Cemetery Lament

Welcome to the very first Epitaph on Cemetery Lament . For the most part Epitaphs are just going to be bullshit articles I write when I'm bored so that I can pump worthless crap into your pathetic human skulls. News, updates, opinions or whatever the hell I might come up with that I feel like sharing. For my first Epitaph I thought I would kick things off with a few things that I have going on with the blog and hope to have off the ground over the next few months. As of now I don't have a set timetable for any of this but I plan on rolling them out in the next three or four months if possible.  Before I dig deeper into this I just want to thank everyone who has followed the blog and especially all the incredible bands and artists who contact me on a daily basis and show support for what I'm trying to do here. When I started this stupid blog over a year ago I never imagined that it would take off in the underground community like as it has. At the time of this writ...

Another superb offering from  Ankou featuring Skyggefigurrer . Prepare for a voyage aboard the HMS Terror and feel the freezing Arctic air cut you to the bone with this brutal track. Be sure to check out Ankou and Skyggefigurrer on SoundCloud for more bone chilling underground metal.

Words like mood and atmosphere get thrown around a lot these days especially when you are talking about black metal albums. In the early years of the genre it was pretty easy... evil and Satan ... But eventually, (unless you happen to be Dark Funeral) that subject is going to run it's course. Obviously over time bands have tried to explore other subjects, sometimes they succeed and sometimes they fail miserably. Creating an atmosphere or having a theme for an album means more than just writing different lyrics set to the same old black metal tropes that have been done a billion times before. Just because you are screaming about 16th century baked goods doesn't mean you have successfully conveyed the "mood" or "atmosphere" of your concept album about medieval pastry. Fortunately for all of us Geisterfels clearly understands that it takes more than just lyrics about medieval castles and ancient forests to convey a message... especially, (if you are...