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For two decades now Vaarwel, the creative entity behind the name Frozen Ocean, has been bringing us music to feed our imagination and infuse our dreams with wonder, terror, awe and magic. Eleven full length albums, each with utterly individual character yet unmistakeably part of the same grand, visionary tapestry, an array of dazzling EPs, split releases, compilations…the Frozen Ocean back catalogue is a cornucopia of treasures. So, to speak of Vaarwel having created the most enthralling and accomplished work ever to bear the unmistakeable Frozen Ocean logo is not a statement to be made lightly…and yet here we are, with album number twelve – Askdrömmar.

Askdrömmar leads us down the empty, moonlit street of opening track ‘Mångata’ into the heart of a city; a city that the music builds around us with its haunting blend of atmospheric black metal, melancholic melodies and dark ambient textures. This city is no dormant collection of bricks and metal…it lives, feeding on human emotion, on our avarice and anger, on our desperation as we run like trapped rats through a maze, locked into the bizarre and broken lives we have constructed. The powerful, driving rhythms of ‘Gristimmar’ hound us through this thrilling, terrifying dream world of shadows and neon light, Vaarwel’s imperious voice, black as night, carried on dancing keys and elemental guitars. ‘I lyktornas sken’ (meaning ‘In The Light Of Street Lamps’) conjures the imagined sanctuary of those pools of illumination, yet also the way the darkness deepens at the limits of their radiance. The cold sadness, the absolute aloneness of ‘Köttkvarn’ bleeds through the skin, transporting the listener far from any lingering perception of the world outside Askdrömmar’s cityscape. This album is overflowing with wonderful songcraft, hypnotic melodies, and incredible, harsh vocals…but it’s the emotions they invoke, the visions they inspire, the tangible reality of the environment that they create that make Askdrömmar so special. This album offers an experience like no other.

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Birthed in the wet grounds and grey skies of the Pacific Northwest, OLD MOON aims to bring a unique new band to tell the tales of life's sorrows.
Depression, grief, loss of self and death are the keys that stitch these heart-aching lyrics together. Accompanied to feed the image, a beautiful orchestra fills the air, meeting a breath of guitar melodies entangling melodic death and post black metal together in solidarity. Binding a tense and resonating sound that strikes the mind and embraces the heart, this is OLD MOON.

Birthed in the wet grounds and grey skies of the Pacific Northwest, OLD MOON aims to bring a unique new band to tell the tales of life's sorrows.
Depression, grief, loss of self and death are the keys that stitch these heart-aching lyrics together. Accompanied to feed the image, a beautiful orchestra fills the air, meeting a breath of guitar melodies entangling melodic death and post black metal together in solidarity. Binding a tense and resonating sound that strikes the mind and embraces the heart, this is OLD MOON.

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Italian long-standing black metal pioneers Funeral Oration are back with their third album. Originally formed in 1989 in Taranto, Apulia, the band released their debut album Sursum Luna in 1996 on Avantgarde Music before dissolving the following year. Twenty years later, in 2017, guitarist and keyboardist Luca La Cara and singer and lyricist The Old Nick brought Funeral Oration back from the dead to release their sophomore album Eliphas Love in 2019, again via Avantgarde Music.

Five years have passed already, and the time has come for a new chapter. Antropomorte sees La Cara and The Old Nick banding with bassist Iblis (Handful Of Hate) and drummer David Folchitto (Stormlord and many others) to craft seven hymns of old-style, essential black metal from the ‘90s. As Funeral Oration describes it, Antropomorte is “a desperate litany of decadence and mystical delirium. Marcia funebre per il genere umano.”

Once again we deal with poetry, occultism and antichristian sentiment thanks to lyrics directly inspired when not directly translated from poets and artists from different ages. “Amor Obsessio” is a direct translation made by The Old Nick from ”La morte embaumée” by M. Rollinat (1883), “Cloaca Cattolica” (“Catholic Sewer”) is inspired by true events occurred in Varazze in 1907, “Il Serpente Della Genesi” (“Serpent from the Genesis”) is another translation from “Lilith” by R. de Gourmont (1892) and so is “Notturno Sepolcrale”, translated from “Ténèbres” by A. Samain (1895). “Stregheria”, on the other hand, is a direct quotation of Salvator Rosa’s “La strega”, from 1646.
 

Old school Death Metal the way it should be!!
On their second album, Tvmvlo brings us yet another plot of putrid riffs, loaded with solos with effects and layers that convey odor and putrefaction. Macabre stories through guttural vocals leave a trail of blood that will invade your mind with episodes of terror and unrest! With a bass line and drums with their own characteristics, the band achieved their own Death Metal in a coherent and abrasive way, leaving no one indifferent to their own style!!
A record to be taken into consideration for true Death Metal lovers!!

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