ILL OMEN 'Æ.Thy.Rift' CD-LP-MC-SHIRT

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ILL OMEN : Æ.Thy.Rift : MMXV - MMXVI   

'Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.'

Bandcamp: http://illomenvoid.bandcamp.com/album/thy-rift

All Instruments/Voice/Recording/Mixing: IV
Mastering: BR (Temple Nightside / Grave Upheaval)
Cover: Yag Mort

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Black metal has long been a vehicle of choice for an individual to express oneself independently and solitarily, albeit with differing degrees of success depending on the quality of the artist’s songwriting ability and musicianship. When these two attributes are of a higher caliber, a one-man entity completely devoid of the potential need to compromise his vision with those of a group of collaborators can flourish. Perhaps it is for this very reason that IV, the lone member of Ill Omen, has again succeeded in creating some of the most resonant black metal of recent times with “Æ​.​Thy​.​Rift,” the band’s third full-length album and its fourth release on Nuclear War Now! Productions. As with Ill Omen’s previous output, “Æ​.​Thy​.​Rift” exudes an organic continuity within each song and across all tracks on the album, which is an outcome often not realized when multiple songwriters and musicians are employed. This consistency is achieved by the implementation throughout of dual bass guitar layers (one clean and one distorted), notably skeletal percussion, the churning, choir-like atmosphere of tremolo-picked guitars, and a blend of chanted, whispered, and traditional black metal vocals. The singularity of this release is further cemented by the lack of distinction in track titles, a characteristic which serves to present the album as a sum of inseparable parts. In other words, and especially given the ritual-like quality of the record in its entirety, it is safe to interpret each track as a necessary component of a collective opus whose individual pieces were not created with the ability to sustain themselves independently of the work as a whole. What most readily sets this particular release apart from previous Ill Omen recordings is a more dedicated adherence to slower, more doom-oriented tempos, which are very well suited to this ceremonial variety of black metal. The listener may very well be left with the impression that this is the soundtrack in the mind of a disease-ridden being on its deathbed, at times feeling an almost celestial bliss at peace with the impending end of suffering, but at other times tormented by the physical and spiritual decay that will inevitably lead to its ruin.

- C. Conrad

ILL OMEN - Æ​.​Thy​.​Rift
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EUCHARIST 'ENDARKENMENT' 12" MLP 2016

EUCHARIST
'ENDARKENMENT' 12" MLP 2016
www.ironbonehead.de

- 300gsm Jacket With Matt Varnish & Inside Flooded In Black
- 140g Black Vinyl
- Limited To 500 Copies

Hot on the heels of their Demise Rites demo collection released on vinyl by IRON BONEHEAD PRODUCTIONS, Australia's EUCHARIST return with a brand-new mini-album entitled Endarkenment, set for release on 12" vinyl via IRON BONEHEAD. The band's first new material in nearly five years, Endarkenment is fittingly titled: as much as it illuminates a new side to EUCHARIST, it simultaneously dives deeper into the darkest recesses of the duo's sound. Granted, the atavism/primitivism is still firmly rooted in such ancient gods as Archgoat and Demoncy, but Endarkenment runs counter to so much rote "bestial metal" by exploring the doomiest netherworlds inherent in the idiom - and more often than not, the notes in between. Still barbaric and disgusting, Endarkenment offers a more immersive experience, invoking ritualistic possession and nocturnal obeisance; as such, each side of the record is its own unified work, its own equally-ghastly headspace. Mystery and malignancy have become hallmarks of EUCHARIST, and with Endarkenment, their un-comforting white web of death looms larger than ever.
(Nathan T. Birk)

SOUND: http://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/eucharist-endarkenment

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EUCHARIST - Demise Rites (Demo Collection) 12" MLP 2015

EUCHARIST

'Demise Rites' (Demo Collection) 12" MLP 2015

www.ironbonehead.de

- 300gsm Jacket With Matt Varnish & Inside Flooded In Black
- 140g Black Vinyl
- Limited To 500 Copies

IRON BONEHEAD PRODUCTIONS is proud to present a special vinyl pressing of EUCHARIST's Demise Rites demo collection. Comprising two cassettes from 2011 - the selfsame Demise Rites debut and Tenebrous Summoning later that year, both limited to 50 copies but only half of which were circulated on dubbed tapes and Xeroxed covers - the full six-track compilation of Demise Rites introduced this solitary Australian to the metal underground with an air of mystery and malignancy. However, the label who released the Demise Rites compilation folded in 2012 not long after its release, which was limited to only 100 copies. Now, immortalized on vinyl, EUCHARIST shall have its rightful opportunity to infect more listeners worldwide and with ever more diseased tones than before. Remastered by BR especially for vinyl, Demise Rites is an absolutely punishing and overwhelming experience considering all material was recorded on a broken analog 4-track tape machine. Verminous and archaic, EUCHARIST hails such gods of primitivism/atavism as Archgoat and Demoncy, and suitably create an un-comforting white web of death, heaving and hulking in its lurking menace. Death, rebirth...behold EUCHARIST's Demise Rites.

SOUND: https://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/eucharist-demise-rites

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