Tholen - Sternklang

STARSTORM

Yes, more Astral Ambient to freeze your veins.

Gustaf Hildebrand

Insects larger than your skull

Rivers that never end

Worms that feast on mountains

Moons that mock your troubles

Everyone is dead

Apart from you, and you are stuck here on this terrible planet, created through vibrations within the air, brought to you by Gustaf Hildebrand.

There's more to witness

Lacus Somniorum - Tideshaper

Imagine the limitless grimness above you.

Ponder where you were truly created.

Come to terms with the fact that you are merely a germ.

Float between worlds.

Suffocate on stars.

End your life drifting in the above.

FLOATBETWEENWORLDS

Morbid Visions..

I suggest you all visit this site and gaze upon the misery created

http://www.beksinski.pl/

3

Today Xul presents an Italian taste of cyber black metal... The oddly named 3. Holy trinity? Nah... Number of the counting for the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch? Doubtful. Whatever it means to him, it's a solo project that released 4 demos (3+1?). Good stuff and rumors are that the band broke up, which is rather amusing when you have a solo project. Or just completely schizo. Either way, enjoy.

Carne Morta!

De Silence et d'Ombre

The above images should have you pondering your life and what it's destined for..

That should say enough to make you download.

I have to say, this is an extreme breath of fresh cosmic air and yet this band hasn't even produced a full length album yet. Sombre and slightly wonderful visions creep between the notes and the smell of far off planets sting your senses.

Presented before you are both demos on one release.

Don't bother being fooled into buying Michael Jackson's "This Is It", download this instead.

SEE INTO THE BEYOND

De Silence Et d Ombre - Aton - Astral Silence

A trio of ambient space maniacs.

Astral Silence gives me the sneaky idea that it could possibly be Wroth of Darkspace/Wintherr of Paysage d'Hiver behind the project, which is a good thing.

TELEPORT

To dream as a Xulborg

"Cavil: In all your travels, have you ever seen a star supernova?

Ellen: No.

Cavil: No. well, I have. I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the universe, other stars, other planets, and eventually other life, a supernova, creation itself. I was there. I wanted to see it, and be part of the moment. And you know how I perceived one of the most glorious events in the universe? With these ridiculous gelatinous orbs in my skull. With eyes designed to perceive only a tiny fraction of the E.M. spectrum, with ears designed only to hear vibrations in the air.

Ellen: The five of us designed you to be as human as possible.

Cavil: I don’t want to be human. I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear x-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express these things properly, because I have to — I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language, but I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me. I’m a machine, and I can know much more, I could experience so much more, but I’m trapped in this absurd body. And why? Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way."

Killing Joke

"Influential" bands come and go... "Yes, we are influenced by some trash can lid banging out of Finland that played in 1991 and then disappeared" is informative for forum nerds, but unrealistic in actual musical impact. Killing Joke are an interesting idea for influential. They made their mark in the early 80s, went off the deep end, then came back with influences from the bands they influenced themselves. Chronos devouring his children. Only when they came back around they were a lot more lethal, less playfulness, more fire to their political belly. Songs about chip implants, asteroids crashing into the earth, the chaos of culture and pretty much every other apocalyptic theme that Xul orgasms to. All that and they manage to be catchy and maintain their own identity. Spend some time with them, get to know Jaz and company... Then go become a street preacher, sit in a park and convince all those simple minded kids out there that their lives have purpose, and it's as shock troopers in the revolutionary army. Play the pied piper and lead them to their ruin. Have a laugh or two... Start around Democracy. While not their most essential work, it's just an old fashioned good album. Then explore around the minefield of their work. A few of the albums are here, but just enough to give you what you need, like a good dealer does with your first tastes...

A STATE OF ETERNAL CONFLICT IS ALL THAT I FOUND

The Reverend Kriss Hades

He's played with Sadistik Exekution, he's played with Nazxul, he's played with safety pins in his arms, he's played with himself and he plays with your head. This is his solo project of konfusion... Tunes to manipulate your mind with the teasing of Sad Ex and then off to his own intergalactic travels. Asteroid fields a plenty, shields up and watch out for them pesky worm holes... The path to Orion is full of em' .

GET FUKKED

The Meads of Asphodel

Tolerance, the word itself disturbs some people... Often ending up as a "side of the fence" term for describing what side of the fence you sit on politically / ideologically. The curse of each side is of course the intolerance of the perceived opposition. A blame game based upon seeing the "other side" as the main cause of the world's ills. Then you get the true liberal spirit, which is that of tolerance of all, including those that you personally disagree with. What the hell does this have to do with a bunch of medieval worshiping black metalers from the UK? Plenty.
The Meads of Asphodel are one of those bands that had no problem looking at bm, taking influence, laughing about where it was heading and then blew the doors off of it by injecting their own style. Starting with a dose of Cradle of Filth influence (early days) gone castle storming knights, they later went South on their travels to the Holy Land. Opening their minds with a steady dose of UK Punk, Hashish,Muslimgauze and psychedelic rock, they found a soap box to stand on and began their sermons. A simple enough message too... peace can be found through simply leaving other cultures alone to flourish in whatever manner they must flourish. Live and let live, ya dig? With the classic metal curiosity of being medieval based hippies playing through the violent medium of black metal (in only the most crude sense of the term). Basically, Crust evolved into a bm sense. A few lineup changes over time, a few influences added to the pot, but definitely well worth your time.


Was it worth dying for?

Advice from Grandfather Xul

"Sometimes life leaves a hundred dollar bill on your dresser, and you don't realize until later that it's because it fucked you."

Animus - Hallucinations: Ideals Surrounding Water, Sand, and Clouds of Dust

Animus is a one man project from Israel. Shockingly, it isn't shit. Even more shocking, it has enough depth that you can get lost in it. A similar style to Hvis Lyset Tar Oss, but Hallucinations is far more brown than blue. Melancholy acoustics lead the way to groovy opium filled black metal riffs, mongoloid droning, and tumble dryer drum machine glory. This is a chasm, filled with the echoes of water dripping down to a muddy resevoir deep inside. Drown in it.

FECES

WHO RUN METALTOWN?

When people are still ICP fans in their 40s, there is only one result. Complete retardation.
When you run a big and bad e-crew in a chat room, and you have to call the cops because you get your name stolen, it's just that much more hilarious. Barrafalse!!!

Xul Homeworld Link

For current release to Xulborg divisions. Link graphic provided.
All converted Xulborg disciples are encouraged to link back to homeworld.
Coding provided. Remember, remove the quotation marks around the " < " and ">". Simply remove them and the links will work.

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-End transmission.-

Simple Lesson

What is best in life? Xul!

So does Enthroned.

iperyt

In Xul's mission to convert you with our steady stream of anti-drummer mechanized divisions of black metal, we make like good little cyber nazis and go from occupying France to an invasion of Poland. Here we find Iperyt, who employ a more blasting and pounding style of Xulborg kaos than some of our French Legions. The Polish way, less sophistication and more outright assault.

ABUSE YOURSELF

Monumentum

When Celtic Frost released Into The Pandemonium it became an instantly confusing classic to many... The metal community generally not familiar with gothic music being fused with their traditional beer drinking and fist pumping anthems. Face it, you just can't get violent to the darkness of beautiful depression. While the album to this day stands the test of time, it's their children that would grow up to be interesting specimens in their own right. While many fans lacking the knowledge of what gothic music was, a genre of pretenders to the throne were able to rise in the metal community. With their plastic vampire teeth came keyboard soaked girly pop albums and prom dress smiles... while leaving behind the heroin and anguish of life. In other words, having about as much to do with gothic music as Disney stereotypical spooky kids. Which brings us to Monumentum... Sons of Hellhammer in their earliest era, they caught up to ITP and the works of Death SS / Paul Chain and never looked at their heroes the same. Instead they ravenously devoured their forefathers teachings and began to bathe in the 4AD fountains their parents bathed in to cleanse themselves of their traveled and primitive filth, standing to dry off in the warm winds of Southern Europe reflecting on what they had been through. They in turn became masters themselves, rarely releasing material, but like that treat of a drug you love but barely touch due to its rarity, you appreciate the buzz that much more each time you inhale /inject / ingest. They too have spawned many of their own offspring, see if you can find them lurking in the catacombs / sewers of your town, bring the needles, Jack...


Grand Injection

Whitehouse

Abuse in all its glory. The ability to channel thoughts, sounds, ideas, concepts into one (dis)organized audio weapon of catharsis. Taking your victim culture and showing you the very absurdity of your existence and excuse based life. This is Whitehouse, this is power. This is healing in the form of destruction.
Listen at your own risk. This is not user friendly listening. This is an audio experience. The subject matter involved is not for those sensitive humans that still feel held back by themselves. It is for the developed disciple of the Xul Ex Machina culture. Start with the material of 2001 and 2003 especially and then explore forwards and backwards. Get with the fukking program.

I'll show you the fukking source

Igra Staklenih Perli

Ah, just look at that album cover. Brings me back to the days of my youth spent scowling about on Nibiru 9. Perched upon a large mushroom while injecting myself to glory, watching intergalactic kriegwhales drift through the clouds of methyl alcohol. What joy it was to hear their mournful cry while feasting upon kebabs my enslaved pet Muslim had brought me. Good ol' what's his name, I knew him well. But that's enough reminiscing. Before you is a classic of psychedelic prog. 1979 debut from these Yugoslav space rockers. If that cover isn't enough to make you want to hear this dark masterpiece, you need to mainline heroin until you cease breathing. Do so regardless, as it will enhance your listening pleasure ten fold.

Floating Eye 1
Floating Eye 2

INTO THE TEMPLE OF TEH GOAT

One day, Goat stumbled into a rocky cave after being chased by Whacko-Daemons, and he stumbled upon a dazzling shrine....there stood a figure......tall and puny AND BEHOLD, UPON HIS HEAD WAS A BUCKET.

And this mysterious sad-icon spoke to him, and said "ONLY THE MATURE WILL SURVIVE MY COMING, LET FALL THE CHILDISH THINGS IN LIFE FROM YOUR HANDS, RAISE YOUR CHILDREN AND ACCEPT YOUR WIFE'S POOR CAREER CHOICE, BELITTLE ALL WHO STAND AGAINST ME AND THEN, MAYBE, WHEN YOU ARE 44, YOU MAY GRASP UPON THE CHILDISH THINGS YOU HAVE GIVEN UP, ONLY THEN WILL YOU BE ABLE TO REGAIN YOUR SENSE OF FUN. BUT REMEMBER, NEVER, NEVER ALLOW THE WHACKOS TO REIGN SUPREME IN CHAT, THIS IS MY ONE GIFT TO YOU, THE GIFT OF FORESIGHT, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO CALL UPON THIS IN A TIME OF DOUBT, WHEN EVERYONE LOOKS THE SAME, WHEN THE WHACKOS MAY BE IN ANOTHER GUISE, USE THIS WISELY, NOW GO, GO AND DREAM OF YOUR 44TH BIRTHDAY, ONE OTHER THING, YOU MUST DENY THE POWER OF XUL! GO NOW ARRGH"

So with this Goat left Bucketdom and wandered back into the realms of Y! seeking to spread the words of Teh Bucket. His story continues...

Nordvargr - Pyrrhula

She'll be laying there, with his groaning voice in her mind, reliving the moment she made the mistake of leaving her drink unattended whilst she went to the bathroom to take a shit, she remembers nothing after that, just waking up amongst some livestock in a field, her shirt ripped open and chunks of bloody-bread hanging out of her kunt, the scent of his rot up her nose, and the soundscapes of Pyrrhula in her ears, that stupid fukking kunt.
BREADRAPE

Graveside - Sinful Accession

This album is an obscure monolith of Russian death metal. Released in 93, Sinful Accession brings to mind Altars of Madness, mixed with the sweet smell of rotting wiccan corpses. Recommended to anyone that doesn't suffer from high estrogen levels.

ROT

News

Master's Hammer have returned.

Due to various bootlegs being sold across the world the band have grown fed up with the poor "colors used" with such bootlegs, so they are entering the studio to record a new album.

--- Lunar Aurora ---

Lunar Aurora
They may have started off as a band that you could compare to Nightside Emperor but they took such a different path that today you can't mention both in the same line anymore.
A band that always managed to capture the feeling of being bathed in moonlight, engulfed by darkness and shocked cold by grim landscapes put forward through their harsh sounds of melancholy. Alot of bands claim to devote themselves to the black of night, but in their sound I never really hear it, these Germans however, hearing their anthems of nocturnal worship, I believe what I hear, the spirit is there.

Every album brought something new to the table, by sound and design and yet as they aged they grew slower, more thoughtful and in parts heavier yet they always knew and never forgot how to switch to intense mode. These changes were mostly due to the change in line up, as members switched instruments and got on with the job.
Towards the end of their days the "Normal" formula was thrown aside in favour of a more brooding and Xul-infused sound & style, Zyklus is a stand out moment for this where as Mond seemed like a statement along the lines of 'We can still produce a blistering album without much effort, yet it will still kick your faces in' .

Elixer of Sorrow is the turning point album in this collection, I suggest listening to them in the order they were released to understand and gain a picture of how this story happened, and why this great band called it a day to vanish into the shadows.
Individuals have now sought different paths in music and art, and we wait for the day when they gather and summon Lunar Aurora once more...

Here Xul gives you their entire Discography to devour and absorb.

DIE NACHT

Note - Seelenfeuer is the remastered edition, with bonus track and Ars Moriendi is the SupernalMusic release, with extra guitar layers.

Wormlust

Iceland...You're buried underground, and the sun is blinding you beneath the ice, there's only one thing to do, climb and break out. Promising demo here containing one 12 minute song, which is a shame, because Xul has a sly interest in what this band may be able to produce given a full length. Xul expects good things from Wormlust in the future...but who knows, by then the sound may have changed, the style may have gone backwards, and this will stand out whilst the future passes into memory.

WORMLUST

Limb from Limb-Death.Famine.Plague.

More crusty death metal from our neighboring mullet growing friends. Not to be confused with other wigger-core acts of the same name. Perfect for your next family function, or your little sisters sweet sixteen.

Kill your family

KERMADEC KONFUSION

Heavy Metal Breakdown says: Nah. Only thing I've downloaded that he's posted so far is that Wedard eztv still rules
The Gospel of Inhumanity says: Grab that Portal for sure.
Heavy Metal Breakdown says: I'm debating it I didn't really like Seepia at all
The Gospel of Inhumanity says: Don't debate it, grab it.
Heavy Metal Breakdown says: Never heard Outre
The Gospel of Inhumanity says: It's ugly and awesome.
Heavy Metal Breakdown says: 1.4mbps downloading. that = rad
The Gospel of Inhumanity said (7:54 PM): This second Portal is pretty killer too. Like Morbid Angel / Immolation meets Blut Aus Nord.
The Gospel of Inhumanity said (9:50 PM): This first portal is killer, wimp.
Heavy Metal Breakdown says: stfjew
The Gospel of Inhumanity says: This is altars of madness meets Immolation. HOW CAN YOU FEAR THIS?! This is exactly how death metal should have evolved.
This deserves a post. That's like saying "I dislike real death metal.".
Heavy Metal Breakdown says: lol
. The Gospel of Inhumanity says: SERIOUSLY WHAT DID YOU DISLIKE ABOUT SEEPIA? THIS IS CONFUSING TO ME
Heavy Metal Breakdown says: seriously, stfjew. The Office > you
The Gospel of Inhumanity says: NO, THAT STATEMENT NEEDS CLARIFYING.
Heavy Metal Breakdown says: And as I am watching The Office STFJEW
The Gospel of Inhumanity says: WHAT THE FUKK DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT THIS ALBUM?! ARE YOU SURE YOU WERE LISTENING TO SEEPIA AND NOT RUNEMAGICK?
Heavy Metal Breakdown says: Yeah. Cause I'd have liked Runemagick
The Gospel of Inhumanity says: How could you not like Seepia is my curiosity. This is awesome. Heavy Metal Breakdown says: You are a curiosity
The Gospel of Inhumanity says: This is how death metal should be in this century. YET YOU FEAR IT. EXPLAIN
Heavy Metal Breakdown says:
So buddy
I'm listening to this again
and see
Altars of Madness rules
and Immolation rules
This does not rule
Therefore
It cannot be the combination of which you speak
Your Jewish mind is spewing forth NONSENSE
and if it had audio
it would sound like this
The Gospel of Inhumanity says:
You speak nonsense.
YOUR LOVE OF MELODEATH HAS TAINTED YOU
Heavy Metal Breakdown says:
Old DM >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Portal
The Gospel of Inhumanity says:
PORTAL = WHERE OLD DM SHOULD BE IN THIS CENTURY
Heavy Metal Breakdown says:
Then color me not interested if that is to ever be the case
I'll keep my Grave albums
The Gospel of Inhumanity says:
You would rather listen to a half assed mailed in album than something that captures the spirit of what old dm once was and channels it into the modern era? This is confusing.
Heavy Metal Breakdown says:
Haha
No, I'd rather listen to an album that doesn't make me look at the track time to see when the song ends and the next one starts
Maybe Portal's other albums are better. But if they're just like Seepia, I won't like them.
The Gospel of Inhumanity says:
That is a quality album, one in which you disappear into the sound entirely... Not worrying about 4-5 min singles selections.
Heavy Metal Breakdown says:
Yeah and disappearing into the sound is what I look for in records
Seepia doesn't have it.
Blame It On God
The Gospel of Inhumanity says:
I am confused by this, it has the spirit entirely, ugly production and proper atmosphere for death metal. Unpolished and completely suffocating in spirit.
Heavy Metal Breakdown says:
I
Am going to go to the store
and buy milk
and tell everyone how boring Portal is and to email Astral_Frost about it.
The Gospel of Inhumanity says:
Ha better yet....
Look at Xul in about 30 seconds.

War Master-Chapel of the Apocalypse

A newcomer to the scene, and a good one at that. Here is their first demo. Crusty old school death metal. Obvious Bolt Thrower worshippers which is never a bad thing.


Brandish your axe

Messe Noir

Chaos, kaos, the turf of that demented world bands like Sadistik Exekution or Beherit birthed upon this world. Any band can make noise, few bands can do it well enough to bother listening to. Messe Noir is one of those bands that came around and shit out some interesting stuff, then were banished back to whatever parallel universe they came from to begin with. Kind of like how in those classic movies a gate opens and some of the mess gets out, but in the end everything is banished back to where it came from. Until the sequel comes anyhow. Only with Messe Noir there was no sequel, nor repeating parts in the songs for that matter.



INVOKE

The Xul stamp of quality.

That's right, when you see this stamp of approval, you know you're getting 100% tried and tested quality Xulsounds.

Portal

Now I don't know much about this band, as this is where I've jumped on, but it is fukking ugly.

Here for you, to check out and soak up all the tank-rolling-over-skulls like production.

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This is death metal, this is where death metal should be today instead of playing guitar hero and worrying more about your piercings flopping around while you headbang than actually putting thought into the music. Completely taking the spirit of what the older generations of death metal (Morbid Angel, Incantation, Immolation etc.) did and updating it for the modern world. It creates a suffocating atmosphere that is too often lost in today's world. That feeling of dread, not knowing what the music is going to do next... A single monotonous pounding on your senses. These are Xul's darlings for October. If you have any respect as a reader of this blog, take our word for it and grab this. Their 3 albums are here for your abuse and consumption. - Edited and Updated by Nihilus_Xul


HAUNT YOURSELF

Slagmaur - Von Rov Shelter

New album by this Norwegian rabble, spread it as much as you can, this band deserves its earnings to diminish.

SUMMON

Ancient

The disappointment or resentment one feels to bands that show incredible promise to begin with, then throw it away in the quest for commercial success is a major sticking point in the minds of Xulborgs... Ancient were one such band, such promise they had with their debut album , Svartalvheim, only to lose a key member and begin walking safer paths of musical non-exploration. This early era is one of those classic sounds for the earlier days of Norway's output before the labels began scooping up everything possible for consumption.


GRIMM IT UP

God Macabre - The Winterlong (1993)

One of the best oldschool death metal albums from Sweden. Nothing else came from this band unfortunately, but this is an overlooked classic that can stand toe-to-toe with the early albums from titans like Grave, Dismember, Entombed or Carnage. This is what today's death metal wishes it could be.

DESCARGAR, SIMPLETONS

Gehenna (NOR) - First Spell (1994)

Early black metal from Norway. Essential.

DESCARGAR, SIMPLETONS

Poccolus - Poccolus (1996)

Black Metal from Lithuania. This is an album I was recently introduced to and, being a fan of early Gehenna, I enjoyed this quite a lot. It's a shame this album doesn't get talked about more in circles of black metal fans.

DESCARGAR, SIMPLETONS

Zaratustra

The concept of being a kult band is so often wasted on those that simply made a career out of cloning a band from prior eras and milking their status. Instead of encouraging an individual stance towards the creation of music (art), too many artists are more than content with simply mailing in albums that have nothing to say other than a few childish screams of blasphemy. Is paying homage to a band by stealing their sound really necessary? (Xul mocks them) What Xul reveals to you now is Zaratustra, a fantastic one and done band that released their lone offering "It was a night" to the world with no acclaim at all, disappeared and still have nothing to be remembered by. No bands formed after, no reunions, nothing... Which is really quite charming to know that this creation is the lone offering of the individuals that made it. Telling you this is an atmospheric black metal album is only the most generic and vague of descriptions, really... this is so much more.

I FEEL YOUR SOUL

Sephiroth-Cathedron

One of Cold Meat Industries better releases. Cold dark ambient. Dark melodies combined with abysmal drums and an atmosphere from your nightmares.

Slide into the abyss