Cemetery Lament

A few months ago ( all the way back in May actually ) I featured Vile Tyrant here on Cemetery Lament. You can check out the original feature here . So you can imagine I was pretty fucking pumped when I checked my email today and found that the boys from Utica NY had sent me a link to their new music video and asked me to check it out... Which of course I did... and true to Vile Tyrant form I was not disappointed.  Much like their EP Consummation of the Black Arts , the video for Unto Wrath Be Given is a high quality masterwork of black metal. As I pointed out in the original feature, Vile Tyrant's production quality is as good (if not better) than many bands that have signed with "major" labels.  But don't take my word for it. Watch the fucking video and have your mind blown. Be sure to check out Vile Tyrant at the links below and follow them on Spotify and YouTube as well.  www.facebook.com/Viletyrant viletyrant.bandcamp.com soundcloud.com/...

One of the (many) perks to being a world famous black metal blogger {{citation needed}} is that you get free shit from all kinds of publishers. Usually I get promo downloads or links to pre-release albums to check out, but every so often I get something really bad ass like a full PDF download of a book such as The Devil's Cradle and I think to myself, "damn I've made it to the big time! But I digress... Over the years there have been a shit load of books published on the subject of black metal. While some of these are far better than others, I think it's important to document the black metal scene and it's "roots" from as many viewpoint as possible be it from the bands involved or those who were instrumental in helping establish the genre. For the most part much of black metals history seems to revolve entirely around the more well known pioneers who established the foundation of what is (or isn't) black metal today. But at times it seems as ...

Grave Spirit was spawned in the earliest days of 2017, born from the mind of BW and slowly put together during the early months of the year. After the writing was underway and early recording of the guitar work began in earnest, ES was recruited on drums, and TG joined the project on bass. The Beast Unburdened By Flesh was summoned in the summer of the same year as Grave Spirit's creation, and now comes to horrify the world with tales of the mythical, both living and undead. Its primary foundation is the eternal fire of black witching metal, but here suffused with the ghastliness and dread of eldritch death metal. Its powers are simple yet profound, and between these two tracks, Grave Spirit mark a more-than-promising start to terrorizing souls worldwide.

Getting back into the swing of things with a brutal track from AnKou and Skyggefigurrer. I have it on good authority that another track is in the works from these guys!

Sometimes it's hard to find a band in the prog/deathcore scene that is doing something unique. Eventually things start to all sound the same and honestly it gets a little dull. Then there are groups like Vultures Above Us. Head over to SoundCloud and give these guys a like/share. Definitely worth your time if you are looking for some quality metal.  https://soundcloud.com/vulturesaboveus

I know, I know... It's been a while since there has been any activity here on Cemetery Lament. The good news is that I'm not dead... yet... The bad news... I've had a pretty busy last two months with a few things going on in my private life that has kept me away from the blog. The biggest change being a promotion at my job and taking on a ton of new responsibilities. Thus I've been putting in around 12 to 24 hours of overtime each week. This doesn't leave me as much free time to dedicate to the blog and the music I love. But by no means does that mean I plan to stop writing the blog or digging up new underground music from around the world. Moving forward I will probably not be posting as much on a weekly basis but I plan to dedicate at least a few hours a week to the blog and finding new underground artists/bands to feature here. Now that things have sorta settled down and evened out I will be back with new highlights, features and other heavy shit real soo...