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#BlackMetal #Metal #ambient #ambientblackmetal #atmosphericblackmetal #cinematic #darkambient #deathdoom #doommetal #minimalist #postrock #soundscape #Amadora
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Foghazer – He Left The Temple
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Black Shaman - Tradition
"Descend into hypnotic darkness: 'Tradition' by Black Shaman takes you on a journey through shamanic rites, death and rebirth fusing black metal with ambient."
#cinematic #blackmetal #atmosphericblackmetal #ambientblackmetal #blackdoommetal #music
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Black Shaman - Tradition
"Descend into hypnotic darkness: 'Tradition' by Black Shaman takes you on a journey through shamanic rites, death and rebirth fusing black metal with ambient."
#cinematic #blackmetal #atmosphericblackmetal #ambientblackmetal #blackdoommetal #music
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Deceitful Sorcery - Of Kings And Landscapes
"'Of Kings and Landscapes' is a dark, epic tale of a war-born king destined to conquer."
#metal #blackmetal #dungeonsynth #atmosphericblackmetal #austrianmetal #ambientblackmetal #runningwildproductions #austria #music
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VIALS OF WRATH (Estats Units) presenta nou àlbum: "Remnants for Remembrance" #VialsOfWrath #BlackMetal #DeathMetal #AmbientBlackMetal #Octubre2025 #EstatsUnits #NouÀlbum #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic
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Deceitful Sorcery - Of Kings And Landscapes
"'Of Kings and Landscapes' is a dark, epic tale of a war-born king destined to conquer."
#metal #blackmetal #dungeonsynth #atmosphericblackmetal #austrianmetal #ambientblackmetal #runningwildproductions #austria #music
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KAKASBAL (Mèxic) presenta nou Split: "IV: Kakasbal / Gukumatz" #Kakasbal #AmbientBlackMetal #Octubre2025 #Mèxic #NouSplit #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic
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GATES OF DAWN (Estats Units) presenta nou àlbum: "III" #GatesOfDawn #AmbientBlackMetal #DungeonSynth #Setembre2025 #EstatsUnits #NouÀlbum #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic
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FAUNA (Estats Units) presenta nou àlbum: "Ochre & Ash" #Fauna #AmbientBlackMetal #Setembre2025 #EstatsUnits #NouÀlbum #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic
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KAKASBAL (Mèxic) presenta nou single: "III: Morituri te Salutant!" #Kakasbal #AmbientBlackMetal #Setembre2025 #Mèxic #NouSingle #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic
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Deceitful Sorcery - Of Kings And Landscapes
"'Of Kings and Landscapes' is a dark, epic tale of a war-born king destined to conquer."
#metal #blackmetal #dungeonsynth #atmosphericblackmetal #austrianmetal #ambientblackmetal #runningwildproductions #austria #music
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KARG (Àustria) presenta nou àlbum: "Marodeur" #Karg #AmbientBlackMetal #PostBlackMetal #Abril2025 #Àustria #NouÀlbum #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic
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Skialykon - Aura Kósmos I: Madre Notte
"Nocturnal black metal from the wilderness to the stars"
#bandcampcodes #blackmetal #atmosphericblackmetal #ambientblackmetal #italianblackmetal #music
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By Thus Spoke
We tend to underestimate how great a role knowledge of the artist plays when experiencing their art. Even if unfamiliar with their work, the awareness of them as a person (or group of people) whose intentions are either plain or discoverable through interviews, notes, or academic consensus informs our opinions insidiously but inevitably. In an age when self-promotion is easier than ever thanks to the internet, a musician choosing to remain anonymous speaks to a desire to center their music in as absolute a way as possible. Who comprises Blood Abscission, and how many of them are there? That may never be known.1 All that exists is their art. This too eschews identity beyond numbers: sophomore II following in inevitability debut I, and all tracks bearing only the numerals of their album position. We must listen to II exactly as it is, with only Blood Abscission’s solemn proclamation as potential guide: “United in pain, we step into the abyss – not as mere individuals, but as a collective force seeking meaning within the chaos, finding a voice in the silence between the stars.”
Though I discovered it in retrospect—the debut having been dropped via self-release with zero fanfare—II continues exactly as I began. Blistering, raw-adjacent atmospheric black metal, relentless beyond the occasional lapses into dreamy gaziness where the keyboards shine and feedback hums (“III,” “IV”), not unlike a synth-obsessed Alcest. Its intensity, the desperate, unintelligible screams of the vocalist, and the grand melodic themes see-sawing between melancholy beauty and eerie dissonance bring to mind Aara on one face (“I,” “V”), Decoherence the other (“II”). II feels like an exercise in pure catharsis, the repeated climaxes of ever-fiercer roars and ascending tremolos communicating only unfiltered emotion, and the contrastive stillness a cleansing indifference. With no identifiable words, and even the muffled samples dampened beyond comprehension, II’s features are solely confined to this ebb and flow, amplifying once more the facelessness and pure aesthetic centrality that Blood Abscission impose by not naming it, or themself. It is a musical black hole, both in atmosphere and sparseness of properties, and is appropriately powerful.
Unlike an actual black hole, II is something we can escape from, though Blood Abscission do a good job of holding you in place. At its most ardent peaks, when beauty pitches fearsomely into urgency, it is hard to ignore, let alone switch off (“II,” “V”). The moves from one state of being to another are smooth, regardless of their speed—whether neo-second-wave and assured to a vulnerable undulation between sorrowfulness and heartenedness (“I”), or gentle contentment to grieving resolution (“III”). “IV”‘s emanation out of the chiming whine of “III,” and procession into the torrent that opens “V,” is not just an obvious example of this compositional fluidity, but itself proves to be a thoroughly absorbing interlude that belies its length. II repeatedly invites introspection, and does so through its rawness that reaches beyond the way the vocals and instruments are mastered, a corollary of the necessary focus on the sweep of its melodies, interplay between airy keys and darker riffing, and the tides dictated by pleasingly crisp percussion. The echoing croon of an escaped tremolo, the escalation of a minor refrain into devastation, and the torture of a conclusive shriek—with the closing act of “V” standing as the album’s crowning glory in this regard—are notably affecting.
Yet II’s consistency in perdurance is a double-edged sword. While full immersion grants the listener an undoubtedly intense and emotional experience, less conscious enjoyment threatens to leave them a little cold, outside of standout apexes at least. Perhaps this is always a danger with atmo-black, particularly of this more unrestrained and unstructured variety. I can testify that after spending some time with it, its magnitude seems greater than it did initially, thanks to deeper appreciation of its nuances, but even the influence of II’s potency doesn’t eliminate flaws entirely. II could stand to be a shade shorter, to give every moment more impact; something not needed so much by its peaks, but from which some of its lingering passages would gain better standing as transitions of beneficial steadiness between outbursts.
With so much atmospheric and raw black metal out there that might as well be anonymous for all its uniformity and ironic placidity, Blood Abscission stand out not only with real anonymity, but music that speaks for itself. In form resisting memorability, in actuality quite impactful and resilient, II shows what the genre is capable of. Even if it lacks the concrete immediacy to solidify it into long-standing greatness, its noise is not meaningless, and its meaning is not lost, however imprecise it might seem.
Rating: Good
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: Debemur Morti
Website: Bandcamp
Releases Worldwide: April 11th, 2025Show 1 footnote
- And as is stated quite forcefully in the promo material, “Blood Abscission is NOT available for interviews.” ↩
#2025 #30 #Aara #Alcest #AmbientBlackMetal #Apr25 #AtmosphericBlackMetal #BlackMetal #BloodAbscission #DebemurMortiProductions #Decoherence #II #RawBlackMetal #Review #Reviews
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SILENT THUNDER (Estats Units) presenta nou EP: "Soulspear" #SilentThunder #AmbientBlackMetal #Març2025 #EstatsUnits #NouEp #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic
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Lustre - The First Snow
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Aprilmist – Homesick
#AtmosphericBlackMetal #BlackMetal #Blackgaze #Metal #PostBlackMetal #ambientblackmetal #postmetal #KansasCity
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Paysage d’Hiver – Die Berge Review
By Dear Hollow
While black metal and cold atmosphere are nearly inseparable, Paysage d’Hiver’s icy Nordic aesthetic is a step above. Through the eyes of “the wanderer,” mastermind Tobias “Wintherr” Möckl1 weaves tales of frostbitten wilderness, icy desolation, and vicious blizzards through raw tremolo and shimmering synth. Each release another chapter in the wanderer’s journey, fourteenth installment Die Berge is its final installment.2 Die Berge (“the mountains”) tells of the monkish pilgrimage taken across jagged peaks and forlorn valleys, the ultimate revelation and unveiling of death awaiting him. It’s a beautiful demise, but as anything you expect with Paysage d’Hiver, it’s cold.
Die Berge is Paysage d’Hiver’s third full-length. To say that is absolutely asinine because Wintherr’s long legacy of ten formidable demos spans three decades, including highlights like Schattengang, Winterkälte, and Das Tor, masterclass after masterclass of raw black and icy ambiance. 2020’s “first full-length” Im Wald was a pinnacle, a balanced two-hour trek through frozen wilderness that married Paysage’s trademark rawness with the dark ambient of demos like Nacht and Einsamkeit, evocative of both cold and darkness. This is what made 2022’s Geister a head-scratcher. While chilly like second-wave ought to be, Wintherr took a newfound dive into riffy grooves in evoking the Tschäggättä, masked beings in a regional Swiss winter festival. Die Berge is a step back and forward, its predecessor’s groove lending itself to muscular riffage, patient pacing, and frostbitten rawness that evokes the majesty of the mountains.
Paysage d’Hiver’s effectiveness lies in its trademark simplicity. Each track features a chord progression or plucking motif around which shrieked and growled vocals, tremolo, percussion, and synthesizer revolve. Endlessly grim, the riffs are what sets Möckl’s compositions a step above, refusing the warmth and saturation of contemporary “atmoblack” in favor of something both searingly raw and frigidly haunting – truly like being caught in a blizzard on a desolate mountainside. The groove of Geister collides with the trademark atmosphere in riffs that sound bigger and more commanding than anything Paysage d’Hiver has ever written, sounding both jagged and majestic in their conjuration of snowy peaks (“Urgrund,” “Verinnerlichung”). As per the trademark, these riffs and melodies sway ominously between its triune of grim, dissonant, and beautiful – its range of emotions conveyed exquisitely across its mammoth 103-minute runtime. Contrary to earlier material, Die Berge feels remarkably more patient, its riffs beating to a nearly doom pulse, the grandeur enacted more commanding than the traditional blastbeats-and-tremolo duo that has pervaded Paysage’s catalog.
What has made Paysage d’Hiver so effective is its ability to progress the music forward without forsaking its trademark,3 and Die Berge is no exception. While the opening two tracks fit snugly into the act’s history of ice-crusted blasting, the final hour and ten minutes takes on new life. The “Transzendenz” trilogy revolves around the same chord progression, but each installment is a diminuendo and dissolution of scathing raw guitar (“Transzendenz I”) with a growth of icy synth, concluding entirely in synth-forward beauty (“Transzendenz III”). The conclusions of Die Berge are wonders unto themselves, aptly epic and bombastic closers that revel in both the desperation and denial, then beauty and clarity of a frozen death in synth- and piano-forward meditations (“Ausstieg”) and the ultimate succumbing to the colossus of frigidity at the summit with tragedy and gloom at its center (“Gipfel”).4 The demise of the wanderer is beautifully communicated without sacrificing the grimness so central to Paysage d’Hiver’s raw black metal aesthetic.
Die Berge is a beautiful end to the wanderer’s tortured life. Like all Paysage d’Hiver albums, it is a mammoth undertaking, and certain melodies can grow wearisome for some listeners after so many iterations (“Verinnerlichung,” “Transzendenz II”), but it’s more about the experience than riffs and highlights. Somehow, Die Berge doesn’t feel as bombastic as its spiritual predecessor Im Wald, but its subtlety and tragedy make it all more intriguing and its central storyline of the spiritual pilgrimage to the wanderer’s final breaths atop jagged peaks more tangible. While this may be the end of Paysage d’Hiver’s central character, Die Berge ensures his memory lives on in a grim and beautiful collusion of storytelling and raw black metal. We can only hope to never see the end of winter.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
DR: 9 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: Kunsthall Produktionen
Websites: paysagedhiver.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/PaysagedHiver.Official
Releases Worldwide: November 8th, 2024Show 4 footnotes
- Also of Darkspace and owner of Kunsthall Produktionen. ↩
- Reports are mixed if this is the end of Paysage d’Hiver, however. ↩
- One reason why Geister was so divisive. ↩
- Aptly, these two tracks translate as “exit” and “summit,” respectively. ↩
#2024 #40 #AmbientBlackMetal #BlackMetal #Darkspace #DieBerge #KunsthallProduktionen #Nov24 #PaysageDHiver #RawBlackMetal #Review #Reviews #SwissMetal
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#BlackMetalMonday #(dolch) #dolch
https://dolch.bandcamp.com/album/nacht
I am looking forward to see them live. Did not manage it so far. 🤷♂️
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Black Metal discovery of the day: #Arkhtinn.