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Anchillys – Elan Vital (album)

Elan Vital is the debut album of Anchillys, a one-man project by Andy Wit. There aren’t that many artists that are talented enough to create and record an entire album on their own, but Andy has certainly managed to do exceptionally well. Judging by the more than 1000 streams the album has got allready in the first week after the release, the metal community agrees. Anchillys is a project to watch. Andy took his time creating his debut: apperantly he spent the past 10 years in a bunker trying to come up with brutal riffs and groweling lyrics. However he did it, it is an impressive feat.

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Darkness Within

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Darkness Within

nHailing from: Apeldoorn
nGenre: doom
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Darkness Within

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Heavy and dreamy Doom that reaches deep into the darkness of the human soul.
Accompanied by spirit evoking drums, growling bass, virtuoso guitarists and an angelic voice chased by the howling beast from below.

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Nox Aeterna

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Nox Aeterna

nHailing from: Rotterdam
nGenre: death, melodic
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Nox Aeterna

nHailing from: RotterdamnGenre: death, melodicn

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Nox Aeterna is a five-headed melodic death metal band from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Formed in 2002, Nox Aeterna is an experienced band with an extensive repertoire and a solid sound. Inspired by Scandinavian and old school metal, Nox Aeterna creates their own heavy and melodic sound. Nox Aeterna (Eternal Night in Latin) is formed by lead vocalist and guitar player Arnold Boukes, Debbie Maasdam on guitar, Erik de Beijer on bass guitar, Gerard Baai on keys and drummer James Koppelaar. Nox Aeterna has played on several stages and in- and outdoor festivals. By attending a show, count on a heavy portion of metal and a fair dose of humor! Check out www.noxaeterna.nl.

Arnold Boukes | Guitar & lead vocals Debbie Maasdam | Guitar & backing vocals Erik de Beijer | Bass guitar & backing vocals James Koppelaar | Drums Gerard Baai | Keys

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Anchillys

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Anchillys

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Anchillys

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Andy Wit, the driving force behind Anchillys, took ten years to make his debut album. He first locked himself in the bedroom of his childhood home, then fought his sleepless nights in a 19th century ammunition/rehearsal bunker writing and recording what would become ‘Elan Vital’.

Through determination and demanding work ethics, Wit developed as a musician and producer, honing his craft of the most brutal and technical aspects of the death metal genre and the musical demon Anchillys took shape..

Musically, Anchillys takes no prisoners on ‘Elan Vital’ and sets a blasting, pounding and slamming tone according to old-school metal tradition – with a nod to the contemporary variant. With the aim of providing the listener with a heavy portion of maniacal aggression, stubbornness and melancholy.

Lyrically, Wit explores his own love-hate relationship with human existence. Inspired by an inner meditative odyssey, he says he dragged his lyrics from the spiritual “Gate of Hades”.

‘Elan Vital’ is the tentative end of Anchillys’ quest. But at the same time the starting point of a new phase, in which he wants to make his presence known to the world.

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Black Knight

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Wesenwille

nHailing from: UtrechtnGenre: black, progressiven

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Dutch progressive black metal act WESENWILLE vibrates dissonant aggression, captivating grooves and introspective atmospheres. Its music is driven by stark sonic contrasts and a uniquely modern take on the black metal genre that neither disowns its roots, nor shies away from experimentation. Thematically, WESENWILLE embodies the development of technology and societal structures, and their continual transformative effect on human social interactions and values. The sophomore album ‘II: A Material God’ was released in 2021 through French underground label Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions. Quickly growing as a many-faced beast with universal acclaim, this album firmly established WESENWILLE and its unique sound amongst the ever-vibrant Dutch scene. Fans of bleak, oppressive atmospheres and dissonance in the vein of Deathspell Omega, Imperial Triumphant, Svartidauði and Voices should look no further.

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Panoptikon

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Panoptikon

nHailing from: Nijmegen
nGenre: death, thrash
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Panoptikon

nHailing from: NijmegennGenre: death, thrashn

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90’s groovy death/thrash metal with Hm-2 chainsaw tone.

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Spectrum of Delusion

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Spectrum of Delusion

nHailing from: Katwijk
nGenre: death, technical ldeath
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Spectrum of Delusion

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Technical Death Metal band Spectrum of Delusion from Katwijk, The Netherlands

Spectrum of Delusion is the 5-man Technical Death Metal band it is today since late 2015, consisting of Jeroen Mostert on Drums, Nathan Bonkerk and Frank van Rijswijk on guitar, Jerry Kamer on bass and Douwe Negenman on vocals. In august of 2017 they released the debut album Esoteric Entity worldwide, which was very well received by public and critics alike. Described as a combination of Necrophagist, Obscura, Spawn of Posession and Suffocation by metalinjection.net amongst others, this band is a must-see for every death metal fan who loves technical music.

The band has bombarded a myriad of stages in the Netherlands and the rest of Europe together with Misery Index, Defiled, Hiss from the Moat, Cryptopsy, Irreversible Mechanism, Bloodshot Dawn and more, to promote their debut album. In the meanwhile work has started for the successor of Esoteric Entity, which will be an even tighter and heavier album.

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Lifelong

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Lifelong

nHailing from: Arnhem
nGenre: stoner
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Lifelong

nHailing from: ArnhemnGenre: stonern

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After years spent playing in hardcore bands, these 6 individuals decided to slow down their riffs and rip off their old skin. Riffs thick like smoke, slow, painful, heavy and steeped in filth. The band have been hard at work crafting their particular sound since late 2014. There is no image or a gimmick to uphold, only their discontent with convention from the very beginning. After the Eurotour with Cornered, the addition of guitarist EvB sparked a flame in LIFELONG, molding the band’s second offering of soul-crushing and noise-ridden claustrophobia. ‘SEUL CONTRE TOUS’ is 6 songs divided in 2 parts and 22+ minutes. These are hymns of outcasts, confessions of the addicted, a portrayel of crude reality from the backyard of a city’s daily life.

Influences both within and beyond metal abound, rounds out a thundering package of stoner, sludge, doom, rock, blues and metal. Prepare to be taken on a narrative musical journey through 6 acts each portraying a different picture but transcending into one moment where everything seems to fall into place perfectly.

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Sfeerverzieker

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Sfeerverzieker

nHailing from: Beverwijk
nGenre: doom, sludge
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Sfeerverzieker

nHailing from: BeverwijknGenre: doom, sludgen

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Results you didn’t ask for.

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