Hypnodrone Ensemble is a collaboration in between two famous artists, Eric Quach of thisquietarmy-fame, and Nadja’s Aidan Baker (on October 3rd 2014 this top-webzine Concreteweb ( ;-) ) updated the review on Caudal’s second album, Ascension, which was released via the fabulous Belgian label Consouling Sounds on the very same day as this album; Caudal are another project Aidan Baker is involved
Ordoxe are a Canadian band, formed in 1989 by Jean-François Jalbert (v, g). In 1993 he also founded Slaotvean, and since this one became rather ‘popular’, Jean-François decided to put his initial outfit on hold. After a while however, Ordoxe were reformed (in 2006 and 2007), and in that period they recorded two full lengths, Sorrick Ked Tho and Magnum Opus, both released via Forever Night.
It’s been quite a while that I listened to a new Pagan Records-release. Since I am a ‘fan’ and a collector, I used to buy many hands full of material from this Polish label during the nineties (Lux Occulta, Profanum, Moon, Varathron, Misteria etc.), but as from this century it somewhat faded away.
Germany’s Black Autumn were formed by M. Krall in 1995. The first years this solo-project did not release anything official, yet as from this century on, Black Autumn turned out to be a rather productive entity.
American combo Lucifer D. Larynx And The Satanic Grind Dogs Of Death (what’s in a name?...) perform Corpse Fucking Necro Metal. So, the most difficult part of this review has passed…
On the September 9th 2014’s Concreteweb-update we included the Pagan Assault-review for the Révolte Contre La Destinée-album. Pagan Assault is a solo-outfit by Frenchman KFD, the same guy who runs Soleil Blanc Productions, and the same guy behind Anthropophobe. The latter is a largely underestimated project that released a first album in 2012, which was called Le Royaume Des Morts (‘kingdom of the dead’).
Two years after the first demo-tape, which was called God’s Abomination, the Finnish horde Obscure Burial returns with the sophomore demonstrational recording, once again released on cassette via mighty Invictus Productions. The band, with members of Ancestors Blood, Inferi, Kadotus and Urgamla, is quite experienced, seen the members’ other outfits, and it shows!
Charnia are a quartet (Seppe Batens, Thibaut Meiresonne-Keppens, Diederik Van Eetvelde, and Jelle Pieters) from the Waasland-region, Belgium, formed in 2012. They built quite some impressive live reputation, yet for this debut we had to wait two years. But no tears anymore, for now we can enjoy the first studio recording, Dageraad (Dutch for ‘dawn’ or ‘daybreak’).
Taatsi are a Finnish two-piece project, which started writing and composing material at the end of 2013. In January 2014 they digitally released two songs, which immediately drew attention of Forever Plagued. This great American label signed Taatsi in order to record and release a full length with them. Things seemed to work well, and the debut full length Amidst The Trees is available as from now on. The review on this album will be written and updated very soon.
How many bands do you know from Puerto Rico? My knowledge is limited to two hands full of Death and Black Metal combos, with an act like Azmaveth absolutely belonging to my favourites from the Caribbean region (their Strong As Death-album was one of my top-albums in 2008). Well, now I am truly pleased to meet Falgar. I heard of this solo-project of Etienne Goldberg, but I had not heard any of the material before.
