Nosce Teipsum (‘know yourself’) are an Ukraine-based band, formed five years ago and especially known from their collaboration on a split with Lycanthropy (singer Furious is in both bands, by the way, and bass player Führer used to be part of them for a brief period as well) and Lebensabend (also from Russia) (Svartgalgh, 2010).
Nachtblut, the Lower-Saxonian one, are a German quintet that return with Chimonas, the successor of 2012’s Dogma, and their fourth studio recording in almost ten years of existence. Frontman Askeroth and his horde created once again a catchy, well-produced full length with this one, which has a total running time of fifty minutes.
Aysenlur are a band from the Iquique-region in the far North of Chile, close to the border with Bolivia and Peru. They actually started during the second half of the Nineties, and soon they gained a huge fan-base in their home country and neighbour countries; especially live they were well visited. It took, however, until 2006 before Aysenlur self-released their official studio-recorded full length, Call To Arms. I have no idea what happened in mean time, but since then all seemed to fade in silence?...
On the recent update of October 12th 2014 you can find the review undersigned wrote for Anthropophobe’s debut album Le Royaume Des Morts.
Hypnodrone Ensemble is a collaboration in between two famous artists, Eric Quach of thisquietarmy-fame, and Nadja’s Aidan Baker (on October 3rd 2014 this top-webzine Concreteweb ( ;-) ) updated the review on Caudal’s second album, Ascension, which was released via the fabulous Belgian label Consouling Sounds on the very same day as this album; Caudal are another project Aidan Baker is involved
Ordoxe are a Canadian band, formed in 1989 by Jean-François Jalbert (v, g). In 1993 he also founded Slaotvean, and since this one became rather ‘popular’, Jean-François decided to put his initial outfit on hold. After a while however, Ordoxe were reformed (in 2006 and 2007), and in that period they recorded two full lengths, Sorrick Ked Tho and Magnum Opus, both released via Forever Night.
It’s been quite a while that I listened to a new Pagan Records-release. Since I am a ‘fan’ and a collector, I used to buy many hands full of material from this Polish label during the nineties (Lux Occulta, Profanum, Moon, Varathron, Misteria etc.), but as from this century it somewhat faded away.
Germany’s Black Autumn were formed by M. Krall in 1995. The first years this solo-project did not release anything official, yet as from this century on, Black Autumn turned out to be a rather productive entity.
American combo Lucifer D. Larynx And The Satanic Grind Dogs Of Death (what’s in a name?...) perform Corpse Fucking Necro Metal. So, the most difficult part of this review has passed…
On the September 9th 2014’s Concreteweb-update we included the Pagan Assault-review for the Révolte Contre La Destinée-album. Pagan Assault is a solo-outfit by Frenchman KFD, the same guy who runs Soleil Blanc Productions, and the same guy behind Anthropophobe. The latter is a largely underestimated project that released a first album in 2012, which was called Le Royaume Des Morts (‘kingdom of the dead’).
