Cemetery Lament

So I haven't posted much of anything in a long while. Not going to bore anyone with lame ass excuses I've just been busy with real life shit and haven't had much time to dedicate to the blog. I still keep tabs on the underground black/death metal scene when I can but for the most part I have been slacking off like a motherfucker because my work and home life have been pretty crazy for the last year or so. But enough about all that. Over the last few months I've been digging into old school black and death metal that is available on vinyl or cassette tape. Why you might ask? Well, mostly because I like to own the physical copy of music and also because I'm still convinced that analog sounds better than digital... I'm not going to go into the long boring bullshit arguments about how digital is just as good or how some clown with a billion dollars worth of audio equipment has tested and retested it and it's all the same. I like analog sound and fuck what scie...

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!

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...