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An international project from Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine has recently released a full length album "Neuro". Musicians are obviously involved and influenced by current situation in Ukraine, while the music as well as lyrics describe diverse aspects of inner struggles and society. It must be underlined that lyrics overall feature multiple layers and is very well written. Draw my Soul involves a cooperation of a number of producers that has already gained some level recognition in the European underground scene. Musically the album can be placed on the edge of electronicore, industrial, rapcore and even metalcore. Indeed, electronic samples in the background create a distinctive mood, while guitars are very groovy. Vocalist of DMS make a good impression demonstrating good abilities in both reading the lyrics and singing. The production of drums may be improved in the future, providing more "live" and "bright" sound, as well as the combination of ideas that are so...

      Already the first track on the debut album of Italians "Umbilicus Necis" welcomes a listener with a melancholic, slow acoustic guitar. And this is the right feeling, a perfect introduction into "Confine Astratto". This record offers a wonderful mix of melancholic even romantic doom metal with raw and depressive black metal, changing emotions constantly back and forth. The album includes overall very atmospheric and diverse tracks, produced in a characteristic artistic style, as well as Italian lyrics and a nice cover artwork. Do not miss this record. 9/10 By Psychoman https://kryrartrecordslabel. bandcamp.com/album/confine- astratto

  Close your eyes, relax, let the music take you to the dark and emotional journey, which you will never forget. This is possible, thanks to Sound Animal from Berkeley, California. A full-length album "NewSoundLand" welcomes you with a beautiful artwork, and catches the attention with some unique  aura. An impressive arsenal of instruments used on this pretty long record (guitar, bow, silver flute, double shepherd's flute, pungi, jaw harp, khaen, electric tennis racket, overtones, melodica, harmonica, bodhrán and found objects) generate a very diverse sound landscape. The music opens you a wide range of possibilities to use your imagination and make your own experience. This is an unexpected surprise foe anyone who likes avant-garde ambient, which is not similar to most soundtrack music thought. For some listeners this record may be hard to get into and listen it through, but is will definitely blow your mind. 9/10  By Psychoman https://kryrartambient. bandc...

  We live in a time when people read headlines but don't read the texts underneath;  when listeners turn off a song after five seconds, if it hasn't hooked them with anything;  when the script of the film is tried to chew the viewer as much as possible, so that people do  not have to think again. In the modern world, the TERPSIHORA album will be a very  uncomfortable one . Because this album is one of those releases that will be really  revealed only after 5-10 plays. An album which you need to dig, read social media posts  and parse texts. An album, which in order to understand you need to have some kind of  musical and not only erudition. Abstract Deviation knew what they were doing - a separate  respect for their courage.     Pros: - Features. Thousands of them. In might be called “ overproduced", but I never perceived this term in  a negative way. It feels like they worked on the material even more than it wa...

  A Moscow based band Train to Elsewhere has already made a good impression with their first demo "The Path". Traditional doom metal with a good portion of stoner on the record could convince that this band will have something even better coming in the future. Indeed, during 2021 Train to Elsewhere has brought us some good live recordings as well as a full-length album "Samhain", which was released recently with bonuses via Kryrart Records. The album demonstrates an impressive evolution of the band: well balanced guitars with some doom metal but also progressive touch and almost meditative long compositions create a unique melancholic atmosphere. Very good musicianship combined with less polished old-school-like production resulted in a high quality debut record with a lot of potential for the future. Talking about things that can be optimized on the future I can suggest to work on vocals, even though at current stage they are pretty well. A small additional plus fo...

  The band 21st century Archetype might be described as an industrial/alternative band combining however a large variety of different styles like hip-hop / glitch-hop / neurohop and rapcore. This formation is active already since a pretty long time in the underground scene, and the latest release "True Progressor 2.0" is actually a remake of the album from 2016 that was largely positively accepted and features a wery well done music video for the song "Planet Patriot". So a listener might ask why the band should remake a such well accepted album? The answer would be: a change of stylistic direction. This record is heavier and more intensiv, it includes more guitar work and aggression, it is now less hip-hop influenced and much more alternative and even metal like. This change allows also to deliver the main message of this work about the nearest future where humans are just biorobots living senceless life in a digital world. True Progressor 2.0 is a great conceptual...

Today we will take a look at the classic fourth album by American pioneering doom-metal legend Saint Vitus. The album, released in 1988, is titled “Mournful Cries”. The lineup consisted of Dave Chandler on guitars and also responsible for song-writing, Mark Adams on the bass, Armando Acosta on drums and Scott "Wino" Weinrich on vocals. The album perfectly blends dark existential themes of life with a more of a dark-fantasy lyrical approach. Musically it is solid and heavy-hitting blues-tinged traditional doom metal. The sound production of the album is typical for the doom scene of the late 80s. It opens with a faster song «The Creeps», a composition which serves the same purpose as Black Sabbath’s «Paranoid» on their second album, it is a fast-paced hit. It opens the album with a more proto-punk hard rock side, which Saint Vitus is known for. What follows next is one of the best songs in the band's catalog and on this album. The dark epic song Dragon Tim...

  ATRA HAERESIS play a classic fusion of death and black metal. The band has an international lineup which consists of Alexander Dorokhin who is responsible for the songwriting, Sergei Ambrazevich on vocals, Alexander Antygin on guitars, Alexey "Fenrir" Veselov on the bass. Also there is a number of guest appearances on other tracks. Artem Kovrigin and S.Krysenko (Sergius Proprius) have written the lyrics for Man Through Epochs, Pretium and Aendor Witch. The debut album of the band titled “Pretium” was released via Satanath Records (Russia), Kryrart Records (Germany), Death Portal Studio (USA) and Void Wanderer Productions (Netherlands) on the 26th of August 2021. The sound production performs high quality but definitely it is not overproduced. This style of sounding death black metal can be considered old-school. The songs are catchy, heavy and very dynamic. Behemoth, Belphegor, Dissection, Septic Flesh, Rotting Christ as well as Dark Funeral and Vital Remains come to mind w...

  Gorod Dit — The Day Will Come (1989) Город Дит — Настанет этот день (1989)  It is time to talk about Russian Metal best kept secret. The cult and extremely underrated obscure band. It has achieved popularity and legendary status on their local scene. Gorod Dit / Город Дит (City of Dis) is a russian band that existed in some form or another from the beginning of 1986 in the USSR. The band name is a reference to the circle of hell in Dante’s «The Divine Comedy». Yet the first recording came into being in the 1988 under the title «Город» simply «The City». The band Gorod Dit was established in Novosibirsk by Leonid Melnikov. The first lineup consisted of Yuriy Nikishin on lead guitar, Yuriy Baranenko on vocals, Melnikov on rhythm guitar, and Mikhail Starusev responsible for the drums. The soviet metal scene at the time was growing and it was time in the spotlight for bands like Aria, Legion and Master, who are the pioneers of russian heavy metal and thrash. Those bands were ext...

Sigil of Time is a side project of two members of the gothic doom metal band "Train to Elsewhere" - Maria K. "Gerard" and Anton "Vargtimmen". She Drowned in this Lake is an archived collection of the project's material recorded between 2009 and 2011, and also includes one new track. The collection is material from three unreleased albums, united by the themes of detachment and emptiness of being. The music is infused with neofolk influences, depressive black metal, dark ambient and industrial elements. Here analog synthesizers, acoustic and electronic guitars, brass ethnic instruments and noise samples have been used, independently recorded for each composition. If we talk about influences, we can name: Autumn, Autumn People, As Autumn Calls, Xasthur, Autumn For Crippled Children, Six Dead Bulgarians, Old Woman Moss, Klever, Majdanek Waltz, Der Golem. Some compositions serve as a frame for Mary's lyric texts such as "South Wind", "Au...

Enigmatic neofolk / dark ambient project of two musicians - Roman Naboka and Sergius Proprius. The idea of ​​creating the project came as a result of cooperation of the main project of Roman "Cherno" with the KRYRART label, which served not only as an impetus for further joint search. The collaboration resulted in the EP "Chapter One: Spirit of the Wind" and in the creation of the sub-label KRYRART AMBIENT ... Alchon´s debut is a polystylistic musical canvas that combines an atmospheric hypnotic dark ambinet, neofolk and spoken recitation, there are also references to gothic rock and the use of extreme vocals. The atmosphere of the music is literally imbued with the pantheistic spirit of nature, pre-storm melancholy, the spirit of freedom blowing across the endless plains of the winds. An excellent combination of atmospheric noise with acoustic instruments can be also noted. Sound-related projects include Mirkwood, Tenhi and the early Tangerine Dream. by Anton ...

  Formed in UK in 1978, this traditional doom metal / NWOBHM act is truly a cult band in every sense of the word. It took them more than a decade to record their debut album Judgement of the Dead (1982). It was certainly worth to wait. This music takes the listener on a journey through British pre-christian Pagan traditions. You become a part of a UK folk-horror classic like “The Wicker Man” or “Blood on Satan's Claw” when you listen to this. Trevor Portch plays the bass. Drums are handled by John Mizrahi. Alan Jones is responsible for the music and the perfectly crafted guitar while his style of playing can be considered on the level of the best masters of classic hard-rock and heavy-metal and is often sadly overlooked by the general rock audience, for whom the bands themes seem too weird and obscure. The guitar is really what makes them sound outstanding. Terry Jones  wrote the occult and pagan themed lyrics and was the vocalist. He passed away in 2015. His vocals are not go...

  The conceptual mini-album of "The Proprius Project" by Sergius Proprius is dedicated to the topic of the man-made disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant that occurred on April 26, 1986. This disaster demonstrated all the naivety of technocratic optimism. The album presents an atmospheric contemplative journey through the abandoned nooks and crannies of the nuclear power plant. Listening to him, one thinks about the ethical, philosophical consequences of such disasters, realizing that they are not only a matter of the past, but, unfortunately, with a high degree of probability of the future. The eschatological atmosphere is stylistically achieved at the junction of old-school industrial and classic dark-ambient. I recall such significant projects for the dark scene as Throbbing Gristle, Raison d'être, Necrosphere. Sergius notes the influence of the work of contemporary composer Akira Yamaoka. Here you can hear multilevel noises, ambient harmonies and dull percussi...

  Trouble's second album «The Skull» is a crucial and hard-hitting, highly technical album. Created in the time when the proto-doom metal sound of the 70's began being reworked by the bands of the heavy metal wave of the early 80's. The result was the incorporation of the NWOBHM style guitar in the classic Sabbath/Pentagram sounding song structure. One of the blueprints of the original Doom Metal sound is the cult and extremely underrated Illinois based «Trouble». The band was formed in 1979 and set out to play gloomy but energetic music. After the 1984 impressive debut «Psalm 9» the band decided to record a follow up «The Skull». It was recorded with Eric Wagner on vocals, Bruce Franklin, Rick Wartell on guitars, Sean McAllister responsible for the bass and Jeff Olson on the drums. This is what most considered «the golden» Trouble lineup. And for a good reason. The riffing and rhythm section on the album are just superb and can be easily compared to the more skilled trash ...

  Sigil of Time is a side project of two members of the traditional doom metal band Train to Elsewhere - Maria and Anton. The main concept of the project is transcendental and existential states experienced by a person while communicating with the "dark" and hidden side of nature. This concept unites all the themes of this anthology. The collection includes both early pieces written in the period from 2010 to 2019, and previously unreleased joint works of Maria and Anton, as well as Maria's solo works in 2019. The material, united by a common theme and mood, achieves effect in different ways, combining melancholic rock, neofolk and ambient, black, drone and even funeral doom. But in almost all compositions you will hear atmospheric "heavy" and acoustic guitar, in some places ethnic instruments - flutes, jew's harps, percussion, analog synthesizer noises and samples. If we talk about the creativity that influenced the musicians, then this is a wide horizon, l...

  Imagine a lonely person walking through the valley in the mountains at a rainy or snowing day and thinking about the purpose of life, dreams, eternity and the gods. That's how I would describe "Ghost from the Past", an almost canonically sounding atmospheric black metal album featuring pretty raw middle tempo guitars going through the whole thing supplemented with melancholic lead guitar melodies. Whispering vocals have not get a lot of accent here creating a perfectly matching mood though. The journey through land of beautiful nature and phylosophical reflexions begins with the first track on the album right away creating the right feeling. Nice production with a remarkable raw sound on the album fits well the genre. Nevertheless, there is still some space for development especially in terms of songwriting, since the album is occasionally repetitive. "Ghost from the Past" might be a new good finding for all fans of well crafted atmospheric black metal that ca...

  First of all, the variety and versatility of the music on the album is impressive, because the mood swings and emotional intensity of different parts of the album are changing very rapidly. The depth of the album is in its subtle and difficult to describe atmosphere of many years of epic wandering on the one hand, and the transfer of all the experience gained in them on the other. The variety and crumpledness of sometimes various avalanche-like musical themes resemble compressed emotions, the abundance of which fell on a very short period of time. Nevertheless, if you really imagine an adventure, then on this album you will be able to find mountains in the clouds, and stormy rivers with dense forests on their banks, and the dangers that they conceal in their wilds. In addition, the cornerstone here remains a person in the midst of all this, and the album can be viewed as an allegorical set of images of his perception of reality. by Psychoman

  Despite the severity of the emotions that pass through the album, despite the feeling of hopelessness and sadness that envelop with the music, nevertheless, in spite of everything, some kind of tenderness and romance is felt here. The album as an accompaniment to experiences full of melancholy and all-consuming longing, but still about the beautiful and romantic image that accompanies them. And in some places they are quiet and purely personal, in some places they take on a truly epic scale, but this does not change their essence. by Psychoman

  This is not just a musical accompaniment to a journey through a fantasy world. Here, among the subtlest, beautiful and sensual melodies, a whole universe is born. Just as the pen of a writer is able to bring the whole world to life on paper from the first line, here the very first track opens the gates to a fairy tale. The musical canvas, as a guide, guides the wanderer who has got here through all corners, introduces all the inhabitants, and even says something about local customs. A striking example of modern orchestral music, capable of drawing almost any canvass in front of the listener's eyes. by Psychoman

  Mountains, foggy, high, occasionally covered with snow caps. They are covered with green carpets, and doze, silently peering from the sky. A flock of birds occasionally flies between them, sometimes the sun peeps out from behind the clouds, then hides again, making room for rain. And some mountain peaks are dormant volcanoes waiting in the wings. Some are active volcanoes, periodically flooding their entire foothills with magma, burning everything in their path. But after a storm there is always a calm, and a new storm follows. Heavy rains alternate with iridescent reflections and the omnipresent rays of the sun, and volcanoes, calming down, contemplate further between the silent mountains surrounding them. by Psychoman