V/A - Evil [Deathbomb Arc Compilation]

Diss1 drop some experimental Hip Hop down, styles ranging between a smattering of 80s production flare and Die Antwoord delivery/vibe (though with far more substance than Die could ever manage) with a little dirty electronics thrown in for good measure. The whole compilation is led off with Diss1 and their tracks poignant opening sample of A Tribe Called Quest calling "Please don't be deceived by the ugly slice of evil". Boo Hiss brings some digital punk to the table that quickly flows into Black Pus' meandering glitch piece "Beg to Blague". I found Black Pus' offering quite uninspired/boring. Viper Venom "Goosebumps" sounds like most contemporary "Hip Hop" club hits, but extremely dark and digital. For fans of ICP, Twiztid, etc. Much guttural "YAH" wowe. Black Pus follows with the very DIY punk sounding "Food is Great". The compilation continues on with some downtempo breaks smashed with harsh noise from Dreamcrusher, Rind brings much reverb drenched kvlt, Sissy Cobb offers up some pretty straight forward harsh noise (with a little experimentation) on "Hounds"...... the real stand outs on this album are Diss1 and Signor Benedick the Moor (prod. Brrrapture) with their own fairly original takes on Hip Hop, ParallaxScroll with their endearing IDM fair, and Grypt with their well produced kvlt outing. Much of this album didn't really impress me. There are some good points like I mentioned but a lot of it felt uninspired or perhaps juvenile. Juvenile in the way that these projects are still in their relative infancy still trying to develop themselves. Or perhaps some of the material just came across trendy to me? I've heard this has been getting alot of press... I'm starting to wonder why. Regardless, the compilation is for a good cause and there are some stand outs that are definitely worth checking out. The cover was just black, so I decided to choose a better image for this post.

This is what Deathbomb Arc had to say about the release:

Benefit compilation for the anti-debt charity Rolling Jubilee rollingjubilee.org - 100% of money donated for downloads will be given to Rolling Jubilee.

Acts were asked to write songs about evil in whatever form they wished, from the specific to the abstract; from the cartoonish to the most horrible and real. Here at Deathbomb Arc, we consider economic systems designed to keep the majority of people in debt the most evil of all.

For even more information, we highly recommend you read the book 'Debt' by David Graeber.

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Khand - "The Fires Of Celestial Ardour"

Superb neoclassical ritualistic space ambient. Get it. Write up from Hi Arc Tow reads:

The Fires of Celestial Ardour consists of ten pieces of deliciously neoclassical synth-ambient that take the listener on a journey through lonesome, starlit expanses. For fans of Tangerine Dream, Dead Can Dance, Raison D’Etre, Endura, Mortiis, Nox Arcana, Ildjarn.

Khand - "The Fires Of Celestial Ardour"

- DCKR

Wolveserpent - "Perigaea"

Wolveserpent have made a new demo available for free download at their website. Super ritualistic psychedelic blackened doom shit right here. They have a ton of other releases available for free download on their site, too, so get up to speed with what they've been doing the last several years if you're not already caught up.  But, yeah, this "Perigaea" demo is fucking killer. Dark, psychedelic, trance inducing, sludgy black doom metal. Great stuff!

Wolveserpent - "Perigaea"

- DCKR

Durazis - "Demo 2012"

Physical copies no longer available and not for sale digitally anywhere, so here is some raw as fuck trve cvlt black metal for you from Durazis. Lo-fi and brutal to the Nth, Durazis create official as fuck brutal as hell cavernous black metal for all your satanic ritual needs.

Durazis - "Demo 2012"

- DCKR

Swine - "Marked By The Baron"

Lo-fi super cult black metal with some dashes of death metal from now defunct Vanguard Productions. Out of print vinyl release and subsequent rip from Swine. "Marked By The Baron" is fuzzed out guitars, echoed guttural growls, and an air of pure unadulterated evil.

Swine - "Marked By The Baron"

- DCKR

SUNN O))) – “LIVE AT HOPSCOTCH FESTIVAL, SEPTEMBER 8, 2012 “

I write at, and also run, Grindthieves and have tried to make it a habit - a successful one, thusfar - of not posting the same thing here and at Grindthieves. Had to make an exception for this one, though. For obvious reasons. Enjoy.

SUNN O))) – "LIVE AT HOPSCOTCH FESTIVAL, SEPTEMBER 8, 2012"

- DCKR

Doth - "Datura Wrightii"

When you think of black metal, you usually think of corpse paint and snow for a visual representation, thanks in no small part to the Norwegian regions & beyond who have kicked out so much trve cvlt black metal over the years. I can't speak for corpse paint or a lack thereof on this one, but there is certainly no snow. Neither corpse paint nor snow make a difference, though, when it comes to Doth.

Hailing from the Sonoran desert here in the good old state of Arizona, this is a free 2 track release originally available in a short play cassette single format. Long since sold out, it's now available from the svper awesome Tagobella label which, despite sounding terribly close to your best tasting worst fast food mistake, happens to have a ton of other great material available for free in a digital format or cheap in hard copy. Tagobella has already been featured here and will likely appear again. So get to know the label and some of the realms they operate in, sooner rather than later, because I think you'll have some serious catching up to do if you don't get busy right now.

This release from Doth is two tracks of trve desert black metal. The kind of stuff that would make a perfect soundtrack to a truly gruesome desert  murder scene in some twisted B horror flick that you can't help but love. This stuff is raw and borderline psychedelic, ritualistic in execution. Marvelous black metal. From a desert.

Doth - "Datura Wrightii"

- DCKR

Nibiru - "2004" Demo

Self described dark, epic and atmospheric astral occultic black metal from Overlord of Crimson Moon, whom I've only listened to a handful of times. Regardless, description is pretty spot on. When the synths are running the show, it sometimes feels like the soundtrack to the coolest video game you've never played. Shit's good.

Sure, it's not hot off the streets, dating back to 2004, but I bet you haven't heard it yet, either. Sold out limited edition physical release, so here you go. Check it.

Nibiru - "2004 Demo"

- DCKR

Scroll - "Scroll"

Some pretty epic sort of shoegaze blackmetal or something. One guy inside a 1971 Airstream at the O Zone farm in Shelton Washington during the summer and autumn of 2011. It's really good if you're into that sort of far out black metal with all sorts of melody and epic shit going on or that sort of more twisted and distorted dark chillwave type stuff. Or both. It's pretty fuckin' cool, that's all I know.

Scroll - "Scroll"

- DCKR

Dapnom - "Dvoerskrèb"

This shit is so cult that unless you search black/etc metal blogs - and even then, at times, you simply won't find it. Supreme black cult noise, and nothing else. Ritual ambient, black metal, power electronics, drone noise, all that super evil shit with the "evil" turned up to about +666.

Dapnom - "Dvoerskrèb"

- DCKR