Showing posts with label Sorrow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sorrow. Show all posts

Thursday, July 4, 2013

BEYOND THE MORNINGLIGHT: LIFELINES The Perfect Liberation Of All Gloomy Feelings!

I always thought that melancholic music was the perfect liberation of despair, sorrow, sadness, anger and all the gloomy feelings. Give me teardrops falling from the guitar strings, a sad cry escaping from each note of the piano and a mournful voice echoing with poetic beauty and I will close my eyes and drift away to the sound of an infinite emotion inside my mind and heart.

Runar
I remember my first experience listening to BTM (Beyond The Morninglight). It was different in many ways and I couldn´t remain indifferent to what was in front of me. If you ask me what was it like I can surely say it was a mix of emotions! The first thing hitting me was Runar voice… deep and soft with an unique beauty but at the same time sad and melancholic  as if a dreadful loss drowned the vocalist in a kind of profound nightmare. The second thing that I really enjoyed but only after listening to it a few times was the uncommon blend between rock and roll, doom and melodies. I have to say that at first it was very strange to my ear but time after time the soundscape was getting easier to understand and all the influences of the band were making much sense together. Last but not least what surprised me was the simplicity of the music that seemed to deny the complexity of all the musical structure.

I remember my words in an old BTM review: “... the dark sound of Norway influenced by its depressive atmosphere that creates the perfect ambient for the melancholic music.”, or something like that. Today those words remain in me to describe this band but with a slight difference- the dark sound of BTM creates a unique blend of music that exudes their own style in the best way possible.

Lifelines” EP is the perfect execution of their vision and clear evolution of BTM and the refinement of a style that can come to change the way people look at their music.

Runar Beyond
Andy Amin 
Erik D. Martin
Lifelines part 1 can be heard in the player below.





'LIFELINES EP' have 4 songs that will change the world (as we know it). Like 'LIberation' it will be a concept of life and death and everything in between.


Track list for 'LIFELINES' EP
1 : Lifelines Part One
2 : Lifelines Part Two
3 : Looking Back
4 : Ashes

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One melee with the words, ideas and its paradoxes... albuns that are news, the reviews at "HeavyHardMetalmania.net", always with its watermark,  Pedro Ribeiro, with love for beer... sorry, music from an early age, he studied piano and singing from 7 to 14 years,  then, devoted himself to the study of the guitar for 5 years. "The wisdom is found in the extremes, all extreme Metal here!"



Thursday, May 9, 2013

SONS OF TONATIUH: Down-Tuned Sound Savages Announce Spring Tour Dates

Down-tuned sound savages SONS OF TONATIUH will bring their bottom heavy sludge back to the streets this Friday beginning with a show in Atlanta alongside Torche. The band will then writhe its way through the Southeast on a round of weekend shows through July with additional dates to be added in the coming weeks.  The tour showcases the band’s new and improved powerhouse lineup of guitarist/vocalist Dan Caycedo and new recruits Twitch on bass and Josh Lomanto on drums.

Comments Caycedo, "The Mayans were wrong... SONS OF TONATIUH are here to show you the way. Through a heavy, dark road of despair and retribution we will pummel our way through the Southeast and beyond with plans to embark on the great big metal bird to the old world, Europe, by the end of 2013. Anyone crazy enough to stand in our way can either join our ranks or have their heads split open from the molten goodness of our tunage. See you on the killing floor."

SONS OF TONATIUH Tour Dates 2013
5/10/2013 529 - Atlanta, GA w/ Torche
5/11/2013 The Atlantic - Gainesville, FL w/ Hot Graves
5/12/2013 Burro Bar - Jacksonville, FL
5/24/2013 Slim's Downtown - Raleigh, NC w/ Old Codger (ex-Man Will Destroy Himself)
5/25/2013 Reggie's 42nd St Tavern - Wilmington, NC
6/01/2013 Star Bar - Atlanta, GA w/ Degradations (ex-Withered)
6/07/2013 The Jinx - Savannah, GA w/ Humungous
6/08/2013 Tin Roof - Charleston, SC w/ Hooded Eagle
7/20/2013 529 - Atlanta, GA
7/21/2013 The Owl Farm - Nashville, TN
7/22/2013 Poison Lawn - Knoxville, TN

SONS OF TONATIUH will be touring in support of their current full-length Parade Of Sorrow issued via Hydro-Phonic Records last Summer. A cogent onslaught of slow-roasted, riff-laden misanthropy and heavily amplified audio wreckage, Parade Of Sorrow was recorded in Athens, Georgia by Kyle Spence of Harvey Milk, has reaped critical fuck yeahs nationally. Commended for having “a heaviness of its own,” by Skullls N Bones, Exclaim fittingly comparedParade Of Sorrow to “sinking in quicksand, but they evoke panicked thrashing rather than resigned, churning misery,” while Broken Beard said that the offering is “every bit the Eyehategod worship as their self-titled debut, and yet they’ve squeezed this throbbing new pustule so hard there is pus and blood bursting out all over the place.” The Sludgelord agreed, “another stellar record from another fantastic band.” This Is Not A Scene added “…a savagely aggressive, sonically belligerent album that is among the rawest to emerge from the southern USA in the last decade…”

Check out Parade Of Sorrow streaming in its entirety at the official SONS OF TONATIUH bandcamp page HERE.


Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Compilation of Early MORGION Material - God of Death & Disease - Out Now On Dark Descent Records

God of Death & Disease, a compilation disc featuring the earliest recordings from death metal legends MORGION, is now available via Dark Descent Records. Check out the webstore at www.DarkDescentRecords.com to order or visit DarkDescentRecords.bandcamp.com for a full album stream.

Before releasing three epic doom/death albums in the mid 90s into the early 2000s, MORGIONwas ugly. Ugly as in nasty, sweltering death metal. Before finally breaking through with their 1997 full-length debut, Among the Majestic RuinMORGION recorded two demos and an EP. These three recordings represent MORGION's early pure death metal roots. 1991's Rabid Decay demo, 1992's Live Rehearsal demo and 1993's Travesty EP. In all, over one hour of some of the darkest and nastiest recordings of the early 90's death metal scene finally compiled and wrapped in cover art by Mark Riddick. Carefully remastered by Ryan Butler of Arcane Digital.

In related news, MORGION has been announced for the 2013 installment of Maryland Death Fest. Originally slated to appear at this year's fest, MORGION was forced to bow out due to circumstances beyond their control. Check www.marylanddeathfest.com and www.morgion.com for updates and information. 



01.Intro - Drowning in Sorrow
02.I the Skeptic
03.In the Process
04.Gothic Decorum
05.Encased in Glass
06.Chasm
07.What Dwells Upon Man
08.Wither the Storm
09.Nomads of the Dawn
10.Wither the Storm
11.Nomads of the Dawn 



Friday, September 7, 2012

Double Vinyl Edition of CENOTAPH's The Gloomy Reflections of Our Hidden Sorrows Available for Pre-order Through Chaos Records



On September 24th The Gloomy Reflections of  Out Hidden Sorrow, the debut from Mexican death metal masters CENOTAPH, will be made available for the first time ever on vinyl through Chaos Records. Originally recorded in May of 1992 by Hans Mues at Estudios Tequila in Mexico City, this vinyl reissue has been fully remastered by Roberto Granados at Seismic Sound Studios. The album comes as a double LP with gatefold jacket and exclusive poster and features original artwork by olish artist Ryszard Wojtynski. Remastered versions of the band's Tenebrous Apparitions 7" and The Eternal Disgrace 7" are included as well. This one-time pressing is limited to 500 copies (100 brown, 100 orange and 300 classic black). 


Pre-orders are available at this location.