#PostMetal

[fetznerdeathrecords]

Besna - Kr​á​sno

Post-Black Metal from Bratislava, Slovakia

The second long play album Krásno [Beauty] by slovak post-black metal band Besna explores themes of societal stagnation, personal isolation, ecological collapse, and the search for meaning in an unjust world. Through seven intense tracks, it critiques the passive acceptance of authority, the cyclical nature of cynicism, and the desire for self-expression amidst a declining culture and ongoing war. Drawing from mythological references (the song Bezhviezdna obloha [Starless Sky]) and historical events (the song Hranice [Pyres], which reflects on the self-immolation of Jan Palach and the deaths of people fleeing across the borders of communist Czechoslovakia), Krásno highlights the closing off to foreign ideas and lives, urging listeners to fight apathy and despair. The album serves as a powerful reflection on human resilience and a call for cultural and societal renewal.

1. Zmráka sa 03:24 2. Krásno 04:50 3. Hranice 03:14 4. Oceán prachu 02:27 5. Bezhviezdna obloha 06:19 6. Paracelsus 03:05 7. Mesto spí 07:19

Release date: January 16th, 2025

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REKA – Album Artwork & Collaboration

ロシアのポストメタルバンドREKAの最新作のアートワークを手掛けました。描き下ろしのジャケットの絵を始め、バックやインナーの絵など全て描き、デザインもしています。 更には曲名、歌詞、ボーカルメロディ制作、メインボーカルも担当。（もう1人のボーカルは同じくPresence of SoulのギタリストRyoが担当）日本国内では私達のレーベル"Abyss Gazer Records"でのみ販売しています。 [ ご購入はこちらから ]

I had the honor of creating the full artwork and design for the latest release by Russian post-metal band REKA—including the cover, back, and inner illustrations, all hand-drawn. Beyond the visual side, I also contributed the track title, lyrics, vocal melody, and vocals. In Japan, the album is exclusively available through our label, Abyss Gazer Records.

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Domino, âme féline et gardien des riffs lents, veille sur l’autel sonore de Diogonos — l’onde doom signée Dionysiaque. Entre silence sacré et grondement d’outre-monde, il écoute. Un moment suspendu, quelque part entre l’ombre et la vibration. 🕯️🐈‍⬛💿

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Part 1: Ary's favourite releases of 2023

Before you ask, yes I know that Mitski and Sufjan Stevens released albums this year! I'm gonna go ahead and assume they're already on a lot of other people's lists! However, if you think I'm missing out on YOUR favourite album of 2023, let me know. If you're thinking: "63 albums isn't that many, I wish there were more" - you're in luck because there's a Part 2. Part 2 has a different (more pop? upbeat? accessible?) vibe. Don't think too hard about it...

The chart isn't ranked, just arranged in a way that looked nice to me. Metal, hardcore, rap, emo, skramz, bedroom pop and more!!!

Here are Bandcamp links to all of the albums (for those not on BC there's a YouTube or Spotify link). Honestly I'm never quite sure what genre something is, but there's a lot of metal in any case.

Row 1

Lauren Bousfield - Salesforce [digital hardcore]

Dead Times - Dead Times [harsh noise extreme metal]

Danny Brown - Quaranta [rap/hiphop]

Underdark - Managed Decline [post black metal]

Boris & Uniform - Bright New Disease [psychedelic heavy metal]

PUPIL SLICER - BLOSSOM [blackened mathcore]

Sanguisugabogg - Homicidal Ecstasy [death metal]

Row 2

Full of Hell & Primitive Man - Suffocating Hallucination [death metal/grindcore]

Radeloos//Ziedend - Doodsverachting [blackened crust]

Agriculture - Agriculture [ecstatic black metal]

Victory Over the Sun - Dance You Monster To My Soft Song! [progressive black metal]

fog lake - midnight society [bedroom pop]

Bell Witch - Future's Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate [funeral doom]

Krallice - Mass Cathexis 2 - The Kinetic Infinite [progressive black metal]

Row 3

Svalbard - The Weight Of The Mask [postmetal]

Terzij de Horde & Ggu:ll - Van Grond [vitalistic black metal]

portrayal of guilt - Devil Music [blackened post-hardcore]

SAINT VEHK - Practice​/​Doubt I&II [occult death industrial]

Sightless Pit - Lockstep Bloodwar [dub/power electronics]

Designer Violence - We Gave Peace A Chance [electropunk]

geronimostilton - The Vampyre [skramz]

Row 4

Chat Pile & Nerver - Brothers in Christ [sludgey death metal]

Afsky - Om hundrede år [depressive black metal]

Full of Hell & Gasp - FOH/Gasp (Split) [death metal/grindcore]

Solar Temple - The Great Star Above Provides [blackgaze]

Fluisteraars - De Kronieken Van Het Verdwenen Kasteel - II - Nergena [atmospheric black metal]

Fluisteraars - De Kronieken van het Verdwenen Kasteel - I - Harslo [atmospheric black metal]

Andre 3000 - New Blue Sun [spiritual flute jazz]

Row 5

Aesop Rock - Integrated Tech Solutions [rap/hiphop]

Blood Incantation - Luminescent Bridge [cosmic death metal]

Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter (fka LINGUA IGNOTA) - SAVED! [experimental gospel metal]

Spetterpoep - Stoelgang Van Zaken [coprogrind/grindcore]

Gnaw Their Tongues - The Cessation Of Suffering [blackened drone metal]

JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - SCARING THE HOES [rap/hiphop]

The Lemon Twigs - Everything Harmony [70s inspired rock]

Row 6

Old Nick - "The Truest Spell" [dungeon synth/raw black metal]

Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips [rap/hiphop]

Liturgy - 93696 [transcendental black metal]

Helena Hauff - fabric presents Helena Hauff [hardcore techno]

That Same Street ⁻ Electric Angel [skramz]

That Same Street - Endgame [skramz]

the scary jokes - Retinal Bloom [dream pop]

Row 7

Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze - The Fractal Ouroboros [occult black metal]

Katie Dey - never falter hero girl [hyperpop]

Full of Hell & Nothing - When No Birds Sang [grindcore/shoegaze]

All Men Unto Me - Chemical Transit [classical/doom metal]

RXK Nephew - Till I'm Dead [rap/hiphop]

Panopticon - The Rime of Memory [rabm/black metal]

Yaeji - With A Hammer [electronic]

Row 8

DRAIN - LIVING PROOF [punk/hardcore]

909 Worldwide - Hardcore Will Never Die, and Neither Will You [happy hardcore/rave]

lobsterfight, gingerbee, Cicadahead, godfuck - a lobster, bee, & cicada walk into a bar and find god [skramz]

GingerBee - Our Skies Smile [skramz/5th wave emo]

Curta'n Wall - Siege Ubsessed! [dungeon synth/raw black metal]

GEZEBELLE GABURGABLY - Gaburger [alt pop]

crisis sigil - God Cum Poltergeist [cybergrind]

Row 9

Lamp Of Murmuur - Saturnian Bloodstorm [black metal]

Crystalline Thunderbolts - Blessed Hands Touch The Ophanim Under The Golden Rainbows [experimental black metal]

Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit [black/death metal]

FIRE TOOLZ - I am upset because I see something that is not there. [electro-industrial/experimental]

Angel Electronics - ULTRA PARADISE [happy post-hardcore]

Vylet Pony - Carousel (An Examination of the Shadow, Creekflow, and its Life as an Afterthought) [electronic]

Ada Rook - Rookie's Bustle [electronic]

This post took forever to make. Again if you have any thoughts on it please tell me!!!! And share widely with your friends :)

Love, Ary

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No Sun Rises - Harmisod (full album, 2023)

Hello again Networkers. Today we are exciting to review here a very special act that we're truly happy to have featured in the channel: the German five-piece post-black unit NO SUN RISES. Harmisod, their last work released back in September, will make you shiver in place whether you are familiar with their sound or not (for which if you're not, we really recommend going back in their discography!). Harmisod opens with a ghostly echo surrounding the listener as intro for the first song, NebellebeN. Sharp guitars with fast riffs and gnarly voice catches you immediately in this palindrome titled song, where the mist and life seem to find each other in line. Acoustic parts hold the song together making for great slower, appeased bridges in-between parts where it return to the moving aggression in a haunting result. While in moments like this starting song the album showcases a sound that really draws from a characteristic one within black metal, it quickly departs from there combining it with the impressive acoustic strings and additional instrumentation in its tapestry such as cello and violin adding a folk touch, as shown in the next song, Unter Tage (Regress), where there's also notable the guest vocalist completing a sensational listening so far to this point, just half of the record, holding the mood out of metal for a while until the song burst in the flame of fiery emotions again. Tanz im fahlen Lichte would be the next song, which keep its 8 minutes with metal, at moments complex and shifting in quick and rich movements helping it create a palpable atmosphere with a shoegaze kick. The album turns complete with the fourth song, In trockener Erde (Bury Me), putting everything we've seen before together one step beyond, with its own intro, making for the perfect way to close the album with the sound of the fireplace in the night and the evocative artwork presented for it. Of course you're invited to stay there with us, so don't miss this on this excellent album!

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OF THE MUSES: first single and video from "Senhal"

Welcome to the decadent and intimate OF THE MUSES universe with "I" the first single taken from "Senhal", the debut album out on My Kingdom Music on November 3, 2023. For the song the talented artist Giuseppe Briffa has edited an official video that you can see at https://youtu.be/PFd3OVHWgXQ

OF THE MUSES, a one-woman Blackgaze act headed by multi-instrumentalist Cristina Rombi, sing songs of grief and pain.  Musically, the Blackgaze can be considered the right place where her music lives, but elements from Doom, Black Metal, Post Metal and also Dreampop also play a quite prominent part in her unique sound that follows the steps of Alcest, Myrkur, Woods Of Desolation. The result is an intimate, decadent and exclusive Art that will allow OF THE MUSES to enter your soul in a furiously deep and confessional way like no one has ever done.

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Presave the EP here: https://share.amuse.io/album/iama-iama

[abyssgazerrecords]

Release / Presence of Soul "Silent Sins"

NEW RELEASE:

アンビエント・ノイズの初ライブアルバム発売決定！ Ambient Noise Live Album Release Announced!​

通常のバンド編成とは異なる3人編成で、ループミュージックを一から構築し、インプロビゼーションを軸にした2部構成で制作。2024年7月24日、吉祥寺NEPOで収録されたライブ音源を5/3にリリース。

本作は、映像と音を一つの作品として創り上げており、即興から生まれるアンビエント・ノイズの音世界をより深化させる映像が、音と溶け合い、唯一無二の没入体験へと誘う。

初のセルフミックスに加え、マスタリングはゆらゆら帝国やBORISなどを手がける中村宗一郎氏が担当。

This work is a live recording performed on July 21, 2024, at Kichijoji NEPO, created by a three-piece ensemble different from our usual band formation, building loop-based music from scratch and structured in two parts with improvisation at its core.

Additionally, this piece is crafted as a unified work of both sound and visuals. The visuals, which deepen the immersive world of ambient noise born from improvisation, are a form of evolving art alongside the music itself. As the images and sounds merge, they create a one-of-a-kind immersive experience. 

Pre-orders now open!

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Ghost Hollow - Examinations of the Heart

Blackened Sludge Metal from Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S.

“Examinations of the Heart”, the new album by blackened sludge metal band Ghost Hollow, was released on February 8, 2025. It is the second album by the US-based Arkansas band, following ‘Ghost Hollow’ (2023). Fans of Thou, Pallbearer, and Këkht Aräkh will find much to love in the trio’s unique sound, which fuses the oppressive weight of sludge metal with the chilling atmospherics of black metal, alongside touches of death metal and hardcore.

1. Formless Apparitions 04:41 2. Unspoken 03:37 3. Imperfect Portrayal 04:11 4. Lay Down the Sword 03:33 5. Intercessor 03:53 6. The Profane Throne 05:09 7. Examinations of the Heart 06:05

Release date: February 8th, 2025

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🌌 DVNE Announces Full European Tour in Support of “Voidkind” 💀

Cosmic riff architects DVNE have announced a full-scale European tour this May, bringing their interstellar new album Voidkind to stages across the continent. With a reputation for jaw-dropping live performances and soaring post-metal grandeur, the Glasgow-based five-piece is poised to deliver their most immersive run yet. Fresh off the critical buzz surrounding Voidkind—hailed as “post-metal…

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After Nations shares one of their crazy stories from being in a band on tour! Check out the story at https://www.digitaltourbus.com/features/after-nations-crazy-tour-stories/

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Live at Verenden-Festival 2025

Photography T.M. Konzertfotografie