As I did my daily perusing on the interhole last night, two new videos caught my bloodshot eyes. They made me gnash my teeth and scowl. They made me want to bust up shit, but since I owned all the nearby shit and was too lazy to go next door and bust up my neighbor’s shit, I refrained. They made me want to drink blood and dine on fresh fetuses, but all I could find was a beer and a chicken breast. However, I scowled and growled while I ate and drank, because it is death fucking metal and it is black as rotten teeth.
Only five days ago we wrote about Scion A/V releasing a free EP of Immolation songs called Providence. In a bomb-burst of enthusiasm, I called it one of the best death metal releases of the year. I picked my favorite track from the EP to stream with that post, “Illumination”. In a testament to the wisdom of clean living and human sacrifice, I was rewarded last night by the release of an official video for that self-same track, financed by Scion A/V. I hope Scion A/V gets at least one new car sale out of this. I don’t know why they would, but they fucken deserve it. And you deserve to download the EP, which you can do HERE.
The other video is a French band called Svart Crown playing two songs at the Evening of Metal Festival at the Salle Aragon in Saint Dizier, France on October 8. I discovered this band almost exactly one year ago when I reviewed their second album, Witnessing the Fall. Coincidentally, I compared them to a joint venture between Immortal and . . . Immolation. I still fucking love that album, and finally, through this video, I now get to see Svart Crown put a skull-creasing beatdown on a live audience. Vidz after the jump. Death fucking metal. Fuck yeah, as they say in French.
IMMOLATION
SVART CROWN
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It’s been a long, long time since DM has stirred anything more than a half-hearted bobble in my loins…but that Svart Crown vid gave me a full on metalrection. Must have MOAR.
My French isn’t that good so I didn’t get a lot of his opening banter but it’s nice to see that the hand gesture for “everyone get in the pit and fuck shit up” transcends cutural boundaries.
The Svart Crown album is naaasty, and it’s now being distributed by Relapse. Killer, guitar-driven blackened death.
And am I the only one who thinks that when a Frenchman speaks French, it’s already half-way to a death-metal vocal?
Yes.
The Immolation vocalist had some pretty impressive crazy eyes going on. I always like it when metal vocalists look legitimately unsettling. The song was pretty good, too.
I remember hearing some of Svart Crown’s music a while back, and making a mental note to pick up one of their albums, but I never got around to it. I may have to make a second effort. Those two songs were fantastic, especially for a low-quality live video.
Immolation are like the US Bolt Thrower. You know what you are going to get and they deliver each and every time. This new EP is fabulous.
I just wish they would play FLORIDA one time soon. Ross said something about their booking agent not having any contacts down here, so they never play. 🙁
Immolation is one of the best no doubt. They have such an original sound I don’t think anyone has even dared to try and mimic.