Black Metal

Christian Cosentino’s highly acclaimed second album is finally available on vinyl. Melodic and symphonic black metal with a heavy load of progressive elements, taking it another step further than his previous ‘Lawn’ album. Better yet, this new album builds further on the foundations made on ‘Lawn’ with a ton of layers, clean and shrieking vocals and a session drummer that goes up to 300 bpm. Impressive, to say the least.

Black Metal

A mighty split between these two juggernauts! Both acts bring their absolute A-game here. Australia’s Christian Cosentino brings us the most glorious blend of his signature blackened orchestral metal in technicolour. U.K.’s own Winterquilt is putting forward some of the most brutal, insane yet “danceable” digitised grindcore chaos. Enough to make your hairs split as no stone is left unturned on this boundary-breaking release.

French Black Metal

Lim. 200

Dungeon Synth

The songs on this album have, up til this point, only been available on the long sold out extended CD versions of “The Devil´s Songs” that were put out by Dark Dungeon Music and Cold Meat Industry, respectively. The song “The Devil Must Kill” has only ever been available on the Cold Meat Industry compilation CD “Absolute Supper”.

These songs were all recorded not too long after the initial 5 songs (Part 1: Dance of The Dead) that originally appeared on the 10″ EP “The Devil´s Songs” in 1997. By their very nature, these songs are a lot more experimental, and rely heavily on atmospherics, with the exception of “The Devil Must Kill”, which was recorded a bit later, on it´s own, and is a bit of a return to the original “The Devil´s Songs” sounds, albeit the only song with sung vocals Cintecele Diavolui ever did.

Black Metal

Ajattoman uni is a sidestep, but it is also some sort of return to our roots.

After more unified and well-thought albums, we wanted to follow our instincts almost blindly, and so we found ourselves among these short bursts of riffs and melodies. There is one part of Celtic Frost and another part of dark rock; sometimes blasting with hate, sometimes drowning in echoes and ethereal atmosphere; songs that you would want to last for a little longer, but everything has been said and done in seconds.

Black Metal

Their 2023 latest album on LP.

With “Lumi Vaientaa Kysymykse” we can see still some elements of recent CoO albums, with a lot of soothing, shoegazing melodies passing through, however the pace is rather toned down into a more dragging and Doomy pace, often reminiscing with Katatonia, both in tempo as melody wise, and with an approach more akin to records like “Kuuhun Kahlittu” and some part which are particularly metallic and acrid, such as the beginning of the second track, almost closer to Atvar’s work under Kêres. The Post-Punk basslines however are still always there creating their own shamanistic, hypnotic sound, as well as the feverish experimentalism characteristc of 70s and 80s Psych and Folk rock and adjacent much present in the keyboards and daring, outsider guitarwork, particularly in “Lankeemus”.