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Gehenna - WW - 15-Aug-09 05:56 PM
"WW" is a serious, focused and powerful recording. And a fairly unorthodox album, both for Gehenna and for black metal. Because, while expressing the grave matter of living dead, the living dead, and those quite dead and murdered, it is musically simple, understated and unpretentious. Its skilful simplicity is its strength. A mature recording, and Gehenna's best. "Death is what I love, the dead are here with me. No-one can knows the darkness... within me."

Depeche Mode - Black Celebration - 07-Jun-09 08:14 AM
In retrospect, compared to all the darkest music in the world I've heard since I was fifteen, Black Celebration is one of the darkest recordings of all. "Let's have a BLACK celebration, to celebrate the FACT that we've seen the BACK of another black day." Perfectly black. Cross out another page. I find it's actually in a Joy Division place, my favourite darkness. Described by Ian Curtis, shall we say, as: "We knocked at the door of hell's darker chamber. Open and shut, slammed in our face". It kills me. Why not? Play it again!

Foetus - Gash - 04-Feb-09 07:49 AM
J G Thirlwell the man what is Foetus is unparalleled Be it Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel Wiseblood Steroid Maximus or his production and remix work for other artists And Gash is one of his finest But this is not a review of the album but rather a point about the money it DIDNT earn him

Foetus signed to a massive record label for the release of Gash SonyColumbiaCIAKGBmultinational corporations ad nauseum you know But despite the albums excellence it failed commercially Unlike regular unoriginal artists who make kiddycore about lunch boxes and bedwetting And then of course the businessmen at SonyColumbia happily axed Foetus

My heart goes out to Jim Thirlwell because Foetus has never achieved commercial success Ill be your waiter this evening All the while sadly it is the artists who appropriated and commercialised the Foetus sound yet never with violence and beauty so PURE who rake in the CASH Ministry Nine Inch Nails Marilyn Manson

In two hundred years from now someone will recognise what the rest of you have missed and Phillip And His Foetus Vibrations will live forever

Francisco López - Untitled #104 - 05-Apr-08 08:31 PM
The word "extreme" has lost all meaning -- this we know for certain. It's quite safe to filter out all communications you receive that contain this irritating little marketing term. But hang on, what's this? With "Untitled #104", Francisco López reinterprets death metal, and actually charts some further territory on the map of extremities. Indeed, López's "#104" turns the metal genre's intensity up many notches. This is absolute, pure, relentless, pummelling, jarring death metal, with no commercial breaks. Much like an acutely prolonged climax, this staggering recording is probably the endurance test you've been waiting for. If you like a bit of oomph in your tunes then this'll cheer you up no end.

DHG* - Supervillain Outcast - 08-Dec-07 06:57 AM
In key member Aldrahn's absence, "Supervillain Outcast" sees Dødheimsgard take a somewhat different direction. In its evolution, DHG has embraced a new pop-sensibility (due in part to new member Kvohsts' particular vocal delivery) while retaining its imaginative musical excellence of yore. Aldrahn's Satanic angst is sorely absent, but "Supervillain Outcast" is nonetheless distinctive and very enjoyable. The band's name change to DHG is appropriate and its stylistic metamorphosis is very welcome. Another fine Moonfog release.

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