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Lucifericon

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Lucifericon

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Founded in 2009, it wasn’t until 2012 when the band’s first public recording, The Occult Waters EP, reared its shadowy head. Although The Occult Waters was the band’s debut, the seemingly “new” Lucifericon was actually comprised of a number of metal scene veterans, its members having done time in Destroyer 666, Pentacle, Malicious Dream, and Excision among others. Naturally, at this stage, the quartet deeply understood the Metal of Death and proceeded to offer a unique, more atmospheric twist on it. Four years later followed another EP, Brimstone Altar, to further critical acclaim. Here, Lucifericon’s death metal was blackened to a crisp, its robust recording allowing every evil nuance to spill from the soundfield and further bewitch the eardrums.

With that envious foundation judiciously set,in 2018 at last arrives Lucifericon’s first full-length recording, Al-Khem-Me. Tongue-twistingly titled but aptly so, Al-Khem-Me keeps apace with the developments of Brimstone Altar and further masters the art of the “patient payoff.” Its blackened DEATH literally explodes from the very first seconds, but the band’s songwriting builds detail upon subtle detail despite the obvious aggression employed. Utterly gnarled and gnarling, the lurch ‘n’ lunge across Al-Khem-Me creates a bewilderingly slipstreaming effect, dragging the listener into a distant, nameless vortex, but always with a keen knack for memorability. For above all, this is METAL, unbending and unyielding, forged in fire and weilded as a weapon; it just so happens that Lucifericon’s is one fully set on attack, its intensity steeped in the grand traditions of late ’80s / early ’90s death.

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Sinister

nHailing from: Schiedam
nGenre: death
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Sinister

nHailing from: SchiedamnGenre: deathn

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South Holland’s Sinister were among the first death metal bands from the Netherlands to earn a global profile. Despite their revolving door lineup (vocalist Aad Kloosterwaard is the only original member), the band’s attack remains strident, physical, and technically proficient, with a nearly constant sonic signature. Their cold, brutal guitar riffs and groove-laden drumming, blastbeats, chunky bass rhythms, and roaring guttural vocals have more in common with American bands (particularly from Florida) than European ones. A series of early demos in 1990 and 1991 garnered the metal underground’s attention but it was their debut full-length, 1992’s Cross the Styx for , that cemented Sinister’s reputation for uncompromising brutality and made them stand out. The ’90s saw Sinister continue to furrow deeper into the granularity of death metal orthodoxy even as other musicians moved on to play different extreme music subgenres. With 2001’s Creative Killings, Sinister became one of the first death metal bands with a female vocalist in Rachel Heyzer. They essentially imploded after 2003’s Savage or Grace and returned with new members for 2006’s Afterburner, which was received as a return to form. The band moved to for 2008’s The Silent Howling. Despite constant lineup changes, Sinister have continued to issue new studio recordings roughly every two years, including the globally acclaimed Syncretism in 2017.

Sinister were born as a death metal-worshipping quartet in South Holland in 1988. The original lineup — Aad Kloosterwaard on drums; Ron van de Polder on guitars; Mike Van Mastrigt on vocals, and Corzas on bass — recorded 1990’s Perpetual Damnation demo and circulated it at gigs and through fanzines. It sold some 1,500 copies — well enough to encourage a series of demos, splits, and singles that won them a deal with in 1991. Their debut long-player, Cross the Styx, showcased new guitarist Andre Tolhuizen (van de Polder had moved over to bass) and landed on the European metal underground like an incendiary device, given the album’s technical proficiency and unhinged force. They played only a few shows before re-entering the studio and emerging with Diabolical Summoning in 1993 and Hate in 1995. In addition to some of their own headline shows in European countries, the band undertook a 55-city U.S. tour as a support act on larger tours and headlined their own club dates.

As the ’90s waned, so did the commercial viability of death metal itself; black, gothic, alternative, and even nu-metal subgenres gained footholds in the marketplace. Sinister, ever the purists, remained steadfast in their commitment to death metal, evidenced by the mini-album Bastard Saints in 1996, the last outing to feature Van Mastrigt on vocals. Eric de Windt took over as frontperson for Sinister’s brutal Aggressive Measures, released in 1998 with new guitarist Bart Van Wallenberg and bassist Alex Paul. It was the only album to feature his vocals.

By the time they issued 2001’s Creative Killings, Paul had been replaced by ‘s Rachel Heyzer up front, making Sinister one of the first death metal bands to employ a female lead vocalist. Heyzer remained for the band’s pre-split album, 2003’s Savage or Grace, with van de Polder briefly returning as a guitarist. The band imploded after a grueling tour. After a year-long break, the ever-restless Kloosterwaard wanted to form a new band with himself as lead vocalist. He enlisted bassist Bas van den Bogaard and drummer Paul Beltman for the endeavor. The trio decided their sound so closely resembled Sinister’s that they resurrected the name and brought Paul back as a guitarist for Afterburner in 2006, but the new incarnation of the band saw personnel changes immediately: Beltman left immediately after the tour. Kloosterwaard, Paul, and van den Bogaard drafted Edwin van den Eeden as drummer and hired several bassists and/or guitarists to tour. Upon returning to Holland, they immediately re-entered the studio and cut The Silent Howling, an album critics called a return to “classic form.” After promotional touring, van den Bogaard left the band a trio. In addition to playing guitar, Paul took over bass duties. This incarnation issued 2010’s Legacy of Ashes. Critical reception remained supportive and fans unreservedly embraced the album and pushed sales figures and concert receipts to new heights.

After releasing the aptly titled retrospective box set Altered Since Birth 1990-2010 and touring in support, Sinister completely imploded once more. Kloosterwaard, not at all anxious to go on hiatus again and very conscious of the band’s higher profile, assembled an entirely new quintet with guitarists Dennis Hartog and Bastiaan Brussaard, bassist Mathijs Brussaard, and drummer Toep Duin. This version of Sinister released 2010’s The Carnage Ending. The critical reception, though quite positive, saw the record as a welcome exercise in ’90s death metal revivalism. The lineup toured and remained together for 2012’s charting The Post-Apocalyptic Servant and stayed intact through 2015’s The Dark Memorials, a somewhat maligned covers set. For its tour, van de Polder temporarily returned to replace Matthias Brussaard.

Itself guitarist Ricardo Falcon joined Sinister in time to record 2017’s Syncretism, an album that offered the same punishing intensity of its forebears, and songwriting and production ideas that had moodier, spookier textures and spaces to balance the energetic assault. Another box set, The Nuclear Blast Recordings, appeared in 2018, as did a split-single with , “Hammer Smashed Face” b/w “Catatonia.” They became a quartet once again as guitarist Hartog left and bassist Matthias Brussaard returned. In May of 2020, Sinister returned to store shelves and streaming apps with the -released album Deformation of the Holy Realm, featuring Kloosterwaard and drummer Duin, with new guitarist Michal Grall and bassist Ghislain van der Stel. ~ Thom Jurek, Rovi

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In Aetherium

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In Aetherium

nHailing from: nGenre: alternativen

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In Aetherium (Holland/Netherlands) has started off as the band IO back in 1996. Originally a black metal band,she evolved to a more symphonic black metal band.
The lyrical content deals with the duality in human emotion; about hope and loss, about death, love and lust.
All on a solid base of ingenious drums with powerful bass guitar and keys that lead the music one moment and support it the other.
In Aetherium can be described as an avant-garde symphonic metal band.

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ISKANDR

nHailing from: Nijmegen
nGenre: black
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ISKANDR

nHailing from: NijmegennGenre: blackn

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Obscure heathen music from the catacombs of Nijmegen. Dark medieval atmospheres, melancholic longing and regal triumph.

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FACELESS ENTITY

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FACELESS ENTITY

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Orthodox black metal turned soundscape noise wall.
Contemplate life and death. Give in to the fear of the unknown and let that fear wreak mental havoc on your psyche. Breathe in slow; your imminent demise is just around the corner. Let us mourn for you.

Forever mourning the dead and the living…

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Nafearya

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Nafearya

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Nafearya is a 4-piece metal band from Zaanstad, The Netherlands.

The music of Nafearya is vibrant and melodic. Nafearya has a lot of elements from different genres and displays this in their music and stage performances

Founded in 2014. From the deepest darkness of our planet, we like to write in stories and not by genre

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Ilerion

nHailing from: Enschede
nGenre: progressive
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Ilerion

nHailing from: EnschedenGenre: progressiven

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Distant

nHailing from: Rotterdam
nGenre: deathcore
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Distant

nHailing from: RotterdamnGenre: deathcoren

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DISTANT is a 5-piece crushing DOWNTEMPO DEATHCORE band hailing from Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Bratislava, Slovakia.

Few bands combine energy, intensity and extreme brutality the way that deathcore juggernauts
Distant do. Even fewer bands are able to crush the listener in such an immersive, conceptual experience
joined not only by thematic lyricism but a novel of written lore to accompany it. Distant,
however, are one of those bands that are able to do both—and then some.
Hailing in one part from Rotterdam, The Netherlands and the other from Bratislava, Slovakia,
Distant combines elements of hyper-dissonant downtempo deathcore, slamming brutal death
metal, and beatdown to create a vicious world of heaviness.
Since their inception in 2014 the band has taken the heavy music world by storm, lashing out with their debut EP, Slither,
in 2015, followed by their critically acclaimed breakout release, Tsukuyomi, in 2017. Over the next two years, the band would
shift focus into a more diverse beast as heard on their Unique Leader Records debut full length, Tyrannotophia.
Driven by continuing their legacy of riveting-yet-ravenously aggressive music, Distant would dominate 2020 and 2021 with
two EPs which would ultimately become chapters one and two of their three-part, hour-plus, crushing deathcore epic Aeons
Of Oblivion—an adventure that expands infinitely upon the world of Tyrannotophia.
Aeons Of Oblivion would not enter into the world alone, however, as 2021’s novel “The Rise of Tyrannotophia” would be the
first written plunge into Distant’s fictional universe, covering the lore behind both Tyrannotophia and Aeons Of Oblivion.
Inspired by tales of the dark ages and the occult, Distant portrays themselves as “something more than just
a brutal band, but a band with a story to tell and to leave behind”.
While Distant’s fictional universe of Tyrannotophia might be simple lore for now, it‘s only a matter of time before we’re all
bound to be living in it.

Releases:
2014-09: First single ‘’Gallant’’
2015-06 : EP ‘’Slither’’
2016-01: Single ‘’One Step Closer (Linkin Park cover)’’
2017-02: Single ‘’The Broken Cross’’
2017-06: Videoclip ‘’Tsukuyomi’’
2017-07: EP ‘’Tsukuyomi’’
2017-10: Single ”Inside Out (Shrill Whispers cover)”
2018-05: Single ”Endgame”
2018-11: Single ”Zeroten”
2019-03: Single ”Heirs of Torment”
2019-06: Full length album ”Tyrannotophia”
2020-04: Single “Argent Debt”
2020-09: Single “Hellmouth”
2020-10: Single ”Oedipism”
2020-10: EP ”Dawn Of Corruption”
2021-01: Single ”The Eternal Lament”
2021-03: EP ”Dusk Of Anguish”
2021-07: Full-lenght album “Aeons Of Oblivion”
2022-02: Single ”Cursed”
2022-08: Single ”Exofilth”
2022-10: Single ”Human Scum”
2022-12: Single ”Orphan Of Blight”

2023-01: Single ”Argent Justice’
2023-02: Full-lenght album “Heritage”

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