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Band: Heavenwood
Album title: The Tarot Of The Bohemians – Part 1
Release date: 22 July 2016
Label: Massacre Records
Heavenwood are back with their fifth full-lenght album and with a new line-up, with only two original members left, the main composer guitarist/vocalist Ricardo Dias and vocalist Ernesto Guerra. The new member is guitarist Vítor Carvalho, known from Demon Dagger. This album also marks a return to their former label, Massacre Records, where Heavenwood already released their first two albums. The Tarot Of The Bohemians – Part 1 is very dramatic, an adventurous album, there are so many mood changes, pace variations, from fast speeding to mournful doom one. The sound is often rich and highly atmospheric, and above all also very original what is rare this days. The Tarot Of The Bohemians – Part 1 shines as well because of great production which adds a lot of depth and aggression. Heavenwood must be proud of this creation, The Tarot Of The Bohemians – Part 1 is a proper example of well crafted extreme/dark/gothic metal!
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Band: Phragments
Album title: All Towers Must Fall
Release date: 1 July 2016
Label: Malignant Records
Phragments already have an impressive discography, over the last ten years they have released a number of albums on various labels. They appear to have turned in their early use of the orchestral industrial sound and are keen on focusing all energy into the dark ambient soundscapes of their more recent albums. On All Towers Must Fall, Phragments follows this trend, building an album which is quintessentially dark ambient in its presentation. Slowly oscillating deep drones are the base of All Towers Must Fall. There is surely a cinematic element here, but it doesn't ever necessarily take the lead. From the album art to the theme and its execution, All Towers Must Fall hits the mark and brilliantly depicts a war-torn world in the midst of its devastation. Turn out the lights and crank the volume to become fully engulfed in this apocalyptic scenario.
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Band: Neurotech
Album: In Remission
Release date: 5th June 2016
Label: Self-released
In Remission flows in the vein of peculiar symbiosis of film score music, trance, symphonic metal, futurepop and even currently popular retrowave. The beauty of it lies in its steady and dreamy tempo, which speeds up right in the end, which intensifies the overall sensation of it to the very transcendental climax. For those who enjoyed the journey of Neurotech's evolution so far and have found the enormous beauty in ambient, created by Wulf's compositions since Blue Screen Planet EP forth, In Remission won't come as a disappointment, since it is his most powerful and wrought release since Infra Versus Ultra. Neurotech's music is a macrocosm, consisting of parallel universes, of which all of them have the same sound, but then again, each of them alters that sound in its own, unique way and so it stays even now.
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Band: Cryo Chamber Collaboration
Album title: Locus Arcadia
Release date: 12 July 2016
Label: Cryo Chamber
Locus Arcadia, is the latest collaborative release from Cryo Chamber. One of the most notable acts on Cryo Chamber is Sabled Sun, which took the concept of extremely cinematic sci-fi and masterfully blended this with dark ambient. The Sabled Sun 214x series, leads us through a forgotten and wasted Earth a century and a half in the future. Locus Arcadia, a unique type of collaboration/compilation between Randal Collier-Ford, Flowers For Bodysnatchers, Council Of Nine and God Body Disconnect, takes the listener into a wholly different place, but has strong stylistic similarities to the Sabled Sun project. With the uniqueness of its presentation, its really hard to predict where this could take these artists, potentially with contributions from even more of their colleagues, in the future.
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Band: Mist Of Misery
Album title: Absence
Release date: 31 August 2016
Label: Black Lion Records
Absence is an album for musical adventurists, this music is intended to set the listener in a different and almost meditative state of mind in order to absorb its true depth. It unites two different worlds, one is pure symphonic, gothic and classical meditative soundscape, sometimes almost theatrical, the other one is melodic and highly atmospheric black metal that will most likely appeal to fans of Dimmu Borgir era Enthrone Darkness Triumphant, but yet there are many elements that could be associated with typical Swedish melo-death, and after all it's technical enough to gain the attention from those who liked Hyperion's Seraphical Euphony.
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