Posts Tagged ‘Candlelight Records’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Thursday, November 29th, 2012
Compelled to check this release out by an excellent review by my good friends over at metalreview.com, I was greeted by a very intriguing but also polarizing release. Touted as experimental black metal, I was expecting something, well black metal-y from this anonymous, robe and mask clad UK act (for some reason, I want to […]
Tags: 2012, Candlelight Records, E.Thomas, Review, The Devil
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Thursday, October 25th, 2012
During their decade plus existence North Carolina’s Daylight Dies have in many ways defied the odds. Originally written off by many as a subpar clone of their European influences, Daylight Dies have steadily matured, increasingly honing their craft and sharpening their song-writing chops to a fine point. Subsequently they have carved out their own unique […]
Tags: 2012, Candlelight Records, Daylight Dies, Luke Saunders, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, October 8th, 2012
I don’t think there’s any questioning Anaal Nathrakh‘s place in the pantheons of metal. Their debut, The Codex Necro, now 10 years old, remains one of the most frightening and apocalyptic releases ever recorded, and while the decade since has seen the band hone and polish their grinding black metal tones into a different sounding […]
Tags: 2012, Anaal Nathrakh, Candlelight Records, E.Thomas, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Monday, October 1st, 2012
From rainy, foggy Sunderland in the UK comes the second full-length album from Wodensthrone, and to say the three-year wait between releases was worth it would be an understatement. Sporting an overall fuller sound and much more mature songwriting, Curse is everything that made their debut album Loss a pleasure to ingest and then some. […]
Tags: 2012, Candlelight Records, Mike Sloan, Review, Wodensthrone
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Tuesday, September 18th, 2012
Like all the previous albums from Winterfylleth, The Threnody of Triumph takes some time getting adjusted to. The listener simply won’t be able to uncover all that is glorious about this UK black metal band’s newest release in just a single listen or two; this needs to be given the proper number of spins to […]
Tags: 2012, Candlelight Records, Mike Sloan, Review, Winterfylleth
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Monday, September 10th, 2012
Eastern Europe has produced some excellent pagan black metal bands over the last decade or more, the most well-known being Drudkh, Negura Bunget and Nokturnal Mortum. Yet there are undoubtedly dozens of other quality, uniquely Eastern acts still sheltered by those untravelled hills and forests. Ukraine’s Khors is one of those treasures. Wisdom of Centuries is their […]
Tags: 2012, Black Metal, Candlelight Records, Jordan Itkowitz, Khors, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Monday, July 9th, 2012
“If you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.” Everyone knows that Nietzsche quote. The man is featured on the cover of Ihsahn’s fourth solo album – inverted, but there nonetheless – but I’m not going to choose that overused and pithy bit to describe the darkness contained within. Too obvious. Instead, […]
Tags: 2012, Black Metal, Candlelight Records, Ihsahn, Jordan Itkowitz, Progressive Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Monday, June 4th, 2012
Fear Factory’s last album, 2010’s Mechanize, reunited Burton C. Bell and Dino Cazares, and hammered home with a collection of fierce, fast paced, classic Fear Factory songs. Bringing Gene Hoglan in to replace the formidable timekeeping skills of Raymond Herrera (currently playing in Arkaea, along with bassist Christian Olde Wolbers) was quite the coup, and […]
Tags: 2012, Candlelight Records, Fear Factory, Industrial Death Metal, Jordan Itkowitz, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Monday, June 4th, 2012
Fans of Toxic Holocaust should stop smoking weed and crank out the harder stuff, for Philadelphia’s speedy thrashers Rumpelstiltskin Grinder are back with their third full-length studio album, which embodies everything fans of Joel Grind’s solo project will love, only much faster. The 12-song outing is pretty lengthy considering that it is a thrash metal […]
Tags: 2012, Candlelight Records, Dane Prokofiev, Review, Rumplestiltskin Grinder, thrash metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Monday, April 16th, 2012
What the fuck is going on in the midwest? I guess all those cold winter days spent inside listening to Darkthrone and drinking cough syrup have paid off because between Coffinworm, Wolvhammer and the new Lord Mantis they pretty much have the whole blackened sludge thing nailed down tighter than a really good metaphor for […]
Tags: 2012, Candlelight Records, Chuck Kucher, Lord Mantis, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Thursday, March 8th, 2012
COC caused a bit of a stir when they announced they would be moving forward without longtime guitarist and singer Pepper Keenan. This was cause for concern for a lot of fans weaned on the heavy southern groove the band plied from Deliverance to In the Arms of God. A Pepper-less COC was unimaginable, unconscionable. […]
Tags: 2012, Candlelight Records, Chuck Kucher, Corrosion of Conformity, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, February 27th, 2012
Remember that jaw-dropping moment in your childhood when you saw ex-Green Ranger Tommy Oliver coming back stronger than ever as the badass White Ranger in Season 2 of the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers? Yeah, Sigh’s upcoming album certainly did an excellent job at evoking that long-forgotten feeling of inane joy. As always, the Japanese are […]
Tags: 2012, Black Metal, Candlelight Records, Dane Prokofiev, Review, Sigh, Symphonic
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
The Rotted are finally back with their new full length Ad Nausea, the follow up to Get Dead Or Die Trying and is their second under the new moniker since Gorerotted became The Rotted. They are bringing another dose of crusty death metal to the masses, but besides the heavy as fuck instrumentation, this release […]
Tags: 2012, Candlelight Records, Death Metal, Jesse Wolf, Review, The Rotted
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Viktor Scheer and András Nagy are the only holdovers from the last album. Viktor producing and András doing virtually everything else.Everything old is new again. Welcome back founding guitarists János Barbarics and Csaba Csejtei. János played on The Pagan Winter, Phantoms and Haunting, Csaba played on The Pagan Winter, Phantoms, Forsaken Symphony and Glory And […]
Tags: 2012, Black Metal, Candlelight Records, Grimulfr, Review, Sear Bliss
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, January 9th, 2012
American black metal is like Japanese pasta—a non-indigenous dish that actually does justice to the original (and perhaps even surpasses!) from time to time. Hence, I’d expect nothing less from the eclectic Abigail Williams, who have really gone off the edge of the cliff this time round and switched to playing an ambient form of […]
Tags: 2012, Abigail Williams, Black Metal, Candlelight Records, Dane Prokofiev, Review, Symphonic
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Now this one is definitely interesting. As someone who tends much more towards the death/extreme end of metal, I signed up for this one having no idea what to expect. Based on what I have read, this band falls under the post-black/folk/shoegaze brand of metal. Being unfamiliar with this genre I have no comparisons off […]
Tags: 2011, Black Metal, Candlelight Records, Falloch, Kevin Ellis, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
So, after a long eight year recording silence following the release of Tara, Absu have now released two albums in three years. The second of a planned trilogy dealing with the abyss, Abzu is as blisteringly sharp and nasty as you would expect, if not more so. Few albums rip and shred as hard as […]
Tags: 2011, Absu, Black Metal, Candlelight Records, Larry "Staylow" Owens, Review, thrash metal
Posted in News on Monday, September 26th, 2011
Candlelight Records today confirms the worldwide signing of thrashers RUMPELSTILTSKIN GRINDER. The Philadelphia-based band is already working on their new album, titled Ghostmaker, expected for release early spring 2012. The four-piece tested some of their new material via a string of regional shows this past weekend and expect to tour in support of the album […]
Tags: 2011, Candlelight Records, News, Rumpelstiltskin Grinder
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
After nine years of splits and EPs, Southern sludge stalwarts Sourvein have returned with their third full-length album Black Fangs. T-Roy and his revolving door cadre of dirt merchants have been one of the most consistent outfits in sludge and this release is exactly what fans have come to expect; tar-like riffs, subsonic bass, plodding drums […]
Tags: 2011, Candlelight Records, Charles Kucher, Review, Sludge Metal, Sourvein
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Monday, August 8th, 2011
From the band’s 2004 The Miseries Never Cease EP to their self-titled, self released 2007 debut album, I’ve long championed The Living Fields as one of the most criminally unsigned bands in metal. Well, the unsigned part was rectified with the band signing with Candlelight Records, and though this album took its sweet sweet time […]
Tags: 2011, Candlelight Records, Doom Metal, E.Thomas, Progressive, Review, The Living Fields
Posted in News on Friday, July 29th, 2011
Candlelight Records will continue its previously launched classics series confirming releases from DISCHARGE, EXTREME NOISE TERROR, and THE VARUKERS. New to the series, the label will release Disensitise and War Is Hell from DISCHARGE on August 23, followed by Holocaust In My Head by EXTREME NOISE TERROR on September 27 and the 2CD The Damnation […]
Tags: 2011, Candlelight Records, News
Posted in News on Monday, July 18th, 2011
Based in Glasgow, Scotland, the duo known as FALLOCH are a growing glimmer on the atmospheric, post-black metal horizon. Andy Marshall and Scott McLean united out of a desire to create music that conveys atmosphere and emotion utilizing an expansive backdrop of styles and sounds. Metal, post-rock, folk, with minimalist composers Yann Tiersen, and Arvo Part all factor […]
Tags: 2011, Candlelight Records, Falloch, News
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Friday, May 13th, 2011
The differences between the last four records from the UK’s preeminent black metal duo, Anaal Nathrakh, have been subtle and nuanced; so much so that it can really make a reviewer feel like a complete nitpicker. This is where being a fan of the band’s abrasive-yet-dynamic black metal shredding, and perceiving their subtle shifts under […]
Tags: 2011, Anaal Nathrakh, Candlelight Records, Review, Stacy Buchanan
Posted in News on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
Candlelight Records confirms the worldwide signing of FALLOCH. Andy Marshall and Scott McLean joined their talents together only a year ago but have already found a curious and growing audience. The band, who combine a wide variety of styles including metal, post-rock and folk, are completing details for their debut album, Where Distant Spirits Remain, […]
Tags: 2011, Candlelight Records, Falloch, News
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Friday, February 18th, 2011
The dis on the ‘net is that Kryoburn are Fear Factory clones and so much for them. Well, I just want to say this is really unfair. Kryoburn are Fear Factory clones that clone a whole mess of other bands as well, okay? Now that that’s cleared up, what separates this New Mexico band’s brand of industrialized metal from […]
Tags: 2011, Candlelight Records, Ian Grey, Kryoburn, Review