AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): AURIFEROUS FLAME — “THE INSURRECTIONISTS AND THE CARETAKERS”

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Nov 072024
 

(written by Islander)

The last time I attempted to find words for the music of Auriferous Flame I deployed adjectives such as “dire and deleterious,” “hypnotic” and “mystifying,” “deranged and dervish-like,” “molten” and “exotic.” The occasion then was an album named The Great Mist Within, released by True Cult Records in the summer of 2022. Now we have a new occasion because of a new album by this Greek black metal entity, which is one of the several guises assumed by the masterful Ayloss (with Spectral Lore being the best-known of those).

The new album, The Insurrectionists And The Caretakers, will be released tomorrow by the same True Cult Records. It is three songs long, and its overarching subject is revolution. Continue reading »

SEEN AND HEARD: REVOCATION, WOLFBRIGADE, TEETHGRINDER, HELLFUCK, CONSUMPTION, AURIFEROUS FLAME, ASTRAL HORROR

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Jul 082022
 

 

The theme of today’s collection of new songs and videos is: THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES!

Today is my birthday, and as a gift, my employer has decided to beat me until my morale improves. Therefore, this collection isn’t as large as I would wish, but tomorrow is another day, and I expect I’ll have another collection then.

REVOCATION (U.S.)

We may love Revocation around here (we DO love Revocation around here), but they have repaid all our affections with “Diabolical Majesty“, a merciless new song that invokes champions of hell “to crush the cursed creatures of the Christian right”. “Onward to victory! Set their commandments ablaze!” Continue reading »