ALCEST @ THE LARIMER LOUNGE 4/09/12 DENVER-CO

“I doit passer de L’ obscurite”

A subtle and profound sound with a variety of textures, beautiful and delicate cord progressions, angelic and diabolical singing, progressive acoustic guitars, dream-like atmospheric melodies an aggressive distorted guitars that evoke images of a big black cloud covering the winter sky. Alcest are a band from France that formed in the late 90’s, their sound started off as black metal but progressed into “Blackgaze” a melancholic, emotional, avant garde version of soul-raping black metal. They’ve released several excellent albums like “Ecailles de Lune” “Les Voyages de l’Ame” and “Souvenirs d’un Autre Monde” dynamic, vivid and surreal music.

Also playing: Stoic Dissention – black metal from Arvada and Echo?

DENVER DOOM FESTIVAL @ THE LARIMER LOUNGE 12/03/11 DENVER-CO

“And so in the sky shines the electric eye, supernatural king takes earth under his wing, Heaven’s golden chorus sings, Hell’s angels flap their wings, Evil souls fall to Hell, ever trapped in burning cells”

As the gloom and darkness of winter sets in the Mile Hi City, come and celebrate an evening at The Denver Doom Festival; full of slower tempos, low tuned guitars, despair, psychedelia, thick and heavy walls of sound and pure impending doom! Here are the local bands playing:

Velnias – blackened/folk/doom metal, Royal Talons – doom metal, The Flight Of Sleipnir – stoner/doom/folk metal, Low Gravity – stoner metal, In The Company Of Serpents – doom metal, The Xiphoid Process – death metal, Stoic Dissention – black metal, Black Acid Devil – stoner/psych metal, Blighter – sludge/stoner/doom metal, Skully Mammoth – stoner/doom metal.

STONEHAVEN @ THE MARQUIS THEATER 3/05/11 DENVER-CO

“Cattle die, kinsmen die, all men are mortal. Words of praise, will never perish, nor a noble name.” Black metal from the bleakest, depressive city in the US, Kansas City. Stonehaven play true black metal, they have release one album “Of Oak And Iron” that incorporates folk, viking metal and pagan philosophy.

Also playing: Four of Colorado’s true black metal bands – Vision Of Mara, Mount Cairn, Centimani and Stoic Dissention. Hail Satan!

OBSIDIAN FOG PROMOTIONS INAUGURAL SHOW @ BENDER’S TAVERN 1/08/11 DENVER-CO

Obsidian Fog is a promotion & booking company from Colorado that specializes in Black, Doom, Thrash and Death Metal, here are the bands playing the first show:

Motheaten – Post-ambient doom metal?

Visions Of Mara – Black metal from Denver.

Mount Cairn – Raw black metal from Loveland.

Empyrean Eclipse – Melodic death metal from Aurora.

Stoic Dissention – Black metal from Broomfield.

Start your New Year with Extreme Evil Metal from the Mile Hi City! May all your dreams and hopes be shattered this year.