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Picture Credit: Pelagic Records   Psychonaut / Sâver - Emerald Release Date: May 14, 2021 Label: Pelagic Records Format: Vinyl / Digital Length: 35:40 (16:30 + 19:10) Genre: Doom Metal / Post Metal Origin: Mechelen , Belgium / Oslo , Norway Wrapped in luscious green, this Split EP is huge - not only since with 35 minutes of duration, this is EP is longer than many full-length full-length releases. Nevertheless, if you know the featured artists, you have encountered how likely they are to produce musical pieces that last at least ten minutes. And thus here we are, exploring the atmospheric sonic journey lead by Mechelen's Psychonaut and Oslo's Sâver. A-Side: Psychonaut - The Great Realisation Emerald Split EP by PSYCHONAUT The Belgian band provides us with a sixteen-minute opus of minimalism, apocalyptic scenery, and various moods. The Psychedelic Doom narrative consists of five chapters. A nameless protagonist awakens from their self-righteous dream, realizing that humankind ...

Picture Credit: DCxPCLive   DCxPC Live Volume 2 Presents: TV Generation & The Sinema Uncle Lou’s ‘Loustream’ Benefit Orlando, FL Release Date: May 15, 2021 Label: DCxPC Live Format: Vinyl / Digital Length: 10:19 Welcome to the second round of DCxPC Live. We recently took a closer look at the first 7’’ Split featuring Call in Dead and 2AMature . The sophomore DCxPC Live release was recorded at legendary Uncle Lou’s Entertainment in Orlando, Florida. Originally, a three-way split of The Sinema, TV Generation, and Call in Dead as planned to celebrate two recently granted awards: The Sinema won Orlando’s best Metal band, and Call in Dead won Orlando’s best Punk band. As Call in Dead vocalist Jaeh had to call in sick on short notice (no pun intended here), the schedule had to be shortened. Hence, here it is: “DCxPC Live Volume 2 Presents: TV Generation & The Sinema Uncle Lou’s ‘Loustream’ Benefit Orlando, FL”. The sympathetic Skate Punk band TV Generation has contributed three...

Picture Credit: DCxPC Live Artwork: jessica Hadas   DCxPC Live Volume 1 Presents: Call in Dead and 2AMature Live at the Danger Room in Orlando, FL Release Date: April 30, 2021 Label: DCxPC  Live Format: Vinyl / Digital Length: 13:03 (07:18 + 05:45) Genre: Hardcore Punk The year 2020 will go down in history for its sheer number of cancelled shows and tours. But on the other hand, the year the pandemic hit the world, is also the year when live streams and online events became popular across a large of spectrum of culture. One of these events took place at Danger Room Recordings Services in Orlando, Florida on May 29, 2020. It was the day when American Hardcore bands Call in Dead and 2AMature played a crushingly awesome gig at this venue. The show got streamed live on Facebook, and it is now available as a 7’’ vinyl record via DCxPC. As the release’s name “DCxPC Live Volume 1 Presents” obviously tells us, this is only the first live recording done at the Danger Room which you can...

Picture Credit: Shane Cotee Bog Wizard / Bong Wizard / Bongbongbeerwizards - Wasted Wizards: a fatal three-way Release Date: April 01, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format: Vinyl / Digital Length: 48:27 (+19:21 bonus material) Genre: Stoner Metal / Sludge / Stoner Doom Sweet leaf, what a split! Behold the most stoned, the most doomed, the most brutal three-way in the history of music, drug consumption and consensual sexual intercourse! On the A-Side, Michigan's Nerd Doom Metal band Bog Wizard provides us with a hoarse and smoky lecture on the importance of sedative drugs on pen-and-paper events. Never before has Doom Metal sounded so wasted and intelligent at the same time. The B-Side is Bong Wizard's time to shine. The dual-coast trio presents three tracks that are defined by a beautiful and psychedelic golden line. The short opener leads into a massive cloud of green smoke which is finally dissolved by the heavy coughing of the final track. Bongbongbeerwizards from Germany take t...

Picture Credit: Siegmar Fricke / A Thunder Orchestra Siegmar Fricke / A Thunder Orchestra - Energy is Eternal Delight (2021 Re-Issue) Release Date: February 17, 2021 Label: Calax Records Format: Vinyl / Digital Length: 70:35 Genre: Synthwave / Ambient / Electronica Hey there, time travellers! Tokyo's Calax Records are inviting us on a spacey trip to the year 1991. It was the year, Freddie Mercury  died, John Lennon  released 'Give Peace a Chance', Nirvana coined a new era of Grunge with 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', and Janet Jackson  became the first artist to have seven Top 5 tracks from the same album. But apart from Pop and Grunge, there was a legendary and yet rather underground release in the year 1991. By the name "Energy is Eternal Delight", electronic pioneers Siegmar Fricke and A Thunder Orchestra published a tape that is now being re-released on double vinyl, featuring two unreleased tracks. Picture Credit: Siegmar Fricke A- and B-Side: Siegmar F...

Picture Credit: Warhorn Tarbathian Forest Release Date: December 12, 2020 (Digital) / February 02, 2021 (CD) Label: Warhorn Length: 42:00 Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal / Pagan Metal / Black Metal The compilation features nine tracks from nine bands - each of them from the town of Tartu, Estonia. The CD version comes with a three-fold digipack. Get your copy on Bandcamp (link below) and support Estonian underground Metal. Warhorn Online: Bandcamp YouTube Looking for affordable and high quality promotion for your music? Here's MusoSoup! Follow MangoWave on Telegram DONATE

Picture Credit: Black Autumn / The Mountain King Artwork: Steffen Albrecht Black Autumn / The Mountain King - Rauhnacht MMXX Release Date: February 14, 2021 Label: Cursed Monk Records Format: CD / Digital Length: 24:53 Genre: Doom Metal / Post Metal This year, we can enjoy a very special Valentine's Day gift. It is the "Rauhnacht MMXX" Split EP by Dortmund's Black Autumn and Mainz' The Mountain King - two one-person armies of atmospheric, dark and intense music. "Rauhnacht" is a German word that could be translated to "harsh night", but actually the "Rauhnacht" (or "Rauhnächte" in plural) describes the twelve nights from December 25 to January 6. Those stormy and cold nights allegedly forecast the weather of the following year, as the legend says. Black Autumn has released four "Rauhnacht" EPs since 2014, which you can listen to on Bandcamp (you can find the link below). This year's release is the first "...

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...

Artwork: Firlefanz vom BioDöner Krasser-Fahrstil / Ennolicious / pADDELNoHNEkANU - Mit Abstand am Besten Release Date: January 15, 2021 Label: 30 Kilo Fieber Records / Elfenart / Krachige Platten Format: Vinyl / Cassette / Digital Length: 29:06 Genre: Punk Rock / Deutschpunk Origin: Durmersheim / Bühl / Baden-Baden, Germany Punk Rock-wise, the year 2021 starts off with an awesome threesome. The three Southern German bands have joined forces to publish this killer release. And you might guess from the cover artwork that this is a COVID release. Each band has spent one day at the rehearsal room recording their tracks for the record. Th result is half an hour of kick-ass Punk Rock. The title "Mit Abstand am Besten" is a German pun. Normally, it means "By far the best", but it can also mean "Best with distance". If you spent the COVID times in German speaking regions you might have heard the phrase "Mit Abstand am Besten" frequently. First band on...

Picture Credit: Seum / Fátima Artwork: Gorka Uztarroz Seum / Fátima - Split 7'' Release Date: December 24, 2020 Label: selfrelease Format: Vinyl / Digital Length: 07:32 For this year's Christmas Eve we're receiving a huge surprise. Québecois Stoner Doom band Seum and French Doom Metal band Fátima have recorded a 7-inch Split. And it is not only a Split on whoch both present one of their songs. On the contrary! This release features Seum playing Fátima and Fátima playing Seum. A-Side: Seum - Saliva Bath Length: 03:28 Genre: Sludge Origin: Montreal , Canada 'Saliva Bath' is featured on Fátima's most recent album " Turkish Delights ". Seum have re-interpreted the song as a brachial Sludge version. Seum let the oriental tunes step to the back a little, and instead foreground the sheer brachiality of their powerful Sludge sound. The A-Side is a steam roller from hell. Picture Credit: Seum B-Side: Fátima - Raining Bricks Length: 04:04 Genre: Stoner Grung...

Picture Credit: Sleeping Village Records Dust Prophet / Conduit - Sleeping Village Records Split Release Date: November 20, 2020 Label: Sleeping Village Records Format: Vinyl / Digital Length: 16:44 This June, the album "Holy Water" by British Sabbath-worshipping Stoner Doom band Sleeping Village was reviewed here . In this post I recommended you to have a look at Sleeping Village Reviews, too. I hope you did, because they're awesome! But Sleeping Village Reviews do not only talk about music. They take action, too. And thus, here is the first two-track Split released by Sleeping Village Records. The new series begins with two bands from New Hampshire, Dust Prophet and Conduit. A-Side Dust Prophet - Down Below Length: 06:16 Genre: Stoner Rock / Stoner Metal For your listening pleasure, click here . You might as well buy a copy of the split immediately. A warm bass, some flanger and psychedelic sounds introduce the A-Side. And only some seconds later Dust Prophet change th...