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Liner notes: Gorgon - The Veil of Darkness

Liner notes: Gorgon - The Veil of Darkness

GORGON has returned! The Veil of Darkness is the first new album in 19 years, the fifth since forming in 1991. Founding and current sole member of GORGON, Chris, has not been completely silent during those near two decades. Several compilations of older material have appeared along with...
Liner notes: Wapentake - Murmurations

Liner notes: Wapentake - Murmurations

Following the release of my demo tape Saxon Pastoral via my friend Tom's label Eldritch Lunar Miasma in 2015 (ELM also released the 7" and CD EP by my previous black / thrash outfit Cultfinder), I was approached by the Minneapolis tape label Lighten Up Sounds about releasing...
Liner notes: Burial Hex - Initiations

Liner notes: Burial Hex - Initiations

Sometime in 2006 I did a trade with Todestrieb Records, we sent a couple packages of cassettes to each other. One of the tapes in that trade was the very first Burial Hex release, a short tape called Curses of the Earth. One day, about a year later,...
Liner notes: Gorgon - The Lady Rides a Black Horse

Liner notes: Gorgon - The Lady Rides a Black Horse

Written by Chris Chatelet Among Fogs of Oblivion I have composed and played this short intro in studio and sometime, we used it at the beginning of our live performances. The calm before the infernal storm. Tower of Gargoyles At the end of 80's I collected gargoyles (in...
Liner notes: Void - Posthuman

Liner notes: Void - Posthuman

Hail Todestrieb, Thanks for the opportunity to look back on Posthuman with you. I welcome the opportunity to reconnect with this early era material since the band can maybe seem quite fragmented between the various eras, from an outside perspective, maybe even for the band, haha, so its...
Liner notes: Varsovie - Coups et blessures

Liner notes: Varsovie - Coups et blessures

Written by: Arnault Destal Coups et blessures The album's name and the opening song "Coups et blessures" means "blows and wounds" in the literal sense, and is also a legal term for when someone has been assaulted and hurt in France. The song is a reference to all...
Liner notes: Woods of Infinity - Hejda

Liner notes: Woods of Infinity - Hejda

Written by: Melkor Rationen krymprygg Köld It's a homage to Sweden, to the cold winter and the feeling of purity and peace you can find in the snow and the darkness. Under färden It's excerpts from a disjointed dream or vision Ravenlord had. I can't really comment on...
Motown to Motorhead: 10 of the Best Covers by Motorhead

Motown to Motorhead: 10 of the Best Covers by Motorhead

Eddie Holland Leaving Here Leaving Here (Single) 1963 "Leaving Here" is an early Holland-Dozier-Holland number first recorded by Eddie Holland for Motown Records in 1963. Eddie Holland - Leaving Here (1963) Within a year or two it was being covered by English bands including THE WHO, but the...
Liner notes: Ysengrin - T.R.I.A.D.E

Liner notes: Ysengrin - T.R.I.A.D.E

Written by: Guido Saint Roch Camarde Well this first track is slow as a rotting corpse. I like the last part of the track, with those epic keys, like the triumph of the Death. Lyrics mostly deal with dead and depression: under the reign of Saturn, for ever!...
Samoth's Best Albums of 1993

Samoth's Best Albums of 1993

As listed in an interview with Descent zine #1 in 1994: Burzum Det som engang var 1993 Burzum - Det som engang var Burzum Aske 1993 Burzum - A Lost Forgotten Sad Spirit Emperor Emperor 1993 Emperor - Night of the Graveless Souls Morbid Angel Covenant 1993 Morbid Angel - Blood on...
Liner notes: Portent - Dismal Deities

Liner notes: Portent - Dismal Deities

Written by: Portent Woven A Fatalistic Ode! I was particularly taken with the idea of The Fates (the Moirai, the Norns, the Three Witches etc) spinning fate which is beyond our control and which ultimately leads to death.Along with this there is the imagery of the spider who...
Rock Goddess Trax Facts

Rock Goddess Trax Facts

These liner notes, written by Jody Turner, appeared on the fold-out poster included in the original pressing of Rock Goddess (1983).Note: "One Way Love" and "Make My Night" are listed below in the order they were listed on the sleeve, on the record the running order is reversed....
Liner notes: Novus Ordo - At the End of the New Times

Liner notes: Novus Ordo - At the End of the New Times

Written by: Bestia777 Hados and Destinies The beginning and the end of all creation was once destined by the ancients, who stipulated the End in orbital paths in times before the time when the originals created our destiny, so the destiny of our journey is the eternal sentence...
Liner notes: Forgjord - Uhripuu

Liner notes: Forgjord - Uhripuu

Written by: Valgrinder First of all this record is the most personal record I've ever written. Didn't know it then but when creation process started to live its own life, I realized that this isn't "just another Förgjord record". It represents awakening, rising from the flames of putrefaction....
Liner notes: Remmirath - Polis Rouge

Liner notes: Remmirath - Polis Rouge

Written by: As The Will Behind the Colossus Just a short intro setting the untrve tone for the album. Saxophones are not very unusual in metal anymore, but we thought it would fit the urban atmosphere we tried to create with the album. In the background, you can...
Liner notes: Grift - Fyra elegier

Liner notes: Grift - Fyra elegier

Written by: Perditor Perditor was unsure he could communicate the true meaning of these notes by translating into English, so we present them in his native Swedish. Dödens dåd Vi valde att använda ett stycke skrivet och framfört av Hieronymous Gratchenfleiss som var verksam som begravningsviolinist under 1800-talet....