Almost twenty years ago, some artists / musicians from Russia, sharing a common interest in traditional and ritual Music, decided to create stuff that stood miles away from electronic Music. Alexey Tegin studied ancient musical cultures from ancient Egypt, Iran and Tibet, and since he was interested in the Buddhist culture in general, and the BON-tradition more specifically, he named this project after one of the five tutelary deities of the Father Tantra, Phurpa.
Melmak was formed in 2010 by the Etxebarria brothers, the band is a duo which combines the darkness of the doom metal, so both brothers could put their favorite genres in it. And with this combination, the guys try to make a statement with the madness of the hardcore to explain the situation of the human being and what are the possible solutions not to extinguish as we know it...Cool concept, lovely try, nice effort…..but it doesn’t work with the doom metal influences. Don’t get me wrong, it has a nice underground vibe…but that’s where it ends.
Cyclic Law, one of the greatest Ambient / Industrial labels from our era, recently started up a new division, Cyclic Press. It will not focus on sonic supremacy, yet rather on another aspect of spirituality and occultism by releasing books and stuff. And their first release is Inlumaeh, a collaboration in between Krist Mort and Lamia Vox.
Imagine my cosmic joy and happiness… I thought this Swiss band did not exist anymore, since their last album (Dark Space III) was released in 2008. But no need to mourn, because the trio (still the same line-up as in the early years) returns with their fourth album, called Dark Space III I (which sounds more original, let’s admit, than IV, isn’t it). Mind the space in between the first ‘III’ and final ‘I’, by the way…
One of Belgium’s finest (in quite an impressive list of splendid bands and projects, of course) must be Saille, once formed by Dries Gaerdelen in order to pay tribute to bands like Keep Of Kalessin, Tartaros and Limbonic Art. The band recorded two fabulous albums before, Irreversible Decay (2010) and Ritu (2012), both of them released via Code666.
House of X features Danny Peyronel (ex UFO) on vocals, Laurence Archer (Grand Slam, Phil Lynott) on guitars and backing vocals, Clive Edwards (Wild Horses) on drums and finally Rocky Newton (Lionheart, ex MSG) on bass. While they already have extensively been touring over the last two years, with a setlist containing lots of UFO covers, they have also been busy writing own material, which
The Cavalera brothers Max and Igor delude nobody when it comes to determination and stubbornness. In the 1990s the Brazilians brought up some of the most uncompromising Metal records of music history with Sepultura and show with Cavalera Conspiracy that fatigue is a foreign word f. These lads from Brazil, French and the USA play these awesome mix between death- and trash metal.
An Unending Pathway is the third album by Atriarch (they released stuff before via same-minded labels Seventh Rule and Profound Lore), and it clocks forty minutes. This album, a seven-tracker, was produced by one of the greatest names within the scene, Billy Anderson. The quartet once again created a very distinctive, own-visionary form of Aural Art, which cannot be labelled as ‘Metal’, yet with pertinent, persistent metalized basics anyway.
Arising Fear was founded back in 2008 in Bavaria, by Alex Rauh (vocals/guitar), Kevin Pöllmann (guitar/vocals), Tobi Möhring (drums) and Tom Franz (bass). They wanted to make music with catchy hooks, complex song structures and hard head banger riffs.
Existencial Delirium Records are a very young label from Russia from the Krasnodar-region at the Black Sea and Azov Sea, very close to the Crimea peninsula, and known for the Olympic Winter Games 2014 (in the city of Sochi, at the South of this krai). The label houses several Black and Doom projects, and with several of them label manager Gweld Anobaith is involved.
