Darkthrone - Goatlord (1996) [Reissue] (2010)

 

 Darkthrone started as a death metal group, but having released ‘Soulside Journey’ they decided to abandon the technical death metal style and transformed into a black metal band. The band’s sound has diversified over their career to include elements of traditional heavy metal, thrash, doom, death and speed metal, as well as crust punk. They mainly stopped playing live since 1991 and their last show was in 1996 featuring Satyr as their (one-off) live bassist. Since 1993 Darkthrone has been a duo consisting of Fenriz (Gylve Nagell) and Nocturno Culto (Ted Skjellum).

Goatlord is a rehearsal tape recorded between Soulside Journey and A Blaze In The Northern Sky, containing songs which were scrapped after the band changed direction from being Death Metal to Black Metal. The vocals were added in 1994.

 Most of the lyrics for Goatlord were written in the autumn of 1990, with some additions in 1994 for the last two songs.

 Satyr from the band Satyricon was in charge of the screams for the songs "Rex" and "Sadomasochistic Rites".

 According to Fenriz, he was the one who performed the "female" vocals.

 

Tracklist:

Side A
1.     Rex     03:48
2.     Pure Demoniac Blessing     02:35
3.     (The) Grimness of Which Shepherds Mourn     04:23
4.     Sadomasochistic Rites     04:04
5.     As Desertshadows     04:42

Side B
6.     In His Lovely Kingdom     03:24
7.     Black Daimon     03:50
8.     Toward(s) the Thornfields     03:37
9.     (Birth of Evil) Virgin Sin     03:25
10.     Green Cave Float     04:02

37:50

 

Line up:

• Fenriz : Drums, Vocals
• Zephyrous : Guitars (rhythm)
• Dag Nilsen : Bass
• Nocturno Culto : Guitars (lead)

 

 

Label: Back on Black. BOBV191LP

Originally recorded as rehearsal tape in 1990-1991.
Vocals added in 1994

 Fenriz claims the album was released in 1997 (in the liner-notes on the LP version released in 2002), it was actually most likely released late in 1996.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 Inerth emerged from the ashes of Looking For An Answer to create an amalgam of harsh-but-pondering music designed to reflect a lifelong passion for sounds ranging from death metal to sludge incorporating doomed and industrial soundscapes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 They try to sound like Bathory's goat fucking with Pig Champion. Heavy as metal, raw as punk. Since 2018.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 -Setlist:

- Shadow Of The Cross
- The Observer
- Shadows of filth /Golem
- Under The Weight of Pesanta
- Chaos Priestesses
- Hell On Earth
- Savage Soul
- Black Goddess

 

 

 

Barbarian Prophecies - War - Promo CD 2007 [demo] (2007)

 

 The band was formed in the late 2000s after the merger of two local bands, Barbarianth and Venomous Prophecies, thus uniting all the stylistic influences of both bands, Death Metal and Black Metal. After a year of rehearsals and concerts, the first demo was released, entitled "Conquerors of the Wolfthrone", composed of 6 songs and with a limited edition of 600 copies. Later, in 2004, the band released "War is Imminent", their second work, this time in professional format, leaving behind the CD-R and betting on improving album by album. On this occasion, apart from improving the presentation, a multimedia track was included with information about the band as well as a live version of the song "Machiavelian" by the Canadian group Kataklysm. BP2 After many changes in the line-up, accompanied by various obstacles along the way, the band would take too long to record the next work, so the new material would not be released until 2007, which was done in the form of a promotional CD-R under the name "War Promo 2007" which included three of the songs from the next album, still unmastered.

 

 

 

 

 

 -Tracklist:

 1. Your Death Will Be My Life   4:36
2. Condemned Land   4:29
3. Return of the Undead   4:06

 

-Line up: 

• Óscar Besteiro : Guitars, Vocals (backing)
• Manuel Riguera : Bass
• Touto : Vocals
• Dani : Drums.

 Label: Independent.

Promo CD released by the band in 2007 with three tracks (pre-master version) as a preview of the upcoming album "Condemned Land, The War Begins" (2009).

Distributed by Final Embrace Records.

 

 

 

 

Xerión - Nocturnal Misantropía (2007)

 

 Xerión started as one-man band by Nocturno in 2001.

The lyrics are in the Galician Language. Galicia is situated in the northwestern part of the Iberian Peninsula and has many Celtic influences, as seen in Xerión's lyrics.

 

 

 

 

 

-Tracklist:

A1. Akelarre   02:23
A2. Nocturnal Misantropia   06:48
A3. Na Traza Esotérica Do Ar Invisible   06:00
A4. Aqueles Que Nos Deixan Atrás   05:27
A5. No Pazo Derruido Da Existencia   06:39
A6. No Val Do Silencio   05:14

32:31

 

-Line up:

• Daga : Keyboards
• Nocturno : Guitars, Bass, Vocals, Whistle
• Iron : Guitars
• Aboriorth : Drums, Percussion.

 

 

 

 

 

Label:  Tour de Garde.

 Limited edition to 666 hand-numbered copies.

 

 

 

 

Suffocation - Blood Oath (2009)

 

 Suffocation are globally recognized innovators of death metal. Since the 1990s, their massive influence on the genre came from pioneering the balance between brutal and technical sounds now commonly heard in 21st century death metal. After several demos and singles, 1991's now-classic Effigy of the Forgotten influenced an entire generation in death metal and grindcore circles. It was followed by 1993's critically acclaimed Breeding of the Spawn. The band split in 1995, but re-formed years later for 2004's Souls to Deny. 2009's Blood Oath marked their first American chart entry. 2017's ...Of the Dark Light charted in Europe. In 2019, Suffocation's trailblazing frontman Frank Mullen retired and handed the mike to Ricky Myers for 2023's Hymns from the Apocrypha.

Brutal/technical death metal band Suffocation were formed in New York during the late '80s. The original lineup was composed of vocalist Frank Mullen, guitarists Doug Cerrito and Terrance Hobbs, bassist Chris Richards, and drummer Mike Smith. The group's 1991 debut album, Effigy of the Forgotten, became quite influential in the grind/death metal community. Released on Roadrunner Records, it was followed two years later by Breeding of the Spawn. After the release of the Human Waste EP, Smith left Suffocation and was replaced by drummer Doug Bohn. By 1995, the second lineup had issued their first album, Pierced from Within. The band broke up soon after, disheartened by label problems and lack of direction.

A mystery album, Despise the Sun, floated around due to record label politics until Relapse finally released it in the summer of 2002. The band re-formed in late 2003 to begin working on their fourth studio album. The resulting Souls to Deny, which marked the return of original drummer Mike Smith, arrived the following year, effectively ending the group's hiatus. Suffocation's eponymous fifth outing saw release in 2006, and was followed in 2009 by Blood Oath; it was the band's first official entry on the Billboard charts, peaking at number two on the Heatseekers chart and at 135 in the Top 200.

The Joe Cincotta-produced Pinnacle of Bedlam, the group's seventh studio album, arrived in 2013 and also went to number two at Heatseekers and peaked at 153 in the Billboard 200. By 2017, when Suffocation released ...Of the Dark Light, Mullen and Hobbs remained the only constant members of Suffocation. The album lineup also included bassist Derek Boyer, who had been with the band since 2004, and guitarist Charlie Errigo and drummer Eric Morotti, both of whom joined in 2016 and made their recording debut on ...Of the Dark Light. Again produced and mixed by Cincotta, the album failed to chart in the U.S. despite celebratory reviews, but it placed very respectably in Europe, where it charted in several countries. In 2021, Suffocation released Live in North America, on Nuclear Blast. Recorded in 2018 at a concert in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it marked the final appearance for Mullen who retired at the end of 2019. Late period touring member and Disgorge drummer Ricky Myers took over on vocals for 2023's Hymns from the Apocrypha, the band's ninth studio set.

 

 

Tracklist:

1. Blood Oath     03:56
2. Dismal Dream     03:18
3. Pray for Forgiveness     03:41
4. Images of Purgatory     03:28
5. Cataclysmic Purification     04:52
6. Mental Hemorrhage     03:56
7. Come Hell or High Priest     04:08
8. Undeserving     04:11
9. Provoking the Disturbed     05:19
10. Marital Decimation     04:02

Bonus
11. Pray for Forgiveness (rough mix un-mastered)     03:40
12. Dismal Dream (instrumental version)   03:16  instrumental

Line up:

• Frank Mullen : Vocals
• Terrance Hobbs : Guitars
• Guy Marchais : Guitars
• Derek Boyer : Bass
• Mike Smith : Drums.

 

 

 Label: Nuclear Blast. NB 2302-2 / 27361 23022

 Recorded at FullForce Recording Studios (Ronkonkoma, New York).
Co-produced by Suffocation and Joe Cincotta.

"Marital Decimation" is a re-recorded song from the Breeding the Spawn album.

This version contains 2 bonus tracks, unlike the American edition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Haemoth - Vice, Suffering and Destruction (2004)

 

 Black Metal from Vernouillet, Île-de-France, France, since 1999.

Haemoth support all that can contribute to the ruin of the human being, every form of vice, and don't give a fuck to the means used to reach that point. Any form of vice, destruction and hate have to be preached. Haemoth encourages every act, physical or spiritual which could carry to the declin, blasphemy or pain. To become one with Him, The interior death is inevitable. The weak ones don't have their place here. May they burn in Hell ... 

 

 Tracklist:

1. Abomination     06:27
2. From the Fucking Evangelik Hatred     07:09
3. Human Being (This Pathetik Worm)     03:12
4. Vice     04:06
5. Suffering     05:01
6. Destruction     05:15
7. Sadistik Manifest     03:06
8. Descent     04:47
9. Crushing the Scepter (Regaining a Lost Dominion) (Gorgoroth cover)     03:37

42:40

 

Line up:

⸸ Syht : Drums
⸸ Haemoth : Vocals, Guitars, Bass.

 

 

 

 Label: ISO666 Releases. IS21
Limited to 1000 copies
"C.T.S." stands for "Crushing the Scepter", which is a Gorgoroth song that it is covered on this recording.
All music and lyrics by Haemoth / Syht.
Recorded, engineered and mixed by Haemoth during Winter 2004.