Blasphemosity: Smoldering Embers 2011 Round-Up

It's that time of year again, time for a bunch of "Best of..."   Though I can't say I recommend the entire album of everything in this show, there are no sleepers here.  This is two hours of Total Fuckin' Blasphemy.  It's the Blasphemosity Smoldering Embers 2011 Round-up.  I have the Perpetual Winter Solidified Permafrost 2011 open in another window so that'll be out soon as well.  Gonna be a busy month here at Perpetual Winter...

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Hour 1

Absu (US-TX) - Earth Ripper - Abzu

Flame (Fin) - Destructive Saint - March Into Firelands
Ravencult (Grc) - Possessed on Burial Ground - Morbid Blood
Mhorgl (Oz) -  Black Wolf Militia - Heresiarch*

Einheuser (US-MI) - Smash the Altar - Einheuser @
Belphegor (Aut) - Angeli Mortis De Profundis - Blood Magick Necromance
Noctem (Esp) - The Arrival of the False Gods - Oblivion
Aurora Borealis (US-MD) - Tearing Holes in the Fabric of Time - Timeline: The Beginning and End of Everything @

Antediluvian (Can) - ...Through the Cervix of Hawaah - Through the Cervix of Hawaah
Hidden (US) - Dead Land Energy - Dead Land Energy
Zemial (Grc) - In The Arms of Hades - Dusk (EP)

Glorior Belli (Ita) - Chaos Manifested - The Great Southern Darkness

Hour 2

Tsjuder (Nor) - The Daemon Throne - Legion Helvete
Hades Archer (Chl) - Religion, Prostitution - For The Diabolical Ages*
Mongrel's Cross (Oz) - Whoresanna - Whoresanna (EP)
Plaag (Bel) - Christmas Time (The Birth of a Retarded Child) - Ugh! @

Craft (Swe) - I Want to Commit Murder - Void
North (Pol) - Warrior's Prayer - Awaiting the Storm
Anaal Nathrakh (UK) - Paragon Pariah - Passion

Blasphemophagher (Ita) - Ritual of Disintegration - The III: Command of the Absolute Chaos ($5)
Morgue (Can) - Hordes of Lions - Dethroned*
Torturer (Ukr) - The Symbol of Indifference - Infinity of Illusions*

Raven Woods (Tur) - Enfeebling the Throne - Enfeebling the Throne
Spearhead (UK) - Prey to the Conqueror - Theomachia

Persecutor (Pol) - Possessed by Speed - Bestial Overkill

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Perpetual Winter Productions: Perpetual Winter November 2011: Finland/United States

Another week, and I decided to just say fuck it, expect the 'casts on Mondays.  Monday works anyway, especially if I get any pre-release tracks and the timing works out to play a day before the release.  As usual lots of good Black Metal and Atmospheric Dooom, this time all from Finland or the States.  I feel a real affinity with my Scandinavian heritage, so it's just great that Finland, Sweden and Norway are all hotbeds for metal (yes, I know Finland is not technically Scandinavia).

This month will see the introduction of Perpetual Winter's new music segment "The Spreading Permafrost."  I don't have an opener for it yet, but that will be coming in the future (still looking for good movie samples about frost/cold/etc).   I also returned to using wind samples as talk over.  So without further ado Perpetual Winter November 2011: Finland/United States:

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Hour 1

Clandestine Blaze (Fin) - Fist of the Northern Destroyer - Fist of the Northern Destroyer*

A Transylvanian Funeral (US-AZ) - Premonitions- The Outsider* (Band Submission)

Evoken (US-NJ) - Tending Dire Hatred - Quietus*

Anu (US-NC) - Nachtmusik - Opus Funaerum*

Catacombs (US-AZ) - In the Depths of R'lyeh - In the Depths of R'lyeh*

Judas Iscariot (US-Ger) - In the Valley of Death, I am Their King - To Embrace Corpses Bleeding*

Goatmoon (Fin) - Immortal's Winter - Finnish Steel Storm

Skepticism (Fin) - Aether - Lead and Aether*

Hour 2

The Spreading Permafrost

Oranssi Pazuzu (Fin) - Komeetta - Kosmonument

Seidr (US-KY) - The Night Sky and the Wild Hunt - For Winter Fire**

Negative Plane (US-NY) - Angels Veiled of Bone - Stained Glass Revelations**

Beherit (Fin) - Pimyden Henki (Spirit of Darkness) - Engram

Krieg (US-NJ) - Calamity from the Skies - Rise of the Imperial Hordes (OOP)

Blood Red Fog (Fin) - Bleak Waters - Because its Wrong*

Shape of Despair (Fin) - ...To Live For My Death... - Angels of Distress

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Next month's Perpetual Winter will be all 2011 releases as the year is coming to an end, including a special exclusive track from Croatia's Bethroned!!!

Blasphemosity: November 2011 - Praise the Goat!/Smoldering Embers

An hour of Goat Worship and an hour of new shit, what more can ya ask for?  As usual links below to bands Facebook/Myspace Pages & Albums are labels or just good places to purchase physical copies.  Support Independent Music.



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Hour 1 - Praise the Goat!

Impaled Nazarene (Fin) - Goat Perversion (Live) - Death Comes in 26 Carefully Selected Pieces

Belphegor (Aut) - The Goatreich-Fleshcult - The Goatreich - Fleshcult
Necrophobic (Swe) - Celebration of the Goat - Death to All
Ered (Esp) - Goatworshipping Metal - Goatworshipping Metal (only $8)

Zygoatsis (Tha) - Evoke the Goatphomet - S.K.U.D.*
Nachzerher (US-MA) - Black Order of the Goat - Pestilence Hungers in the Shadows (EP)*
Antichrist (Can) - Severed Goat's Head - Sacrament of Blood
Necroblood (Esp) - Goat Celebration - The Rite of Evil (Demo)*

Blood Vengeance (Ger) - Blow the Goat - End of All (Demo)**
Goat Funeral (Ger)- Goat - Fuck - Perversion - Bastion Lucifer*
Vortex of End (Fra) - Necrogoat Domination - In Satan and Plutonium We Trust*

Bohemian Grove (Grc) - Praise the Goat - Age of Retrogression (Free Download)

Hour 2 - Extended Smoldering Embers

Hot Graves (US-FL) - Worship the Goat - Knights of White Phosphorus (only $8)

The Furor (Oz) - Rebirth Mark - War Upon Worship*
Assault (Swe) - Angels of Death - Calling You - Closer to Eternal Life*
Aurora Borealis (US-MD) - The Only Space Race That Matters - Timeline**

Necros Christos (Ita) - Necronmantique Nun - Doom of the Occult
Shub Niggurath (Mex) - Son of Primordial Chaos - A Deadly Call from the Stars
Goreaphobia (US-PA) - Sigil on Death's Hand - Apocalyptic Necromancy

Fleshgod Apocalypse (Ita) - The Betrayal - Agony
Book of Black Earth (Can) - Road Dogs from Hell - The Cold Testament
Svarttjern (Swe)- Unmasked Violation of Life - Towards the Ultimate
Blasphemophagher (Ita) - Command of Pandemonic Forces - The III Command of the Absolute Chaos ($5!)

Unholy Cadaver (US-CA) - Speed Demon - Unholy Cadaver

*Yep, not a clue where to get a physical copy of this reasonably in the States.

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Perpetual Winter Productions: Perpetual Winter October 2011

The first of multiple releases in this relaunching of Perpetual Winter Productions.  I probably should have done one of these closer to the start of this project, but disorganization and piss poor planning have plagued me throughout.  So, here it is, the show that spawned the overall moniker for everything I do. This is the show that mirrors a daily personal playlist most closely as my evening playlist is almost always Black Metal & Doom.

Perpetual Winter is meant to be the soundtrack to an evening, or the early morning hours.  If you engage yourself entirely in the music you will be rewarded, but its not entirely necessary as these shows are more about setting a rather mellow mood in a room.  You aren't going to find lots of over the top aggression in Perpetual Winter. In fact, in recorded form I have a hard time using the term aggressive to describe this music at all. This is relaxation music at its finest in my mind.

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Perpetual Winter is the Soundtrack to your Darkness...

Hour 1

Sorciers Des Glaces (Can) - Misanthropy Within the Endless Mountains - Moonrise in Total Darkness - 2006

Worship (Ger) - Endzeit Elegy - Dooom1 - 2007
Bethroned (Cro) - Raventhrone (2010) - Before Time2 - 2010
Aeternum Sacris (Jap) - Frozen Heart - Return (Demo) - 2011 (Free Download)
Taake (Nor) - Myr - Noregs Vaapen - 2011 (Pre-order)

Clandestine Blaze (Fin) - Possession of Nordic Blood - Falling Monuments - 2010
Loss (US-TN) - Shallow Pulse - Despond - 2011
Uterus (Ukr) - Transilvanian Hunger (Darkthrone) - Christian Slut - 2009

Emperor (Nor) - Wrath of the Tyrant - Emperor (EP) - 1993

Hour 2

Kroda (Ukr) - The Beginning of Winter Night of Oskorei - Fimbulvinter - 2007

Enslaved (Nor) - Slaget I Skogen Bortenfor - Hordanes Land - 1993
Nokturnal Mortum (Ukr) - Ukraine - Voice of Steel - 2009

Helheim (Nor) - Viten og Mot (Sindighet) - Heiðindómr ok Mótgangr - 2011
Falls of Rauros (US-ME) - Silence - The Light That Dwells In Rotten Wood - 2011

Temnozor (Rus) - Evilgod's Raven - Haunted Dreamscapes - 2010

As usual, the band names will take you their Facebook/MySpace page, the best place to sample their music, and the albums will take you to a good place to buy it if you are in the States.

In the past I used wind samples as talkover beds, I'm not going to completely do away with that, but I intend to use as much neo-folk as I can get my hands on as well.  This month I used tracks from Shroud of Despondency's (US-WI) 2002 debut "For Eternity Brings No Hope" which can be downloaded for free at the bands Bandcamp page.

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1 - This is a link to the entire album.  I was unable to locate any copies on this site of the pond.  Worship albums sell for a bit on eBay too.
2 - This is a link to the entire album.  It appears the band has had a falling out with the label that released it.  I was unable to find any copies anywhere.

From the Depths: August '11

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Really I haven't much to say about this 'cast other than its simply the neck wrecking bliss that you should expect from "From the Depths."   However, a couple things of note came up while I was doing this write-up.  First of all, you'll notice that some of the albums below are not links.  This would simply be because other than used copies, rare auctions on eBay, or off the wall independent distros are the only way you are going to find them.   I know the Nokturnel is due for a re-issue pretty soon, and the Jumpin' Jesus is dying for one at least.  I was really caught quite off guard at how rare Cadaver's 2004 opus "Necrosis" has apparently become.

Regarding the album title links: This is just a good place for those of us in North America to get said album.  It may be the label directly, a distro I trust, or a large reputable distro.  This time 'round I have to say there are some really good deals on the Vanhelgd & Cannabis Corpse CDs.

Anyhow to the tunes....

From the Depths August 2011

Cadaver (Nor) - Necro As Fuck - Necrosis - 2004

Jumpin' Jesus (Ger) - Rotten Flesh - The Art of Crucifying - 1991
Eternal Dirge (Ger) - Out of the Eons - Morbus Ascendit - 1992
Nokturnel (US-TX) - Global Suicide - Nothing But Hatred - 1993
Impetigo (US-IL) - Red Wigglers (Live) - Total Zombie Gore Holocaust - 2008

From the Depths: Still Bleeding

Disma (US-NJ) - Purulent Quest - Towards the Megalith - 2011
Vanhelgd (Swe) - Saepius in Auro Bibitur Venenum - Church of Death - 2011
Sample: Steve Hughes
Cannabis Corpse (US-VA) - Gateways to Inhalation - Beneath the Grow Light Thou Shalt Rise - 2011
Exhumed (US-CA) - Dis-Assembly Line - All Guts, No Glory - 2011

Funebrarum (US-NJ) - Beyond Recognition - The Sleep of Morbid Dreams - 2009
Hour of Penance (Ita) - The Woeful Eucharisty - Paradogma - 2010

Cryptopsy (Can) - Open Face Surgery - Blasphemy Made Flesh - 1994

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Blasphemosity: 2011 Smoldering Embers First Wave

There is actually a Blasphemosity I recorded in March or April sitting in the can right now, and at some point I'll probably release it.  The main reason I bring this up is the opening track of this cast is the opening track of that cast.  Even more importantly, the opening track Aurora Borealis' "Crucible of Creation" is the opening track on Ron Vento and company's first full length since re-forming, and its free.  Of course, since then Mr. Vento has made the entire Aurora Borealis catalog free and you should go here and check it all out.  Great stuff available there, I highly recommend doing so.

Anyhow, its a good year for blackened Metal.  There really isn't much to say about this cast except its what you should expect, 1 hour of face ripping blackened metal.  It includes some of the final recordings of the Helmkamp/Read project Kerasphorus, a track from Enslaved's newest completely free EP, and I'll introduce you to a Progressive Black/Death troupe from Rochester, MI called Einheuser.  All 2011 tunes, all from albums worth checking out.   Listen today, suffer bangover tomorrow.

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Blasphemosity: 2011 Smoldering Embers First Wave

Part I:

Aurora Borealis (US-MD) - Crucible of Creation - The Beginning and End of Everything - 2011

(Aurora Borealis Official Free Discography)

Kerasphorus (US-CA) - Through the Spiral Void - Necronaut (EP) - 2011

Spearhead (UK) - Autocrater - Theomachia - 2011

Ravencult (Grc) - Morbid Blood - Morbid Blood - 2011

Part II:

Marduk (Swe) - Wacht Am Rhein: Drumbeats of Death - Iron Dawn (EP) - 2011

Sacrilegious Impalement (Fin) - Wolves of the Black Moon - II - Exalted Spectres - 2011

Anaal Nathrakh (UK) - Drug-Fucking Abomination - Passion - 2011

Part III:

Enslaved (Nor) - Alu Mysirki - The Sleeping Gods (EP) - 2011 - FREE!

Torchbearer (Swe) - Coffin-Shaped Heart - Death Meditations - 2011

Einheuser (US-MI) - Whispering Insanity - Einheuser - 2011

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Sucking the 70's: July 2011

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A very special "Sucking the 70's" this month, at least for the Marquette area, as last week there was a big Rock/Metal announcement by the real only local music venue not located in a house ;-), my employer Upfront & Company in Marquette, that the national tour of Weedeater (Southern Lord), Saviours (Kemado) Bison BC (Metal Blade), Fight Amp (Translation Loss) would be making it a stop.  Its a special ALL AGES show on September 18th (Sunday), tickets are $10 in advance (here - (906)228-5200) or $12 at the door.  I've driven farther and paid more for a lesser show.  You can preview all the bands on this tour in the first set.

Really this is bigger news for Marquette than some people may realize.  When I was a teen I heard all these stories about Ozzy, Kiss, etc coming and playing Lakeview Arena in the 80's.  Well, I personally remember Def Leppard played there about 15ish years ago.  However, since then, other than a few shows by NAE (who I has fallen victim to playing to the hip-hop monoculture way too often) and First Aid Productions (which has some good people helping out, but I still wonder if they haven't lost the vision of the founders), Marquette has been fairly devoid of any touring Rock/Metal band not travelling completely under the radar (the Upfront does get some very interesting acts including many who have releases on major labels).  There are two big reasons for this, one being the advent of the casino shows in the U.P. (which other than not being in Marquette I can only see as a good thing), and the simple fact that in general entertainer fees have gone up over the last 20 years, but our wages have not.  So Marquette isn't going to be booking Nickelback or Colplay very soon (not going to rule out NAE, but I still guess they don't travel the road of Rock), and that's fine.   Odds are you aren't going to see too many washed up rockers in Marquette either.

However, I know a town that still eats up live music when it can.  Small groups that you can't target every week, but spaced out over time and with many niche groups it can be very profitable.  The advent of the internet has given niche fans more exposure to their music than ever, and that gives those that book shows an opportunity to look at more up and coming artists, and artists that don't have the benefit of RIAA promotional/radio backing (even Sirius Liquid Metal hardly steps outside the RIAA umbrella).   A successful Weedeater show will allow more tours of all genres to come to Marquette, this is an opportunity to remind the Rock World that Marquette still rocks and that bands should want to come here.

Enough of that though, lots of good stuff this month outside of the Weedeater Tour Preview.  New music from Wino's newest project Premonition 13, some early 70's Swedish (or German Rock no I'm not kidding, I have conflicting reports) from a band that (once again) has almost no information available, I'll introduce some more great Michigan Stoner/doom, and of course, its July so the most appropriate tune from Bongzilla in the 4:20 Smokedown.   So get your utensil packed and ready to go, its time for July's Sucking the 70's.

Sucking the 70’s July 2011

Part I

The Grand Astoria (Rus) - Doomsday Party - Omnipresence - 2011

Weedeater Tour Preview!!!

Saviours (US-CA) - Slave to the Hex - Accelerated Living - 2009
Fight Amp (US-MA) - Faith in Man - Manners and Praise - 2009
Bison BC (Can) - Two Day Booze - Dark Ages - 2010 (Only $8)
Weedeater (US-NC) - Mancoon - Jason... the Dragon - 2011

Part II

Sucking the 70’s: 4:20 Smokedown

Bongzilla (US-WI) - Amerijuanican - Amerijuanican - 2005
PSA from Dr. Nophun Anslinger
Acid Bath (US-LA) - Tranquilized - When the Kite String Pops - 1994

Part III

Sucking the 70’s: Flashback Tracks

Propeller (Swe or Ger?) - Let it Rock, Let if Roll - Let Us Live Together - 1971
Orange Goblin (UK) - Just Got Paid (ZZ Top) - Thieving From The House Of God - 2004

Part IV

Sucking the 70's: Devil's Harvest

Buffalo Witch (US-MI) - Titan Death - Buffalo Witch - 2011
Enoch (US-NC) - The Fickle Whims of the Almighty - The Hierophant - 2011
Premonition 13 (US-MD) - Deranged Rock n' Roller - 13 - 2011

Viking Skull (UK) - Crazy Truckers - Heavy Metal Thunder - 2010

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