SENSORY RECORDS News and Updates
Sensory Records is proud to unleash a trio of epic new releases all licensed for North America from various European labels. Nation Beyond's album The Aftermath Odyssey is licensed from…
DARSOMBRA-New Album, Tour
Darsombra's new album Eternal Jewel will be released via Public Guilt this spring. New sounds can be heard at Darsombra's myspace page now. A few shows are going on this…
ESSENCE OF EXISTENCE „Tome III: Terra Mentis”
Spanish company Mandongo Canibale Records this time have caught in fishing-net a horde from Slovakia – ESSENCE OF EXISTENCE – with them third album entitled “Tome III: Terra Mentis”. I regret that I did not listen earlier albums of this band, because them third material is very high class Symphonic Black Metal with progressive tendencies.
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ESSENCE OF EXISTENCE „Tome III: Terra Mentis”
Spanish company Mandongo Canibale Records this time have caught in fishing-net a horde from Slovakia – ESSENCE OF EXISTENCE – with them third album entitled “Tome III: Terra Mentis”. I regret that I did not listen earlier albums of this band, because them third material is very high class Symphonic Black Metal with progressive tendencies.
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ESSENCE OF EXISTENCE „Tome III: Terra Mentis”
Hiszpańska firma Mandongo Canibale Records tym razem upolowała w swoje sidła Słowacką hordę ESSENCE OF EXISTENCE wraz z ich trzecim albumem zatytułowanym “Tome III: Terra Mentis”. Żałuję, że nie słyszałem wcześniejszych wydawnictw tej kapeli, gdyż ich trzeci materiał to bardzo wysokiej klasy Symfoniczny Black Metal z progresywnymi tendencjami.
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DISMEMBER – Interview with Vocalist Matti Kärki
In the late eighties, a circle of friends in the Stockholm, Sweden area came together as architects of the Swedish death metal scene. These friends formed NIHILIST, GRAVE and DISMEMBER. Shortly afterwards, Johnny Hedlund left NIHILIST to form UNLEASHED, and NIHILIST changed their name to ENTOMBED. GRAVE, DISMEMBER, UNLEASHED and ENTOMBED formed the basis of a very distinct death metal sound, a sound honed at Studio Sunlight.
Each band has shared members, which may explain similarities in sound and style are. However, every band has unique characteristics that separate it from the other one. ENTOMBED was by far the most popular of the four; therefore, some would accuse the others as imitators, but each band came out around the same time, and as stated before, each group has its own distinct qualities. Of the four, DISMEMBER is the most melodic and is the only one of the four to blatantly use classic metal elements. These elements have remained with the group throughout its long reign.
The churning, down-tuned gruesomeness of their debut full-length, which many consider a classic album, Like and Ever Flowing Stream has remained. However, DISMEMBER has experimented slightly with styles. Their 1994 release, Massive Killing Capacity was an experiment with a death-n-roll style akin to Wolverine Blues by ENTOMBED. Dissatisfied with that trial, the group returned to their savage roots with the bluntly titled Death Metal. DISMEMBER has a style that works and fans expect, so their ensuing albums Hate Campaign, Where Iron Crosses Grow, and The God That Never Was maintained this maiming sound.
Sticking to their guns, mortars, canons, nukes and whatever artillery they have in their vast armory of metal weapons is exactly what DISMEMBER has done with their forthcoming album of no title (Matti fervently states it is not a self-titled album) . Here, the group displays the type of decapitating decadence fans of the group have grown to love. While sipping a choice Danish beer, singer, war general and all-around World War II fanatic, Matti Kärki gave Metal Centre the low down on his new, untitled effort.
BRUTART „Mimic”
Słoweńska wytwórnia On Parole Productions tym razem przedstawia nam BRUTART, który jest Słoweńskim zespołem wykonującym mieszankę Doom i Death Metalu z wpływami szwedzkiej Death Metalowej szkoły jak i z naleciałościami Stoner Metalu co w połączeniu tworzy całkiem ciekawą muzykę. Album „Mimic” wydany jest w dość oryginalny sposób – w postaci cienkiej książki, oprawionej w grubą tekturową okładkę, z ręcznie pisanymi tekstami i informacjami na temat zespołu oraz z różnymi rycinami.
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BRUTART „Mimic”
On Parole Productions – the label from Slovenia presents us BRUTART this time. The band comes from Slovenia too and it plays the mixture of Doom and Death Metal with influences of the Swedish Death Metal school as well as with traces of Stoner Metal.