Your faith shall be rewarded.

The time is drawing near when astral barbarism shall return.

Outpost errected.

Battle Station Operational

Happy Holiday!

Happy Holiday from the Xulim.
A pulse still shivers through the system.  Posers.

NebulaCruiser-Xul Damage report.

As the header states, the NebulaCruiser-Xul has come to a halt.
During its voyages through the extreme and grim it has taken many knocks and luvanblasts, so it's about time that some treatment was involved.
Thus no reports shall be filed untill the Xulim are happy with how NC-X is refurbished.

So enjoy the above image as it shall be the last for a while.

KUNT II

THE FUKK HAS HAPPENED TO THIS LAYOUT?

KUNT

SUNWHEEL - INDUSTRY OF DEATH

I've waited...5-6 years for this?

Ordered it over a year ago and it arrived yesterday...

So if you don't know this band, think Kataxu and early Emperor with a large sound, polished high class keys and deep vocals.
Hunt down the EP that laid the way for this one.

Fukk off.
Download

Carcharoth

Darkspace-lite.

From Germany, some of the most random shit thrown together in all seriousness, the keys never seem to fit the guitar, or the beat, but it works for me.

Because at the heart of all this, Xul is there, vowing to continue promoting the mysteries of the beyond, whilst giving you soundtracks to jerk off onto a kittens face.
Download

Ahab-The Call of the Wretched Sea

Funeral doom at its best. If you are interested in this genre and have yet to hear anything this is the ideal place to start. Ahab create a trippy dense atmosphere that far outshines other funeral doom acts. Slow and crushing but never boring. This album is ideal for late nights fueled by hallucinogens or dissociatives.

Let the tide pull you under

De Silence et d'Ombre - 3: The Fall

If you're a follower of this blog you'll know of this French act.
Space being the issue at hand, and the music following that in a dark, powerful and haunting way.
So this is the new album, and if you enjoyed the previous works, you'll most certainly dig this.
If you didn't, no one gives a fukk, go to another blog.
Download

Whorekill

Tally ho

Nachtmystium - Addicts Black Meddle Part II

Nifty, spacey, post-black metaly, great.

Download

The Abominable Iron Sloth-The Id Will Overcome

The latest thousand pound slab of churning hell from the pissed off fuckers of The Abominable Iron Sloth. If waking up to find yourself buried alive with the weight of the world atop your wooden nightmare is your thing, then let this record be your backing track.

Cry to your god

Genocrush Ferox

So here I am on the toilet, thumbing through "Swedish Death Metal" in the band section and came across this description "I want to play like seagulls, backwards.". That will grab my attention instantly any day. So I look em' up and am treated to what sounds like a bunch of Swedes that learned how killer Vital Remains are (pre Benton, of course). They cranked out 2 demos which were a nice and ugly fusion of the two national styles, had them compiled for this release and then called it a day... Definitely some quality shit.

DEATH IS JUST THIS

Abscess - Seminal vampires and maggot men

Abscess´s proper debut album after the "urine junkies" collection of demos ...

... just as sick,ugly and thumping as anything Autopsy ever did .

Who the hell cares if there´s more emphasis on punk than there is on doom or whatever this time around?

It´s still Chris Reifert

it´s still the definition of DEATH METAL !!!!!!

The scent of Shit

G.G.F.H.(Global Genocide Forget Heaven)

Avoiding the lame and boring "essay" on the subject lets just say that it made perfect sense for a substancial amount of people involved in the late 80s/early90s Death-Black underground scene to welcome USA´ G.G.F.H. as one of their own so to speak...

...releases through a Peaceville sub-label?Yes .

Tours with My dying bride who at the time were widely perceived as a Death-Doom outfit...all factual,yes ,

yet the main reason for this unlikely acceptance is much simpler...as opposed to their peers in Skinny Puppy,Coil,Ministry ,etc etc GGFH un/consciously opted for a language which was way closer to that of Death-Black underground:

The Satanic trait was there (LaVeyan sort of individualist/Hedonistic crap but yeah) ;

the "lo-fi" production/performance values;

the stage show even ,which was basically a reflection of the themes explored on the albums(TV sets transmiting random images of snuff,porn ,assorted so called human perversions,religious junk,bloodbuckets,evisceration of stuffed dolls ,you get the picture).

On the other hand their peers looked either tame in comparison or made impenetrable by a much more complex language which was of no relevance whatsoever to what was being answered by/asked of metal ...

(tiresome) here´s hoping that was highly interesting and full of sense ... you have all my cds here(320kbps-I seem to enjoy this bit,as a matter of fact so much that I´m tempted to add that these are all out-of-print now ) and the 2005 SS album which I do not own etc etc

Do You Know what´s going on in here ?

Eat my Fuk - "Wet slit & a bottle of whiskey"

"Searching for books about the history of whisky, Amazon's superb software and search tool showed me this CD which I could never have imagined would come up in Amazon's website (check the titles!). To me Amazon is a "G" rated website. But with this example, it shows bad taste, bad judgement, interest in selling just about anything without quality control; quality meaning not just a non defective product but moral, ethical and intellectual quality. Amazon and Jeff Bezos, both highly praised for exceptional customer service, show their dark side, one not imagined, at least by me, as possible in this website. THUMBS DOWN AND SHAME ON YOU AMAZON AND JEFF(Benzos)!!!! "

Well ,it´s Chris Reifert(again) ,what is there to say ?

Highly recommended for fans of Emperor,Wagner,Nietzzzzzsche,french wines ,LaVey and all things intelligent/intellectual I guess ...

Kneel before my Cock

Disharmonic Orchestra

1st time I bumped into Disharmonic Orchestra coincided with the release of their debut Split with Pungent Stench which,if memory isn´t failing me,was one of Nuclear Blast´s 1st releases or maybe even the very first one(couldn´t be bothered to check this out)
...anyways,after having purchased said Split (at a time when Death/Grind was already a serious contender to usurp Thrash metal´s leading role as the ultimate,most extreme expression within the metal genre as a whole) I can´t really affirm that I was impressed by either Pungent stench or Disharmonic Orchestra - both seeemed 2nd rate(to say the least) to me when compared to say Death´s "Leprosy" or Napalm Death´s "From enslavement..." to name but two of those early death/grind albums which were absolutely consuming me at the time...well,in order not to make this very extensive lets move forward some months to the time Disharmonic´s "Expositionsprophylaxe" proper debut was released.
Now,this is a very different product altogether,I was instantly hooked by its intensity,extremity ,you name it.I still lump this together with a few selected early Death/grind classics such as Carnage´s "Dark recollections" or Cadaver´s "Hallucinating anxiety"etc,etc ... "Expositionsprophylaxe" was up to par with all its peers and managed to sound like nothing else at the same time.
Well, in between the relentless death/grind assault that was the "expositionsprophylaxe" debut there was already this quite "unorthodox" interpretation of the original death/grind sound,the use of unusual (for the genre)time signatures ,song arrangements and a general aura of weirdness (not only soundwise but also present in lyrics,image,artwork).This being said ,and moving on to its follow-up in the form of "Not to be undimensional conscious" (which unarguably represents their definitive album imo) I do not think that anything on its predecessors could have prepared the listener to what is to be found in the latter - A Milestone in Tech-Avant-garde-experimental-whatever Death Metal augmented by Tomas Skogsberg at the production helm
Tech-avant garde etc may lead one to think of studio trickery,overuse of keyboards , shitloads of effects,triggers,that emphasis on technical ability,the sort that makes an album sound like a random set of musical exercises as opposed to a cohesive,meaningful collection of songs ... well , think of Voivod´s "Nothingface" album as a reference point, that is the sort of "tech/avant-garde" we have in "not to be undimensional conscious".Fukk , this is getting long ...oh well , you have it all in here except the reunion album which I haven´t eevn heard but judging by the much anathematised "Pleasuredome" album which I enjoy a lot (Think of those albums such as Manes´"Vilosophe",Celtic Frost´s "Cold lake",Voivod´s "angelrat" and so forth) I suspect "Ahead" won´t truly be that "shocking" ... classic stuff ...
Jack-Up !!!!

Lord of the Grave-Raunacht

I don't appreciate baking my balls off on 105 degree leather while sitting in traffic. As the hangover in my head pulses in and out with the waves of heat temporarily turning my world askew I look around at the pathetic people rotting away around me. Then I realize why William Foster, a simple man such as myself could snap and rain terror on the populace.




Anyway...

Listen to Lord of the Grave kids. For fans of Electric Wizard.






Death dealer

Lantlôs - .neon

With Lantlôs one of the most cryptic bands from the fields of Post-Black Metal is making its debut for Prophecy. After their highly acclaimed 2008 debut album, their sophomore .neon is due to be released soon.

In six psychotically gaudy sound studies, Lantlôs unfold a misty array of lost sounds and forlorn words, a depressive manifesto of contemporary Post-Black Metal. As barely any other band before them, Lantlôs manage to conjure the disturbing feeling of being cut off from the world, and they do so by employing grey walls of sound full of madness, desperation, and hopelessness. Caustic and furious, hazy and dragging, and with the psychedelic playfulness of Post Rock, Lantlôs set to music abstract perceptions such as a flight from reality or the search for support in surreal deliriums.

Their music could be compared to the French pioneers of Post-Black Metal, Amesoeurs and Alcest. Hence it’s no wonder that Neige, musician with both these groups, contributes his heart-wrenching screams to the sound of Lantlôs. Moreover, his band-mate Fursy is responsible for the album’s excellent artwork.

Sublime, tragic, desolate ... ".neon" is a musical painting, as surreal as depressive, as elegiac as grey.

- Prophecy Productions

I've been waiting and looking forward to this since it was announced.

You can also find their first album within the Xul archive.

These nights were ours