change! Rather, it’s a fantastic funky neo-soul EP that you should definitely grab to add some colour to your all-black music library. Ghost Horizon previewed this song for their upcoming album; I’ll surely listen to it when it comes out! A very enjoyable mosh-inducing hardcore album; reminds me of my teen days in an unashamed manner. A rock-solid combination of black metal and sludge. This thing is Osmium-heavy, and just friggin’ great! Super-violent deathgrind. 6 minutes of unfiltered powerviolence. An interesting sort of blackgaze… Read more

Amogh Symphony release Aai, from their upcoming album IV

by Dæv Tremblay

A song about mothers of this world, and of Onamika, which you’ll remember from previous Amogh songs. On IV, they’re ditching the whole “concept album” things, and rather go for an “album of concepts”. Each song is like a soundtrack to a short movie, and we can appreciate that with Aai. The song draws strong connections with world music, as well as jazz, and with a touch of metal too. I think it’s wildly successful at what it wants to be, and I honestly can’t wait to hear more from Amogh IV.… Read more

Warp – Anima

by Dæv Tremblay

a1759932394_16I have lauded Warp Prism (now known only as Warp) more than once in the past. Their 2013 concept album, The Infinite II, was – and still is – one of the best prog metal releases I’ve heard. It mixed in djent and electronica in a more than decent manner, and the song structure there was stellar: continually evolving while still keeping its place under the overarching story. The album was a marked step up from any of their previous works, namely Evolution and Transcode. This led me to pre-order Anima as soon as it was made … Read more