Country (for what it’s worth): France
Members: Romain Habrzyk (vocals) & Maxime Beiler (aka Leprince) (strings)
Availability: digipack-CD (100 copies) & digital
Artwork: Macchabée Artworks (Matthias Bonhoure) - very adequate cover-artwork, by the way!!!
Production: Nebiros Studio
Duration: 26:42
Genre: DSBM (Depressive-Suicidal Black Metal) / Atmospheric Black Metal
Note: once again a sense of charity floats behind this release. All donations will go to charity-programs in Ukraine that focus on orphans out there. Respect!
Country (for what it’s worth): U.S.A.
Recording: Aberration: Black Dust Studio by DH
Recording: Diabolic Oath: Pale Magus Productions
Mix: Black Dust Studio by DH
Mastering: Colin Marston (Menegroth, The Thousand Caves)
Availability: 7”EP (with download card) & digital
Duration: 12:35
Cover art: Misanthropic Art (Chris Kiesling)
Genre: Morbid Death Metal
Another short one…
Country (for what it’s worth): U.S.A.
Members: Neal Rodriguez (vocals + guitars), Lara Daniel (drums), Yair Vero (guitars), Irving Masvidal (bass)
Production & engineering: Nick Nativo
Duration: 19:28
Genre: Thrash Metal
Introduction: Bloodrunner is a Thrash-act from Chicago (Illinois) that started almost two decades ago. After a demo and a first official album, things got silent for almost fifteen years. …until now…
A short one…
I promised (myself) to write down my thoughts on this debut album (and sole full-length until now) after my review for the EP Turiya; and because of my appreciation, ‘back then’ as well as now (as from their new yet absolutely marvelous sonic approach), for German label Dunkelheit Produktionen.
Members on this album: Akif aka Plague (guitars & recording), Ah Puch (drums), Rivoo aka Tiyanak (vocals & bass)
I’m not sure, yet I think I never wrote a review for Seatle-based Noise-label Imploding Sounds before. A pity, for this netlabel does house quite some fine and/or ‘popular’ artists: Lord Cernunnos, TAB IN/TAB OUT, Juanito))), RDKPL and many, many more. But anyway, now I will, because of (1) the qualitative high-level roster behind this label (they are always worth being mentioned somehow) and because of (2) both projects involved within this split.
Quite recently I got in touch with George ‘Solaris Lupus’, the guy behind Aspaarn. Aspaarn is a Swiss solo-outfit that released two full length and two mini releases until now. This review will deal with the debut, because, dixit the soul behind it, ‘it is the genesis of the project and by far the most instinctive and spontaneous’. That’s a good reason for focusing on that first recording.
Raffaele Pezzella, musician, master, label owner and so much more, came with the idea to have a kind of ‘contest’, an award in order to go even further with the promotion of the scene. This ‘election’ must be seen as a dedication to the underestimated worlds of sonic satisfaction, where / when ‘darkness’ and ‘innovation’ meet.
I will not go too deep into my ‘acquaintance’ with Kadaitcha. My initial ‘appreciation’ has, besides my acquaintance with the sympathetic Andrii, two sonic sources as well: the Tar album, which just blew me away (figuratively, for I am too muscled -hehe- to be blown apart), and the collaborative work Dotla, a symbiotic effort of Kojoohar and Ködzid Goo.
I wouldn’t define this Ukrainian band like just a side-project of Bestial Invasion, yet fact is that the (original) members are (were) involved with that well-known Sumy-based act (relocated to Zhytomyr in the meantime). The trio started under the Cosmic Jaguar moniker in 2022 and released their first full-length The Legacy Of The Aztecs in early 2023 via Thrash / Speed / Heavy / True Metal label Metal Warrior Records (also home to Bestial Invasion).
