http://www.alchemicsoundmuseum.com/en Alchemic Sound Museum Rss Feed http://www.alchemicsoundmuseum.com/en/home#222 http://www.alchemicsoundmuseum.com/en/home Alchemic Sound Museum is now on Google+ and Twitter! Don't hesitate to follow us and make the party! Or just for invoke some horrible entities! http://www.alchemicsoundmuseum.com/en/home#220 http://www.alchemicsoundmuseum.com/en/home Greetings, dark friends! (you can dress you up in pink, it's not a problem)To celebrate the renewal of our world (this is not me saying it, but our friends the Mayan people), the last nightmare of the french band Dedale (s), produced by your servants http://www.alchemicsoundmuseum.com/en/home#218 http://www.alchemicsoundmuseum.com/en/home Hails girls and boys! SCAPHANDRE is back with an album more mature, mastered, but still depressive, aptly named The Abyss Crypts. 90 minutes of noise, tears and fury, all wrapped in a beautiful digipack. A nice object that hides his game: Once the c http://www.alchemicsoundmuseum.com/en/chronique/187 http://www.alchemicsoundmuseum.com/en/chronique/187 The most disturbing disc I have heard this year. As far as I can tell, It seems to be the most violently desolate as well, using both these words to maximum effect. This release contains a rarity of minimalist form that sways something other than a minimal fear, the sort of fear that engages, a spectral canvas of sorts for your own mind to tinge. Strangest thing about that, though, is that you are then only scaring yourself. I believe that is the reason I am in great support of this work, because it engages your intellect without your consent, without the overt use of sampling or needlessly complex structures. After all, fear is fear, and romanticized or not [which this album actually does], and it is as simple as a primary survival mechanism can get. This work does not feature terror itself as a theme, but is so colored by such mood that it almost feels like a perversion of frequencies. Among its shaky drones, lowest of the low, among its heartlessness, there are sordid little passages of tune, The Nethermind has one that is sung by a synthetic violin type of timbre that almost mockingly welcomes you to the album. While the electronic elements are not pervasive, they are placed correctly, acting as the flickers of light coming off a spider web do. Contributor Emme Ya provides a brightly voiced mix-up for Transfiguration, the denser of the group. Only other taste one gets of music is Opus Omina, done with an acoustic piano, done with abject lunacy, or at least, that is how it come across. This is one evil album, plain and simple. It has the nature of work done for people who want a head-first plunge into a tar pit of an abyss wearing a lead helmet with duct tape for a chin strap. Funny image, perhaps, but get past this initial nervous humor and imagine just how that would literally feel. There is nothing funny about this piece. The bleakness to it is scathing, and is the main source of its capacity to take you down. Written by: Rexington Steel Rating: 4.5/5available here: http://www.alchemicsoundmuseum.com/en/display/70#item source: http://heathenharvest.org/2012/06/02/bathory-legion-bukkake-s-t-n/ http://www.alchemicsoundmuseum.com/en/chronique/169 http://www.alchemicsoundmuseum.com/en/chronique/169 Hello to all. Before starting the chronicle, we must already know that Im Dunkeln is not a group, but the name of the sole member of this Black Ambiant project. As its name does not indicate not at all, the man behind this project is ... Italian. And yes, like what, German is really the language of the black metal. That's made a little cliche anyway, but let's move on this detail. This Den Hellige Skogs Hemmeligheter is the second album of Im Dunkeln, in the same year. A colt supported by "Alchemic Sound Museum" tooth and nail since his begining, and produced by this same French label. We thus find fourteen tracks in less than a year. Having discovered this band with this album, I couldn't make a comparison with the previous one. The fact is that this music is not the most accessible because it is very rich, varied and complex. Let me explain. The tracks have two distincts passage: atmospheric and black metal (relatively speaking, we are far from a violent black metal) with a vivid voice flayed. These (rare) vocal passages present are very disturbing but also terribly addictive. We dread as much as we expect this voice who seems to be full of pain, screams and heartbreak. But besides of that, some tracks will be more aerial, transporting us to the image of a Fading Waves (for a completely different style) far in other spheres. This mix between black metal and classic black ambient is very well composed. Moreover titles even if they keep coming perfectly together, show a great diversity. The album could even get close to music as those present on Filosofem Burzum. You know, like that famous title with there three-note for almost half an hour that could sleep an army of Ravers under ecstasy. The only difference is that the title who may be more closer of this track is three times less long and is far more mastered, really helping to transport the listener. The advantage of this album is that is so rich that each listen will give you a different feel. Just like each of the securities which, forming a coherent whole, give us a different world each time. To the very quiet and ambient "Oyenstikkerens Ofring" who dives the listener into a world very introspective, to the very varied "Albinoravnens Ensomhet" which mixes soft parts (may even resemble to the work of Danny Elfman on Burton's films) to the more brutal thanks to its most violent parts of batteries. This second opus of Im Dunkeln is a complete success despite difficulty in appropriating it. An album that contains a lot of faces who may also well be taken as a bedside album or an album to listen more strongly in his living room with a good book or evening. An album that will never tire of listening to a time when we will have all the cards in order to fully enjoy it. Without moderation. SOURCE CLICK HERE FOR PURCHASE THE ALBUM