Cemetery Lament

  ASARMOTH is the new solo project from Gigi Casini the former Bass/Vocalist of the Italian Death Metal band MIND SNARE. Casini's new project merges the influences of early 80's extreme metal acts like Venom, Bathory and Celtic Frost with early death metal bands like Obituary, Deicide, Morbid Angel and Death Vader. Princess of the Darkness is an interesting blend of old school metal and death metal with a toned down driving bass and drum line that runs thought the album tying all the tracks together like a brooding death march. Casini has done some interesting stuff on this album and incorporated some elements that you don't often hear in metal. Listening to this album for the first time I picked up a slight prog-metal  influence on a few of the tracks with echo effects and what sounds like a simple yet classic keyboard synthesizer. Don't get me wrong, isn't a bad thing at all and I really like it when artists take influences from other genres and work them into th...

Unholy fucking Jesus!!!  Has 2020 been a clusterfuck shitbomb of a year so far. Aside from yours truly losing his job (okay, maybe that wasn't the worst thing that has happened because I hated that fucking job.) but on top of that all the absolute stupidity that is happening all over the U.S. with riots and cops shooting people and people being assholes etc. It's amazing we haven't just blown ourselves up yet. But since we haven't I guess we will just have to make the best of a bad situation.  A few months ago I let a few people I work with on a regular basis know that I was exploring the podcast format for Cemetery Lament. That hasn't changed and I'm still very much looking at this as something I plan to launch this fall hopefully by October 2020 if possible.  The reason for the delay on this project has to do with the legal aspects of a music podcast. Even with unsigned, underground music there is still a layer of red tape that needs to be worked around before...

Snooping around over on Soundcloud today and discovered Decoherence. Not a lot of info on them at the moment but they have several songs posted and they are all heavy as hell with a great wall of sound depth and complexity that I fucking love. Hope to hear more from this band/artist. 

New metal from Germany. Head over to SoundCloud and check it out. Be sure to Follow and Share!

I've said it before and I will say it again... One of the most amazing things about a site like SoundCloud is how it brings artists from around the world into contact with one another so they can pool their evil genius into a dark opus that would have otherwise never happened. If you've been following the blog for a while you are probably familiar with names like  Tahazu , Skyggefigurrer and Belzebut who have all been featured on Cemetery Lament at one time or another. Each of these artists have put out a mass of incredible work individually but when you bring their talent together you end up with... well you end up with Ordo Malum an EP of blackened brutality that can only be born in the true underground black metal scene.  Living half a world apart the trio didn't seem to have much trouble pulling this project together with each of them contributing their own unique talents to create a single cohesive vision of darkness that oozes from each of the six tracks....

IRON BONEHEAD PRODUCTIONS presents a special 7" EP from PA VESH EN entitled A Ghost. Hailing from Belarus, PA VESH EN is a shadowy singular entity committed to the most desolate ends of the black metal spectrum. So far, he's shown massive promise with two demo tapes for IRON BONEHEAD, last year's Knife Ritual and Dead Womb earlier this year, but A Ghost suitably comprises two miserable 'n' ethereal tracks which forecast PA VESH EN's forthcoming debut album for the label later this year. Nearly ambient in their seemingly formless drift, the two songs comprising A Ghost indeed cast a ghostly aspect that's startling and almost unsettling to behold. But within these malodorous echo chambers lie a tortured soul who's just now starting to find his true voice. Will you open your ears to the haunting whispers of A Ghost?

I've been following Cold for a while now over on SoundCloud and they never disappoint when it comes to quality DSBM.

I'm a little disappointed in MotherWood (from Americana, Brazil) but it has nothing to do with the quality of their music. I'm disappointed they only have two fucking songs right now!!! Whatever you are doing right now stop... I SAID STOP! and listen to MotherWood because this is some amazing music right here. Just so everyone knows I have already sent these guys a message to find out the status of the band and if they will be releasing a full album in the future. No worries I got ya covered.

The most awesome thing about Belzebut (aside from the kick ass music) is the fact that many of the tracks feature other underground artists from around the world. You don't just discover one amazing artist but you get to explore the creative minds of several at the same time. Belzebut....Black, dark, atmospheric music from Romania featuring Tahazu  from the United States. Be sure to check out both of these guys. You wont regret it.

A damn near perfect atmospheric black metal sound coming out of Detroit Michigan. Skyggefigurrer  started following me (i.e. Cemetery Lament ) on SoundCloud and thus another foul gem from the underground was unearthed. Skyggefigurrer offers just the right mix of everything from lighting fast drums and guitar to slow trudging riffs mixed with incredible vocals.   So if you have been looking for a new underground artist to follow... Your welcome. 

O ne of the best things about the underground music scene, especially when it comes to genres like black metal and it's related sub genres is the diversity and creativity of the artists making music. There will always be the purists who go out of their way to make sure that every aspect of their sound stays firmly on that raw, dark, gloomy path laid down by the founding fathers of black metal. Then there are those who are a bit more adventurous blending a couple of safe themes together to create the nu-metal, 2nd or 3rd wave, ( insert trendy label here ) style of hybrid metal that somebody is sure to bitch about on the internet... and then there are the rare few who go above and beyond the archetypal tropes of a genre and create something truly unique unto itself. They blend themes and atmosphere that aren't typically found within the genre and somehow using a special brand of demonic sorcery make a one of a kind experience that is true to the genre yet stepping outside ...

Kicking around over on SoundCloud and unearthed Tash... According to their profile, Tash is a violent combination of black metal, death metal, and early grindcore. The lyrics primarily focus on fear, the occult, anti-christian themes, and violence. The music itself is usually very fast, uses extended range guitars and bass, and shrieking, guttural vocals. Tash was one of those bands that when I found them I stopped dead in my tracks and thought DAMN! where have these guys been? Apparently they have been in Sandford, USA but I wasn't looking there for bad ass black metal.  Recommended if you enjoy Behemoth, Emperor, Vader, Nile, Morbid Angel, and Dark Funeral.