Agalloch - Faustian Echoes 2012

really hope this isn't what sunk BEWC this time.

the end makes me feel like the end of VC - winterglow, which is to say: stupid when faced with simple play lyrics in an accent.

1. Faustian Echoes

rg

Horseback - Half Blood 2012

new horseback

like earth and pelican and thou super-collided

and yet i will continue to listen to a throne without a king twice nightly.

im finna get back in the game, nahmean?

1. Mithras 05:04
2. Ahriman 03:55
3. Inheritance (The Changeling) 07:06
4. Arjuna 05:32
5. Hallucigenia I: Hermetic Gifts 03:55
6. Hallucigenia II: Spiritual Junk 05:49
7. Hallucigenia III: The Emerald Tablet 12:05

my appendages arent working

Cold Body Radiation - Deer Twillight 2011

really beautiful. think coldworld, deafheaven, and belong mixed. something akin to shades of alcest.

1. Deer Twillight
2. Make Believe
3. The Night Reveals
4. Shimmer
5. Change of Page
6. Concept of Forever
7. Yes, Maybe the Stars

http://www.mediafire.com/?xlthv5mcttkfh6b

Old Silver Key - Tales of Wanderings 2011

members of alcest continue to do whatever the hell they feel like, members of drudkh continue to distance themselves from NSBM. the result sounds like a mix of amesoeurs and alcest, as expected, and is thus real purty.

itd be interesting to inject clair cassis into all the inbreeding. or mikko aspa. can you fucking imagine what the midway point between alcest and deathspell would sound like? alcest gets the intro and as soon as mikko plays a note the whole thing becomes fetid and sickening and desperate. man that sounds rad.

1. What Once Was And Will Never Happen Again
2. November Nights Insomnia
3. Cold Spring
4. Nineteen Winters Far Away From Home
5. Star Catcher
6. Burnt Letters
7. About Which An Old House Dreams

http://www.mediafire.com/?9p91k77fpdhj013

Tombs - Path Of Totality 2011

TTTOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMSSSSSSS!

1. Black Hole Of Summer
2. To Cross The Land
3. Constellations
4. Bloodletters
5. Path of Totality
6. Vermillion
7. Passageways
8. Silent World
9. Cold Dark Eyes
10. Black Heaven
11. Red Shadows
12. Angel of Destruction

http://www.mediafire.com/?c4x3pvfdb2kqb4r

Dark Castle - Surrender To All Life Beyond Form 2011

wish i could see them live. this one is a little different from priors, and really really sounds like the body playing kylesa covers, and it's fucking batshit crazy and awesome and beautiful and i highly recommend it. also its heavy and all over the place, like TJ with a broken computer.


1. Surrender To All Life Beyond Form
2. Stare Into Absence
3. Create An Impulse
4. Seeing Through Time
5. Heavy Eyes
6. Spirit Ritual
7. To Hide Is To Die
8. I Hear Wind
9. Learning To Unlearn

http://www.mediafire.com/?yf8sn1wgm6opu35

Tombs - Winter Hours 2009

its really difficult to collect my thoughts on this album, and i hope brett jumps in and says something.

to begin with, everything is fucking great. good tone, good interplay, good flow. my major problem...i think...is how the album is written/flows. like theres fast bits (great silence, easily my favorite for just how fucking RAGEFUL it is), theres the post-noodling (every song), theres the mind-shitting feedback and noise interludes (see them live)... it has everything, and it does everything well. but this could have easily been two albums with completely different attitudes.

regardless, this album is for everyone. in the world. it is amazing, and consistency issues aside, tombs fucking rule. so listen to it.


http://www.mediafire.com/?nmngvoyygwn

Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit 2010

i have been waiting for this for so fucking long. and it pays off. their frustratingly lengthy hiatus worked, it seems. welcome winter. beautiful intro and outro (that kinda rips off some kronos quartet), amazing first song.

interestingly enough, the production is really reminiscent of pale folklore. which is fucking awesome.


1. They Escaped The Weight Of Darkness
2. Into The Painted Grey
3. The Watcher’s Monolith
4. Black Lake Nidstan
5. Ghosts Of The Midwinter Fires
6. To Drown

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TW1PBGT2

Wolves In The Throne Room - Black Cascade 2009

this is one that i had really hoped brett would do.

so yadda yadda whatever they live in a sod hut in west oregon or some shit, its cool and worth reading about but it doesnt make an album. i think this/WITTR may be one of the only driving forces left in the genre (nyktalgia spends too much time not releasing shit, VC do fuck knows what, i have a sneaking suspicion that pink unicorns of doom are a joke, and gorgoroth are drama queens). but HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT. this album is insane. it is beautiful and perfect and the depth of it is unreal. i dont really like long songs unless they go nowhere (earth, expo 70, probably some other band that completely defies my completely untrue generalization), but its the only format suited to this type of songwriting. hhhnnngggg its so fucking good.

1. Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog - 10:33
2. Ahrimanic Trance - 14:05
3. Ex Cathedra - 10:58
4. Crystal Ammunition - 14:20

http://rapidshare.com/files/203818270/Wolves_In_The_Throne_Room-_Black_Cascade.rar

Shikabane - 自我と煩悩

Awesome, mindshattering blackened hardcore from Japan. If you liked Teen Cthulhu, you'll dig this.

SHIKABANE!