Just thought I'd throw up some drone/ambient tapes that I could never find in digital form. Needless to say, these are all top notch in their own little way. I've even included the above picture to aid you into falling deep into an introspective, hypnotic, state. I'm so goddamn nice.

Bones of Sea Birds - Hidden Places
Celer - Honey Moon
Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - No Words
Stabab - Mesmerizing Leaves to Flee (True Sheffield Black Psychedelia)

Band: Neige Et Noiceur
Genre: Black Metal
Country: Canada

Neige Et Noirceur make another solid addition to their catalogue adding a few traditional folk elements to their thick black metal mess to spice things up.

La Seigneurie Des Loups

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Promo, Self-Released
2011




01. Caving In Your Face
02. Intracerebral Hemorrhage
03. Caving In Your Face (Instrumental)


Origin: United Kingdom
Genre: Slamming Brutal Death Metal
Bitrate: 320 kbps VBR

Myspace:http://www.myspace.com/forcefedhumanshit

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Latest release from Samael, not my cup of tea but still good

Lux Mundi
http://www.mediafire.com/?a47vf426d79x8sl

newest full-length by doom/goth metalers Lake of Tears

Illwill

Third full length from Krallice. On my neighbors wireless so things are short n sweet

Diotima

Having showed a marked improvement in the band's progressive, sophomore decade, Individual Thought Patterns was substantial enough that I took the stick out of my ass and came to terms with where Death was headed for the future: the car wash. Symbolic is the third and most potent work of this phase in Schuldiner's career, and yet its remarkable less complicated than its predecessor. In fact, I often have a difficult time describing this as a 'death metal' album whatsoever. It's more like a clinical, hard hitting thrash album with dynamic drums, savvy leads, and the development of Chuck's voice into a slightly pinched, higher range that was not exactly unexpected after hearing Human or Individual Thought Patterns.

This is honestly the least interesting of Death's efforts from a conceptual standpoint. The lyrics continue along the social and psychological strata the band had been exploring for the past half decade, further removed from the morbid ministrations of their formative gore stores. Much of the composition here is incredibly simple, but damn if it doesn't sound great on headphones or erupting out of just about any stereo I play it through. Jim Morris did a remarkable job here, as well as the mastering team. The guitars feel rich and fulfilling despite only a mild margin from those of Human, and the writing gives the Gene Hoglan plenty of room to breathe. I found myself paying attention to his kicks and fills more than almost anything else I've heard him play on. Rounding out the band this time, Schuldiner decide to go with a pair of lower profile musicians: Bobby Koelbe on the guitar and Kelly Conlon on the bass. Regardless, the duo are rather well suited into this game of musical chairs, complementary to the actions of the star percussionist and composer.

It doesn't hurt that most of the songs are quite good, with a few in particular numbering among the best of their 90s stint and arguably their career. "Without Judgement" is incredibly well plotted, with some thrashing grooves in the verse not unlike "In Human Form", surviving a wealth of variation, including the resonant, penetrating leads in the bridge. "Crystal Mountain" has a strong charging aesthetic that cedes into subdued, catchy bass lines and glittering strings of cleaner tone, with a jamming mystique to its closing moments. Closer to their work on Leprosy and Spiritual Healing, we have "1,000 Eyes"; and "Misanthrope" builds memorable momentum, with subtle and fetching chord progressions throughout the verse.

I'm not sure that the epic 8+ minute finale "Perennial Quest" is the strongest example here, as I tend to zone out through a number of the transitions; and "Symbolic" itself is not an incredibly entertaining opener for the effort, but the remainder of the songs ("Zero Tolerance", "Sacred Serenity" and "Empty Words") are all a study in polished contrasts of surgical aggression and accessible prog rock leads. To tell the truth, there are probably only a half dozen rhythms or individual guitar riffs on the entirety of Symbolic that are revelatory in quality, much less than any of the first three albums when Death were performing their more grisly fare. Hell, there are less standout riffs probably than Individual Thought Patterns. Yet the arrangements are almost unanimously excellent, balanced and all too easy to get lost in, not to mention accessible.

I will gladly bear the banner of dissent when it comes to the majority stance on Death's catalog, vastly favoring the years of Scream Bloody Gore and Leprosy to anything that has come since, because those albums created a creepy, unforgettable presence with amazingly cool riffs that simply have never been replaced in the genre that they helped birth. But there can be no doubt that the philosophical prose, progressive influence and friendlier, bring home to mom gloss of Death 2.0 was slowly ascending the ladder of quality, to peak upon Symbolic and then fall off dramatically with the anticlimactic drivel that was The Sound of Perseverance. Schuldiner was bent on expanding his work into a cross-stream that could taken be taken seriously by fans of rock, thrash, and subscribers to guitar magazines. Here was a way to do it without sacrificing quality nor intelligence. The last Death worth a damn.

Verdict: Win [8/10] (yet at the same time, we're invisible)

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The career of Sweden's preeminent psychedelic Goth doom mobsters Lake of Tears has long been one of climaxes and fallouts, perhaps phased to the cycles of the moon, perhaps dependent on how drunk the members are during their songwriting process. Having seen the cover art for Illwill, their eighth full-length album, I was not holding out much hope for the quality of its contents. Sure, they've had some stinker imagery before, like the lazy cover to Black Brick Road or the incredibly boring photograph gracing Forever Autumn, but this looks more like a new album from the Swedish supergroup Illwill than anything else, a fat cheesy logo interspersed with the limbs of some suicide tree...how do you go from beautiful hippie distractions like A Crimson Cosmos and The Neonai, or the cosmic ball tripping of Moon and Mushrooms to something so drab?

Speaking of that last album, it was phenomenal, and the emotional resonance of tracks like "Children of the Grey" and "You Better Breathe While There's Still Time" had me chomping at the bit for more. Finally, the band had closed the gap towards the authentic power they wielded through their earlier output. Illwill was one of my most anticipated albums this year, but I'm sad to say that it's a letdown. Perhaps not so much of a disappointment as Forever Autumn had been after the brilliance of A Crimson Cosmos, but an eyebrow raiser nonetheless. To be fair, there are a few solid tracks that deliver the mood rock we expect, and the general tone of the album is redolent of Moons and Mushrooms, but a lot of the life leeching here comes in the form of its experiments. Lake of Tears have decided to strike up the tempo and explore some terrains alien to their backlog, so we end up with the speed metal (honest to Gods) of "The Hating", or the meta-black metal thunder of "Midnight Madness", which reminded me of the Wolfheart era of Moonspell, sans the goofier gothic vocals, and in which Brennare borders on sheer rasping.

Now don't get me wrong: if these Swedes wanna fuck around with pacing and attempt to crack a few new nuts, nothing should stop them. The issue is that these songs are simply not very good. The guitar tone and velocity of "The Hating" seem initially exciting, but they don't pan out over the course of the track. Likewise for the uplifting punk fuel of "Parasites", or the driving rock of "Floating in Darkness". All are rich sounding due to the mix, and possess subtleties similar to the huge rock of Moon and Mushrooms, but the vocal lines and riff patterns seem to drag. Luckily, the band has not plummeted entirely off the deep end. There are some sultry rockers like the Pink Floyd influenced "House of the Setting Sun" or the accessible Gothic sway of "Behind the Green Door", with fun but cheesy lyrics that seem to center on the finer sex (or possibly the Marilyn Chambers flick). Then you've got some borderline fare, like "Taste of Hell" which mirrors the mighty "Children of the Grey" with a few rasps, but far less memorable structure; or "Illwill" itself, with a steady driving melodic wall of force that has much precedent throughout their discography.

It always pains me to be underwhelmed by a Lake of Tears record, because when this band is 'on', they are one of the best in the world at delivering deviously simplistic Gothic doom rock. I know that when the watch-fires of inspiration are lit, they are fully capable of kicking my ass and having me sing along for the next decade or more. To be fair, this is not so vapid an album as the navel gazing Forever Autumn. There are a couple moments where I was bobbing my head along, absorbed in the weight of the chords and lyrics. But it's no more than 'okay', equivocal to their 2004 effort Black Brick Road in impact. No "Sweet Water", no "Cosmic Weed", no "Devil's Diner", no "Head One Phantom"; nothing to keep the attention engaged until the band's next creative outlet. The blame can't be wholly placed upon the shoulders of their experiments in acceleration, the broaching of other genres, but neither does that benefit the content.

Verdict: Indifference [6/10]

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Genre : Black Metal/Grindcore
Origin : USA

Tracklist :

01. Volenti Non Fit Iniuria 04:57
02. Drug-Fucking Abomination 07:25
03. Post Traumatic Stress Euphoria 01:41
04. Le Diabolique Est L'ami Du Simple 03:41
05. Locus Of Damnation 01:00
06. Tod Huetet Uebel 04:14
07. Paragon Pariah 03:46
08. Who Thinks Of The Executioner 03:57
09. Ashes Screaming Silence 03:56
10. Portrait Of The Artist 01:18

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Genre : Black Metal/Grindcore
Origin : USA

Tracklist :

01. Volenti Non Fit Iniuria 04:57
02. Drug-Fucking Abomination 07:25
03. Post Traumatic Stress Euphoria 01:41
04. Le Diabolique Est L'ami Du Simple 03:41
05. Locus Of Damnation 01:00
06. Tod Huetet Uebel 04:14
07. Paragon Pariah 03:46
08. Who Thinks Of The Executioner 03:57
09. Ashes Screaming Silence 03:56
10. Portrait Of The Artist 01:18

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Blood of the Black Owl is a Black/Funeral Doom Metal project of Chet Scott (Ruhr Hunter, The Elemental Chrysalis, Triage, Your Cell: Yourself). He combines a raw style of Black/Funeral Doom Metal with atmospheric parts more akin to his other projects.

Blood of the Black Owl (2006)http://www.mediafire.com/?yx9mmw6ro2j9olq

A Feral Spirit (2008)http://www.mediafire.com/?b3ktmwbn4jt2ncp

Celestial Split (2008)http://www.mediafire.com/?3lit1j2vrt9kk7i

A Banishing Ritual (2010)http://www.mediafire.com/?7b8uq9a3ls23i8l

"You get all that you could want from this type of music: anthemic, groovy, hard rocking psychedelic tunes, with wah-wah and fuzz guitar, heavy organ sounds, husky and heavily accented vocals (reminding me just a little of those of Nico), great guitar solos, acid flashbacks… okay, maybe not the acid flashbacks, but everything else is there for you in spades. Skyron Orchestra do manage to produce their own sound, which is perhaps on the slightly heavier side of psych rock (more Velvet Underground, Hendrix, Sabbath and Vanilla Fudge, with some of the contemporary heaviness of Orange Goblin and Soundgarden, and maybe even some Goth rock tendencies on display), and the band produce some great musical interplay (with Tomas Modig coming across as a particularly fine guitarist) as part of a series of catchy and very atmospheric rock songs."Epilepticgibbon

Skyron Orchestra (2004)http://www.mediafire.com/?rbmzpv3mz8gr13c

Situations (2006)http://www.mediafire.com/?8m4gvy24aadb9bt

DOOM. PSYCHEDELIA. STONER ROCK. The three terms which solidify and justify the existence of this musical anomaly known as SLEESTAK.

Formed in late 2003 with former members of Sixinch, Atomic Number 9, and Planet Delirium, Sleestak have become one of the midwest's most unique bands, gaining fans in the region and abroad with their metal/psychedelic fused doom rock. Sometimes labeled a "metal jam band", the band often delve into the bluesy realms of improvisation and embrace free-flowing instrumentals, taking the music into epic mind-altering depth

The Power of Gemini (1997)http://www.mediafire.com/?ovewx62h27w0qbj

Skylon Express (2010)http://www.mediafire.com/?75c6yttz5pnkn1v