arghoslent album download Arghoslent. The Black Moriah – Road Agents of the Blast Furnace Review. “Saddle up, cowboy! The Black Moriah have come to town to raise hell, drink the saloon dry, and make off with your most buxom women. Formed in 2009 by drummer/vocalist “The Mad Arab” and former Absu guitarist “Zawicizuz,” this Texas band peddle blackened thrash with lyrics that paint them as marauding highwaymen of the Old West.” Cowboy up. Gorgon – The Veil of Darkness Review. “I first heard of Gorgon several years ago, when someone posted their song “From Red to Violet” in a forum thread titled “Worst Metal Songs Ever.” After listening to the song, I found I actually liked it, leading me to download their album The Jackal Pact and do a bit of research on the group. It turns out Gorgon were a cult French black metal act who released four albums in the 90s before ceasing activities in 2001. After “From Red to Violet” fell out of my listening rotation, I all but forgot about the group until I saw The Veil of Darkness pop up in our promo bin.” Gorgon will eat you. House of Atreus – From the Madness of Ixion Review. “We’ve all been there. You find a new band and everything seems great. Their riffs are sick, their songwriting is tight, and they have an ample discography for you to explore. But then, something starts smelling foul. They have a record called Incorrigible Bigotry . They have a song called ‘Hereditary Taint.’ They have a lyric that talks about a foreign warrior being ‘unable to grasp the shortcomings of his brood.’ Suddenly, it dawns on you: your new favorite band is fucking racist .” Hate lives outside the Hall. Gravehill/Mordbrand – Skullbearer/In Nighted Waters [Split] Review. “Strap on the gauntlets and prepare to get dirty. Two years after their last album, California’s Gravehill are teaming up with Swedish trio Mordbrand to bring you nine tracks of teeth-gnashing, no-apologies death metal to get your head banging and your roommates finding somewhere else to live.” Take your rock tumbler and get out! Abominant – Napalm Reign Review. “ Abominant seem content to continue churning out sweaty Midwestern death metal with a big old melodic kick in the ass until the day arthritis makes that impossible. With a band this seasoned, it’s no surprise they weren’t out to redefine themselves on their eleventh full-length Napalm Reign , but that’s not a bad thing.” Olde and wise, they are. Vehemence – Forward Without Motion Review. “Gather round, I have a story for ye. Back in 2002, a Phoenix-based death metal group called Vehemence released an album called God Was Created , a work that escaped widespread popularity to essentially become the little engine that could – a cult classic of the genre, if you will.” As snobbish metal elitists, we like cult classics. Grymm Comments: On the Separation of Art from Artist. “I’m sure by now you all know that your favorite artists don’t exactly live the lives they write about. Slayer ‘s Tom Araya is a devout Catholic and a proud family man. Similarly, W.A.S.P. ‘s Blackie Lawless gave up fucking like a beast for Jesus. Glenn Danzig loves his cats and Morbid Angel ‘s Trey Azagthoth is a gamer and a Sailor Moon fanatic. In other words, it’s not all that often you encounter a musician (or band) that lives up to the extreme lyrics they pen. They’re just regular, mundane human beings like you and me.” How disappointing…. House of Atreus – The Spear and the Ichor That Follows Review. “ Arghoslent are one of the best bands that ever shot themselves in the foot. Their melodic NWOBHM-tinged death metal was both original and exhilarating, but was sadly overshadowed by the group’s questionable ideology (sample song titles: “Hereditary Taint,” “Rape of a Slave”). Searching for a similar-sounding group without the racist overtones, I was thus overjoyed by Minneapolis’ House of Atreus and their debut EP, 2013’s Into the Brazen Bull .” Arghoslent album download. Ihshan’s sofa courtesy of Guest Contributor. Taking a brief look at the marketing tropes of the funderground in 2018 and having some fun in the process. Some bands are okay. Some others not so. Most are not even metal by any standards. Grand Belial’s Key – Judeobeast Assassination (2001) Grand Belial’s Key are the sister band of Arghoslent, sharing the same mastermind Gelal Necrosodomy alias Pogrom. GBK creates music in a similar vein to that of Arghoslent but through a Black metal lens to achieve very similar conclusions. Relying on the genre’s predisposition to incite Blasphemy, Gelal and co. assault both Christianity and Judaism with lyrics that show a deep understanding of both testaments. Musically there is a lot to be enjoyed as the band happily celebrate their crushing of Abrahamic faiths but cannot form the narratives to more aptly communicate such a message. (more…) Arghoslent – Arsenal of Glory (1996) by Daniel Maarat on September 18, 2017. Arghoslent hailing from Virginia, USA are another one of those so-called “melodic death metal” bands with hardly anything in common with death metal at all. Rather Arghoslent play plain old heavy metal. Unlike their lame contemporaries from Gothenburg, Sweden, Arghoslent were once an effective heavy metal band who initially continued the work of their idols that past European power metal bands had merely emasculated. Arghoslent themselves would eventually stumble into these same stadium rock sins but not on Arsenal of Glory . #Metalgate: Nyogthaeblisz Excluded From Maryland Show For “Racism” Washington, DC area crust punk and metalcore scenesters decided that anti-religious Texan black metal band Nyogthaeblisz were racist and got their show at Gaithersburg, Maryland tattoo parlor Raw Ink canceled according to the Washington City Paper and moved to a Philadelphia bar hours away. Iron Bonehead Triggers Witchhunt by Portland Maoists. Article contributed to Death Metal Underground by Seth Berg. It seems the Portland neoliberals weren’t content with indoctrinating gullible college students into their pseudoscientific belief system and badgering people for triggering them, since anyone who’s anyone has had to contrive some sort of PTSD in the past five years to keep with the trends. Arghoslent Declare Intent To Complete Songs. by Staff on December 20, 2016. Arghoslent, a speed metal/black metal hybrid famous for their politically provocative lyrics, have taken notice of criticism of their songs as disconnected bundles of riffs and heavy metal conventions which go nowhere despite having promising beginnings. Those who read the subtext of their statement, “CORRECTION: The band has decided not to write new music since it is ‘merely a collection of riffs and heavy metal wank’,” can infer that the band is re-focusing on their songwriting as a result of those quoted incendiary statements made here at Death Metal Underground . Arghoslent Working on New Material. by Staff on December 10, 2016. Arghoslent are working on new material according to their website. Hopefully the “melodic death metal” band’s extended downtime has allowed them to refine their material into something not merely a collection of riffs and heavy metal wank like their last few records. Actual Death Metal Band Booked to Play Maryland Deathfest 2016. Incantation have replaced Australian beer metal stalwarts Deströyer 666 at Maryland Crustfest 2016. The social justice warrior-ran parking lot sludge fest has attempted to branch out into the hipster, Coachella festival mainstream in recent years, abandoning its death metal roots and highlighting the divide between metal and the mainstream’s attempts to co-opt it. A band such as Arghoslent would present the perfect compromise between melodic speed metal catchiness and underground credibility to please both crowds. Hopefully, the Sludgefest organizers will not find out that Craig Pillard was once in Incantation. Arghoslent – Galloping Through the Battle Ruins (1998) by Staff on January 4, 2016. Article by David Rosales. Arghoslent are frequently and incorrectly tagged as a death metal band while they are actually a speed metal seasoned with a traditional heavy metal approach to the use of melody and soloing that goes can be described as lyrical or ‘singable’. The barking vocals that are featured here are the only thing that is borrowed directly from death metal and their usage is still more heavy metal in nature, given that the relationship of vocals to the underlying music is more akin to the riff-riding of Ozzy than the punching counterpoint of Suffocation or Gorguts. (more…) Arghoslent’s Arsenal of Glory and Galloping Through the Battle Ruins reissued. by Staff on January 3, 2016. Article by Daniel Maarat. Arghoslent’s Arsenal of Glory demo and their first album, Galloping Through the Battle Ruins have been repressed on CD and made available for lossless digital download on Bandcamp by French underground metal label Drakkar Productions. The original mastering is intact with no signs of excessive dynamic range compression. While lacking lacking the overt pop rock influence of the Gothenburg scene, Arghoslent’s catchy songs and riffs were heavily influenced by the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and classic speed metal bands Mercyful Fate and Running Wild. A new generation of headbangers may now easily purchase the prime material of this politically incorrect melodic death metal band in spite of the Kim Kelly, No Clean Singing, and MetalSucks social justice “metal” gestapo. Arghoslent Incorrigible Bigotry. A warning: the word "riff" will be used excessively in the coming paragraphs. Arghoslent are a band from Virginia (like the NSBM scene primogenitors, Grand Belial's Key), and they hold somewhat racist views (like Grand Belial's Key). I'll just get that out of the way straight away, so that anyone bothered by their conscience for listening to racist bands, for whatever reason, can move along. Actually, once you move on past those two apparent similarities, there isn't really much that GBK and Arghoslent have in common, aside from the quality of their music. Grand Belial's Key make black metal (riffy black metal, admittedly, but black metal nonetheless), Arghoslent make melodic death, for example. Even in terms of their views, they differ - GBK take a more direct, anti-Christianty and NS approach to their lyrics, whereas Arghoslent focus mainly on the colonial times and the slave trade, with lyrics biased against the slaves and Jews, but not specifically written against them. The beliefs held by the band's members are difficult to explain (or understand), but [url=http://www.tartareandesire.com/interviews/arghoslent.html]this[/url] and [url=http://basementbar.com/DefaultN1.asp? GoTo=InterviewN1.asp?ID=225]this[/url] should help (they're interviews, one of which explains the band's name as well). All in all, I think they've gotten a bad press. They're not liberal, and they're not sympathetic to much, but they're not simply hate-filled racists; rather "racially aware". Anyway, the music. Put simply, it's fantastic. Straight from the opening seconds of the opening song, you know what you're in for; Flogging the Cargo starts off with a great, fast-paced riff, which is almost immediately shot through with high-pitched NWOBM-style soloing. Von Demonicus' vocals come barking in, harsh and commanding, but decipherable. He's adept at matching and following whatever's going on in the song in such a way that nothing ever drags - many times I've found myself in the closing moments of Hereditary Taint without time seeming to have passed at all. The main strength of the album, though, is the guitars, and the riffs and solos they produce, so if you're a fan of heavy guitar music at all, this is worth checking out. The production is good, but not overly slick, so the album retains enough rawness to be impressive. The musicianship is not at a virtuoso level by any means, but is still far beyond competent, and incredibly pleasing. The song writing is excellent, and there's never a sense of melody lacking, though it's not Gothenburg-style melodic death (which has a sound much closer to thrash, in my experience), but just old-school death metal with more melody than usual. Comparisons can also be drawn to heavy metal/NWOBHM, which can only be a good thing. Every riff a keeper, every song memorable. For those worried by the description of it as death metal, I can assure you that the vocals are not incredibly harsh. They're nothing amazing, but they're well-done and fit the music. They remind me of a slightly harsher Atheist vocal style, or maybe Morbid Angel, in that the words are harsh and barked/growled convincingly, but not indecipherable, and after a few listens a lot of the lyrics can be made out. Also, blast beats are relatively rare. All in all, 4.5/5. I know I'm not the most experienced listener, but this is the best melodic death metal album I know, and a contender for Album of the Year in 2002. Recommended track: There are two tracks I really can't separate - The Purging Fires of War and Incorrigible Bigotry itself. The former is probably my favourite song on the album, having the best lyrics on the album as well as everything else. It also has the advantage of having the best single riff on the album (an achievement in itself); the one which comes in at 2:43 is a strong contender for best/most epic riff ever. The title track, on the other hand, is a massive eight-minute instrumental, and the sheer amount of (riffing? riffage?) is just awesome to behold. Enough riffs to drown a small elephant, if you will. So take your pick. Arghoslent album download. Born and raised in SoCal here, and am well educated in the scene: you're either misinformed or full of shit, there is no "Mexican NSBM" here. If there was, it got stomped out a decade ago. Maggot Stomp and 20 Buck Spin are making the rounds around here apart from Church Of The 8th Day. Don't even try mentioning the Black Twilight Circle, it's all straight up Mexican deity worship. Born and raised in SoCal here, and am well educated in the scene: you're either misinformed or full of shit, there is no "Mexican NSBM" here. If there was, it got stomped out a decade ago. Maggot Stomp and 20 Buck Spin are making the rounds around here apart from Church Of The 8th Day. Don't even try mentioning the Black Twilight Circle, it's all straight up Mexican deity worship. This thread made me give Arghoslent a spin again and I don't remember Incorrigible Bigotry being this good. I know there was an album that bored the hell out of me though. I think a few "Odio Bronce Resistance" bands are from California too and those dudes are straight up nazis. They have a compilation called Frente Pagano Nacional Socialista Compilation O.N.S.P. and at least Maquahuitl and a few other projects are from there. House of Atreus have a couple tracks (Bastards on the Hillside and Madness of Ixion) that approach Arghoslent in quality while at the same time sounding unique to their own sound, but they're still not there yet. Hopefully with time they will solidify their style even more and craft more masterful riffs. Other bands that are sort of similar are Sacriphyx and Armoured Angel, but both mostly consist of much simpler riffs and ideas. Sacriphyx do execute the atmosphere/mood they went for perfectly though, but the lyrics are a bit amateurish. I think another mild comparison (might be stretching it) of heavy metal riffs coated in an extreme metal coat would be Samael - Ceremony of Opposites, but it is a much more midpaced album and again the riffs aren't as inventive. Born and raised in SoCal here, and am well educated in the scene: you're either misinformed or full of shit, there is no "Mexican NSBM" here. If there was, it got stomped out a decade ago. Maggot Stomp and 20 Buck Spin are making the rounds around here apart from Church Of The 8th Day. Don't even try mentioning the Black Twilight Circle, it's all straight up Mexican deity worship. This thread made me give Arghoslent a spin again and I don't remember Incorrigible Bigotry being this good. I know there was an album that bored the hell out of me though. Ummm, Nokturnal Warfare would like to have a word with you pal. And yes, Black Twilight Circle does count too. Google "Aztec Nazis" and you will see that there are plenty of Mexican Nazi bands - and Asian Nazi bands too. And yes, many are based in SoCal. BHotL has ties. Volahn has ties. These are not hard things to connect. Just last year, Volahn/Nyog/Intolitarian played a show at the Wolves of Vinland compound. I appreciate the rundown. If I knew they were going to be banned from every platform, I would have probably picked up their other two albums from Bandcamp as well. I think a few "Odio Bronce Resistance" bands are from California too and those dudes are straight up nazis. They have a compilation called Frente Pagano Nacional Socialista Compilation O.N.S.P. and at least Maquahuitl and a few other projects are from there. The BTC may not be NSBM but they have connections with fash bands and Operation Werewolf. Members of Odio Bronce play in BTC bands too. Just here to comment on the fact that being a Nazi is the least metal thing ever. Being a pro-tyranny drone should get your metalhead card revoked (talking about the actual musicians here, for any listeners who might get their knickers all bunched up reading this). All political and moral issues aside, I have never stopped being amazed at the fact that some people don't get migraine-inducing cognitive dissonance at the notion of spouting this kind of stuff while playing music born from counter-culture, freedom of expression and rebellion. Few things can be further from being a goose-stepper than that. It's like those guys who play pro-Christian black metal. Sure, you can go ahead and do it, but I can't help thinking you're very confused and don't understand even the most basic cultural notions behind the art you make. Even if I didn't have a low opinion of Nazis as it is, it would make it very hard for me to respect this stuff, just on the basis of artistic merit. Yeah, and the Black Twilight Circle played a show at the Operation Werewolf camp with another nazi black metal band, Baise ma hache. How can they be "anti-white" and play at a white supremacy show? Oh man, have you ever heard of Evroklidon? They were a Ukrainian band that somehow managed to fall into both camps: they started as an "unblack" metal band, then they became fucking Nazis and became an NSBM band, then "repented" and became Christians again. Utterly insane. Oh man, have you ever heard of Evroklidon? They were a Ukrainian band that somehow managed to fall into both camps: they started as an "unblack" metal band, then they became fucking Nazis and became an NSBM band, then "repented" and became Christians again. Utterly insane. That is. somehow not surprising. Fools will be fools, I guess. Just here to comment on the fact that being a Nazi is the least metal thing ever. Being a pro-tyranny drone should get your metalhead card revoked (talking about the actual musicians here, for any listeners who might get their knickers all bunched up reading this). All political and moral issues aside, I have never stopped being amazed at the fact that some people don't get migraine-inducing cognitive dissonance at the notion of spouting this kind of stuff while playing music born from counter-culture, freedom of expression and rebellion. Few things can be further from being a goose-stepper than that. It's like those guys who play pro-Christian black metal. Sure, you can go ahead and do it, but I can't help thinking you're very confused and don't understand even the most basic cultural notions behind the art you make. Even if I didn't have a low opinion of Nazis as it is, it would make it very hard for me to respect this stuff, just on the basis of artistic merit. Antestor literally got death threats from Euronymous and his crew back in the early 90s simply for being a Christian band playing extreme metal music. They very well could have acted on those death threats since, as you said, they were all lunatics at that time. In the past i've frequented an italian forum that had a small but very active sub-community of "Unblack" metal fans: when i asked if they didn't feel the thematic clash berween metal a user responded me that they ideas of suffering (for sin, faith, isolation, hate against a fucked up world) are deeply rooted in the christian tradition, in particular the catholic one, and that those themes fit well into black metal. I don't really disagree with that. This is what really gets me, you have to be really dumb to believe under a fascist regime black metal would be allowed. My country has actually lived under a fascist dictatorship for many years and most rock music wasn't even allowed. There was a very strong censorship of music and of course anything with satanic imagery was forbidden. Here's an example to what they did to the cover of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and this album was only allowed because the regime was already starting to crumble. Who Are You? wasn't allowed on the album. Yeah, and the Black Twilight Circle played a show at the Operation Werewolf camp with another nazi black metal band, Baise ma hache. How can they be "anti-white" and play at a white supremacy show? Odio Bronze also has a project called "Terror 88". They don't "despise all things indo-european", otherwise they woulnd't have a band that has a Heil Hitler in the name. You never heard of Indian Waffen SS legion? And I'm not talking about Indian volunteers in the Wehrmacht, but proper Waffen SS. You never heard of Indian Waffen SS legion? And I'm not talking about Indian volunteers in the Wehrmacht, but proper Waffen SS. Fascism is both opportunistic and ideologically incoherent. In Eastern Europe, Slavic people collaborated with the Nazis when they believed they were only going after Jews, causing a lot of confusion when the Nazis proved that they did, in fact, want to purge the continent of Poles, Ukrainians, and Russians as well. Until the spring of 1944, Jewish concentration camp inmates were forbidden from working in the armaments sector (concentration camp inmates were a key source of German slave labor throughout the war). This prohibition was lifted when the demand for labor outweighed the ideological goal of the Nazis to murder all of Europe's Jews. The men in charge of this change included Himmler, Speer, Erhard Milch, Karl Saur, Fritz Sauckel, Adolf Eichmann, and Hans Kammler - all dedicated Nazis and some of the most heinous criminals in world history (Kammler was in charge of the concentration and extermination camp system for the SS and was also involved in working tens of thousands of people to death building underground factories; Sauckel was the key slave acquirer for the Nazi economy; Eichmann managed the deportation of 500,000 people from Hungary in 1944, of whom about 75% died). Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives. On the softer side of their sound. Really enjoying it a couple of listens in. hmmm, my head was bopping a little there. Great song! The songwriting is really tight, and everything builds up to the climax. All the elements on their own make a sleepy song, but it all just worked together and made it. The video was alright. I don't expect a lot from metal music video. My only gripe with this song (as well as Protection) is the uncharacteristic integration of the more "chugging" typical metal style riffs, which seem to only diminish the hypnotic quality of the music. Unique melodies are at the heart of the band's sound and these sections seems to break the spell a little bit, at least at the moment for me. Maybe I will come to appreciate those parts more. Secondly, and I mean this in the best possible way, I swear one of the vocal lines reminds me of a Dido song. New songs didn't hit me with the same directness that the singles did, but having said that I'm one listen in and feel this is at least on par with Kodama quality wise. It's definitely darker and heavier, but still unmistakeably Alcest. Honestly, this is why I've been enjoying it so much, and it's actually the first Alcest album that I've ever bought. While I appreciate Alcest's concept in theory, most of their tracks came off as kind of hokey to me (even on the earlier albums) - other than Ecailles de Lune 2, which is the one track where I found they mixed the wistful atmospheric sound with metal perfectly. So far just about everything I've heard on Spiritual Instinct sounds that way, which is amazing. Agreed - given it a few spins yesterday, and it's just "more of the same". Souvenirs is one of my all-time favourite albums, and Shelter when released totally blew me away. This just doesn't do anything that grabs me. Having the girl from Sylvaine provide vocals on one track was a mistake, too, and she's basically a Voyages-period Alcest covers act. Not totally unhappy, but it's not saying 'put me on repeat' like other releases from this year. Absolutely nothing wrong with it - it's a perfectly good release. I've just been utterly spoiled this year.