Posts Tagged ‘Osmose Productions’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Thursday, March 2nd, 2023
World War One was, without a doubt, the most brutal war in Military History. In terms of lives lost and concerning the horror of trench warfare, was the battle of the Somme. It’s in those blood-soaked forests and fields that form the setting for Feuerwalze and those trenches where thousands lost their lives. What better […]
Tags: 2023, Black Metal, Jeremy Beck, Minenwerfer, Osmose Productions, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
Funeral Winds has been around for a long fucking time. This makes it a bit daunting to cover a band with a massive discography as theirs (his), whatever. Funeral Winds has been the work of Hellchrist Xul, since 1992. An incredibly talented psychopath, whose heart beats with the elemental rage of 90s Black Metal; his […]
Tags: 2023, Black Metal, Funeral Winds, Jeremy Beck, Osmose Productions, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Friday, February 17th, 2023
The first time I heard The Ukraine’s Hate Forest was back in the early 2000s. I had found a Russian MP3 site that had Arkona, Nokturnal Mortum, Lucifugum, Astrofaes, and hundreds of other European bands I had never heard of; Hate Forest is one of those bands that I latched onto because with a name […]
Tags: 2023, Black Metal, Hate Forest, Jeremy Beck, Osmose Productions, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Thursday, December 8th, 2022
The putrid, unholy sickness that is today’s Blackened Speed/Thrash Metal movement (I mean that in the most sincerely loving way) has managed to infect a pretty large portion of the world at this point. To be honest, it seems like they’re popping out everything. Pretty much where there’s air to breathe, there’s a group of […]
Tags: 2022, Osmose Productions, Review, Steve K, Terrorhammer
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Thursday, November 10th, 2022
High the Memory, the second album from Norway’s Abyssic was one of the more underrated surprises for me back in 2019. Using a base in UK funeral doom ( My Dying Bride notably) and adding a dominant cinematic symphonic/orchestral layer, it was a superb album that made the world of lumbering doom a little more […]
Tags: 2022, Abyssic, Doom Metal, Erik T, Osmose Productions, Review, Symphonic
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Wednesday, August 24th, 2022
France has a dark history. Uprisings, wars, and more wars; have left the countryside pockmarked with craters, and flowers grow in the places where blood had been spilled. It makes sense that France has a solid Black Metal history steeped in that revolutionary blood. Deathspell Omega, Mutiilation, Aldaaron, and the infamous Black Legions; forged a […]
Tags: 2022, Black Metal, Hats Barn, Jeremy Beck, Osmose Productions, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Thursday, April 14th, 2022
All too often in life, things just refuse to be simple. Take this album from Necrom for example: On the surface, this should be a slam dunk of an release to promote. Objectively speaking, I’ll just get to the point – All Paths Are Left Here… is one of the best examples of Old School […]
Tags: 2022, All Paths are Left Here, Death Metal, Dismember, Entombed, Necrom, Osmose Productions, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
One could say, when it comes to black metal, I have a mature palate. By that, I mean I’ve tasted a lot of it. Literally and figuratively. I’ve listened to a lot, but also took a bite out of a Darkthrone cd. It did not cure my Transilvanian Hunger. I’m a fan of bands within […]
Tags: 2021, Black Metal, J Mays, Krolok, Osmose Productions, Review
Posted in Reviews on Thursday, June 4th, 2020
I’ve been on a huge Swiss and French black metal kick recently really digging into the likes of Aara, Fluisteraars, Alcest, Verlies, Bâ’a, Abduction, Véhémence and such. Particularly the French scene, once more known for more twisty, discordant black metal (Deathspell Omega, Aosoth, Blut Aus Nord etc), the French scene has also evolved a very […]
Tags: Osmose Productions
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Thursday, February 20th, 2020
I had high hopes for the second effort from Pete Helmkamp’s latest post Angelcorpse endeavor, especially after the nasty little slab of black/death filth that was the debut, Larvae Offal Swine. But alas, Proselyte Parasite Plague is a disappointing, flat (literally) follow up. The main reason for the album’s failure is the guitar tone and production. […]
Tags: 2020, Abhomine, Black/Death Metal, E.Thomas, Osmose Productions, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Friday, April 12th, 2019
Every once and a while a band manages to make a few lineup changes and all of the sudden their sound has been elevated. Thus is the case with Nordjevel’s latest effort Necrogenesis coming out latest this year on Osmose Productions. Holy hell! Does this album pair well with -50 degree weather! I must say […]
Tags: 2019, Black Metal, Nick K, Nordjevel, Osmose Productions, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › M on Monday, March 26th, 2018
It seems like every year there is a handful of massive funeral doom albums that are so meticulous that they take numerous listens to analyze. Funeral doom in and of itself can vary depending on artist and approach to instrumentation. This writer was caught a bit off guard in discovering Mournful Congregation’s fifth full […]
Tags: 2018, Doom Metal, Mournful Congregation, Nick K, Osmose Productions, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Wednesday, June 17th, 2015
I can close my eyes and envision being in Aokigahara, A forest in Japan at the northwest base of Mount Fuji that is known as a popular place for suicides. The forest apparently has a historic association with Demons. Enter Osmose Production Record artists Cohol and their second album Rigen. Describing themselves as ‘Blackened Crystal Death’, […]
Tags: 2015, COHOL, Nick K, Osmose Productions, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Death metal boomed last year, big time. Seriously, the amount of great death metal albums I came across in 2007 was astounding and what’s more so is the variation that has been provided. Virtually every sub-sub-SUB genre of death metal has been favourably represented whether it be straight up blasting death metal, total guttural slamming […]
Tags: 2008, Benighted, Benjamin DeBlasi, Osmose Productions, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, July 20th, 2007
Shining is not new to extreme metal fans. They have been trying to get lots of attention over the past year. I guess they felt some people just didn’t understand, so they changed the name of their web page from suicidesquadron to shiningangst, and if that wasn’t obvious enough, they sent out fake press release […]
Tags: 2007, Grimulfr, Osmose Productions, Review, Shining
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, July 2nd, 2007
I’m pretty sure I’m one of the few metal journalists that think Angelcorpse were a tad over-rated. Sure, albums like Exterminate and The Inexorable were good black/death metal albums, but I think most folks were caught up in the fact that a US band were going toe to toe with their Scandinavian counterparts in the […]
Tags: 2007, Angelcorpse, E.Thomas, Osmose Productions, Review, The End Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › Y on Monday, February 20th, 2006
For some reason, I always compare France’s Yyrkoon with Poland’s Trauma; both are underrated and in the shadow of their respective country’s other higher profile bands, yet both are just as talented and skilled. I reviewed Trauma’s Imperfect Like a God right around the time I reviewed Yyrkoon’s Occult Medicine and both were excellent releases […]
Tags: 2006, E.Thomas, Osmose Productions, Review, Yyrkoon
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Saturday, February 26th, 2005
Think Blasphemy and Conqueror if you are not familiar with Black Witchery, if you are familiar with them think Conqueror. This time out the sound is more streamlined and more monotonous. Think 26 minutes of absolutely mindless savagery done with drums and guitar. Forget songwriting or any pretense at musicianship. This is bash till you […]
Tags: 2005, Black Witchery, Grimulfr, Osmose Productions, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › Y on Tuesday, October 5th, 2004
Any band using a Michael Moorcock character is OK in my books and where Moorcock sought to invigorate the cliche-ridden, stagnant, Conan knock off fantasy realm, France’s Yyrkoon seek to invigorate death metal, and do so with a measure of success. If like me, you were (or will be) disappointed by Behemoth’s strangely pompous Demigod, […]
Tags: 2004, E.Thomas, Osmose Productions, Review, Yyrkoon
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Saturday, August 28th, 2004
Lets acknowledge that the depravity factor was been toned down significantly. The imagery and lyrics are tame compared to Hell Injection and the music is more controlled, less chaotic, less hyper, and slower in pace. Apparently they no longer want you to think your daughter will get tortured if they move in next door. The […]
Tags: 2004, Arkhon Infaustus, Grimulfr, Osmose Productions, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Friday, December 5th, 2003
I must confess to having ignored this talented Australian old school death band since 1997. They formed in 1994, have had many, many line up problems, and only ex-Destroyer 666 member Chris Volcano remains from the beginning. I picked up their split album with Mornaland, for the Mornaland half I must confess again, and found […]
Tags: 2003, Abominator, Grimulfr, Osmose Productions, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Friday, April 19th, 2002
Wrath Of War is the third offering on cd by this well known Texas based organizer of the Sacrifice of the Nazarene Child festival. A band known more for relentless hatred and fury than for anything else, Thornspawn sticks to the formula once again. This, of course, is a compliment. I’ve heard them called cold, […]
Tags: 2002, Grimulfr, Osmose Productions, Review, Thornspawn
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2001
This band plays “brutal and bestial death black metal,” and that is as good a description as I could come up with. This is Carpathian Forest death metal style. Wall of noise type death is on display here, lots of distortion. The vocals are a croaking rumble that is surprisingly understandable. As their album cover […]
Tags: 2001, Arkhon Infaustus, Grimulfr, Osmose Productions, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, May 21st, 2001
Personally, I’ve always viewed Absu with a glazed eye from afar. Having only heard a few scattered songs from each of their four records ‘ and, at that, merely thinking they’re a loose ‘n’ clattering retread of old-school German thrash (Sodom, Kreator, Destruction, duh) ‘ but also having heard about band-leader Proscriptor’s ambient side-project, Equimanthorn, […]
Tags: 2001, Absu, Nathan T Birk, Osmose Productions, Review