Chronicles of Chaos http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com Extreme music webzine Chronicles of Chaos http://www.chroniclesofchaos.com/images/gargoyle.jpg http://www.chroniclesofchaos.com 145 61 Album Review: Abysmal Growls of Despair / The Cold View - Songs of Deepest Skies _Songs of Deepest Skies_ marks one more attempt by busy humans to cast off the constraints of time and spelunk through what lies beneath. (So, drone and funeral doom it is.) (6.5 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6945 Dan Lake Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Anaal Nathrakh - Desideratum Anaal Nathrakh have never sought forward motion nor appreciated any expectation of evolution. When the human race is destined to consume itself in a slowly disintegrating cycle of autodefecation and remastication, what use is progress? (8 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6950 Dan Lake Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Antigama - The Insolent Two years on from breakout masterpiece _Meteor_, Antigama return with another punchy landscape-leveler in _The Insolent_. (7.5 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6948 Dan Lake Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Author & Punisher - Melk En Honing If it means getting to see Shone muscle out tracks from _Melk En Honing_, maybe right now is the perfect time to witness that A&P wizardry. _Melk_ is a monster album. (8 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6946 Dan Lake Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Faith No More - Sol Invictus Too often, _Sol Invictus_ feels like it's worth less than its cost or its meager runtime, and worth much less than the heaps of anticipation that piled up in the six years since FNM started playing reunion shows in Europe. (6 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6943 Dan Lake Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Prurient - Frozen Niagara Falls _Frozen Niagara Falls_ is a sprawling two-disc undertaking that was surely a labor of love for its creator and becomes such a labor for its audience. Nobody undedicated to this project will make it through _FNF_'s nocturnal epic, and that is no indication of fault. (8.5 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6949 Dan Lake Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Refused - Freedom On _Freedom_, Refused sound exactly like who they are -- a rabid, focused hardcore band that has emancipated itself from the ideological constraints of that belligerent style. (8.5 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6947 Dan Lake Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers On _Blessed Be My Brothers_, the Birmingham-cum-Tokyo trio turn every moment of their third full-length outing into pure death metal gold. (9 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6944 Dan Lake Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Editorial: And Now for Something Completely Different by: <b>Pedro Azevedo</b> (1997-)<br />Twenty years have passed since August 12th, 1995. For eighteen and a half of those years, I have been part of something that ends today. Welcome, then, to the end of Chronicles of Chaos. http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=0-1187 Pedro Azevedo Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Editorial: Chronicles of Chaos Ceremoniously Closes its Chapter - The Difficulty of Euthanizing a 20 Year Old by: <b>Gino Filicetti</b> (1995-)<br />I've been struggling for a few days now on how to start this piece and I realized as I write this editorial that Chronicles of Chaos today, at twenty, is older than I was when starting it at eighteen years of age. http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=0-1191 Gino Filicetti Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Rant: A Brief History of Too Little Time - Chaotic Reflections on Being a CoC Writer by: <b>Dan Lake</b> (2012-)<br />Hell, at least one of us started a long-running scene zine with a buddy for the pure shit of it, back when the Internet was a swaddled infant and all these bands we're now celebrating for their fantastic reunions were still toiling in their vital first lives. http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=6-1183 Dan Lake Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Rant: Clutching the Last Orange - The Classic Titles Never Die by: <b>Adam Wasylyk</b> (1996-2002)<br />I'm sure wherever Adrian is he's raising a cold beer and devil horns to celebrate what we were all a part of -- the best heavy metal e-zine of all time. And that ain't bias if it's the truth. http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=6-1194 Adam Wasylyk Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Rant: Full Circle by: <b>Xander Hoose</b> (2002-2006)<br />For Chronicles of Chaos, it is the end of the road, unfortunately. It's been a great ride and I will miss reading the reviews of my fantastic colleagues. I hope some of you will pop up in other publications (Terrorizer, are you hiring?) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=6-1193 Xander Hoose Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Rant: Grandfather, Tell Me a Story by: <b>Matthias Noll</b> (1998-2005)<br />Who would have doubted that Glen Benton is still plotting Godkill after all these years? See, he's also got a job in the company that Kerry is working for, just another department. Kerry is the guy who employs Gary. Gary is the guy who -is- the band he's not playing with because he's working for Kerry. Just in case you were losing track. http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=6-1186 Matthias Noll Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Rant: Happy Birthday and Goodbye! by: <b>Julia Semprich</b> (2015-)<br />It is amazing how much has changed in those twenty years. Back then, we used to connect to the Internet via dial-up modem which always made these strange electronic sounds, and computers still had these floppy disk drives even though we started to use CD-ROM drives too. http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=6-1190 Julia Semprich Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Rant: Metal Media's Maceration by: <b>Todd DePalma</b> (2004-2007)<br />The fact that its archive from 1995-2015 will remain accessible to visitors is especially valuable at a time when music journalism, in metal particularly, has hit an all time low becoming indistinguishable from record label PR, a time when nothing online will ever again be ad-free, when a publisher's circle jerk can be presented as impartial history. http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=6-1185 T. DePalma Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Rant: Remembering My Time With Chronicles of Chaos by: <b>Mark Dolson</b> (2009-)<br />It's in writing these words that I get rather sad to see CoC stop after all these years. In some ways I can't believe it (how can the art of writing reviews be dying?), yet in others I can. http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=6-1195 Mark Dolson Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Rant: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by: <b>Chaim Drishner</b> (2007-)<br />I listen to this kind of music because it fills my soul with purpose and my being with a sense of value. It's being a part of an intangible counter-culture, an infrastructure, a network of collective hateful misfits. http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=6-1207 Chaim Drishner Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Rant: St. John Maidensson by: <b>St. John Satansson</b> (2010-)<br /> It is now or never for this dedicated Maidenite to make his definitive account of the music he loves the most. This will be my last and greatest chronicle of chaos. http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=6-1208 St. John Satansson Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Rant: The Entropy of Discourse (1995-2015) by: <b>Jeremy Ulrey</b> (2006-2010)<br />What used to be called "journalism" in the world of heavy metal has slowly succumbed to whoring outrage filter for page hits, but that's not what did CoC in. This was always a review site first and foremost. http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=6-1196 Jeremy Ulrey Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Rant: The Pristine Library by: <b>Johnathan Carbon</b> (2010-2012)<br />Chronicles of Chaos now is a pristine library of record reviews which sits marooned on an island, safe from the passing waves of time. It was the site which allowed me to begin reviewing records, a passion which has only grown while the site faded. http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=6-1189 Johnathan A. Carbon Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Rant: Uncovering the Hidden Gems by: <b>Chris Flaaten</b> (2000-2010)<br />CoC and other webzines had a huge impact on my quest to find amazing music, music that is precious to me still, but these days quality reviews are less critical to such exploration than they used to be. It is a different world, but my world would definitely not have been the same if not for CoC. Cheers! http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=6-1192 Chris Flaaten Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Rant: Useless Un-Umlauted Eulogy by: <b>Alain M. Gaudrault</b> (1995-2004)<br />The news I received a couple of weeks ago that CoC would exit teenhood straight to euthanasia has since been roiling in my head. I admit, I avoided confirming with Gino that I'd submit some final words because I couldn't have it be trite or glib. http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=6-1188 Alain M. Gaudrault Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Ahab - The Boats of the Glen Carrig Now four albums deep, Germany's Ahab have become the premier powerhouse of nautikal doom. (8.5 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6942 Dan Lake Sat, 01 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Arcturus - Arcturian When Simen Hestnæs, also known as ICS Vortex and famous for his prominent voice on quite a few Norwegian metal albums, announced that he had plans to revive "a band or three" after his departure (or rather removal) from Dimmu Borgir, I really hoped one of them would be Arcturus. (9 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6938 Julia Semprich Sat, 01 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Bell Witch - Four Phantoms Bell Witch's second full-length improves on all the promising elements of their 2012 album, _Longing_. It's slow (check) and crushing (check), but it rises above the crowd of similar mourners by employing some extraordinary tear-wringing guitar leads and pairing simple, plaintive singing with those cavernous extreme vocals. (8 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6941 Dan Lake Sat, 01 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Doomed - Wrath Monolith Building on the previous three masterpieces of atmospheric doom/death, mastermind Pierre Laube, pushes his creative borders further and further away from the contours of classic doom/death. (10 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6935 Mark Dolson Sat, 01 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Liturgy - The Ark Work Fact: Liturgy apply traditionally metal elements (distorted guitars, frenetic percussion, etc.) to their music. Fact: Liturgy's music is not strictly metal. On _The Ark Work_, Liturgy have taken their style to a new place that largely ignores their metal affinities. (7 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6936 Dan Lake Sat, 01 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Lustre - Blossom You should love Lustre. Nobody else is making music like this. Sole creator Nachtzeit drapes waves of hypnotic black metal -- played at the pace of doom -- in sumptuous keyboard melodies that, at first, don't seem to belong in a metal context. (8 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6937 Dan Lake Sat, 01 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: W.A.I.L. - II With their dirge-caked strains of death metal merged with doom pacing and black metal's bleak psychological horrors, W.A.I.L.'s closest sonic relative is probably Alexander von Meilenwald's Ruins of Beverast. (7.5 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6940 Dan Lake Sat, 01 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Rant: 20 Years With(out) Deftones - A CoC Retrospective of the Recorded Works of the Alt-Metal Masters Maybe Deftones don't really qualify as chaos worthy of chronicling, having spent their career writing whipsmart songs that hang together better than 80% of the spastic animal aggression that we usually give our full attention (deficit). http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=6-1184 Dan Lake Sat, 01 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Animus Mortis - Testimonia This album takes the gleaming, glorious aspects of life and through the prism of death-hunger transforms these very life-affirming sounds into something sinister and morbid. (9 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6923 Chaim Drishner Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Dawn of a Dark Age - The Six Elements, vol. 3: Fire Whereas past efforts _Earth_ and _Water_ often felt passionate but disjointed, as if each could have benefitted from more time and attention prior to release, _Fire_ brings all of the elements that make "Dawn of a Dark Age" special and blends them into an exciting set of well paced and extremely enjoyable songs. (7.5 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6934 Dan Lake Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Et Moriemur - Ex Nihilo In Nihilum If you want to listen to some mellow, elegant doom of the easy-listening kind, this album might be right up your alley. It's well crafted, it's atmospheric enough, and it is interestingly structured. (7 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6924 Chaim Drishner Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Humanity Defiled - The Demise of the Sane As follow-up _The Demise of the Sane_ proves, Denayer's musical personality is no accident. Again, his engaging style and approach to songwriting turns a half-hour of death metal -- which so easily could have lost itself in its own forced brutality -- into an emotional exploration of dark human experiences (8 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6933 Dan Lake Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: In Cauda Venenum - In Cauda Venenum In Cauda Venenum's music is pure black metal; emotional and warm, yes, but still very much the essence of black metal. (8.5 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6929 Chaim Drishner Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful As a fervent symphonic metal fan I never thought that I would write this: Nightwish have truly overdone the symphonic part on their newest release _Endless Forms Most Beautiful_. (6.5 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6928 Julia Semprich Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Norilsk - The Idea of North _The Idea of North_ is a pulsating and writhing beast, towering like a skyscraper's silhouette over the landscape, blackening it with dark shades of negativity. (9 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6925 Chaim Drishner Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Oceanwake - Sunless Oceanwake's second offering is darker and generally more menacing than the debut. Gone are the obvious atmospheric hardcore and the melodic doom/death innuendos pointing toward the post-metal direction, interweaving like lovers, creating a harmonious world of beauty, contemplation and soul-searching. (8.5 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6930 Chaim Drishner Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: One Master - Reclusive Blasphemy One Master bring the bullet-belted, goat-blooded, misanthropic cult hate that is your baphomama's milk. (7 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6932 Dan Lake Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Origin - Omnipresent _Omnipresent_ is an apt name, because this album is like an all-seeing evil eye scavenging for the best pieces of hard-hitting music that have existed since death metal's inception. (9 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6922 Chaim Drishner Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Profundae Libidines - El Viaje Definitivo Subliminal and subtle, Profundae Libidines place themselves on the spot between utter psychedelia, halfway through avantgarde, and basic, punk-rock oriented black metal of the simplest, crudest kind yet one that bears magical qualities. (8 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6927 Chaim Drishner Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Sarpentra - Supernova _Supernova_ is for death metal what Melechesh's releases are for black metal; true forerunners, innovators and evolutionary to the verge of being revolutionary. (9.5 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6931 Chaim Drishner Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: The Ugly - Decreation Some would call _Decreation_ a death metal album with some melodic leanings and black metal orientation. Some would immediately capture the distinctive war / black metal sound, and some would dismiss it as a mere black / death metal album. The truth is this album is all of the above, and much, much more. (9 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6926 Chaim Drishner Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Absentia Lunae - Vorwärts - Impavida Avanzata The visual art of _Vorwärts_ greets the listener with its cold and bleak embrace and serves as the perfect backdrop for the band's callous and dystopian music, where ultra violent black metal meets fascist martial industrial, and where epic clean singing clashes with abrasive, traditional black metal rasps. (9 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6910 Chaim Drishner Sat, 02 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Adamus Exul - Arsenic Idols To call _Arsenic Idols_ black metal would be an underestimation of this album. On the outside, it is one violent and unrelenting motherfucker with everything a black metal fanatic should love in his orthodox black metal. However, underneath this wall of anger and hate, mascara and face paint, lie undercurrents of immensely beautiful melodic tunes and layers upon layers of exquisite emotions. (9 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6912 Chaim Drishner Sat, 02 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Albez Duz - The Coming of Mictlan "...Heaven's blind, lost souls..."; with this repetitive chant German Albez Duz open their _The Coming of Mictlan_ album: a dark, ritualistic intro that serves as a backdrop for the album's initiation. This intro may be somewhat misleading though, as what comes next is not as sinister, nor as dark, nor even as ritualistic in essence as that intro; however, this album well deserves your time spent exploring it. (8.5 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6908 Chaim Drishner Sat, 02 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Ars Moriendi - La Singulière Noirceur d'un Astre Ars Moriendi's specific style is slightly hard to pinpoint; it possesses the authentic non-Scandinavian Euro black metal sound, where the metal of black is tainted with death metal chunks of rotting flesh and sonic obesity, but on the other hand it carries a message of transcendence, using ethereal keyboard lines and exquisite song arrangements. (7.5 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6904 Chaim Drishner Sat, 02 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Arvas - Black Satanic Mysticism Arvas are an angry bunch of Norwegians playing hardcore-punk fueled, thrash metal influenced black fucking metal of the stripped down kind, yet with a high sense of melody and an accentuated melodic edge. (9 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6905 Chaim Drishner Sat, 02 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Atten Ash - The Hourglass The beauty of _The Hourglass_ lies with the fact it balances so well between the melodic, delicate and easy listening parts, and the harsh, ominous and dark ones, sounding surprisingly fresh and unique, despite the dangerous waters the band navigate through. (9.5 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6913 Chaim Drishner Sat, 02 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Coil Commemorate Enslave - L'Infinita Vanità del Tutto Coil Commemorate Enslave lean toward the melodic and the shoegaze-y, yet forsake none of black metal's aesthetics and deliver the whole lot with vibrant power and conviction. (8 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6919 Chaim Drishner Sat, 02 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Ensiferum - One Man Army Ensiferum have spiked their sixth studio album _One Man Army_ with all the ingredients that made most their previous albums successful: powerful speedy passages, catchy folk melodies and ample growling supported by choirs. (7 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6907 Julia Semprich Sat, 02 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Nova - Il Ritorno Nova's music is all about tradition -- black metal tradition, Italian tradition -- but with it comes their intrinsic aspiration and drive, to become greater and better than the tradition they were raised upon and fed from. (9 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6914 Chaim Drishner Sat, 02 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Oktor - Another Dimension of Pain Oktor try, on their debut full-length album, to tread less traveled roads in the realm of doom metal. (3 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6911 Chaim Drishner Sat, 02 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Sólstafir - Ótta Sólstafir manage to represent their country's moody nature through a mixture ranging from melancholy and despair to aggression, but also atmospheric, meditative passages. (9 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6915 Julia Semprich Sat, 02 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Sonata Arctica - Pariah's Child There is hardly anything in their eighth studio album _Pariah's Child_ that distinguishes Sonata Artica from any other melodic metal band. (4.5 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6916 Julia Semprich Sat, 02 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Album Review: Ymir's Blood - Blood of the Ice Giant _Blood of the Ice Giant_ is the most shameless Bathory rip-off in existence, and that's actually great. (8.5 out of 10) http://www.ChroniclesOfChaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-6909 Chaim Drishner Sat, 02 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT en-us All contents copyright 1995-2004 their individual creators. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission.