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I have read and listened to varying opinions considering the quallity of metal releases in 2015. My point of view is always the same, though not so easy to realize. The previous year never happened and to expect a similar or better emotional gratification is misleading your listening experience.
I have listened to a number of albums, some of which are phenomenal. For example, the latest Dodheimsgard release is exceptional in it's madness or the latest Leviathan. Some might think that this isn't underground enough, so here are a few releases, and some that are going to be released, in 2015.
TAU CROSS
You know who they are? No? Maybe the name 'Away' rings some bells. Punk, metal with a rasp voice that aches for some beer.
BOSSE-DE-NAGE
Who are they? What does their name mean? What do they play? Maybe a shoegazing black metal release is something that you cring to, or maybe not.
MIDNIGHT ODYSSEY
There is a movement, an uncosncious one, of cosmic atmospheric black metal, where the stars are our friends. Listen to this and travel on a beam of light.MISPYRMING
Icelandic black metal is a thing and their scene grows stronger and more interesting with each passing year. Some are raw, others a bit more romantic or proggy. But they do deserve our attention.KING WOMAN
This is a deeply emotional release, where the vocal sound soulwretching and traumatising. With dreamy but yet sludgy soundscape, this EP is highly recomended to anyone who wants to dive into the melancholy of a unique individual.
SANNHET
Instrumental music can be risky, from the artists perspective. Will it be able to draw the listener in and hold him/her for the duration of the album? Will it be a guide to visualizing the listeners journey into his own reflective experience? Bands like Pelican and Russian Circles may come in mind. Give them your time.
DOPETHRONE
You know where this leads to, don't you? Where sludge can be fun and rocking. Where the riffs rise for the muddy banks of Mississipi and take you through the landscapes of South, filled with marshes and loners surviving into the wilderness, with voodoo stories and witches.
See you again in a week or so, with a FI-RE ( fiction review ) of a very unique collaboration between three black metal bands.
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