Submissions

Cemetery Lament is always on the hunt for new bands and artists. If you are part of an underground (unsigned) black, death, gloom, thrash, atmospheric or related metal band and would like your music featured on Cemetery Lament please read over the submission rules and guidelines below.

Submission Rules

1. You must be the artist (or one of the artists) responsible for the creation of the music you are submitting. Please do not submit works that you have not personally been involved in the creation of unless you are the acting manager/agent for the artists in question. 
2. You have the legal right to share the music you are submitting.
3. You understand that you are doing such for free and will receive no monetary compensation for your submissions. 

Submitting Digital Music - Submissions from digital sources such as Bandcamp or SoundCloud are perfectly acceptable. Please supply Cemetery Lament with links to the album/song and understand that we will link to these in our post so that readers can also find and enjoy your music.

If you don't have a Bandcamp/SoundCloud account you can submit another format of digital file for review. 

Physical Submissions - Bands who submit a physical CD or cassette tape for review will be given priority over those who submit digital files. In order to submit physical items such as CD's and cassettes please contact Clint Reed at the following email address for instructions...

cemeterylament@gmail.com

Review Process - I give everyone a fair and equal review on Cemetery Lament. I only use the term "review" for lack of a better term because I don't like to think of what I'm doing as reviewing music so much as recommending it to other fans. My process generally goes something like this.

1. Listen to the full album/EP without taking any notes. I just enjoy the work an artist/band has produced as a fan of the genre. 
2. On my second full listening I start to write notes/thoughts/opinions regarding what I'm hearing. I generally listen for vocal and musical cohesion (i.e. do the vocals and music work together and express the style the band is going for.) 
3. Technical skills, musical timing, tempo changes and style. 
4. Mood and atmosphere.
5. Lyrics (if available) and general tone of the music. 

One thing I don't typically rate is the production quality of the music. I do this for a number of reasons. First because most artist/bands don't always have the ability or funds to produce incredibly high quality recordings. Also because I was around when bootlegs and tape trading was still the only way most people got to hear this kind of music so I can handle shitty production. About the only time it will ever become an issue is if the recording is so bad that I can't make heads or tails of what the hell is going on. At which point I most likely won't even review the work.