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Black Metal from Nimosh who runs runs Kunsthall Productions with Wroth/Wintherr from Darkspace/Paysage d'Hiver.

So, you can expect something similar in sound here.

Although started in 1996 this 'band' only produced one album that never saw the dark of space until 2002, which is brought to you here. Cold stuff to be expected from a Kunsthall offering.

Nebelmeer

Melencolia Estatica

Surprisingly this is a band that is lead by a female.

Climaxia is her name, and she has total control over both Guitars and Bass, there is no other member involved that gets in the way of these things, which I found interesting.

What does a stupid Italian kunt know about Black Metal? Curious I was, as I'm sure some of you will also be.

Musically speaking, Letum is a bass driven album, and if you gave it enough thought, you'd say that the bass leadership is actually quite good, probably better than her cooking as I'm sure she only knows how to boil pasta from a packet.

The style can be put under Depressive Black Metal, but with Letum, there is a little more there, I wouldn't go and say that DSBM is the ideal genre to give this band, although granted, the lyrical side of things does rest in that realm.

Here are both albums for you to look into.

Melencolia Estatica

Letum

The One

Second album by this Greek band, which I believe relocated to the UK.

Straight forward but rather good Black Metal, at times it would appear they borrow some riffs from the later day Maniac Butcher skroll of "how to create killer-femme-abusing-guitar-passages", which when done properly, is never ever a bad thing. This is moody and dark, breezing past your ears like a Jet-Fighter made from lava.

I, Master

Hate Forest - Dead But Dreaming

New compilation bringing to us three unreleased studio tracks plus four live tracks.

It's Hate Forest, it's new material, it's worth downloading.

Dead But Dreaming

Sonic Violence

An old UK industrial / metal hybrid here from the UK that didn't sound like Godflesh. One of the earlier bands signed to Peaceville that took all of their skill and channeled it into a long and rewarding career of two whole albums. This being the better of them and actually a pretty decent listen as a change of pace. Not an essential listen, but a curiosity.


TRANSGETYOURFIXION

Mitochondrion

Blackened death metal usually takes a couple of different schools. One being melodic and Dissection influenced melodeath at heart. Which basically fails to offer any feeling of blackness or death. Thus being not ironically titled, but absolutely irrelevant. Then there is the real blackened death metal. Bands as comfortable with Order From Chaos and Incantation as they are Blasphemy and Beherit. The chaos of music meant to be devoured as a whole, not as a single. These are the bands that become kult and thus ignored by the average metal fans that demand perfect musicianship and clear production. Mitochondrion doesn't fukk around. They hit you again and again and leave you there used, beaten and lying in an alley. They took the money out of your wallet and walked back into the bar to get another beer on your dime.

DESCENT