CHAPEL OF DISEASE – ECHOES OF LIGHT

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Feb 062024
 

(Andy Synn embraces the upcoming swansong from Chapel of Disease, out this Friday)

A lot of people, including yours truly, will tell you that Chapel of Disease‘s 2018 album, …And as We Have Seen the Storm, We Have Embraced the Eye, is one of the best Death Metal albums of the last decade.

And even those who don’t agree with that statement generally have to concede that it’s definitely one of the most unique Death Metal albums they’ve heard in a long, long time.

But the band’s upcoming fourth album (the final recording of the group’s original line-up) is neither of these things.

Because it’s not really a Death Metal album at all.

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SEEN AND HEARD: VORGA, MOURNING DAWN, CHAPEL OF DISEASE, EXITIUM SUI

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Nov 292023
 

Oh look, what a surprise, another roundup!

After months of posting 3-5 musical features a day, we’re in a bit of a lull here. Life has thrown boulders at some of our writers and I think others are focusing on year-end lists. I’m still writing premieres every day of course, but still feel compelled to try to have more than just one or two of those as the sole content of our site on a given day, and I happen to have had more time than usual for roundups over the last week or two. So, here’s another one!

Most of these are “hot off the presses”. I think they will all cause you to catch your breath or your breath to catch, albeit in different ways.

VORGA (Germany)

I had to start with the song “Voideath” so I could stick Adam Burke‘s fabulous cover art for Vorga‘s new album Beyond the Palest Star at the top of this page. Can you blame me? Continue reading »

OUR LIST OF 2018’S MOST INFECTIOUS EXTREME METAL SONGS (PART 9): THE CROWN AND CHAPEL OF DISEASE

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Jan 182019
 

 

Welcome to the 9th installment of this growing list, in which I’m turning back toward death metal with the two songs added today. To check out the previous installments, you’ll find them behind this link, and to learn what this series is all about, go here.

THE CROWN

The title of The Crown‘s latest album — Cobra Speed Venom — is so damned good. I’m not sure it really means anything, but the combination of those three words, especially in the context of The Crown‘s brand of music, just sounds metal AF. Very cool cover art too. Continue reading »

SHADES OF BLACK: CHAPEL OF DISEASE, MISOTHEIST, HAUSTIÐ, CNTMPT, VANANIDR

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Nov 252018
 

 

For reasons that I’ll explain in a subsequent post today — reasons that will also probably diminish the volume of content at our site over the next two weeks — I’ve written this week’s edition of SHADES OF BLACK hurriedly. As is always true, I picked this week’s selections because I really like them and believe most of you will too, but today I don’t have as much time to explain why. The bands, however, convincingly speak for themselves through their music.

CHAPEL OF DISEASE

This German death metal band established themselves as a force to be reckoned with through their first two albums, Summoning Black Gods (2012) and The Mysterious Ways of Repetitive Art (2015). Their new album, …And As We Have Seen The Storm, We Have Embraced The Eye, will only elevate their already-respected status. Continue reading »