Agalloch - Faustian Echoes

“Faustian Echoes” is a single, two-part song based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s epic masterpiece “Faust.” Reaching over twenty minutes, “Faustian Echoes” is the longest song Agalloch have ever written.

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Fucking Agalloch man, a band that doesn't do anything half-assed, and to them, my hat is off. I look forward to their show in Toronto on the 23rd of July. 

Deathspell Omega - Drought EP (2012)

Get this, right now. Deathspell Omega have made a slight return in 2012 to deliver us an EP, which only makes you salivating for a full length. Spanning 21 minutes, this EP reaches into your soul and takes a heaping shit into your existence.

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It's a bit of a tease, but that is what the repeat button is for, use it.

Grab if you like: (Listen to the fucking song posted and make a decision ;)

DROUGHT

Sigur Rós - Valtari (2012)

It's beautifully forlorn and engaging. It improves sleep patterns dramatically. It makes you question your existence. It's profound without all the lore. Everyone should pontificate upon the direction of their life, use this album as the soundtrack for it.

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Grab if you like:












Soul stealer

Karcavul - Rawktaver (2012)

A perfect way to fuck up your mood, the band deems their sound to be "necro doom extreme". It leaves you feeling as if you had been raped by the all-father while you lay weeping, bloody in the shower. Happy fathers day!

Grab if you like: Moloch, Void Forger, Meth Drinker

Sépir penises 

Falls of Rauros - The Light That Dwells In Rotten Wood (2012)

 "North Appalachian Heathen Black Folk Metal" (as described by the band)

Distant, raw, organic, atmospheric, archaic, can all be used to describe this album. So I will use them, even though words like that are so often thrown around it eats at my conscious just typing them out. I want to come up with a new system towards writing about these albums, instead of using all the placeholder adjectives that best describe the sound of an album I'd much rather just say shit like "Hey fuck, this is some good ____________, download it or forever be a cum receptacle.".

We'll see.

Grab if you like: Agalloch, Wodensthrone, October Falls

Falls of Rauros

Ulver - Bergtatt: Et eeventyr I 5 capitler (1995)

 

Here is an album that would sound fucking perfect on vinyl, I have been searching for a vinyl copy for a little while myself (If you have one and you're stupid enough to let it go, I'll buy it )

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I'm thankful for the dudes who early on explored the possibilities within black metal and found elements they could blend perfectly within the camps of black metal. Instead of focusing on the occult and church burning nonsense, Ulver approached black metal with its roots imbedded deeply into folkore and archaic qualities.

I say Bergtatt: Et eeventyr I 5 capitler is the perfect album for vinyl because it has that warm textural you could almost feel, and it is deeply layered and raw.

Stay tuned, I'm actually going to start posting a lot of shit this coming week. 

Grab if you like: Drudkh, Walknut, Myrkgrav

WOLVES

Age of Taurus - In The Days of the Taurean Empire (2010)

Alright, you don't like me and I don't like you, but let's agree on one thing collectively. Age of Taurus fucking rule, right? Right.

Doom and gloom heavy metal commonly compared beside Candlemass, Reverend Bizarre, but uncommonly akin to Atlantean Kodex and Hour of 13 both of which I fucking love and have posted here before. Unfortunately both Mediafire links have been taken down, so I will go out and search the cyberspace to find new ones. (help accepted!)

A Tauren mid-swing about to chop the head off a praying knelt woman with his crude battleaxe, oh and fire and smoke. Yeah, that sums up this record. Just fucking get it.

Also, I take it back, I like you guys.


Grab if you like: Candlemass, Hour of 13, Atlantean Kodex

Age of Taurus

Aborted - Global Flatline (stream)

I'm going to go see these dudes tomorrow, so I'll probably be jamming this album for most of the night tonight while I try to get my head out of my ass and into my graphic design homework. Global Flatline fucking rules, here is the full album up on youtube.

 I'll upload a download link along with it if anyone wants it, just tell me to become un-lazy in the comment section and I'll rise to duty like a 60 year old limp dick on a Viagra bender.

Dead Lord - No Prayers Can Help You Now

Four Swedes hanging out having a blast, krieg as fuck. Fenriz has discovered them, now all they have to do is ride the wave of underground sensationalism, just ask Ghost.

Wodensthrone - Curse (2012)

Yet another release I couldn't wait to get my grubby paws on, just about as anxiously I was awaiting Lunar Aurora's Hoagascht and Proclamation's Nether Tombs of Abaddon, and so far neither have disappointed me.

The only problem is, I have only listened to it twice over, therefor the basis of my opinion isn't standing on a sturdy floor so to speak. The vocalist from the debut album Loss is no more, he departed Wodensthrone sometime in 2011. Which to me, is a sad loss. (fuck I'm clever) So now, vocal duties are shared amongst the rest of the band. Sounds a little sketchy, right? I'm left feeling indifferent, in many ways it works, but at times I feel it hamstrings the cold nature of the atmosphere.

From what I have gathered I have noticed this; A beefier sound, thick and well developed riffs, galloping drums that are more prominent and less tinny in sound (not always a good thing), it's more refined and developed, as it should be for a band releasing an album three years later, but I feel some of that frigid and raw atmosphere has been sacrificed. Let's go with the pretentious idiom that, it sounds less organic.

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A fellow and loyal SHOM reader who bears the moniker 'The Swedish Metalhead 'once said in the comments section for Wodensthrone's Loss: "I'm probably gonna save this for a few months, and in the darkness of December, I'll listen to this deep in the night."
I don't know why, but the words resonated with me a bit, probably because I too shared the sentiment that the album is much more of a full experience in the cold, dark, depressing days of winter. Curse hauls ass, but so far doesn't bask in the cold raw natural atmospheric squalor that its predecessor did.


Curse is still very good, I know you probably left those last few paragraphs with no real enthusiasm to download it, but those words came from very high expectations. Who knows, maybe after a few more spins I will dig it even more than I did with Loss.

Grab if you like: Winterfylleth, Nàttsòl, Dragobrath

curse