avant-garde 17 articles

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Review: GOLD SPIRE – Steps into Shadow [Awakening Records]

Steps into Shadow took me a while to figure out. Not because it’s especially difficult, but because every time it seemed ready to settle into...

Interview with Mirai of SIGH

Revisiting Infidel Art for its latest reissue, Sigh reflects on the album’s experiments, its missteps, and the moments that still resonate. Their latest album, I...

News
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When the Deadbolt Breaks Announce New Album “In the Glow of the Vatican Fire” and Release First Single “The Chaos of Water”

Argonauta Records is proud to announce the upcoming release of When the Deadbolt Breaks’ tenth studio album, “In the Glow of the Vatican Fire”, an ambitious and violent...

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Avant-garde Prog Black Metal Band IM NEBEL Signs with Octopus Rising; New Single “Life” Out Now

Tbilisi-based Avant-garde prog black metal band Im Nebel has officially joined forces with Octopus Rising (an Argonauta Records trademark), marking a significant milestone in their...

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Polish Avant-garde Black/Death Metal Project Nervous Releases ‘Acquiescence’ Guitar Playthrough

Polish Avant-garde Black/Death Metal project Nervous recently released its debut full-length album Acquiescence. Today, Aaron Ciesielski, the mastermind behind the project, has released a guitar...

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RAINER LANDFERMANN Announces Exquisite 12″ Vinyl Gatefold With Two New Songs

Innovative, intense, utterly dark, straight from the heart and soul and 100% independent: that’s the essence of RAINER LANDFERMANN. Or, to quote Zero Tolerance Magazine: “as...

Reviews
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Review: Thy Catafalque “Vadak” [Season of Mist]

Tamás Kátai has created the very essence of modern Avant Garde Metal with his Thy Catafalque. At one hand it is so otherworldly and hard...

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Review: Kekal “Quantum Resolution” [Eastbreath Records]

Every two or three years the Indonesian avant-garde pioneers Kekal pleases the audience with the new release, this year they have released the 12th full-length...

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Review: Ihsahn ”Ámr”

Ihsahn – Ámr (Candlelight/Spinefarm records) Anyone naive enough to question whether the fires within Ihsahn’s belly may be starting to quell after a quarter of a...

Video
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Video: Vulture Industries ”Something Vile”

Vulture Industries released a new video for the 3rd album song ”Something Vile”. The new album, Stranger Times will be out on September 22nd via Season Of Mist....

News
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Enslaved reveals details of the new album

Enslaved are soon ready to release their 14th album under the name of E and it will be out on October 13th. Ivar, mastermind of the band stated:...

Interview Zweizz (Fleurety, Umoral, Strid, ex-Dodheimsgard)

This year, the Norwegian avant garde metal act, Fleurety, have released a 2 songs EP under the name of Fragmenta Cuinvis Aetatis Contemporaneae, and it...

Reviews
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Review: Ur Draugr / Haar

Ur Draugr / Haar ATMF Well, to be honest I think that order of bands should be here opposite. The reason is that HAAR have...

News
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ALIEN SYNDROME 777 “Outer” (Avantgarde Music) entire album streaming

Avant-garde black metal international recording project led-by italian mastermind Alessandro Rossi, in conspiracy with Smohalla’s Vincent Cassar and As

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DIMESLAND booking shows in support of “Psychogenic Atrophy” album + stream

In the aftermath of the release of their debut album, Psychogenic Atrophy, Oakland’s avant-garde thrash manglers, DIMESLAND, has begun the task of bringing

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Absentia Lunae “Vorwarts” review

Absentia Lunae “Vorwarts” ATMF Yeah, I still remember this Italian black metal trio after their successful previous albums, which I reviewed back then, and which...

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Mourning Mist “Mourning Mist” review

Mourning Mist “Mourning Mist” Forever Plagued Records Do you know Kvasir from Profezia and Abhor? If you are – then you must listen to his...