spain

Cricket-vocals from the next galaxy

Three yards and a cloud of dust

Cutting-edge sounds

Ripping headaches

At last, the MySpace killer

Black metallic daily bread

. . . Normally I don't do pre-release hype, but I want the world to know about Foscor's Groans to the Guilty. I've gushed about Foscor here and here, and judging from the promo trailer above, I will likely love the new record as well. The song in the trailer is called "Searching a Seal of Pain...

2xLP w/ included A4 booklet Sometimes reverb rules. Seven Chalices (Noevdia/AJNA Offensive/Dauthus, 2009) recalls classic "wet" sounds like Pleasure to Kill, Hell Awaits, and early Bathory. Five of its 11 tracks are interludes, forming almost a quarter of the record ...

by Cosmo Lee I never thought I'd hear bands that sounded like Blut aus Nord or Deathspell Omega. Yet Dissociated Human Junction (Panik Terror Musik, 2007) has three, plus BaN themselves. Fortunately, it's pretty much impossible to copy BaN or DO, so this split is a product of inspiration, not theft ...

Catalan black metallers Foscor have released a video for "I Tornà de les Cendres", from their album The Smile of the Sad Ones, which I wrote about here. The video takes place in a spa in Catalonia called the Balneari de la Puda (built in 1870, abandoned in 1958). It ...