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.
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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 ...
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Repulsion

Would you take any extreme metal anthology

(be it a book , a cd , a BLOG ,whattheFever) half seriously ,

were it not ,at the very least, to feature Repulsion?

I know you wouldn´t ...

... so here it is presented to you exactly how I´d like it presented to myself -

nothing that special really, just each and every track they´ve recorded as featured on the 2003 re-issue of their classic "Horrified" album Minus the 2 live tracks which is basically filler and that annoying "extras-all-crammed-into-1cd" approach .

I can´t recommend the "WFBE" demo enough,

basically a session which predated "Horrified" with a couple of killer tracks (read:matching anything on "Horrified")

which were not included in the latter for whatever reason.

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Skin Chamber

The single most impressive "Industrial-Metal"(so much more than this though) albums of all time.

Hardly surprising if one is to take into consideration that both Paul Lemos and Chris Moriarty are the USA´s equivalent to,say,Einsturzende Neubauten in Europe - in other words,pioneers/innovators in the US´s ambient-noise-industrial etc scene (if there ever was one at all) ... so, basically people who´ve been experimenting with sound in general since as early as the late 70s

,having released countless albums as Controlled Bleeding prior to this "project"... and speak of longevity paying off - the way sound is used in here in order to evoke mood - space denotes exactly that imo (listen to a song like "in the sewer of dreams" to name but one) -

... and yeah ,we also have the "Metal" part to it (not that I´m in some way disassociating it from the above or anything), well , it´s 91, those of you who were around and into metal (not necessarily metal-metal,more like all that exciting new extreme music that was being released by labels like Earache for instance) can fairly easy attest that 91 was a peak of sorts(in creativity,extremity,you name it) for taht style of music thus making perfect sense that "outsiders" such as CB opted to dabble with it while doing these two albums which were quite clearly an outlet for a Darker vision.

Into this Pit of Shame

Nefandus

Nefandus was a black metal band from Sweden, with lyrics exploring themes of fanatic Satanic worship. They are considered one of the first religiously Satanic black metal bands. Nefandus was a trio comprised of band leader Belfagor, along with Demogorgon and Ushatar.Belfagor later formed Ofermod after Nefandus split up, and has been sporadically active as a musician since then due to problems with DRUG ADDICTION and PRISON TIME. Perhaps his most notorious act, proclaimed as a “NIGGERHUNT” by Belfagor himself, was the HUNT and TORTURE of a black man with FRIENDS.
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Samhain - Box set (complete discography re-mastered+extras)

"Samhain was,for me,not just my "new beginning" or darker vision - but a darker,blacker understanding of the world ,why it works the way it does... and has for endless centuries.

Understanding the things most could never or don´t care to comprehend.To stop bouncing off the walls and instead ,weave thru the ever-winding spiral,looking for all the hidden things others could care less about/to."

G.D.

You think you´ve known pain?

You´ve known NOTHING

G.I.S.M. (Gnostic Idiosyncrasy Sonic Militant) - SoniCrime Therapy

...listening to this one is much like being one of the Antarctic crew of the Carpenter movie "The Thing",standing before their ghastly,otherwordly shapeshifting foe,yet with no real idea what "IT" actually is,beyond the fact that it clearly isn´t very nice.

A personal favourite ... nuff said ... sorry Jim !!

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