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Newsletter #34 - June 11th, 2021
Hi there,

The last time I sent out this newsletter (30th of March, 2013, to be precise), some of you were probably kids. Look at you now, all grown up. Hell, some of you probably even had kids yourselves. But when was the last time you listened to some Darkthrone? Have you shown Darkthrone to your kids yet?

Anyway...

* Obligatory reference to Covid-19 and/or lockdowns *

...and to cut a long story short, I've used the time to burn through the to-do list that I'd been meaning to get done for about a decade, and the site is now active once again.

I'll spare you the details. The biggest change is the fact that you can now register an account on the site, and (after a while) write reviews and create news posts, if you wish to do so. There is also a Forum, where you can discuss whatever you want, Black Metal-related or otherwise.

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And now, without further ado, the rest of the newsletter.

Regards,
Imperator
News highlights:

- Wolves in the Throne Room reveal details for upcoming album (0)
- Behemoth release new music video (5)
- Deafheaven reveal details for next album, and premiere one of the new songs (0)
- Desaster's new album out now and streaming in full (3)
- Darkthrone release track from upcoming album (6)
- Unreleased Burzum material on vinyl (1)
- New Impaled Nazarene album streaming in full (1)
- Ancient Wisdom streaming new album in full (0)

Review highlights:

- Wayfarer - A Romance with Violence (2020)
- Portal - Avow (2021)
- Fuath (GBR) - II (2021)
- Armnatt - Dense Fog (2020)
- Zigota - Providence of Death (2021)
- New Light Choir - Volume II (2015)

Forum highlights:

- A rare and interesting Black Metal Documentary from Belgium (1998) (6)
- An Interesting Interview with Nocturno Culto. (2)

Wolves in the Throne Room reveal details for upcoming album

NEWS

Posted by Imperator on June 11th, 2021 0 Comments

The new album will be titled "Primordial Arcana", and the announcement also comes with a brand new music video for one of the songs from the upcoming release.

Wolves in the Throne Room reveal details for upcoming album

Cascadian nature worshipers Wolves in the Throne Room have just announced via their Facebook page that they will be releasing a brand new full-length on the 20th of August. The new album, which is titled "Primordial Arcana", will be released through Relapse Records in North America, and through ...

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Behemoth release new music video

NEWS

Posted by Imperator on June 10th, 2021 5 Comments

The music video was made for the track "Shadows Ov Ea Cast Upon Golgotha", taken from the band's 2020 EP, "A Forest".

Behemoth release new music video

Poland's Blackened Death Metal pioneers Behemoth have just released a new music video, this time for the song "Shadows Ov Ea Cast Upon Golgotha", which was the third track off their 2020 The Cure tribute EP, "A Forest".

The video was produced by Wroclaw-based studio Grupa 13, who also made the ...

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Deafheaven reveal details for next album, and premiere one of the new songs

NEWS

Posted by Imperator on June 9th, 2021 0 Comments

The new album will be titled "Infinite Granite" and is scheduled to be released on the 20th of August through Sargent House.

Deafheaven reveal details for next album, and premiere one of the new songs

U.S. Post-BM band Deafheaven revealed today through their Facebook page the tracklist, cover art and release date for their upcoming full-length album. The new album, which will be titled "Infinite Granite", is due for release on the 20th of August through American label Sargent House. ...

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Desaster's new album out now and streaming in full

NEWS

Posted by Imperator on June 5th, 2021 3 Comments

The band's ninth studio album, titled "Churches Without Saints", was released yesterday, and is now being streamed online in its entirety.

Desaster's new album out now and streaming in full

German Black/Thrash legends Desaster have just released "Churches Without Saints" through Metal Blade Records. The new album marks the band's ninth full-length, and is now being streamed online in full at the Metal Blade Records YouTube Channel:

Here's the tracklist for the new album:

The ...

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Darkthrone release track from upcoming album

NEWS

Posted by PeaceThroughAnarchy on June 3rd, 2021 6 Comments

A couple of hours ago, Darkthrone released "Hate Cloak", the first track to be revealed from their new album, "Eternal Hails......", which is set to be released on 25th of June.

Darkthrone release track from upcoming album

Norwegian veterans Darkthrone will be releasing their new album, titled "Eternal Hails......", on the 25th of June through Peaceville Records. To give fans a taste of what they can expect, the band made an animated lyric video for the track "Hate Cloak", which has been uploaded to the official ...

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Unreleased Burzum material on vinyl

NEWS

Posted by PeaceThroughAnarchy on May 28th, 2021 1 Comment

Lohengrin Productions / Merchants of Death have started the pre-order for two unreleased Burzum / Uruk-Hai vinyls.

Unreleased Burzum material on vinyl

A couple of years ago someone called Hermann Conan uploaded two unreleased tapes to Facebook. One of them was the raw and unmixed version of Dauði Baldrs with 3 previously unreleased Electronic/Darkwave style songs. The other was a demo tape containing some of the instrumental rehearsals from ...

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New Impaled Nazarene album streaming in full

NEWS

Posted by Imperator on May 28th, 2021 1 Comment

"Eight Headed Serpent", the band's 13th studio album, will be made available for streaming online in its entirety later today.

New Impaled Nazarene album streaming in full

Crazy Finnish motherfuckers Impaled Nazarene are releasing what will be their 13th full-length album today, which is titled "Eight Headed Serpent", through Osmose Productions. To mark the occasion, the entire album will be streamed later this afternoon through the Black Metal Promotion YouTube ...

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Ancient Wisdom streaming new album in full

NEWS

Posted by Imperator on May 17th, 2021 0 Comments

"A Celebration in Honor of Death" is due for release on the 4th of June, and will mark the solo project's first album in over 17 years.

Ancient Wisdom streaming new album in full

One-man black metal project Ancient Wisdom is scheduled to release a new album, titled "A Celebration in Honor of Death", on the 4th of June. While we wait, the album is currently being streamed on YouTube in its entirety through the increasingly popular Black Metal Promotion channel:

Ancient ...

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Wayfarer - A Romance with Violence (2020)

REVIEW

Reviewed by PeaceThroughAnarchy on June 6th, 2021

Darkened Wild West!

Review for Wayfarer - A Romance with Violence

92%

4.6 star rating

After the excellent "World's Blood" released back in 2018, I was eager to hear the follow-up for that album with high anticipation. And although this album showed a bit of a shift away from the previous album, the end result didn't disappoint me one bit!

The overall details are pretty much similar to the previous three efforts, but there are some minor changes that make this album sound much more old school and metallic.

First of all, unlike ...

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Portal - Avow (2021)

REVIEW

Reviewed by PeaceThroughAnarchy on June 3rd, 2021

So far, the most evil entry from 2021!

Review for Portal - Avow

92%

4.6 star rating

Portal was one of the major influencers of expressionistic guitar techniques used in Death Metal of the 2000s and 2010s (this experimental approach can be compared to that of Deathspell Omega).

Although their music is closer to the classic Death Metal of the 90s, the overall cosmic/occult-driven atmosphere of this album comes closest to Avant-garde Black/Death bands such as Teitanblood (their earlier material was pretty much old school ...

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Fuath (GBR) - II (2021)

REVIEW

Reviewed by Imperator on May 31st, 2021

An unbalanced diet of frostdemons and snowcones

Review for Fuath (GBR) - II

86%

4.3 star rating

Fuath is another solo project from the same man behind Saor (formerly Àrsaidh), a name which has become quite prominent in recent years in atmospheric-folky Black Metal circles, and deservedly so.

This direct relation means that I invariably made comparisons between the two projects while listening to Fuath's second album. I also assume that anyone reading this review will have some degree of curiosity as to how the two projects compare as ...

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Armnatt - Dense Fog (2020)

REVIEW

Reviewed by DNRKF on May 30th, 2021

Armnatt - "Dense Fog" (2020)

Review for Armnatt - Dense Fog

90%

4.5 star rating

26 minutes and 8 seconds, it is enough to (re) affirm the trio from Tavira as one of the ex-libris of Portuguese Black Metal.

Armnatt's music lives on (apparent) simplicity. “In what sense?”, you ask. Since 2013, the flag of the second wave of Black Metal has been raised with immense quality, and this simplicity takes me immediately to the beginning of the genre, in Scandinavian lands, to Bergen and Oslo, perhaps.

The uncomplicated nature of ...

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Zigota - Providence of Death (2021)

REVIEW

Reviewed by qvodamnis on May 18th, 2021

A surprising balance between experimentation, heaviness and rawness.

Review for Zigota - Providence of Death

90%

4.5 star rating

Insects in your lungs
Waiting for the time

Experimentation and dissonance. Many groups try to rip off Deathspell Omega incorporate this elements in their sound, but generally end up just being either exhausting or weird as fuck (not in the good way). Providence of Death thrives exactly where those releases fail: a wary balance between hypnotic, dissonant ambiance and raw heaviness.

Hailing from Jonava, a small town in Eastern Europe, the ...

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New Light Choir - Volume II (2015)

REVIEW

Reviewed by PeaceThroughAnarchy on May 16th, 2021

What if Black Metal existed in the 1960s and 1970s?!

Review for New Light Choir - Volume II

95%

4.8 star rating

Most experimental Black Metal acts try and take the genre further and further into the future. This album somehow manages the opposite of that, by taking the genre to a long time ago when Black Metal didn't really exist!

Whether you like or hate the music of the 60s and 70s, you have to admit that their music was probably the final stage of progression, and anything that came in the 80s tried to regress that sound into a more primitive sound, ...

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A rare and interesting Black Metal Documentary from Belgium (1998)

FORUM

Posted by PeaceThroughAnarchy on May 28th, 2021 6 Comments

This is one of the earliest documentaries about BM which didn't just criticize it and shifted the focus from controversies towards the music itself.

at some points it's fuckin' hillarious (some may even call it Cringy) but it's really really cool and also includes Bands like Ancient Rites, ...

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An Interesting Interview with Nocturno Culto.

FORUM

Posted by PeaceThroughAnarchy on May 25th, 2021 2 Comments

well, we have seen countless interviews, documentaries and even podcasts including all sorts of people from the Norsk BM scene but one of the most important and influential people on the scene has little interviews compared to other guys in the scene! yep, that's right, our silence boy Ted! in most ...

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