惊叫基督 / Screaming Savior - 宙海 / Infinity (2012) - Nothing new but quite diverse and entertaining - 79% (27/07/12)

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Screaming Savior are one of the most famous melodic black metal bands from China. Throughout the last years, more and more bands of this genre arose from the underground thanks to many club shows in the big Chinese cities and now these bands even got...

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天幕落 / Terminal Lost - 卷贰 凤凰山 / Volume II - Fengyangshan (2012) - The best melodic black metal release of the year - 95% (26/07/12)

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Throughout the last years, more and more promising Chinese metal bands released their first couple of records and started to spread the word of a new creative, cultural and musical movement within this fascinating country. This new wave has more artistic...

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Nokturnal Mortum - Голос Сталі / The Voice of Steel (2009) - Too many lengths harm the good basis - 72% (12/07/12)

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Nokturnal Mortum are a critically highly acclaimed underground metal band from Kharkiv that performs some sort of epic blackened folk metal with Ukrainian lyrics. This basis is already rather intriguing and original and makes this record an interesting...

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Panzerkreutz - Panzershreck (2011) - Atmospheric raw black metal with intense lyrics - 85% (09/07/12)

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Panzerkreutz was a short living project of German musicians from well known bands such as the controversial extreme metal band Eisregen, the atmospheric gothic metal group The Vision Bleak or the straight Neue Deutsche Härte performers from Hämatom. The...

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Absu - Mythological Occult Metal: 1991-2001 (2005) - Outstanding extreme metal in excellent variations - 95% (22/06/12)

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Absu have been a very creative, highly influential and pretty diversified band in the extreme metal genre and delivered a couple of strong records during the first ten years of their career. When the band went on a well merited hiatus, they decided to...

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Burzum - Umskiptar (2012) - Sleepy quantity interrupted by sprinkles of genius - 66% (22/05/12)

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I must admit that I have always hesitated to check out the music of Varg Vikernes and Burzum. I simply can’t ignore the fact that he is a criminal mind that has burnt several churches, murdered his ancient band mate and promoted strange racist opinions...

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惊叫基督 / Screaming Savior - 永战之海 / Ocean of Asura (2011) - Epic melodic black metal with a power metal touch - 92% (10/02/12)

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Screaming Savior are a quite talented and intriguing symphonic black metal band from Shanghai that deliver a strong output with this little EP that contains three regular tracks and two instrumentals that show how detailed and rich the band's compositions...

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Nocturnal Excision - Genèse Morte (2011) - Intense vocals meet progressive depression - 90% (30/11/11)

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Nocturnal Excision are a very emotional, atmospheric and epic black metal band that convinces with hypnotizing doom passages, despaired and very unique shrieks and occasional death growls as vocals and some small experiments that work very well in the...

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Triskèle - Triade Nordique (2008) - It's all about the intense atmosphere - 89% (14/11/11)

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"Triade Nordique" is the third output of the band Triskèle and a very hypnotizing record that offers some pleasant surprises. The band doesn't only focus on speed and blast beats as many other bands of the same genre but they are able to create a truly...

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Seeds Of Iblis - Jihad Against Islam (2011) - Atmospheric Iraqi black metal with female vocals - 75% (01/11/11)

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Seeds Of Iblis play a very interesting kind of raw underground black metal with harsh but also very atmospheric vocals and some dark spiritual chants. The four songs on their most important release to date are all quite short, intense and surprisingly...

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