In our ongoing investigation of deceptive and outright fraudulent extreme metal acts, we pull the rug under a handful of established outfits that don’t even seem to bother hiding that they are after your money first, artistic integrity a distant second - an audience satisfaction not even registering. The more we pull away the blinds the more obvious these practices become. Maybe your favorite band is in here, maybe your life-long inspiration only cares about the dollars/euros you’re giving him/her? Don’t be fooled, there are plenty of honest, hard-working metal bands everywhere in the scene. It’s just that these money-hungry, artistically vacuum units make it difficult for everybody involved. These bands stopped caring, they lost the passion and fire. In short: they Sold Their Souls...
When grown men (and women) paint their faces, sport inverted crosses and spent more time acquiring the right wardrobe than they do writing and rehearsing, I can’t help but crack a smile at the ridiculousness of the endeavour. Arsonist Lodge, who undoubtly admire the Norwegian churchburners of the ‘90s, are however a solid act within this genre. As you can probably guess this is another one-man...
What a pleasant surprise. I’m not familiar with this band’s debut record from a couple of years ago, but if this record is any indication it is at least a curiosity worth seeking out. Italy has always had a knack for the theatrical, and this band is no different in that regard. Atmosphere, so often lacking in modern extreme metal albums, is something that oozes from every pore of this record. ...
I had some material done already before the demise of Lord Belial. Some of the material was actually intended for the next Lord Belial album, but since we disbanded I changed around all of the ideas into new songs.
VIC Records has signed a license deal with The Chasm and Luxinframundis Productions for the European releases of the reissue of their "Procreation of the Inner Temple" debut album from 1994 on CD, wich will also include their complete 1993 demo, rare pics and extensive liner notes from Olivier Zoltar Badin, also a new exclusive repressing on digipak of their very well received and most recent album "Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm", which was originally released on a limited edition by Luxinframundis in 2009 and mainly available in North America and sold out for close to 2 years.
VIC Records will also release the second album of Mexico's most underrated occult killer act Shub Niggurath. Their second full lenght album "A Deadly Call from the Stars" comes also as an exclusive
limited edition digipack. Previously released on The Chasm front man Daniel Corchado own label Lux Inframundis Productions in 2011, it was limited to 500 copies, and sold out in 5 months.
The cooperation between both record labels will also lead to the release of the second solo album by The Casm's vocalist / guitar player / composer Daniel Corchado: Magnum Itiner Interius, this new album will be conformed of 12 compositions of epic 60+ minutes of atmospherical, experimental yet dark and melodic
instrumental metal.
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