Category: Atmospheric

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Feign – Lost to Eternity

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 I cannot begin to explain how much I love one man bands. These are the guys who are the essence of the term “if you want to do something right, do it yourself”. And this guy who made Feign just adds more to my faith in people like him who are determined to make awesome metal, and “Lost to Eternity” is so much more than what I had expected. The whole album has that atmospheric feel to it (shocker) while also being raw and intensely black metal with the doom metal element of long songs with one running over 9 … Continue reading Feign – Lost to Eternity

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Tome of the Unreplenished – Innerstanding

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 I’m not exactly one for atmospheric black metal because I like black metal fast and loud and not slow and calming like a good chunk of Tome of the Unreplenished’s new album “Innerstanding” is. I’m not saying it’s bad because it’s not; it has a quality sound and is very interesting in some points that I enjoyed. But in other parts it was just really slow and with several songs reaching over 5 minutes it just dragged on for an eternity to me which in some cases it’s good but not this one. In no way is this a bad … Continue reading Tome of the Unreplenished – Innerstanding

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Stormcast – Frame of Mind

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 Tell you what, when a band can get together, “throw” up a debut album, and make it sound badass, I’m one fucking happy metal-head. Stormcast has just released their debut “Frame of Mind” and it is one of those that makes me happy that my top albums of the year list isn’t set in stone yet because now I have to go back and contemplate if this is worthy enough to knock a few off. But that’s later and you’re not even supposed to know about that so shh. “Frame of Mind” is as if someone took melodic death metal … Continue reading Stormcast – Frame of Mind

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Vengeance Within – Deifying the Human Intellect

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 What happens when we mix in the same record different styles such as Black, Death and maybe, I would even say, a little bit of Atmospheric essence? It happens that it surprises us. And they, Vengeance Within, have succeeded to create this magic in only one album, called “Deifying the Human Intellect”. A really good CD for any extreme metal music lover, with very good calibration on guitar harmonies, and really elaborated techniques that mix complex riffs with a marked rhythmic base. The velocity of the drums is brutal, and its variations are really good, above all when guitars don’t change their … Continue reading Vengeance Within – Deifying the Human Intellect

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Synodik – A Matter Of Perception

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 For those of you who don’t even know how to imagine atmospheric metal let me explain it to you like this : it’s basically your normal metal pertaining to whatever sub-genre the band specializes in with the added sound of whatever other instruments the band thinks compliments the metal at certain points whether it be a piano, violin, or anything else they come up with. I could definitely tell that there were some of those kinds of instruments used in Synodik’s upcoming album “A Matter Of Perception” and they actually worked really, really well. The albums consists of only three … Continue reading Synodik – A Matter Of Perception

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Solitary Sabred – Redemption Through Force

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 I’m gonna say two band names and you’re going to have an image for each. Manowar, and HammerFall. Got the images? Now, image smashing those two together and throw in a theme of medieval times and you’ve gotten yourself Solitary Sabred’s upcoming sophomore album “Redemption Through Force”. This Cypriot (they’re from Cyprus) band does an amazing job of going back to the time during the 80s when metal was at its best, and Solitary Sabred chose to draw from the power metal from that era and have that influence their music which turned out to sound like something that came … Continue reading Solitary Sabred – Redemption Through Force

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Myrkur (self-titled)

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 This is probably, by far, the best one-man band I’ve ever heard. Except in this case this is a one-woman band. Yes indeed, Myrkur is a band consisting of only a single woman and a very talented one at that. “Myrkur” contains many elements of black metal and yet very atmospheric sounds that really help give the songs a very serene feel to them until the metal comes along and tears it up like all good black metal musicians do. There aren’t any conventional vocals either. By “conventional” I mean that there are vocals, but not lyrics, and what I’m … Continue reading Myrkur (self-titled)

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Xerath – III

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 “III” was released yesterday and it’s as amazing as I thought it was going to be. It had amazing sound with the guitars, vocals, and drums all having badass tone and sound all throughout this album and that makes it fucking great. Xerath reincorporates the use of atmospheric sounds that they used in their single “I Hold Dominion” to make the songs that they’re used in sound all the more epic and fantastic. I really wish many more people would know of this band because Xerath is one of those groups that have somehow gone undetected among the greater part of the … Continue reading Xerath – III

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Xerath – I Hold Dominion (single)

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 I’ve never heard of Xerath before and I really wish I have. Apparently their new album “III” releases this Tuesday on their Bandcamp page and I cannot wait judging by their single “I Hold Dominion”. It has amazing sound to it. With the use of the atmospheric sounds that are used much more heavily by “epic” metal bands, Xerath made it not so dominate but made it a sort of background noise much like what Alestorm did in their debut “Captain Morgan’s Revenge” where it was utilized to the point that it made the songs more epic when mixed with the guitars and vocals. … Continue reading Xerath – I Hold Dominion (single)