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Picture Credit: Mountain Hermit / Silenced Minstrel Mountain Hermit / Silenced Minstrel - Dark Musings of the Ages Release Date: January 22, 2021 Label: Satanica Productions Format: CD / Cassette (tba) / Digital Length: 35:41 Before we start, I think I have to add a little warning up front. This split release is not for the faint-hearted. On three tracks each Mountain Hermit from Rome and Silenced Minstrel provide their audience with musicked claustrophobia and pitch-black horror. The split will be available on stream and as a CD published via Satanica Prodductions. The artists are also planning to have it released on tape later this year. Are you ready for this? Well, here we go! A-Side: Mountain Hermit Length: 21:17 Genre: Black Metal / Horror Doom Origin: Rome , Italy Ali Owl  and Papa Hermit  are Mountain Hermit. The duo opens the split with a spooky organ intro. But don't you worry, this is not going to be a Dani Filth -like sound. Instead, Mountain Hermit present a soun...

Picture Credit: Silenced Minstrel Silenced Minstrel - Volume 5 Release Date: October 31, 2020 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 50:07 Genre: Black Metal Origin: Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia Silenced Minstrel is the one-person army consisting of Kuala Lumpur's Saiful Nizam Shukor . The artist from Malaysia founded the band in 2016 and has since then released album after album. As you might have assumed, this is the fifth album by Silenced Minstrel on which the solo artist is digging through the burning depths of hell. On the surface this is pure and raw Black Metal. Riffs and rhythms rage forward like blizzards. Yet, the guitar sound is not the typical Immortal-like sound of bone-chilling cold, but resembles the blood-thirsty Bathory atmosphere instead. From time to time you can hear complex sound structures climbing up the raw Black Metal scaffoldings like on a circular staircase. Further influences are atmospheric pieces of Gothic Metal and Blackened Death Metal machine gun at...