SHAGOR

 

Origen: Holanda

Formados: 2018

Estilo: Black atmosférico

Temática: Muerte y oscuridad

Enlaces: Bandcamp, facebook y spotify

Miembros: 

• J. Batería
• J. Guitarra
• J. Bajo y voces
• P. Guitarra y voces

Discografía:

• Schemerzever Single 2020  
• Sotteklugt CD 2020
• Lyksalver CD 2025

SOTTEKLUGT (2020)

Desde la hoy la interesante y fructífera escena holandesa nos llega el el primer álbum de esta banda sobre la cual no hay mucha información pero que se presenta con cinco temas de black atmosférico que buscan sus raíces e influencias en la vertiente más clásica del género al mismo tiempo saben darle una visión personal y más actual. Este "Sotteklugt" es un camino de emociones contrastadas a lo largo de sus casi cuarenta minutos, en donde predominan sensaciones depresivas, melancólicas, de abatimiento y desesperación al tiempo que se ponen en contrapunto con algunas secciones que invitan a la esperanza. La música se construye sobre abrasivos riffs, densos, profundos y cortantes, a veces logrando acercarse a un estilo raw trabajándose en todo ello el contrapunto este esta visceralidad y agresividad con una delgada línea en segundo plano más melódica y digamos que accesible que logra un contraste muy acertado, permitiendo a la música fluir por terrenos que logran un ajustado equilibrio entre melodía, melancolía y crudeza. Las voces se muestran planas en una faceta desgarradora a veces, pero gustándose en su faceta más oscura y densa que a veces se ven completadas con otras más limpias y emparejando tanto los contrastes como las emociones que irradian al plano musical anteriormente mencionado. Shagor se las ha arreglado para entregar un álbum apabullante y enorme en cuanto a sonido, empleándose a fondo con unos riffs portentosos y densos que contrastan con la ambientación que acompaña todos los temas, con unas voces que son capaces de añadir elementos depresivos al conjunto y con una virtud muy importante, ser capaces de construir un álbum de black atmosférico cuyos referentes se encuentran en los clásicos y al mismo tiempo saber introducir elementos en su sonido de la reciente escuela holandesa del black. (8),

Babylon Doom Cult Records

1. Schemerzever 07:46

2. Nachtdwaler 06:37  

3. Respijt 08:14  

4. Verdoolde hemelbol 03:00  

5. Dodendans 11:33  

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Se Lusiferin Kannel ‎– Valtakunta (2LP) 25,99 €

2 × Vinyl, LP, Album

Originally self-released digitally during October 2017, Valtakunta is Se Lusiferin Kannel's first public recording despite the band existing since 2012.

KHAVAR - INTERVIEW

1. Khavar was born a bit from the dissolution of the band The Weeping Willow, why was this project put to an end to give it a continuation in the form of Khavar? Was it necessary for you to make a change of record? What does Khavar bring you? with respect to other projects in which they are involved? 

The Weeping Willow was everything i worked for and wanted for many years, it was very hard to keep up with the line up changes and not having a full team backing me up for better sound more records and full support. After many years trying to understand and deal with everyones trips, egos and opinion it became stressful and unproductive, i felt i needed to end the band after playing along Grave death gods of the old school in 2017 some of my members were even late for the gig, many mistakes and it felt like the end of the world on stage, after that i made up my mind and still played a final gig with decapitated in 2018. Khavar is a tight band, where i need to keep working and challenging myself in every song, my bandmates are talented and easy to deal with and after having derek roddy on drums what else you wish for, his a living machine! and i respect and fan of every members individual work.

2. Khavar is a word of Armenian origin that means darkness, why did you choose this name? Does the term darkness define Khavar's musical proposal?

Im Armenian Lebanese and always had the question where is home? i always found comfort in darkness and it felt home, yes our music has lots of dark tunes and mood.

3. Khavar's line-up is made up of a good number of musicians belonging to the extreme scene of Lebanon, can we be talking about a Lebanese super group? Is it very difficult to manage the egos within Khavar? 

Yes we can say its a lebanese super group with the most humble and hardworking members, I’ve worked with marco so many years and we never even argued haha, everyone does his thing and it becomes khavar.

4. "In Absence of Light" is Khavar's first album, how was the writing and recording process for this album? What main influences have helped you define the sound of the album?

Well for the first time didn’t plan a style or how heavy or dark it has to be, every song has its own mood and style but somehow its dark and extreme we just let the music take over, not plan and line everything up, lots of music influences most of us and not only metal.

5. The sound of “In Absence of Light” in a simple way can be described as black / death, however there are many other styles clearly present and with prominence in the final result. How would you define the sound of the album for those who still Haven't heard it? Since are all these influences on your sound (progressive, folk, heavy, thrash) due?

We all come from different backgrounds, us we live in the middle east we have this local folk influence for sure and everyone loves and listens to many different styles, i say, if you are into metal and not afraid of experimenting give it a listen and if you think its ur regular black/death band surely its not.

6. Your sound reflects a lot of darkness and your lyrics also have a component of death and destruction. Are these aspects the result of the situation in a country like Lebanon that somehow makes themselves felt in your music?

Growing up in Beirut was not easy and still to this day, imagine being in class as a 9 year old kid with bombs falling around running to the shelter waiting fro the parents to come pic you up when its ceasefire, some people pretend darkness some people live it.Unfortunately this is all we know.

7. The album cover can serve as an example of the above, who designed the cover and what do you intend to transmit with it?

Marco our bassist and designer did it, it represents the August 4 blast that killed more than 200 and injured around 6,000 in seconds, the cloud shapes of a mother crying after losing her family.

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8. You are a group that has never renounced the possibility of being able to offer concerts. How complicated is it to be able to carry out a concert in your country? Is it difficult to be an extreme metal band in a country like Lebanon ? How is the extreme metal scene in your country?

It is hard to do concerts because of the cost, but we have everything we want in terms of gear and sound, for a while religious people fought us with the government as satanic or whatever bullshit even jailed us for no legal reason, in the end we always managed to play, scene is fine but covid killed it for now lets hope for the best.

9. How did the emergence of Covid-19 affect you as a band? Have you managed to maintain greater contact with your fans thanks to the new situation experienced by Covid?

The bad part we can’t get derek and play a gig since its impossible with the lockdown  distancing and the economical problems in lebanon, we keep in touch on social media zoom, instagram and all that sucks but yeah this is the new world now.

10. The album has been self-released in digital format, is there a possibility of it being reissued in physical format? Is there interest from a record label for the reissue of the album?

i would love to have a physical copy we all do but cds and dead and we didn’t try or beg labels for any deal haha, so yeah maybe one day we have a good label.

11. How were your beginnings in music: first albums you bought, first concerts you attended? What did you do in your lives that made you want to be musicians?

when i was 8 my cousin gave me tapes to listen to one of them was slayer reign in blood, black sabbath and testament after that it went on and on, at 12 bought my first electric guitar which i had to work in my fathers factory for the summer and buy it from my own money, never had the chance to see a concert like a big international band we only had local bands playing covers also first gig at 12 when a band covered sepultura i was happy lol, always wanted to play the guitar loud and share it with bunch of people it drove me to start a band and did it also to make a living i worked in the musical instruments business and still do so i don’t have to play for 100$ a night.

12. Which album represents the essence of black metal for you? Which extreme metal album is the most important for you on the Lebanese scene? What recent albums have you acquired?

In the nightside eclipse left a mark on me, we had a local band here called Cimmerian path unfortunately they did one album, cattle decapitation death atlas.

13. Are you working on new songs to give continuity to this first album? Do you have a concert planned?

New song on the way its with derek now when the drums is done the guys will build on it and it would be out on our youtube channel khavarband hopefully in couple of weeks, also writing more songs with no plans to play live now unless cover dies.

14. Thank you very much for the time dedicated to Black Metal Spirit, if you want to add something for Khavar fans this is the place. I hope the questions have been to your liking.

Thank you brothers and sisters keep digging bands like us and make them talk to the world stay dark! KHAVAR!

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Azziard / Nirnaeth ‎– Azziard / Nirnaeth (7” Limited to 100 numbered copies on white vinyl) 17,99 €

Limited to 100 numbered copies on white vinyl.

THE KRYPTIK

 

Origen: Brasil, Rio de Janeiro

Formados: 2013

Estilo: Black

Temática:  Anti-religión y satanismo

Enlaces: Bandcamp y facebook

Miembros: 

• Sinner Guitarra, teclados y voces
• Tormentor Bajo y batería

Discografía:

• From the Evil Paths Single 2015  
• Darkness Purging the Light Demo 2016  
• The Hordes of Cain Demo 2016  
• Through Infinity of Darkness CD 2017  
• Darkness Purging the Light / The Hordes of Cain Recopilatorio 2019  
• When the Shadows Rise CD 2019  
• Behold Fortress Inferno EP 2020
• Invocations in Misanthropic Darkness Split 2020
• A Journey to the Darkest Kingdom CD 2023

BEHOLD FORTRESS INFERNO (2020)

En activo desde 1998 como Cryptic Lorn lo cierto es que su nuevo Ep es un golpe en la cara a todo lo establecido y una sorpresa muy grata dentro de un black metal de sabor añejo e influencias nórdicas. Casi cuarenta minutos a lo largo de seis temas repletos de recursos y estructuras encaminadas a traernos un sonido de black melódico sueco, elementos sinfónicos, una lúgubre atmosfera y jugueteos con un sonido black que se funde con el thrash más abrasivo y primitivo. The Kryptik se ha empeñado en hacer retroceder al oyente a mediados/comienzos de los noventa, con unos riffs afilados y abrasivos que se inspiran en bandas como Darkthrone, a la vez de no desperdician la oportunidad para emplear líneas de teclados en la mayor parte de sus composiciones que ofrecen un plano más melódico a su propuesta sin descuidar algunas partes que recuerdan también al black sinfónico en sus inicios. La ambientación es soberbia desde el órgano del inicio, lúgubre y siniestro, hasta los aullidos de lobos, el viento y demás elementos que hacen acto de presencia a lo largo del EP. Las voces suena crudas y desgarradas cuando la propuesta cobra velocidad pero también saben adoptar un tono más oscuro y denso cuando es requerido, a la par que el uso de segundas voces y coros que abren el plano de las composiciones a una faceta sinfónica y épica. Es tal el número de elementos en forma de influencias clásicas que The Kryptik sabe plasmar en este Ep que sin lugar a dudas estamos ante uno de los lanzamientos más interesantes y completos dentro del black con sabor añejo. (8,4).

Purity Through Fire

1. Behold Fortress Inferno 08:13  

2. The Plagues of the Abyss 08:28  

3. ...of Darkness 03:03  

4. Black Legions March 05:53  

5. Paths from Eternity 06:38  

6. Funeral Fog (Mayhem cover) 06:59  

  39:14

DARKENHOLD

 ARCANE & SORTILÉGES (2020)

Quinta entrega para los franceses en un trabajo mucho más refinado que anteriores entregas, rico en matices y con una perfecta sincronización entre el black metal y las partes más ambientales. Desde su formación allá por 2008 los franceses han dado buen cuenta de un sonido black de corte medieval que tal vez ha encontrado en este "Arcanes & sortilèges" un punto de referencia claro en sonidos de bandas de los noventa en donde las partes melódicas de su black metal, junto con las influencias sinfónicas iban de la mano en pos de construir un sonido portentoso rico en matices. Desde el inicio con "Oriflamme", Darkenhold muestra todas sus cartas, un sonido temas extensos con variedad de elementos entre los que podemos encontrar una línea atmosférica que acompaña a la música, como hilo conductor a lo hora de traernos ese ambiente oscuro y bélico medieval, riffs portentosos que esta vez beben mucho más directamente del sonido clásico de lo noventa en un lugar que podemos situar entre el sonido de Satyricon o Dimmu Borgir de finales del pasado milenio, todo ello acompañado de inesperados cambios de ritmo que hacen que la música pierda velocidad pero gane un componte más folk o pagan. Las voces se muestran soberbias tanto en el apartado más agresivo y directo que se contrapone magníficamente al componente melódico que emana de su música, como en las más limpias y accesibles que son capaces de añadir un plano más intimista y evocador. Todo ello en un trabajo que encuentra un equilibrio perfecto entre la agresividad, la crudeza, la melodía y el ambiente, todo ello con un componente medieval en un trabajo del todo recomendable por lo completo que resulta. (7,9).

Les Acteurs de l'Ombre Productions

1. Oriflamme 05:57  

2. L'ost de la forteresse 06:33  

3. Incantations 05:59  

4. Mystique de la vouivre 05:34  

5. La tour de l'alchimiste 01:00  

6. Héraldique 06:06  

7. Bestiaire fantastique 06:30  

8. Le sanctuaire embrasé 05:49  

9. Dans le cabinet de l'archimage 03:04  

  46:32

BELTEZ

 

Origen: Alemania, Colonia

Formados: 2002

Estilo: Black

Temática: Anarquía, depresión y suicido

Enlaces: Bandcamp, facebook y youtube

Miembros:

• Dominic Guitarra y voces
• Jens Guitara y voces
• Max Batería

Discografía:

• Beltane CD 2002  
• Fliehende Stürme Demo 2002  
• Schlachtherr Demo 2002  
• Live in Much Directo 2004  
• Tod: Part 1 CD 2013
• Exiled, Punished...Rejected CD 2017
• A Grey Chill and a Whisper CD 2020

A GREY CHILL AND A WHISPER (2020)

Cuarto álbum para los alemanes, dentro de una carrera que está ofreceindo sus mejores momentos en la actual época de la banda, dentro de una carrera que se va acercando a las dos décadas. Este "A Grey Chill and a Whisper" es un álbum extenso que debería de situar a Beltez en un nuevo escalón por encima de la media. "A Grey Chill and a Whisper" cuenta con una virtud muy importante, es capaz de rescatar influencias del sonido más clásico dentro de su vertiente atmosférica dentro del black de los noventa, pero con la suficiente ambición para saber darle un toque personal en donde se plasman influencias más actuales. El álbum suena compacto y desde el comienzo podemos comprobar el gusto por un black atmosférico de corte clásico, arraigado en las vertiente más underground del género, elemento presente en todas las composiciones con un mayor o menor peso, pero que dotan al sonido de este "A Grey Chill and a Whisper" de un aura muy reconocible. El grueso de las composiciones tienen un trasfondo de black melódico gracias a la influencia de las guitarras y  también a la presencia de arreglos de teclado que de manera lenta van imprimiendo un carácter melancólico al álbum a la vez que no descuidan el plano atmosférico. "A Grey Chill and a Whisper"  acaba por traernos también registros doom y por que no progresivos, sobre todo en las segunda parte del álbum que se muestra más concreto en cuanto a ofrecer una visión más depresiva de su música y en donde no renuncian a emplearse a fondo en un apartado vocal que con un registro centrado en la rabia y la agresividad tanto llega a transitar por lo atmosférico como por la vertiente depresiva que se vislumbra en un segundo plano a lo largo del álbum. Beltez a encontrado el camino correcto con sus tres últimos álbumes y sus límites sólo ellos saben donde se encuentran. (8).

Avantgarde Music

1. In Apathy and in Slumber 01:45   instrumental

2. The City Lies in Utter Silence 10:48

Silence Absent are any signs of Life A nameless City under a cloud-laden Sky Dwelling aimless in vain existence Half-awake, half-alive, half deceased Slumber in dark sinister dreams No expectations for a Sun to shine (An) Image of the Sun just a fading Memory Only a dim remembrance Of how things once had been Slumber in dark sinister dreams An unchanging hollow Existence Above the dreaming dead-like Place An ancient fortress towered in the Sky Erected in Colors of grey and black From Bricks of Marble and Iron Frozen in sheer terror The Fear plainly in their eyes Like walking on a Fog No Sound to be heard The City had fallen in Silence Like walking on a Fog The Figures hover through Streets No Movement to be noticed No Sound to be heard Being Human only in shape, but with no Faces to be seen Black against a grey sunless Sky The City had fallen in utter Silence Under an everlasting sunless sky with clouds of grey No Name to call this Place The procession begins, the Bell is sounding Something unworldly, an echoing noise More to be felt then something to be heard Like a Mist of Sound oozing down After the Sound fades they emerged Procession slowly down into the alley From the Gate they came a Line of hooded Figures Clad in grey, black and white Slumber in dark sinister dreams An unchanging hollow Existence Above the dreaming dead-like Place An ancient fortress towered in the Sky Erected in Colors of grey and black From Bricks of Marble and Iron 

3. Black Banners 06:05

Dwelling under a sunless sky Abandoned but not alone Two Souls bound by friendship by love for thought and wisdom Surrounded by ordinary people Whom never question their lives Living their hollow existence Daily routine without sense Through the Grey Veil of Reality A cut runs through this morning Awoken in half light With a shadow on the heart No reason to rise As daily routine never changes But then the fortress bell rang With the sound comes shock and terror Clad in rags of Grey and black The unholy Procession moves Like black Tar they flow through the Streets  

4. A Taste of Utter Extinction 09:49

  No acceptance

No understanding

I can´t comprehend this fate

I am in constant disbelieve

I want to choose my fate on my own

As I refuse any predetermination

I can not be the only one

The only one with a glimpse of hope

So the decision has been made

We will run from this mad asylum

Unable to believe, unwilling to obey

My breath leaves me, I feel life is fading away from me

My mind is clouded with dark thoughts

Endless pain without been wounded, as if my soul is ripped from me

A taste of complete Extinction

I feel oblivion is forcing me under its spell

To make our escape

From this place of doom

Somewhere there must be a different life

A place of freedom and free will

The glooming loss of identity

A destiny as black as night

With it will come the lost of the soulmate

And then I be alone in this dark place

It seems like an easy way out

accepting the banner and surrender

Invigorated by the Thought of sudden Death

But we will not make this unholy decision

Beyond the river there is the Unknown

Flowing water that will take us away

It can not be impossible to cross

Nothing else is on my Mind

5. The Unwedded Widow 06:39  

He is a prey to the shadows

She is an unwedded widow

The dreadful banner,

it towers over them

6. From Sorrow into Darkness 01:30   instrumental

7. A Grey Chill and a Whisper 08:38

  Born and raised

(In this) Place of Sickness

A barren existence in eternal twilight

I have faced the horror of reality

Seeking a new beginning

Shatter the old rusted chains

Unknown thoughts awaken deep in me

Where is the well that

brought this new thoughts?

This reflection became my new found power

Thoughts lingering in darkness and rage

Burning like a flaming sword

He understands now. This is an inhuman fate

With its sinister sharp soundless voice

The fortress, looming high, is calling him to its gates

(By) soundless noises

Is this his unconditional surrender

As he slowly walks in confusion

Realizing hate and love are closely together

He became emotionally broken and without hope

Following them on the undiscovered trail

Leave the old Path and leave the day

become one of the shadows, whom hold the sign

An hooded existence in eternal night

Grab the Banner with Pride and despair

Following them on the undiscovered trail

The Time is here

Sanity breaks and vanishes

With soul-breaking pain

Every sound of the bell births endless fear

The echos rupture the spirit

All the noises suddenly die

And with them the sanity of the one that will fall

So It begins, with a grey chill and a whisper

a metamorphosis into horror upon horrors

to join the ranks of the hooded ghosts

to follow the dark fate

There is no Gate, no earthly entrance

Absent is all life, a dead wasteland

There only is an bizarre glow

Like an ominous invocation

Above the grey mass of shades

The Black Banners tremble

Follows miraculous behavior

Eternal caress of darkness and shadow

8. I May Be Damned but at Least I've Found You 14:13

 Dreadful fortress hovering high

Final destination after a fateful decision

Walking the road of the dead

Fire of Thoughts

Disguised in human Shape

A mystical discovery

Part of an interwoven mind

A greater purpose under the Sign

Of the Banner so black

Rise of horror testimony

of the timeless bestial shrine

Echos of unhallowed thoughts and lies

Never had any living soul returned

From the towering fortress

build by an inhuman force

Finally the black gate

Massive and unreal

As if forged by the hands of Giants

Not of this Earth

The weight of stones and iron

Pressed hard against his chest

From his heart emerged

A small flame of red light

The black gate opens up

Then grey mists began to cloud his mind

any doubt in his Decision

is lost in oblivion

Pitch-black darkness engulfs him

while frozen in fear

He follows the path

into nothingness

A hooded Ghost

speaks without Words

Fire of Thoughts

Disguised in human Shape

A mystical discovery

Part of an interwoven mind

A greater purpose under the Sign

Of the Banner so black

Rise of horror testimony

of the timeless bestial shrine

"You are damned

By your own will

You have chosen this path

for yourself"

The friend in sight

Transformed and lost

No release from the shadows

No escape from fate

Finally acceptance for their fate

He speaks

"I may be damned but at least i´ve found you

9. We Remember to Remember 05:38

  After the walls came down

The sun returned

Two lives were lost

We remember their names

Times passed,

Memories faded

Knowledge was lost

We remember their tasks

Later on

a legend was formed

Details lost in Darkness

We remember to remember

We remember to reme

  01:05:05

ANACHITIS

 

Origen: E.E.U.U., Portland

Formados: 2020

Estilo: Black depresivo

Temática: Extinción de la vida, perdida de identidad y subconsciente.

Enlaces: Facebook

Miembros:

• James Sloan Todo

Discografía:

• The Sorcerer's Sorrow CD 2020

THE SORCERER´S SORROW (2020)

Primer larga duración para este nuevo proyecto detrás del cual se encuentra el guitarrista de los estadounidense Uada. Un primer álbum conceptual centrado en el conocimiento esotérico y que se desgrana en forma de siete temas que se pueden encuadrar dentro del black depresivo, no por responder a la variante más ortodoxa del estilo, sino por Sloam rodea su propuesta con un ambiente oscuro, denso, agobiante y melancólico. El punto central de las composiciones reside en las capas de guitarra que no difieren en exceso de una propuesta black melódica, con algunos cambios de ritmo improvisados que permite recobrarnos del letargo en que nos van sumiendo los riffs que funcionan como un trance que va atrapando al oyente poco a poco. La primera parte del álbum es un punto más directa que la segunda en donde podemos encontrar una mayor duración de lo temas que nos permite disfrutar tanto de una ambientación más ritualista como de una mayor complejidad de melodías. Las voces se decantan por una faceta de aullidos y gritos oscuros en donde descubrimos desesperación y melancolía que se complementan a la perfección con la instrumentación, sin una presencia preponderante pero antojándose necesaria. Sloam construye un álbum repleto de riffs memorables, sin dejar de lado su faceta más melódica, al tiempo que ofrece un ambientación oscura y enfermiza que lleva esta álbum a terrenos más cercanos a lo depresivo. (8,2).

Avantgarde Music

1. Athamé of Flame 06:40

  So take this Flame,

Erase me.

Destroy me.

They call my name

Erase me!

Shattered

Silenced

The gift of Death.

Forgotten,

Destroyed!

Nothing feels the same

I'm tired of this place

Drifting alone

The Flame becomes my home

Forever!

2. The Sorcerer's Sorrow 05:00

  Voice within

The spell lives!

Odious Dreams...

Internal sovereign

Bleeding

He is...

Suffering!

I dream this world

Sacrimony

I want to Die!

3. Drowned in the Spring of Life 05:29

Gasping For breath Dreaming Of Death DROWNING In the spring of life... Dying! The Poison Enters my mind I regain Clarity! I CURSE THIS LIFE! DROWNING LEAVING DYING  

4. Dead Spirit 06:18

  Lying

Deciever

Endlessly I tried

Free me!

Chasing my own life

Feeling alive

But it matters not

I'm alone

I hate my life

I feel the Knife!

5. The Sleepless Eye 05:45

The lidless eye Stiring within my mind The sleepless sigh... Entering the light... Boundless The spell Endless... Sleepless eye Sleeping mind End my universe 

6. Mirror of Voices 07:18

Voices Within me To face the mirror Endless Pain PAIN! Blinded Meet my end. Speechless Insane... Endless pain ENDLESS! Voice within Howling! Calling... Breath in... Spirit adjurn Instinct  

7. Livre des Esperitz 02:41  

  39:11

Se Lusiferin Kannel ‎– Valtakunta (2LP) 27,99 €

2 × Vinyl, LP, Album

Originally self-released digitally during October 2017, Valtakunta is Se Lusiferin Kannel's first public recording despite the band existing since 2012.

AMMYT

 

Origen: Alemania, Weiden.

Formados: 2012

Estilo: Black melódico

Temática: ?

Enlaces: Ammyt, facebook y youtube

Miembros:

• Adrian Bodensteiner Batería
• Daniel Brenner Guitarra y voces
• Fabian Wirth Bajo y voces
• Philipp Hagn Guitarra

Discografía:

• The Seventh Hour Demo 2015  
• Between Art and Madness CD 2016  
• Demo 2018 Demo 2018  
• New Perspectives CD 2020

NEW PERSPECTIVES (2020)

Segundo álbum para estos germanos en donde las influencias en su sonido del death melódico están mucho más presentes y definidas que en su anterior "Between Art and Madness". Este nuevo "New Perspectives" es mucho más completo en muchos aspectos, Ammyt mantiene el tono melódico a lo largo de la mayoría de las composiciones, rapidez y voces que encajan perfectamente en el estilo acaban por atrapar al oyente en una propuesta que se deja llevar por el death melódico escandinavo de comienzos de milenio. Sin embargo sería del todo injusto pasar por lato el esfuerzo que ha hecho Ammyt para dejar su impronta personal  y no sonar como un refrito de lo ya expuesto hace un par de décadas por otras bandas. Este álbum logra trasmitir una musicalidad que traspasa fronteras y estilos precisamente por el acertado esfuerzo en incorporar elementos de procedencia heavy y thrash a lo largo y ancho de la mayoría de los temas, dotando al sonido y al resultado final del mismo de mucho más groove y de un regusto a clásico y sobre todo mostrando que la banda arrastra un profundo trasfondo de influencias que van más allá de lo que a simple vista dejan entrever en un primer momento. Tal vez, uno de los mayores aciertos de Ammyt en este álbum es presentarlo sin hacer ruido, que le oyente se deje atrapar por los portentosos riffs de tono death/black melódico, por las profundas y cavernosa voces y la hilarante batería, pero al mismo tiempo, que sea capaz de descubrir el bagaje que encierra en su interior este álbum con estilos que muchas veces dejan un poso a sonido clásico. (7,9).

1. The Horror of Habit 01:16  

2. Phobia 03:36  

3. As Leaves Turn Red 05:31  

4. Dreamcatcher 04:26  

5. Valkyr 04:44  

6. Stranded 04:18  

7. Mask in the Mirror 04:30  

8. To Reach the Shore 02:25  

9. City of Memories 03:46  

10. No Time to Waste 03:57  

11. To Reach the Shore 02:25  

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Origen: Libano, Beirut

Formados: 2018

Estilo: Black, death

Temática: Oscuridad

Enlaces: Bandcamp y facebook

Miembros:

• Derek Roddy Batería
• Garo Gdanian Guitarra
• Kamal Khoueiry Voces
• Marco Ghorayeb Bajo
• Youssef Helayel Guitarra

Discografía:

• In Absence of Light Full-length 2020
• Slaughtered Youth Single 2021  
• Wisdom of Wanderers Single 2022
• Slavery Is Still Single 2023  
• Death Toll Single 2023  
• Fortune Teller Single 2023  
• Shadow of Cedars Single 2024  
• In Presence of Darkness EP 2025

IN ABSCENCE OF LIGHT (2020)

Primer larga duración para esta banda libanesa que cuenta con un elenco de músicos en sus filas con un dilatada experiencia en la escena. Un primer álbum de ocho temas con un sonido compacto y directo que tiene una fuerte influencia del death melódico en mayor medida, tanto en voces guturales y profundas como en todo lo que tiene que ver con al instrumentación, imparable doble bombo y rugosos riffs asesinos. Dicho esto hay que comenzar a matizar, el álbum varia muchas veces de registro y estructuras emprendiendo un viaje hacia la oscuridad para regresar y vestirse con elementos más próximos al progresivo por ejemplo, para dejarse otra vez sumergir en las profundidades del death con matices black. A pesar de no ser un álbum muy extenso si que lo expuesto se muestra mastodóntico, con un registro de guitarras elaborado y profundo, en donde la base de death se ve enriquecida por un regusto a estilos más clásicos como el heavy que se cuelan sutilmente en el trasfondo de los temas y que junto con las disonancias presentes en mayor medida enriquecen el resultado final de este trabajo. El apartado vocal se mueve por los registros esperados dentro de un estilo como el death melódico, potente y gutural pero como elemento destacable echa mano de partes limpias, algunas muy logradas, que sirven tanto para dejar un poso a elementos progresivos o heavys, como también para ofrecer un paisaje más sosegado en medio de la tormenta. El álbum se completa con pasajes folk y atmosféricos de procedencia árabe, como recordatorio del origen del grupo y de la barbarie que sufre el país, elementos estos que aparecen en las composiciones con un papel fundamentas, no como mero adorno, y añade un tono diferente al álbum. En definitiva un trabajo complejo en sus partes más death por la abundancia de las estructuras desarrolladas pero completo en apartados como las voces, ambientación y sobre todo en los enormes riffs. (7,6).

1. Red Snakes 04:58

The red snakes flowing to the edge of the world, so much history in the making. our time have been filled with tragic killings, Atomic bombs that lit the skies. Innocence is not a word to consider ever since the rat race begun ever since we convinced ourselves that we belong to a particular race of men Rivers of blood divers of sins that's what we left behind as we approach the mid end of our story. we totally forgot that we must have came from one father one mother only at the later stages of development of the human species. As space and time departs on this neverending journey The more we became, the more we are forgotten Follow me up on bloodlust  

2. Left Unspoken 03:35

   Flawless

Abided by the rules

Robotic anima

Total annihilation

Demonic anima

Words in particules

formed through wounds

fountain of expressions,

to deliberation

Forced path

leading to wrath 

Riots on the streets

Letters in the hearts

till when will we keep

our minds shut?

when will we let

those words out ? 

All these years

in SILENCE

close to tears

left unspoken

All those times in DENIAL

kill the beast

left unbroken

All those years

in SILENCE

got rid of fears

left unspoken

3. Death Card Dealer 05:10

Death Card Dealer Cigarette lit staring at the looking glass Mind afloat, grey hair, in mass years flown by, flew by fast Can of worms by hundreds surpassed Canons & Bombs Screams and Cries Widows and orphans, deceipt and lies Education shut dowm, darkness avails Favored children, run off the rails. Power and liquid poison, temptation over fear. A tendency to bite the apple, lose all that's dear. One after the other, faces we knew fading Strong willed adolescents, refraining. The grub of today, a luxury Sweat and labor, compulsory One word fits all, uncertainty. Never ending struggle, tirelessly A Bond, a brotherhood, keeping us sane Two decades now, so much to drain a garden of misery for the mentally decayed a third patrol, impaled The merciless hands of it move fast it has ruthless ways so vast May we survive it, like we did in the past? Endless ambivalence, Blast. Death Card Dealer   

4. Nh4no3 06:01

fi kalbi rom7on kharikon 3amik men jourou7? watanen lam tajfuno yawman 3ayniouhou asba7at doumou3 el oumahat zakzaktou el sabah wal 3asafir fi arden lam ta3rifou yawman el salam Killing your own people is not something that will go untold. The 3rd largest explosion in human history Left the city strangled in the dirt of the other nations interests. Strangled We're up to another cycle of war No matter what words could express, the vision was a huge mushroom cloud. I instantly understood the size of the tragedy and it flew as an arrow straight to my heart. A dark evil force blew up Beirut and left its people crawling for rescue. Bloodshed mixed with glass and chaotic destruction, was the shape of the city. Over 200 people were killed in cold blood More than 3,000 wounded some of them still holding at the very thin line between life and death. the city just faded in the shadows of this nuclear massacre. These people did not really deserve this level of hatred and slaughterous powers. These leaders did not deserve this nation and fuck what politics brings to the table. Tormented imcompetent corrupted pigs... Leaders of religious parties may you burn in the fires of hell. The butcher, murder, annihilation of our people will not go unjustified, unjudged even for hundreds of years.Our people will learn through generations. what living hell you made out of this heaven.  

5. Sun Swallow Earth 04:11

   12 Billion Years Old

A Swollen Star in conversion

the red giant is about to explode

and within the radius of its space

a strange blue rock that will fade

A horrible shadowiness is in stream

5 billion years away, In our cave of dreams

gifted visions of one last horizon.

Our sun slowly expanding and brightening

Our watery planet left dry & thirsty

Brown and uninhabitable

Desiccating every continent.

SUN SWALLOW EARTH

and with it all memories of every life

SUN SWALLOW EARTH

and with it all orbiting planets

SUN SWALLOW EARTH

SUN SWALLOW EARTH

closing chapters of exsistence within its core.

And at its final stage

our beloved star

that made life possible for dawns of time

will collapse and rest into a white dwarf

leaving a shadow in a colorful cloud

of what we ever were and what we will ever be

SUN SWALLOW EARTH

and with it all memories of every life

SUN SWALLOW EARTH

and with it all orbiting planets

SUN SWALLOW EARTH

engulfing all their energy within its body

SUN SWALLOW EARTH

closing chapters of exsistence within its core

6. Warden of Agony 05:20

Warden of agony where have you flawn Raise the voice the gates are open Fluctuating in a mob risking all warfare deep Chasing a demon within him change of all season to Winter in Leaving the power behind him Autumn has gone forever Human no human has ever gone blind this much in his mind devouring logic Demon in demon has clearly defied all values through ages Fungus born in green leaves destroying life dysfunctional carbonized deicide Chasing a demon within him change of all season to Winter in Leaving the power behind him Autumn has gone forever Wishes fall like leaves rusty in their core blessful all in siege standing all alone Time has gone too fast reaching a place that's sole human will you last to fight this war 

7. Surviving the Great Flood 04:41

At the gates of heavens

gods proclaiming return

to earth to reverse the course

of creation

Preparing the termination

of the underworld

after the failure to receive

a nation

This nation has failed the gods

who created it and the flood is on the way

the end is a watery chaos sinking everyone away

The great flood is gonna get us all

Seeing our land was corrupt

and filled with violence

the fountains of the great deep burst apart

and the floodgates of the heavens broke open

All them yeti leaders will ignore the story (the story)

and the hot rain wil scald the skin of their sinner hearts.

Scald the skin

Of their Sinner Hearts

Flood their lungs

with poisons of the gods

They forced the wrath

to blow their lives

Their rule was not

for humans to reside

But to escape!

Water will roll you deep inside its waves

Water will not let your breath take a rest

Water will seize the day before your eyes

We wont care if we die, with all the wealth you theft from us.

Finally we will submit to the end

but most of all what's satisfying

is that armageddon is here and the divine

judgment of everything will flood you here to burn

you down in deep hells you filthy scum.

8. The Prey 04:59

  Stay away!

From misery yeah

Predators are here yeah

Smelling the prey

Far the way

distance from dream yeah

finally free yeah

life is a lie

life is a dream

life is a lie

First since your born

they bury the lie before your eyes

they seldom wisdom and fantasize

prepare your to be the prey

a victim that's about to be chewed

and spit out like a moth

letting all the feelings off

your soul temple

your body and vessel

letting all the feelings off

not to remember

from where you blasted off

Torn into pieces

vision almost disappears

consciousness of wilderness

totally deprieved

scarred shaking almost breaking

heart inside stops

Heart totally stops

Pray to your line

to a God that recieves

The prey on its way

to decieve

Take all the lies

you're a human inside

The prey on its way

to decieve

Torn into pieces

vision almost disappears

consciousness of wilderness

totally deprieved

scarred shaking almost breaking

Heart totally stops.

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