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Light Dweller - Hominal

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Somewhere in the Sonoran desert, a man is walking wearing an old filthy cloak of old sheep wool, his face hidden in a cowl. That’s what came to mind when I saw this artwork. It’s made by Kieran Wakeman from Divine Art Chaos. It is unsettling, mysterious, raw and it fits perfectly with the music on the second album of the one-man project Light Dweller ‘Hominal’ . Tracklist: 1. 13:12 2. Thrall Beguiled 3. Isolation Devalorize 4. Sequester 5. Chasm Of Limbs 6. Sciolist 7. Dogma Harlot 8. Herd Animal Have you ever bought a record purely based on the artwork? I have and sometimes it was a success just like this record. Cameron Boesch is the main man and only man behind this black/death metal beast of an album. With his talent and creativity, he makes ‘Hominal’ a highpoint of technical black/death metal. Everything sounds so devastatingly heavy like you’re in a sandstorm that suffocates you. The double bass drum, the gut-punching palm-muted guitars, the deep growls make for a trip down a ‘C...

Black Curse - Endless Wound

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Formed in 2015 as Maliblis, the four-piece band now known as Black Curse, brought out their debut album Endless Wound on Sepulchral Voice Records on April 2nd. With members from Blood Incantation, Spectral Voice, Primitive Man and Khemmis, you can expect nothing more than a curdling deep pool of boiling black magma. Tracklist: 1. Charnel Rift 2. Crowned in (Floral) Vice 3. Enraptured By Decay 4. Seared Eyes 5. Lifeless Sanctum 6. Endless Wound 7. Finality I Behold Black Curse sounds like they're summoning demons. Real nasty ones, with grotesque deformities, immense eyes and otherworldly beaks that make cavernous sounds. Just listen to the way singer Eli torments his throat. It’s got to hurt man. Then again, he is the main reason for the sound on this record. O and Arthur Rizk of course, the guy who produced a shitload of records and plays the drums in Eternal Champion. He soaked this record in slime and made it sound like it’s recorded in hell or what have you. The album has seve...