Saturdayz Soundtraxxx #2

Hey, guess what ?
I'M BACK IN BUSINESS !
To celebrate my long-awaited return in the depths of Extreme Music, I give you Saturdayz Soundtraxxx #2. So sit down, turn your speakers on, AND PLAY THAT SHIT FUCKING LOUD FOR FUCK'S SAKE.




Cadaveric Fumes is a young French band, which released a year ago an awesome MLP of uncompromising, dirty, thick as fuck Old School Death Metal of Swedish (the best ones when it comes to literally crush your fucking guts with musical instruments) inspiration called Macabre Exaltation.
Perfect if you want to give your christian neighbour a fucking heart-attack during All Souls' Day.
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I don't know if you're familiar with the French Black Metal scene but if you're not, you're an asshole, and should check as much bands as you can RIGHT.FUCKING.NOW.
Here's a good one to start with : Mortefoutre, a combo playing raw, filthy Black Metal, which released its first demo via Preposterous Productions on the first half of July. To say the least, that shit sounds great, alors n'y r'fléchis pus, attrape l'mulot et clique donc sur c'te marde avant que j't'y colle un coup d'pioche en d'dans du gueule pour t'y apprendre à n'point m'éscoutailler, vingt dieux !
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As you may know, I love not only Extreme Metal, but weird music in general.
Stuff sometimes so weird that people doesn't even want to call it "music". For today, I was craving for a haunting, eerie atmosphere, and what I found when I stumpled upon this band's page is just what I was looking for.
I don't know where the fuck Uskuunighu comes from, and in fact, I don't give a shit. Just turn up your speakers at maximum volume (or put headphones on), and let your soul drift away. Too bad there's only one track though.


Anyway, that's all folks !

Saturdayz Soundtraxxx #1

You're planning a barbecue this week-end, and don't know what to listen to while eating grilled sausages ?
Saturdayz Soundtraxxx will solve this problem.
CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, BITCHES.



Howling is a female-fronted US Death / Thrash Metal band with a good old school vibe, and lyrics inspired by various horror movies.
Just like many Metal fans, I love good ol' cheesy 80's horror movies, so when I found out about this band, I was pretty excited, and to say the least, this album kicks zombies' arses.
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Over the past few years, many great Black Metal bands emerged from the US Metal scene, and Alda is one of them. Tahoma, their latest album, is a masterpiece of raw Atmospheric Black Metal with Folk influences, dedicated to the beauty and cruelty of Mother Nature.
If you like feeling the caress of the wind on your skin as you watch the sunset, while listening some good music, give it a try. You won't be disappointed.
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Amateurs of experimental music, Plastic Heart / Botany Sideration is for you !
This album, the first of the french one-man-band I Beheaded the Cosmos, merge multiple musical styles together, from Black Metal to Noise and from Post-Punk to Ambient, to create something really unique. Have fun trying to understand what the fuck is happening to your ears !

That's all folks !

Bölzer - Aura

What do you know about Switzerland ?
Geneva ? Banks ? Overpriced (and overrated) chocolate ? Some Metal bands maybe ?

Yeah, Switzerland has bred numerous great bands during the past 30 years, like Celtic Frost, Triptykon, Coroner, Samael, Borgne, Darkspace, Tardigrada, Paysage d'Hiver, and countless others... I can hear some of you screaming "ELUVEITIIIIIIIIIIIIIE" through my computer screen, but no. For fuck's sake, NO, NO and NO.
This sounds like shit, and if someone pronounce the name of that shitty band again, I will stab him / her in the heart with a rusty fork.
Understood ?
So, what were we talking about...? Oh, yes, GREAT bands.
Well, I think we can add another one to this already substantial list.
You may not know them, but you will love them, that's for sure.

Beware my minions, here comes Bölzer.

Bölzer is a two-man Black / Death Metal project from Zurich, and the first thing you should know about them is... that there is no bassist in the band.
Yup, no bass in their songs, but surprisingly, they manage to be as loud and massive as nearly any other band of the genre.
How do they do ? It's a fucking mystery, but honestly, I don't give a shit about that, because Aura, their latest EP, is a fucking BEAST.

After listening to it countless times, I'd say that Bölzer could be the illegitimate son of Dismember and Blut Aus Nord. Sounds cool, right ? Keep reading, keep reading...
What comes out of this hypothetical unholy alliance is a combination of putrid, fast distorted riffs coming right from the mouth of Hell with the oppressive atmosphere and heaviness of Old School Swedish Death Metal.
Add some crazy vocals to this already pretty fucked-up mixture, and you get one of the very best 2013 Black / Death Metal releases along with Abyssal's Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius.
In other words, a depraved, filthy, gigantic monument raised in the name of Satan. FUCK YEAH.

There's just one little thing that bothers me : THIS EP IS TOO FUCKING SHORT !
Ok, I KNOW that an EP is not supposed to be as long as a full-length album.
That's why a full-lenght is called a full-length after all, but Aura sounds so great that listening to it just make the wait of the real album HARDER...
Don't know when these guys will release it, but it will be day-one for me.

Now, you know one more thing about Switzerland.
Click on the links below, and enjoy the music, or else, I'll KILL you, just like the Eluveitie fans.
YEAH.



Grab it here on LP (12€ +shipping - 2nd press) while it's still available !
According to the band, a CD version is on its way, too.

Saturdayz Soundtraxxx #0

As you probably already know, I only talk about things I love on Burning Churches.
Still, there is way too much great stuff scattered all over the internet to review everything, so, from now on, every two weeks, I will post something a little different, on a new section called Saturdayz Soundtraxxx.
The idea is to talk about a handful of albums in a few words, so you know what to listen during your ritual sacrifices to Satan on the week-end, instead of SLEEPING 'TIL THE CRACK OF NOON, YOU LAZY FUCKS.

So, here we go.



Oooooh, I love desecrating cemetaries in the night !
Naaaah, just kidding, but if you plan to do this kind of shit this week-end, you should do it while listening to Unending Creation, the first album of Krypts. These dudes deliver some nasty old school Death Metal with Doom Metal influences, and for the least I can say, this sounds great. Give it a try !
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Now we're talking about fucked-up Black Metal. And I mean REALLY fucked up.
It seems like this was recorded during some sort of chamanic trance, or a bad trip.
I don't know what kind of drugs this / these guy(s) was / were on, but unholy fuck, it seriously enhanced his / their creativity.
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Ok, so, this thing is waaaaay more experimental than what I'm usually talking about, but if, just like me, you're also into Drone, Noise, and stuff like that, the latest album of Nighttime in the Abyss is for you. Prepare your ears, fuckerz !

That's all folks !

Abyssal - Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius

What happens when you mix Death Metal and Black Metal ? You get Black / Death Metal.
Yeah. How creative...
Still, when it's well done (and I mean well-balanced between those two genres), it sounds great, don't you think ? Now, add some Doom metal to slow things down and you get the most heaviest, depraved, tortured sound ever made. Looks cool, right ? You betcha.

The band we're going to talk about is one of the very best example of this sacrilegious combination (along with Necrite, but I'll talk about these guys later).

Welcome in Hell, fuckers, and welcome to Abyssal.

Released on Bandcamp on January and officially released by Profound Lore a few months ago (on CD version, but there was also a handmade tape version directly sold by the band), Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius (which means "For the Lord knew those that are His own") is the second album of Abyssal (UK), and unholy fuckin' fuck, THIS.THING.IS.AWESOME.

This is some top-notch Extreme stuff, and I've been listening to this since it first came out.
We got dissonant guitars, bruuuuutal drumming alterning slow-paced mid-tempo parts and fierce blast-beats, ungodly HEAVY bass sound, and some of the deepest vocals ever, for around an hour of contemplative, yet extremely aggressive music.
Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius is the kind of album that sticks you to the ground from the first to the last minute of it, and don't bother resisting, it would be like trying to lift up a fucking mountain. No matter what you do, it won't move a bit, unless your name is Atlas.
Abyssal also knows how to create some good atmospheres, with Droning Noise-like interludes ("Elegy of Ruin" and "Elegy of Staves"), filled with screams, buzzing sounds and shit, that fits very well on this monumental corrupted and demoniac piece of art.
In other words, Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius is a must-have. No more, no less.

Now, if you think you're strong enough to take a ride without being crushed to death, you know what you have to do...



Grab it there for 10.49$ +shipping