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[Déjà loin]

partilha, sacana.

[Microgaitas]

partilha, sacana.

Digo o mesmo, estou bastante curioso quanto a esse novo trabalho.

[Demoniac]

Só posso dizer isto! TÁ MM BOM! Aquela bateria na Cryptic Ascension cheira tanto a Leviathan (especialmente aquele ritmo bombo/choque/tarola/choque - que ele usou em 2 álbuns....mas refinado.....)

E o melhor vem para o fim! THE CATASTROPHE EXHIBITION!!!

[Microgaitas]

Só posso dizer isto! TÁ MM BOM! Aquela bateria na Cryptic Ascension cheira tanto a Leviathan (especialmente aquele ritmo bombo/choque/tarola/choque - que ele usou em 2 álbuns....mas refinado.....)

E o melhor vem para o fim! THE CATASTROPHE EXHIBITION!!!

Não faças inveja

[Neburis [RIP 2010/07/17]]

A Cryptic Ascension nem aquece nem arrefece. A segunda track já começa a ser algo bonito.

[Armageddon]

Minha nossa, que besta de álbum. Aquela "Fall Behind Eternity" lá para o meio, torna-se em algo mesmo horrível.

[Demoniac]

A Cryptic Ascension nem aquece nem arrefece. A segunda track já começa a ser algo bonito.

Não digas coisas dessas. I Enter The Darkness Without A Face!!! Lembra-me muito letras à senhor Imperial. O álbum não tem (para mim) nenhuma malha fraca!

Variado e com identidade - just the way I like it!

[lang]

Great news everyone...

Part I

Xasthur - Final Album Announced

Malefic, frontman of black metal band Xasthur, announced that Portal of Sorrow is the title of the eighth album. This album will also be the last album that is released under the Xasthur moniker. The Xasthur blog reads:

"This album, Portal of Sorrow, is the last Xasthur album, period. The honorable thing to do is to end the band and not hang around too long, like so many metal/black metal bands do. Enough is enough, right?

I'm not able to make it work anymore. I don't want to turn into one of those bands who rely on too many guests and session musicians to make people interested in their music again. Some help is fine but more than some help is very cheap and it becomes others, not the roots of the band that makes the difference and the music work. I don't want to fall into that pattern. The motivation and inspiration used to be there full time and now it's not there at all, not for doing Xasthur at least. It is a roll or persona that I have simply outgrown. I've been saying I'm sick and tired of it all for too long... and now, I'm going to back it up. There are or have been literally 18,000 black metal bands; it does not matter if there's one less.

Just like in the nineties, I made a few recent attempts to put a real line-up together and it still failed; another sign that said "give it up already".

However, I wanted to end on a better note with this 'Portal of Sorrow' album because the album that came before it, 'All reflections drained', was not up to par and I couldn't finish up with an album that I was less than satisfied with. Now, I suppose any or all goals have been reached and there is nothing more I wish to try with Xasthur and it's time to move on...

Since it would be foolish to give up music all together, I have something else to fall back on that is beginning to take shape. It's a new beginning that I'm quite excited about.

Instead, I'm going to do something different by not performing any kind of metal at all! There's no use in trying to reinvent black metal or turn it upside down, it's all been done and in the end, it's still metal and will remain within those circles, stereotypes and boundaries no matter what. Overall, I need a bigger change in my life and with music than just trying to change metal. There isn't anything to lose.

I would ask you to stay tuned for my next project and give it a plug but there's no need to. It's probably of no interest to you and again, it has nothing to do with metal and I'm not trying to keep any connection or ties to it. I will not name influences, genres or anything of the sort.

Believe me when I say this decision has been well thought out for months and doesn't come out of frustration. Something I usually hate is comebacks, reunions or reformations of bands. You can be rest assured (for even relieved) that this will not happen.

I would like to say fuck you to so many people it's not even funny, but that would be just another way of not washing my hands and hanging around, so I won't bother.
Instead, I would like to say thank you to a handful of people who took an interest in the music over the years and had the patience to (slowly but surely) watch it grow and develop. I'm more grateful than you think; you know who you are and I know who you are. I'd also like to say thanks to Marissa Nadler for taking her voice to another level, to Ron for helping design the album and to Hydra Head for the hospitality over the last few years.

The Disharmonic Variations label will most likely continue, even though Xasthur will not. I'll get into talking about this later.


Source: xasthur.mercurous.net

Part II

A Forest Of Stars - New Album Out By May

The band that surprised everyone with their majestic debut album The Corpse Of Rebirth is back again. A Forest of Stars have been busy conjuring up the next Beast; entitled Opportunistic Thieves of Spring, due for release in May. A few kind words from the likes of Mr. T.S. Kettleburner:

"Mark thy words: this album will send listeners to the world that lieth beyond. The exact release dates for North America and Europe will be announced shortly, but the tentative release is set for May. Opportunistic Thieves of Spring was recorded once again at Silent City Studios with master Rob Hobson behind the controls. For this recording, new member John Bishop took care of the drums."


Source: transcendentalcreations.com

[Demoniac]

Great news everyone...

Part I

Xasthur - Final Album Announced

Malefic, frontman of black metal band Xasthur, announced that Portal of Sorrow is the title of the eighth album. This album will also be the last album that is released under the Xasthur moniker. The Xasthur blog reads:

"This album, Portal of Sorrow, is the last Xasthur album, period. The honorable thing to do is to end the band and not hang around too long, like so many metal/black metal bands do. Enough is enough, right?

I'm not able to make it work anymore. I don't want to turn into one of those bands who rely on too many guests and session musicians to make people interested in their music again. Some help is fine but more than some help is very cheap and it becomes others, not the roots of the band that makes the difference and the music work. I don't want to fall into that pattern. The motivation and inspiration used to be there full time and now it's not there at all, not for doing Xasthur at least. It is a roll or persona that I have simply outgrown. I've been saying I'm sick and tired of it all for too long... and now, I'm going to back it up. There are or have been literally 18,000 black metal bands; it does not matter if there's one less.

Just like in the nineties, I made a few recent attempts to put a real line-up together and it still failed; another sign that said "give it up already".

However, I wanted to end on a better note with this 'Portal of Sorrow' album because the album that came before it, 'All reflections drained', was not up to par and I couldn't finish up with an album that I was less than satisfied with. Now, I suppose any or all goals have been reached and there is nothing more I wish to try with Xasthur and it's time to move on...

Since it would be foolish to give up music all together, I have something else to fall back on that is beginning to take shape. It's a new beginning that I'm quite excited about.

Instead, I'm going to do something different by not performing any kind of metal at all! There's no use in trying to reinvent black metal or turn it upside down, it's all been done and in the end, it's still metal and will remain within those circles, stereotypes and boundaries no matter what. Overall, I need a bigger change in my life and with music than just trying to change metal. There isn't anything to lose.

I would ask you to stay tuned for my next project and give it a plug but there's no need to. It's probably of no interest to you and again, it has nothing to do with metal and I'm not trying to keep any connection or ties to it. I will not name influences, genres or anything of the sort.

Believe me when I say this decision has been well thought out for months and doesn't come out of frustration. Something I usually hate is comebacks, reunions or reformations of bands. You can be rest assured (for even relieved) that this will not happen.

I would like to say fuck you to so many people it's not even funny, but that would be just another way of not washing my hands and hanging around, so I won't bother.
Instead, I would like to say thank you to a handful of people who took an interest in the music over the years and had the patience to (slowly but surely) watch it grow and develop. I'm more grateful than you think; you know who you are and I know who you are. I'd also like to say thanks to Marissa Nadler for taking her voice to another level, to Ron for helping design the album and to Hydra Head for the hospitality over the last few years.

The Disharmonic Variations label will most likely continue, even though Xasthur will not. I'll get into talking about this later.


Source: xasthur.mercurous.net

Não é de todo uma boa noticia. Contudo espero que ele acabe em grande. Fiquei um bocado surpreso ao saber que ele acha o último álbum fraco. O álbum a meu ver era uma lufada de ar fresco para com o que ele tinha feito e introduzia elementos de dark ambient que eu gostei muito.
Mas realmente entendo as motivações dele. Se ele acha que chegou a altura e que a fonte secou, mais vale acabar com dignidade e não estar com comebacks inúteis (I Shalt Become - desiludiu um bocado e enfim).

Deixou uma marca significativa no espectro do BM. Aguardo com bastante entusiasmo o novo projecto non-metal. Aliás prevejo que o futuro da musica seja mesmo considerado "o-quer-que-seja", o metal irá ter sempre a sua vertente "old-school" (de 70, 80,90), mas o seu desenvolvimento irá passar por deixar de ser Metal. Para mim isto é bom! Pq eu não oiço Metal por ser Metal.....eu oiço pq gosto da música.....e música é sempre música!(boa ou má).

Aliás acho que o maior legado que o BM pode deixar no mundo da musica é a sua aura...a musica que faz transcender o espírito de forma muito negativa e honesta. No momento em que esta aura começar a contagiar outros estilos...(e já começou...mas falo em escala maior). Quando músicos de BM (ou ex), começarem a tocar Jazz, Pop/Rock, Indie, Hip-Hop (volto a dizer já existe, mas falo em maior número). As coisas vão atingir um patamar interessante.

Quando falo em BM falo tb em Doom, Death, Sludge, Grind e Drone. Embora no campo do Doom e do BM já se esteja mais "avançado" nesse aspecto.

Isto deixa-me entusiasmado. Pq se assim o for dentro de 50-60 anos, o mundo verdadeiramente comercial vai morrer(uns 40%). E parte do comercial irá passar a ser algo bom!(volto a dizer já acontece, mas só 10%......e com muita sorte).

Mas pronto.....dia estranho hj. Twilight UP and Xasthur Down

[Neburis [RIP 2010/07/17]]

A Cryptic Ascension nem aquece nem arrefece. A segunda track já começa a ser algo bonito.

Não digas coisas dessas. I Enter The Darkness Without A Face!!! Lembra-me muito letras à senhor Imperial. O álbum não tem (para mim) nenhuma malha fraca!

Variado e com identidade - just the way I like it!

Normalmente com estas questões de um All-Star Group há sempre o risco de incoerência - o que felizmente não se confirma nisto.

Continuo a achar a Cryptic Ascension a mais fraquita...tudo pra cima já gosto bastante, apesar de alguns pontos mais altos e baixo ao longo do álbum, mas com diferentes músicos deste calibre a colaborarem é de esperar alguma variação/inconsistência nesses termos (o que por si não é algo depreciativo, muito pelo contrário).

A 6 é que já é um turbilhão do caralho, que puta de jarda.

[Judas_Iscariot]

Coladíssimo na Red Fields e na sua ambiência leviatânica.

[Microgaitas]

Após imensas audições a este novo trabalho, só tenho a dizer que é notório o empenho e a paixão pela música de cada interveniente neste projecto.
Este "Monument to Time End", tem um pouco por todas as músicas, excelentes momentos, ainda assim acho que aquela "Fall Behind Eternity" é a menos conseguida... mas talvez daqui a uns dias/semanas a minha opinião venha a mudar.

A "The Cryptic Ascension" é simplesmente sublime...

[Satyr]

O de Twilight está uma bomba. Muito bom. Vai ser difícil arranjar melhor este ano.

[Karamazov [RIP 2012/07/27]]

partilha, sacana.

Digo o mesmo, estou bastante curioso quanto a esse novo trabalho.

Desculpem, esqueci-me.

Da próxima serão os primeiros visados.

[Microgaitas]

partilha, sacana.

Digo o mesmo, estou bastante curioso quanto a esse novo trabalho.

Desculpem, esqueci-me.

Da próxima serão os primeiros visados.

Era empalar-te; mas como já o ouvi, safas-te.