torsdag 17 Jan 2013, 2:59

an overview of interesting releases:

BLACK
Acherontas - Amenti - Ψαλμοί Αίματος και Αστρικά Οράματα
Adabroc - Eilean An Fhraoich
Alrakis - Echoes From η Carinae
Angrepp - TBA
Aosoth - IV: An Arrow in Heart
Appalachian Winter - Ghosts of the Mountains
Blåhø - Through Sinister Nightfall * * * *
Blessmon - ...forever cold
Cryptic Forest - Ystyr
Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
Dark Funeral - TBA
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - Necrovision
Deafheaven - Sunbather * * *
Djevel - Besatt av Maane og Natt
Dødsfall - Djevelens Evangelie
Ellende - Ellende
Emyn Muil - Túrin Turambar Dagnir Glaurunga * * * *
EORONT - Neverending Journey
Fen - Dustwalker
Fides Inversa - Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans
Finnr's Cane - A Portrait Painted by the Sun
Flagellant - Maledictum
From the Vastland - Kamarikan
Front Beast - Demon Ways of Sorcery
Glorior Belli - Gators Rumble, Chaos Unfurls
Hæresiarchs of Dis - Thirty-Eighth Sermon Of The Unborn
Horn - Konflikt
Horna - Askel Lähempänä Saatanaa
Imperium Dekadenz - Meadows of Nostalgia
Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
Iskald - Nedom og Nord
Istårn - Skyggeland
Isvind - Daumyra
Kirkebrann - Når Alt Dør
Koldbrann - Vertigo
Lebenswinter - Ohnmacht
Lorn - Subconscious Metamorphosis
Lustre - Lost in lustrous night skies
Lustre - Wonder
Manheim - Nihil
Men An Tol - Dead Trees
Nachtlieder - Nachtlieder
Nahemoth - On the Way to the Land ov Nod * * * *
Nazghor - Life Impaled
Nebelkrähe - Lebensweisen
Nhor - Within the Darkness Between the Starlight
Nocturnal Abyss - From the Depths of Mörkvod * *
Ov Hollowness - The World Ends
Pensées Nocturnes - Nom d'une Pipe
Pest - The Crowning Horror
Quintessenz - Back To The Kult Of The Tyrants
Rotting Christ - Κατά τον δαίμονα εαυτού
Sarke - Aruagint
Sarkom - Doomsday Elite
Satyricon - Satyricon * *
Schattenvald - IV
Skaur - Nordnorsk Svartmetall
Skuggan - Kejsaren av ett svart rike
Slegest - Løyndom
Sombres Forêts - La Mort du Soleil
Steingrab - Äon
Stormlord - Hesperia
Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
Svart - Det personliga helvetets spiral
Svarti Loghin - Skog
Synkvervet - Vår Avmakt
Temple of Baal - Verses of Fire
The Crescent - Risti
Thorngoth - Schwarz-Karg-Kalt
Thou Art Lord - The Regal Pulse of Lucifer
Totengeflüster - Vom Seelensterben
Troll - TBA
Turdus Merula - Nebula
Valfeanor - The Eerie Constellation
Valkyrja - The Antagonist's Fire
Vreid - Welcome Farewell
Watain - The Wild Hunt

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Acacia - Tills Döden Skiljer Oss Åt (Atmospheric/Doom/Acoustic)
Caladan Brood - Echoes of Battle (Epic/Atmospheric)

PAGAN/FOLK/VIKING
Aes Dana - TBA
Aethernaeum - Wanderungen durch den Daemmerwald
Amon Amarth - Deceiver of the Gods
Ancestors Blood - A Moment Of Clarity
Bornholm - Inexorable Defiance
Creature - Helioskron
Darkestrah - Manas
Drengskapur - Der Urgewalten Werk
Ereb Altor - Fire Meets Ice * * * *
Falkenbach - Asa
Falkenbach - Eweroun * * * * (a great song on a useless single…)
Feigd - The Dark Passenger
Fejd - Nagelfar
Finntroll - Blodsvept * * *
Fir Bolg - Towards Ancestral Lands
Firtan - Wogen der Trauer
Fjoergyn - Monument Ende
Fjorsvartnir - A Praise To My Ancestors Preponderance
Flamen - Supremo Die
Fortíð - TBA
Galar - TBA
Galdr - Ancient Light of the Stars * * *
Glittertind - Djevelsvart
Graveland - Thunderbolts of the Gods
Helrunar/Árstíðir Lífsins - Fragments - A Mythological Excavation
Irminsul - Fäder
Kampfar - Djevelmakt
Kroda - Varulven
Lux Divina - Possessed By Telluric Feelings
Månegarm - Legions of the North * * *
Mistur - TBA
Morrigan - Diananns Whisper
Myrkgrav - Forteljinger Frå Finnefjerdingen
Nàttsòl - Iaktta
Nomans Land - Last Crusade
Nydvind - Telluria
Peordh - The Maturing of the Virgin Land
Sylvus - Upon the Onyx Throne
The Meads of Asphodel - Sonderkommando
Thundra - Angstens Salt
Thrudvangar - Tiwaz
Thyrfing - De Ödeslösa * * * *
Týr - Valkyrja * * *
Utstøtt - Legender Odin
Valuatir - Exobnos
Vorna - Ajastaika
Waldgeflüster - Meine Fesseln
Wardruna - Runaljod - Yggdrasil
Wyrd - Death Of The Sun
Zgard - Astral Glow

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Àrsaidh - Roots -> changed name to Saor (Atmospheric/Folk/Celtic)

DEATH
Aeternus - ...and the Seventh His Soul Detesteth
Arsis - Unwelcome
Atomwinter - Atomic Death Metal
Azrath-11 - Ov Tentacles and Spirals
Blood Red Throne - Blood Red Throne
Carcass - Surgical Steel
Children Of Bodom - Halo of Blood * * * (jaja, welcome back COB)
Crystalic - TBA
Dark Tranquillity - Construct * * *
Demonical - Darkness Unbound
Diabolical - Neogenesis
Entombed - Back to the Front
Eternal Oath - Ghostlands * *
Fractal Gates - Beyond The Self
Hate - Solarflesh: A Gospel of Radiant Divinity
Hypocrisy - End Of Disclosure
Illnath - 4 Shades of Me * * * (music is good but the vocals are annoying)
Kalmah - Seventh Swamphony * * *
Kataklysm - Waiting for the End to Come
Lantern - Below
Legion of the Damned - Ravenous Plague
Lunarsea - Hundred Light Years * * * (3,5)
Necrophobic - Womb of Lilithu * * * *
Noumena - Death Walks with Me * *
October Tide - Tunnel of No Light
Pessimist - Death from Above
Shade Empire - Omega Arcane
Shaded Enmity - Forsaken and Forgotten * * * *
Sulphur Aeon - Swallowed by the Ocean's Tide * * * *
Svart Crown - Profane

HEAVY/POWER/THRASH
Lordi - To Beast or Not To Beast
Megadeth - Super Collider
Twilight Of The Gods - Fire On The Mountain
Warfect - Exoneration Denied

CORE
Killswitch Engage - Disarm the Descent * * (can't stand this genre anymore, but there are some good moments nevertheless)

* * * * * - simply perfect

* * * * - great

* * * - good but nothing extraordinary

* * - there are a few good moments but overall it's boring

* - there's nothing i like

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