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Band: Wolvennest
Album title: Wolvennest
Release date: 27 January 2017
Label: Ván Records
Wolvennest takes the listener in the world of rituals and occult practices with five lenghty tracks of unimaginable depth and psychedelic swirls. It's a cinematic sonic sound that blends together in a staggering way elements of 70s krautrock, doom, blackened psychedelic rock and of course plenty of drone-ambient infused darkness. Wolvennest or sometimes called Wlvnnst is creepy and throughout haunting, especially when both female vocalist, Shazzula and Marthynna, with their extremely sombre yet captivating singing style break through these sometimes repetitive bass infused doomy lines.
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Band: Northumbria
Album title: Markland
Release date: 21 March 2017
Label: Cryo Chamber
Markland (meaning “Forest Land”) the second album from ice cold soundscapers Jim field and Dorian Williamson as a duo by the name Northumbria is their second effort on Cryo Chamber. This album starts off with images recalled of old ships sailing the Atlantic Ocean searching for new land, stricken with sickness and unstable mental states due to losing sleep. The wall of thick and foggy sounds lull you in and out of consciousness taking you on a ride not knowing where you may end up, what curiosities lay ahead in your travels.
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Band: Bitterfeldt
Album title: Götzen.Dämmerung
Release date: 24 March 2017
Label: Massacre Records
Götzen.Dämmerung is an ode to end-time, a true artistic escapade of soul consuming darkness that has almost nothing to do with anything this musicians did before. This stuff is heavy and claustrophobic, quite cinematic, in here there's no light, even though these compositions are fully emotionally charged. Bitterfeldt's debut is vital food for those who want to embrace the darkness in its most primal form, it's full of agony and passion, but in a strange way it's beautiful, somehow also mesmerizing and addictive, with great production where every detail matters and with nice artwork this album offers an extraordinary sonic and as well visual experience.
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Band: Heretoir
Album title: The Circle
Release date: 24 March 2017
Label: Northern Silence Productions
The Circle is very complex album combining many different elements into one highly atmospheric, emotional and coherent sonic form which shines right because of its refined versatility. In its basis Heretoir deal with post-metal, black metal and melodic progressive metal, it's like a missing link between early Alcest, Katatonia, Amorphis, Opeth, Agalloch and Agrypnie to name a few, but they implement their atmospheric sound with small amounts of shoegaze, djent, ambient and prog rock. It can be so very dense, extreme and powerful, but also so very soothing, melancholic, almost gentle, often very rhythmic but performed with amazing technical and compositional skill, with a delicate feeling for sensitivity.
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Band: Elegi
Album Title: Bånsull
Release date: 10 February 2017
Label: Dronarivm
Elegi is no stranger to the dark ambient scene. Since the debut, Sistereis in 2007 on Miasmah Records, Elegi has been one of the front runners in the dark ambient scene. Elegi has an amazingly unique take on dark ambient, which could be part of why their music has been overlooked. Hard to pin down, it could really be considered more of an experimental album than most others in the genre. Elegi works in the fashion of more recent artists like Flowers For Bodysnatchers or Enmarta. Elegi incorporates a multitude of instruments and sound sculpting to produce a work which is at once bold and engaging, yet simultaneously subtle and relaxing.
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