My Music Path

On the 28th Of August, progressive death metal band Wills Dissolve releases their second album 'Echoes' on Hypnotic Dirge Records.  Tracklist: 1. Echoes (31:36) With just one track that lasts half an hour the band from Houston, Texas takes you on a journey into the endless void of space. To name their record ' Echoes ' takes guts. Obviously, the band is hugely influenced by Pink Floyd and their masterpiece ' Echoes ' is unparalleled. However, Wills Dissolve pulls out all the stops. They paint a science fictional picture of a star-filled purple vortex. In the end, a giant black hole lurks, like the mouth of an all-devouring cosmic giant.   The story is about an astronaut who travels to the outer rims of space to find a new home for humanity. Musically we hear a wide variety of influences; the clean guitar parts take you back to the quieter parts Rush's 2112 with Mikael Akerfeldt from Opeth on vocals. When the death metal kicks in the growls sound like the O

Swedish black metalband Ov Shadows have made their second album 'I Djävulens Avbild' (In The Devil’s Image) and it's released on the 14th of August on Canadian label Hypnotic Dirge.  Tracklist: 1. Den Eld Som Tär och Förvrider 2. Blasfemiskt Crescendo 3. Under Dödens Vingar 4. Anaoretens Gap 5. I Djävulens Avbild 6. Spotsk 7. Av Kunskap Krönt Till Gud Black metal is as diverse as regional accents. Some accents sound like an angel pouring honey into your ear, others sound like a dead zombie slug crawling out of it. Ov Shadows fall in the first category since they make really solid black metal. No keyboards or time-consuming interludes, just guitars, bass, drums and vocals and that's it.  The band recorded, mastered and mixed 'I Djävulens Avbild' themselves, and they did an amazing job. You can hear every instrument, the vocals sound immensely dreadful and they all create this cohesive black metal spear once used by the gods but now in the hands of a pagan witc