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domingo, 8 de março de 2020

Arbrynth - A Place of Buried Light (Full-Length Album - 2020) - Bandcamp Stream

Arbrynth are a folk-inspired metal band from the outer east of Melbourne, Australia. These Aussies have described themselves as Forest Metal, and while that may sound pretentious, it’s actually a fitting description of their sound.

Drawing from a vast array of influences, Arbrynth have developed a sound that reflects the color of folklore, woven with their heavy metal roots. The result of this unlikely combination of darkness and light is a style of music that takes the listener on a journey of love and loss, set against a backdrop of nature and earth. The atmosphere in Arbrynth’s music is refined through a combination of distorted guitar-driven riffs, epic leads and acoustic guitar melodies all intertwined with relentless death growls and ethereal vocals and harmonies.

Upon doing some detective work on the Google machine, I found out that it had been roughly nine years since their last release. Their self-titled album in 2011 garnered a bit of online attention, and many of the comments I’ve read have shown a genuine excitement at this new release. Needless to say, this is fantastic music that is both crushingly hard and trance-inducingly groovy.

Arbrynth’s sophomore album “A Place of Buried Light” is a concept album exploring the themes of love and loss. Each track represents a chapter in the individuals odyssey depicting the sacrifices made as they strive for understanding. It was released on February 3rd 2020. The new album contains 7 tracks totaling 49 minutes so a robust 7 minutes per (instrumental track “The Calling” is only 1:48 which bumps the average up of the others).

Formed In: 2006
Status: Active
Years Active: 2006-Present

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Dodds - Guitar/Vocals
Pete - Guitar/Vocals
Junty - Drums/Percussion
Shane - Bass

Country of Origin:  Australia
Location: Melbourne, Victoria

Genre: Progressive Death/Folk Metal (early) Post-Metal (later)
Current Label: Unsigned/Independent
Booking /Press Contact: Arbrynth@gmail.com

Official Site: https://arbrynth.com
Bandcamp: https://arbrynth.bandcamp.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arbrynth
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/arbrynth
Twitter: https://twitter.com/arbrynth
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/arbrynth
Merch: https://arbrynth.bandcamp.com/merch

A Place of Buried Light (Full-Length Album - 2020)
Released February 3, 2020

Credits
All music & lyrics written, arranged &performed by Arbrynth

Engineered, mixed & produced by Matt Dodds
Drums recorded & engineered by Joel Taylor at the Black Lodge, Melbourne
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege Mastering

Instrumentation performed & programmed by Matt Dodds & Dylan Imeneo.
Additional vocals performed by Stevie Grumont

Layout & design by Perry Higgins & Matt Dodds
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Skyforest - A New Dawn (Full-Length Album - 2020) - Bandcamp Stream

Skyforest is a melancholic metal project from Podolsk, Russia. First ideas and recordings were made in 2013, but the project was ready to surface only in early 2014. The music continues to expand the ideas B.M. left in his previous project, Annorkoth, and basically it's a continuation of it under the new name - Skyforest. The project  feature session members until he will be capable to make everything on my own.

A New Dawn" is the third album of Skyforest. It was written entirely in the first half of 2019 and takes us further into the Atmospheric (Black) Metal territory that we know from "Unity" and "Harmony".

Lyrically, it is about the journey into a new chapter of one's life. You never know what awaits you on a new day...but it's worth checking out. Many questions are still left unanswered and yet it may lead to a positive change.

The artist’s continued growth into a powerful, life-affirming creator is also reflected metaphorically in all of Skyforest’s artworks after the debut, and culminates in the wonderful paintings which adorn the new album, again masterfully captured on canvas by Sergey Shenderovsky.

Formed in: 2013
Status: Active
Years active: 2013-Present

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B.M. - Everything 
Michael Rumple (Súl ad Astral, Forestfather) - Clean Vocals  

Country of origin: Russia
Location: Podolsk, Moscow region
Genre: Atmospheric Black/Post-Black Metal

Booking/Press Contact: annorkoth@gmail.com

Released February 20, 2020

Credits
All music was written and recorded in 2019.

Additional Musicians 
• Clare De Lune (Edenfall) - additional clean vocals in 'The Night is No More' and 'Scattered Ashes'.

Mixing and mastering by Nekkomix

Album artwork by Sergey Shenderovsky:

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terça-feira, 3 de março de 2020

Clouds - Durere (Full-Length Album - 2020) - Bandcamp Stream

Like mercury, like liquid sands, like a turbulent sea, one could characterize the existence of the doom formation Clouds. On purpose I don't use the word band because line-up is spilling, disappearing, emerging and changing. Like liquid sands, like mercury. Only one remains. Wonderful music that beats the rhythm of the exposed heart on the palm of your hand. The album "Durere" presents again stories of deep sadness, knowledge of own mortality and fragility hidden deep within ourselves.

In a sense, Clouds are not really a musical group, Clouds are clouds of a single sky, represented by a single character. Daniel Neagoe is an absolutely unique artist in the doom metal field, a personality who is actually invisible to those who have not been initiated. A giant, a giant in the field of music, a person with perfect musical feeling, imagination, everything that I tend to admit openly. Daniel is a very undeground musician with an unknown face. Of course, it is not an international star of a large format. He only knows him whom Neagoe conquered, domesticated, handcuffed and enslaved with his work.

Daniel Neagoe is of course known only to a very narrow audience, his name is not only associated with the creation of Clouds, but also Aeonian Sorrow, Shape of Despair, Eye of Solitude, Pantheist, God Eat God, Colossus… in which he appeared, Daniel is connected with the history of the gloomy, melancholic metal so much that one wall of a funeral chapel, made up of funeral tones, wouldn't have stood at all if the charismatic Romanian hadn't been born. The above-average composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist does not know what peace is and goes from project to project. It flashes somewhere, stays longer somewhere, but it is always recognizable.

Clouds was born as a very vague project in 2013 and since then five long-playing albums have been released under their logo. All albums were created in a unifying funeral style with great melodic themes, graded by fantastic instrumentation. The band's line up changes in each change release . Clouds were sung by Faroese bard Jon Aldara, Finnish vocalist Mikko Kotamäki, Pim Blankenstein from Official Triste, Natalie Koskinen or iconic Gogo Melone. Equally variable were the collaborating instrumentalists.

The line-up for 2020 is again interesting and atypical. In addition to Daniel Neagoe, he includes Romanian bassist Alex Costin, drums are played by another Romanian Luca Breaz, violin is held by fragile Irina Movileanu, only a twenty-two-year-old Romanian musician, Mihai Mike Dinuta know mainly lovers of Danish Saturnus.

As can be seen, this time Neagoe has turned into a country of his own origin, the line-up is mostly Romanian, and must be added, great. Seven songs of the album “Durere” represent the peak of doom art. Especially thanks to masterful instrumentation.

A funeral doom can be a damn boring thing if its creators lack imagination. Or it can be so beautiful that it hurts deep in the chest. Such is the album "Durere". Sophistically beautiful, fragile, similar to a fleeting touch of a blade that almost painlessly opens deep wounds and lets a person bleed.

Lyrics are again lyrical and profound, even though the lyrics are classic, not deviating too much from the genre. They depict mental torment, anxiety, sadness, grief, solitude.


The Clouds style combines a strong, distinctive harsh vocal with pointed melodic passages that rise like waves high and far. Occasionally, the song intersects with recitatives, tinged with very subtle tones. This combination of caustic, harsh, dense grunts with almost intangible touches of tenderness makes Neagoe perfectly masterful. It can be sentimental, but it will never slip into kitsch, which is very difficult when using similar procedures. The album retains a very recognizable style in all respects, but is stronger than the previous one, I can't help it, "Durere" is more powerful. Thundering moments in which a heavy, dominant growl catches our brains and tears our skin back are really strong. Neagoe is at the pinnacle of creation and singing techniques.

In fact, “Durere” acts like classical music, as a modern opera. The opera resembles those vast areas of symphonic thunder, beautiful melodies and also the main character, the singer who is the heroic bass of today. "Durere" is a classic feat, a perfectly balanced, unified storyline, going from birth to extinction. The album is so riveting that it works conceptually, one song is inseparable from the other. It is a compact, coherent flow of black water that spurts toward the starless sky. In the field of doom metal, “Durere” is an unforgettable peak experience.

Released March 1, 2020

 Credits
Additional musicians
Emil Ciuperca : Guitars (track 3)

Andrei Oltean : Flute

Recorded, mixed and mastered in Romania 
at D Studios by Daniel Neagoe
Bass recorded in Cluj, Romania at Xander Cozaciuc
Flutes recorded in Cluj, Romania by Andrei Oltean
Solo guitars recorded in London UK by Indee Rehal Sagoo
Solo guitar on Images And Memories recorded by Emil Ciuperca at D Studios


Formed in: 2013
Status: Active
Years active: 2013-Present

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Daniel Neagoe - Vocals, Orchestration
Indee Rehal-Sagoo - Guitars
Mihai Dinuta - Guitars
Alex Costin - Bass
Luca Breaz - Drums
Irina Movileanu - Violin and additional female vocals

Genre: Atmospheric Doom Metal
Country of origin: International
Location: United Kingdom / Finland / Netherlands / Faroe Islands / Belgium

Current label: Domestic Genocide Records
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Clouds.Visions
Bandcamp: https://cloudsofficial.bandcamp.com
Merch: http://doomclouds.bigcartel.com
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segunda-feira, 2 de março de 2020

Clouds - Dor (Full-Length Album 2CD- 2018) - Bandcamp Stream

Clouds, an international doom project, the band announced their third full-length album, Dor, recently. The band's highly anticipated third album, a collection of beautiful songs for our loved ones, departed or still with us.

"Dor" reflects on the emotive chord of humanity and lingers around the crushing feeling of missing someone.

 After two successful full length and one EP, the Clouds music evolves slightly towards the more melodic side of doom metal, more emotional and susceptible to melancholy.

Daniel Neagoe assembles, once again, a memorable line up of guest musicians with special attention to vocalist, with Ana Carolina (Mourning Sun), Gogo Melone (Aeonian Sorrow), Mihu Ilie from Abigail and Mikko Kotamäki from Finnish legends Swallow The Sun showing their undeniable talent on this recording. 

Recorded as a two volumes album, "Dor" includes guest vocals from artists such as Gogo Melone (Aeonian Sorrow), Pim Blankenstein (Officium Triste), Sylvaine, Mihu (Abigail), Kayla Dixon (Witch Mountain) and the vocal contest winner Caleb Bergen (Sleepwalkers).

The members of Clouds have a combined resumé that remains virtually unmatched in doom metal. Amongst the members of the atmospheric doom band are contributions and efforts in some of the genre's biggest and productive names over the last 25 years. Names like Pantheist, Shape of Despair, Barren Earth, and Eye of Solitude are just a handful of examples. However, their collective work in Clouds remains its own wonderfully unique entity. 


Released November 16, 2018

Released December 25, 2018


Formed in: 2013
Status: Active
Years active: 2013-Present

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Daniel Neagoe  -  Drums, Vocals 
Jarno Salomaa  - Guitars 
Déhà - Guitars, Bass 
Kostas Panagiotou - Keyboards 
Pim Blankenstein - Vocals 
Jón Aldará - Vocals 
Anders Eek  - Drums
Mark Antoniades - Guitar

Genre: Atmospheric Doom Metal
Country of origin: International
Location: United Kingdom / Finland / Netherlands / Faroe Islands / Belgium

Current label: Domestic Genocide Records
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CloudsBandOfficial
Bandcamp: https://cloudsofficial.bandcamp.com
Merch: http://doomclouds.bigcartel.com
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