Long-awaited LP offering from NYC band sees the light This is a content summary only. Click on the story to read the whole thing at InvisibleOranges.com
C'è il nuovo Motorpsycho ma ora come ora non me ne fotte una minchia. Preferisco crogiolarmi con altra roba. Tipo A bra Kadavar dei Kadavar che hanno tirato fuori un discone con i contro cazzi finalmente, godibile dall'inizio alla fine, che gira coerente e costante a ritmi qualitativi elevati dall'inizio alla fine. Si fa tranquillamente perdonare il gusto smaccatamente retrò perchè i pezzi stavolta ci sono, non l'avrei mai detto dopo un debutto 'davvero buono a metà' con una prima parte discreta e una seconda molto migliore li davo per nati già morti. Tipo roba [...]
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Welcome to the Black Market, a new space at Stereogum dedicated to talking about and listening to heavy music. By "heavy music" I mean metal, mostly, although that word is vague and meaningless enough to make it useless at this point. Metal is an insular subculture made up of a zillion insular sub-subcultures - to the outsider it all kind of looks and sounds the same; to the enthusiast, microgenres are delineated by nearly invisible parameters. A while back, I was goofing on Judd Apatow and Billie Joe Armstrong for making a joke about "Norwegian death metal" when [...]
Bloodlands by Ash Borer In a world without Weakling and Xasthur, it's certainly nice to hear and American black metal band as terrifying as they are atmospheric. California's Ash Borer are back and gearing up for the release of their new EP entitled Bloodlands which will be released on Gilead Media and Psychic Violence in April. "Oblivion's Spring" is a sprawling, gloomy, 15-minute epic with plenty of chilling tremolo-picking riffs customary to the genre as well as a healthy dose of funeral doom influence from artists like Ahab and Catacombs. This song comes highly recommended [...]
Ash Borer // “Oblivion’s Spring” Last month American Black Metal outfit Ash Borer announced an upcoming 12” entitled Bloodlands . They didn’t give a release date, which might be a little frustrating for those who like to plot that sort of thing on a calendar, but today they did give a taste of the release in the form of the 15-minute track “Oblivion’s Spring.” You might wanna strap yourselves in for this one. It’s a punisher. Ushering the track with some light yet creepy guitar work, the band establishes a sinister [...]
Arcata, CA black metal quintet Ash Borer are releasing a brand new 12” EP this April to coincide with a European tour and ahead of its release, the band has shared the 15-minute behemoth 'Oblivion's Spring' . Despite its massive running time, 'Oblivion's Spring' is an evenly paced song, beginning in a deceptively serene tone before plunging into the depths of hellishly furious explosions that conjure the impression of being trapped in your worst nightmare and not being able to awake before settling back into the serene murky tones it began with. Stream the track [...]
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Apenas el año pasado Ash Borer puso un sólido material a través de Profound Lore titulado "Cold Of Ages", y ahora ya han dado a conocer los detalles de lo que será su nuevo lanzamiento en formato de vinyl de 12" de nombre "Bloodlands". Si son de las personas que cada Lunes por la mañana están en un mood irritable en el que no se aguantan ni así mismos, pues entonces estos 15 monstruosos minutos en forma de "Oblivion's Spring" los ayudarán a liberar toda esa pesadez y la tensión que los ha acompañado hasta sus [...]
New track emerges from the band's forthcoming 12" This is a content summary only. Click on the story to read the whole thing at InvisibleOranges.com
As far as I'm concerned, Ash Borer are maybe the most exciting act in American black metal today; their 2012 Profound Lore LP, Cold Of Ages , landed at No. 6 on our list of last year's best metal albums , but I sincerely believe it was the sound of a band displaying their potential, not yet realizing it. As I wrote about the band prior to the release of Cold Of Ages : Because of their Cascadian roots and tendency toward songs that rarely clock in at less than double digits, Ash Borer are [...]
Not much for you at the moment but I did pick my 105th Album of the Week: the self-titled LP from Ash Borer on Pesanta Urfolk Records. Nice repress, too, as the original 777-223 pressing vanished into thin mist. I'm ... Continue reading
Welcome to 2013's first Question Of The Week! How did u ring in the new year and put a ringing in your ears?
Finadesso pochissimi post sul Roadburn 2013 perchè nessuna delle band annunciate fino a ieri vinceva sulla pigrizia. E sì che diverse cosette interessanti sono già uscite fuori. Blue Pills, Wo Fat, tanta curiosità per i Kadavar, Primordial, Royal Thunder i primi nomi che mi vengono in mente e che conosco mentre la maggior parte mi è totalmente sconosciuta. C'è da studiare come sempre, sperando di non arrivare troppo nudo alla metà e mangiarmi adesso le mani per aver snobbato il set degli Aluk Todolo , l'ultimo 'Occult Rock' è una meravigliosa [...]
Whether Cold of Ages reflects the repeated patterns of nature and life, a nihilistic devotion to demolition, or rebirth from the ashes has been left open to interpretation. What is very clear, however, is that it is a hugely important album for the US black metal scene. The US black metal scene is filled with headstrong, unique artists and wildly varying geographic and stylistic accents. However, for all its heterogeneousness, the scene has one common denominator; namely, that the artists within often follow their paths with a single-minded purity of vision. Bands may get knocked for being [...]
Servile Sect - "Hyperdimensional Hex 13 MP3/download As Ash Borer continue to gain momentum, perhaps sucking some of the enthusiasm for Servile Sect down the drain, I can't shake the feeling SS render experimental black-metal better than just about anyone. ... Continue reading
. . . . Metal’s relationship with the long song has undergone some pretty significant changes since Black Sabbath first showed us what nine minutes of “Megalomania” might sound like. In the halcyon days of trad metal in the ’80s, bands would only stretch a song beyond the 10-minute mark if they had constructed a true epic, with hooks and riffs for days. That song would almost certainly be the album’s centerpiece. The band would even print the track times on the back of the album sleeve, as though to clue you in: Hey, [...]
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" Descended Lamentations " fue el primer adelanto que pudimos checar del nuevo album de Ash Borer a principios del mes pasado, el cual justamente acaba de salir a la venta el dia de hoy a traves de Profound Lore asi que, como veran, hoy es un buen dia para escuchar algo mas de esta produccion para que se animen a adquirir su respectiva copia de "Cold Of Ages", ya que ademas de que este corte tiene una duracion de 15 minutos, cuenta con la colaboracion especial de Jessica Way de Worm Ouroboros , lo [...]
It's funny that every week there's a different trend in new metal releases: fresh batches of black metal, then stoner metal — hell, last week was a hair metal symposium. And this week's thread is gloomy, depressing Shit That Comes Out Today and that's A-OKAY with me, cause I'm one gloomy mofo. Somber tears and boundless [...]
Travolti dal solito destino nel mare del sudore nel mese di luglio.. Mi trovo in questi giorni ad aver bisogno di roba belluina, "relentless", che mi stropicci per bene ma con intelligenza. Ce la menano con gli Ash Borer , bravini ma secondo me sopravvalutati, se ti chiami come una specie di l ocusta predatrice degli alberi di mezza America mi devi fare cacare liquido e invece il primo full-lenght dello scorso anno era un po' una roba stracciapalle, tre pezzi che ammontano a quaranta minuti l'ultimo dei quali davvero notevole… Originari [...]
American black metal outfit Ash Borer has a new album on the way via Profound Lore, and you can hear a colossal clip of the album's first track above. The 4-track LP will be titled Cold of Ages , which is certainly a fitting title if every track brings the frigid, atmospheric aesthetic the clip above does. Two songs even feature Jessica Way of Worm Ouroboros on vocals as well. Cold of Ages will be out August 14th.
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