“My child, I will bury you on the highest hill, Beside the tallest tree where winter will cover you, and build the biggest castle, There I will bury you, from the arms of your mother”
Swallow The Sun are a melodic death doom band from Finland that formed in the early 00’s. Their first album “The Morning Never Came” is a beautiful and melancholic masterpiece full of slow and powerful riffs, deep grunted vocals and atmospheric keyboards that create a dark aura and produce eternal darkness.
“Denying our restlessness, Frustrations tension eludes, The past was clean, Where thoughts were mild, The present day horrors alive, Slowly passing timeless horrors, Lives within all fear”
Paradise Lost are a doom metal band from England that formed in the late 80’s. Thay started as a death/doom metal band and transform themselves into a gothic metal band, their sound creates an eerie, haunting and mournful atmosphere and produces a melancholy sound. They’ve released the masterpiece “Gothic” along other great albums like “Draconian Times” “Lost Paradise” “Icon” and their newest “Tragic Idol” these are albums that are dark and epic with thick and heavy guitars and growl/scream vocals that evoke gloominess.
“Into the dungeon with evil men, The people have risen we’re free again, Come out of the closet, Come out of the hole, Come out of the woodwork, Come into the fold, Rebels and fighters, a license to kill, Unite with the bandits down from the hills, Open your windows, Open your doors, Open your minds, To a freedom of thought”
“You made your choice, now there’s no turning back, Wasting your time, but you just won’t face the facts, Why fool yourself, that you’re having fun, When you had your second thoughts, why didn’t you fucking run”
Negative Approach are a legendary hardcore punk band from Detroit that formed in the early 80’s. They’ve released one album “Tied Down” a punishing, raw, violent, fast, mean and nihilistic piece of work. Punks Not Dead!
“Will we ever see a time, when it’s enough, When we see what we know, isn’t all, Of all that is, creating a world, Of broken hearts, of tired eyes, Living in this shell, like it was forever”
“I scar my body like a good boy, It takes practice at self abuse”
Eyehategod plays bleak, depressing, dismal, angry, brutal and heavy sludge metal. Formed in the NOLA area in the late 80’s they’ve been releasing slow, detuned, drug-infused albums, ep’s and splits like “Take As Needed For Pain” “In The Name Of Suffering” “Dopesick” “99 Miles Of Bad Road” and “Lack Of Almost Everything” just to name a few.
“Hollow courtship, run-on, pointless, Faint dreams creeping, endless, Timeless, wasted fucking jaded, Destroy-demand, ending, craving, seething, teething, war. War. Hands waving, hands bleeding, How can you live with yourself?”
Chelsea Wolfe plays experimental doom folk that create an unforgiving darkness and a dense and eerie atmosphere. She has released a couple of grim noise rock albums “The Grime & The Glow” and “Apokalypsis” that are full of unwavering instrumentation, splintered distortion, dark undertones, terrifying wails and gentle haunting melodies. So come out an embrace her and enjoy a night of beautiful decaying goth-folk.
The Count passed away today at 2:30, he is remembered by Fatatita, Grisha, Misha, Sasha, Tatiana, Countess von Backwards, Uncle Uno and Countess Dahling von Dahling. Rest in peace you prodigitalian bastard!
“Sleeping beast rest in peace, far too primal, Rip the flesh taste of death, bite the gristle, Killing game primitive inquisition, tear it up inside out, small incision”
Static X are back together after a brief break bringing their hard-driving guitars, industrial samples, distorted bass, mechanical rhythm beats and danceable grooves that create crashing waves of sound. Formed in L.A. in the mid 90’s they’ve released the mind-bending “Wisconsin Death Trip” an album that creates an intense wall of sound and dark metallic noise.
“They can make things worse for me, sometimes I’d rather die, they can tell me lots of things, but I can’t see eye to eye, I know they know the way I think, I know they always will, but someday I’m gonna change my mind, Sometimes I’d rather kill”
