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HOUR OF PENANCE unveiled pixel art music video for 'Blight And Conquer'
As "Misotheism", the new studio from Italy's death metal force HOUR OF PENANCE, draws near to its October 25th release date on Agonia Records, the band reveal a new single titled 'Blight And Conquer'. The song is accompanied by a pixel art music video created by the skilled Bristol artist Harry Sussams, and is based on a concept by Paolo Pieri.
HOUR OF PENANCE commented on the video: "We gave a lot of thought about how to do something different from anything else seen before and show you a unique video clip. Videogames have always been one of our biggest passions alongside music, and titles like Dark Souls and Bloodborne and their peculiar imagery and storytelling have been a huge source of inspiration for us: so we've decided to come up with a 2D/retro animation created by Harry Sussams, an amazing professional in illustration and pixel art. We worked hard together on every scene and detail to give life to a cryptic and gruesome narration tied to the themes of wealth and corruption dealt with in the lyrics of 'Misotheism', with the iconic tower of the artwork making its appearance into the video. Check it out!".
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MB Premiere and Review: WILCZYCA - 'Wilczyca' full album stream
With the release date less than a week away, MetalBite is proud to premiere an official full album stream for self-titled debut record from Polish mystical black metal act, WILCZYCA, out via Godz ov War Productions on February 2nd, 2020.
Other than being Polish and playing black metal I know nothing of this band. Wilczyca's self-titled debut release brings 7 songs molded in the shape of the genre's 1st and 2nd wave roots with the withering yet blossoming hand of melody for rhythmic retention. Backed by the duo of Louve and Niddhog, what you get in these 7 passages is nothing less than raw black metal early 90s style. Darkthrone-copycats? Not at all, Wilczyca's cauldron smells of its own root and henbane, curses and malice of another netherworld. Buried in rambunctious riffs and hostile throats "Wilczyca" channels the soul of sorcerian black metal, free from the taint of modernity with studious dedication and commitment to the 1st-2nd wave currents of black metal. I wish there was a bit more to extract as far as information surrounding the band, then again it's that air of mysticism, which empowers the material beyond its graven astral projection.
It's winter, thus it's only right to let black metal, true black metal have its way. Though raw black metal is not quite my taste even while I've enjoyed Ieschure, Pa Vesh En, Azelisassath and as of late Revenant Marquis; I hear ambition in Wilczyca's song writing to move the genre a bit further and give more meaning to it. They walk a blurry path somewhere among early 1st - 2nd wave black metal and DSBM ('Przyjdź'), but in a very feline manner that even someone who hates depressive black metal can appreciate what's being done. Casting the first stone with the introductory-esque 'Na Przeklętej Ziemi' that has a bit of ambiance, breaks stream into a rage more identical to and in-tuned with raw black metal that is sustained through the riffing delight of 'Ego Memini Inferno'. Characterized by semi-lo-fi drumming and a dirty yet bassy production, the album's initiators cement early on a sonic sagacity telling of their intentions. To the punky emanations of the album's title track through the very Scandinavian 2nd wave instrumental 'Burza', the duo make serious and successful attempts of deconstructing and reorganizing their technique to suite any given style/s when playing with such diverse atmospheres of conquest, despondency and nobility.
Full review of the Wilczyca's self-titled debut can be found here.
WILCZYCA is:
Louve - all instruments
Niddhog - vocals
MORE INFO AND PRE-ORDERS:
https://www.facebook.com/wilczyca.kult
http://www.godzovwar.com/
https://godzovwarproductions.bandcamp.com/album/wilczyca
https://www.facebook.com/GodzOvWar
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The Week In Metal - Week Of Feb 3 - 9, 2020
Can't believe we're already into a second month of 2020... and it almost feels like I've missed something important. It's that empty feeling of knowing that there's a superb record, possible top 10 at the end of the year, and I haven't heard it yet! This really makes me anxious and very tense, and if you want to avoid those symptoms start getting through lists like the one below, because you might find music that will make your day, week or even a year.
Till next week...
Thrash metal from Australia: Warrior Within - In Light Act II (Independent)
Funeral Doom metal from international band: Aeonian Sorrow - A Life Without (Independent)
Doom, death, gothic metal from United States: Cold Colours - 2 Decades of Depression (Independent)
Melodic, symphonic metal from Netherlands: Delain - Apocalypse & Chill (Napalm Records)
Death, grind, brutal metal from France: Depraved - Raped Innocence (Music Records)
Doom metal from Spain: Funeralia - Adaptation (Black Tears Of Death)
Doom, sludge metal from United Kingdom: Goblinsmoker - A Throne In Haze, A World Ablaze (Sludgelord Records)
Blackened Death metal from Netherlands: God Dethroned - Illuminati (Metal Blade Records)
Death, brutal, slam metal from Japan: Gorevent - Fate (Comatose Music)
Blackened Death metal from Germany: Horresque - Chasms Pt. I - Avarice And Retribution (The Crawling Chaos Records)
Power, heavy metal from United States: Ironflame - Blood Red Victory (Divebomb Records)
Folk metal from Italy: Kanseil - Cant Del Corlo (Rockshots Records)
Progressive, deathcore from United States: Krosis - A Memoir Of Free Will (Unique Leader Records)
Thrash, death metal from United States: Machinations Of Fate - Machinations Of Fate (Redefining Darkness Records)
Death, grindcore from United Kingdom: Napalm Death - Logic Ravaged By Brute Force (Century Media Records)
Progressive, symphonic metal from United Kingdom: Operose - Oceans Of Starlight (Lion Music)
Doom, death, sludge metal from Canada: Purveyors Of Sonic Doom - Eyeless Void (Independent)
Thrash, power metal from Italy: Revoltons - Underwater Bells Pt.2: October 9th 1963 Act.I (Sleaszy Rider Records)
Thrash, groove metal from Brazil: Sepultura - Quadra (Nuclear Blast)
Black metal from Greece: Serpent Noir - Death Clan OD (World Terror Committee)
Black, death, dark metal from France: Svart Crown - Wolves Among The Ashes (Century Media Records)
Thrash, melodic, death metal from United Kingdom: Sylosis - Cycle Of Suffering (Nuclear Blast)
Death, progressive metal from United States: Thoren - Gwarth II (Drylands Records)
Doom, sludge metal from Germany: Warped Cross - Rumbling Chapel (Black Sunset)
Doom, sludge metal from United States: Radian - Chapters (Independent)
Black metal from Ukraine: Goatreich - Godfetor (Ashen Dominion)
Black, viking, pagan metal from Spain: Itnuveth - Enuma Elish (Base Record Production)
Black, atmospheric metal from Ukraine: Ygg - The Last Scald (Ashen Dominion)
Warrior Within, Aeonian Sorrow, Cold Colours, Delain, Depraved, Funeralia, Goblinsmoker, God Dethroned, Gorevent, Horresque, Ironflame, Kanseil, Krosis, Machinations Of Fate, Napalm Death, Operose, Purveyors Of Sonic Doom, Revoltons, Sepultura, Serpent Noir, Svart Crown, Sylosis, Thoren, Warped Cross, Radian, Goatreich, Itnuveth, Ygg
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