Spellblast - Battlecry - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Magic Tuber Stringband act in communion with the natural world around them. Highly skilled players and writers, the trio are leaders within the burgeoning Avant-Folk world. Growing up in Appalachia studying the folk traditions of the region in tandem scientific and observational work in nature, their music appears to weave in and out of the fabric of the landscape. The ensemble continues to stretch the parameters of acoustic instrumental expression with masterful flourishes of dense, textural arrangements, subtle minimalist gestures and deft improvisation. Heavy Water addresses the impact of nuclear production on the environment and the communities within, a musical evocation of destruction and resilience, an embrace of dissonance and tension within moments of transcendence. The inspiration for Heavy Water is rooted in fiddler Courtney Werner's work as an ecologist in rural South Carolina.Werner explains InchThe town of Ellenton, South Carolina was the largest of the towns displaced in 1952 by the U.S. federal government to build the Savannah River Plant, which produced radioactive materials for U.S. nuclear weapons during the Cold War. The former site of Ellenton was dedicated to the extraction of 'heavy water,' whereas other areas of the plant focused on manufacturing weapons-grade plutonium and tritium within nuclear reactors. Heavy water is chemically altered to be denser than normal water and is incredibly expensive and time-consuming to synthesize, requiring 52 gallons of river water to produce one fluid ounce. It's denser properties made it valuable for use within the nuclear reactors on the site.InchHeavy Water is more than a collection of songs. It is a work whose compositions are entirely modern. Played on traditionally folk acoustic instruments, it defies expectations and emotionally addresses the pain of lives human, flora or fauna irrevocably changed by d

Nachtmystium are back! And after all that was said and done, mastermind Blake Judd is still standing. Not only that, but Judd has also clawed himself back from the abyss of a most extreme life imaginable to a much more quiet, observant, and matured artist and person. His return will not be met with universal applause - even from the black metal scene. For anybody following the tumultuous career of Blake Judd and his pioneering band that has pushed the borders of their genre into new territories, this comes hardly as a surprise. With their ninth studio album InchBlight PrivilegeInch, Nachtmystium are once again presenting a masterpiece that can even compete with the trilogy of albums that many view as the peak of the earlier career of the American black metal (USBM) trailblazers InchInstinct DecayInch (2006), InchAssassins Black Meddle Pt. IInch (2008), and InchAddicts Black Meddle Pt. IIInch (2010). Like an infernal sniper, every song on InchBlight PrivilegeInch hits straight on target. All the darkest elements, required and longed for, are there harsh, rasping vocals, the fierce hum and whirr of guitars burning with an ice cold fire, moments of ecstatic and exalted beauty in hellish soundscapes. Yet there are also those fine details that the musically well-versed Judd has always cunningly hidden in the general sonic onslaught such as post-punk and wave elements, and now even a knife-tip of outlaw country. InchBlight PrivilegeInch connects Nachtmystium to it's glory-days - not as a nostalgic reminiscence but as a forward-looking continuation and next evolutionary step. If anything, this ninth album is marked by a maturity derived from experience and learning. Judd's often diabolically catchy tunes are sharper than ever and have lost none of their bite. This might be due to the fact that it is the first album of the USBM spearheads which Judd composed in a fully s

Loudblast have been death metal vets and torchbearers in France and Europe. By all accounts, 35 year career for a music artist is quite of an achievement, notably for an extreme metal band travelling through all the evolutions as regards to music consumption and business in general, and who still sound undeniably as fierce, powerful and more ferocious than ever !. Following 2014 'Burial Ground', new album 'Manifesto' is an immediate death metal crusher, permeated with a 'straight for killing ' feel while still delivering enough subtle thriving groove to strike deadlier and enhancing that original head banging death metal powerful trademark.Loudblast here welcome 2 new members in 2020 Frédéric Leclercq on bass (Kreator / Sinsaenum ex Dragonforce)and Jerome Point-Canovas on guitar (ex No Return, E-Force), who along with initial band founder guitarist / vocalist Stéphane Buriez and drums smasher Hervé Coquerel are pushing barriers further, adding massive twisted robust riffage and also vibrant unpolished yet refined arrangements. Loudblast 'Manifesto' is their heavyweight grand return. For Fans of Death, Morbid Angel, Behemoth