Fun.

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Grønlandshund.

New album.

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Filthy.

Sant norske møkk.

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Free.

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Encompassing.

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Verb.

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News.

" Solefald’s seventh studio album “Norrøn livskunst” can now be pre-ordered. Not much information has been released about this album but it is due to be released on November 15th, 2010 on Indie Recordings. "
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Album – Norwegian

Vinyl – Norwegian

Album – English

For the metal-disheartened ones …

If you don’t feel that much push towards “normal” metal anymore for the moment, you may enjoy what Kkoagulaa from Norway has been doing.

Funny enough I had read about this project recently on Terrorizer, and to me this makes that magazine even more worth the (big) amount of money I pay when I buy it (in Italy it costs almost 10 euro).
Kkoagulaa is a new project of the musicians previously involved in the avantgarde/experimental/black metal/jazz entity Manes (now in stand-by).
The reviewer on Terrorizer wrote that “for an evolutionary leap so drastic that it couldn’t be psychologically accomodated under that (Manes) monicker, it must be something pretty freak”. And he mentioned Ulver and Throbbing Gristle …

Mmmmm …

I had checked various reviews on the web (metal wezines) and the reviewers were appalled and unable to categorize this stuff, beside being unable to make a review according to their standard procedure. But all of them were somehow charmed by this “insane” stuff.
A guy, on Ultimate Metal Forum, summarizes all well: “There are many different snatches that you hear on the journey, there are moments of drum and bass and jungle and dub thrown in, perhaps a snatch of freeform jazz, trance, post rock, electro and black doom. The vocals at full croon are very Bowiesque and also at times remind of Marc Almond and Peter Murphy as they expressively flow around the ever changing music.”

Mmmmmm again …

I would also add that in some instances these guys remind me of the trance but pummeling tunes by Bill Laswell and co-workers in Tabla Beat Science.

I think that there are far too many and too good reasons to get hold of this 56 minutes-long single, gloomy track (bearing a Latin title that can be translated more or less as "our gold is not the common people’s gold”), isolate oneself and listen to it without distraction.
And then, maybe, one goes back to some “normal” metal!
Or maybe not, as this stuff is great indeed …

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OBLITERATION - NEKROPSALMS

in an attempt to steer this blog back to music [because lately it's been more of an obituary page than anything else] here's an album i've never listened to before, by a norwegian death metal band.

i was sent a review of this album yesterday. the title of the review was 'i feel like i have been skullfucked by a rapid antelope.'

i don't know what it is about death metal that makes reviewers feel they have to liken it to being [violent verb] by an [adjective][noun]. it's like retard madlibs. and it's always absurdly stupid. but the review made me download it anyway. now you can download it, too.


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Norwegian – The revenge …

Original Cover | WWE Promo Large

If you hadn’t enough of the fine Norwegian tunes kindly provided by Petya, here is more for you!
Ov Hell is a “supergroup” of black metallers including the following personalities:
Shagrath - vocals (Dimmu Borgir, Starkness, Fimbulwinter, Chrome Division, Ragnarok (Nor))
King - bass (Sahg, Jotunspor, I, Audrey Horne, Clububba, Gorgoroth, God Seed)
Teloch - guitars (1349, Orcustus, Nidingr, Umoral, NunFuckRitual, Condenado, The Konsortium, Gorgoroth)
Ice Dale - guitars (Trinacria, Malignant Eternal, Audrey Horne, I, God Seed, Bourbon Flame, Enslaved (Nor))
Frost - drums (Zyklon-B (Nor), Keep of Kalessin, Gorgoroth, Gehenna (Nor), Satyricon, 1349)

Big names, a lot of spikes and a rather tasty debut album …


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Evil dark Norsemen

Von Rov Shelter, the newest release by the avant-garde black metal band Slagmaur, from Norway.

“Von Rov Shelter's riffs have a gloomy, mechanic and manic sound. These riffs form a wall, a moving wall, slowly yet steadily, exactly in your direction. Fuelled by plodding drums and demonic croaks, it trudges on and on and on. A black mass, darkening the sky, trudging on and on and on and on.” (from www. metalstorm.ee)

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