AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: LEADBELCHER - "OFFALATED YESHUA" - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) Using Juliet as his voice, Shakespeare asked us to ponder “What’s in a name?” But while roses would indeed smell as sweet (or as foul, depending on your tastes) if given some oth...

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THINGS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED (BUT SHOULDN'T) - NO CLEAN SINGING

(Andy Synn has four more recommendations from last month that you may not have checked out yet) They say one of the most important thing an artist has to learn is not just what it put in to their work...

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THE SYNN REPORT (PART 197): OSTRACA - NO CLEAN SINGING

Recommended for fans of: Orchid, Envy, Deafheaven What’s in a (genre) name? Well, quite a lot – to some people, anyway – it seems, as picking the wrong genre tag for a band will mean some potential li...

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AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: LEADBELCHER - "OFFALATED YESHUA" - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) Using Juliet as his voice, Shakespeare asked us to ponder “What’s in a name?” But while roses would indeed smell as sweet (or as foul, depending on your tastes) if given some oth...

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THINGS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED (BUT SHOULDN'T) - NO CLEAN SINGING

(Andy Synn has four more recommendations from last month that you may not have checked out yet) They say one of the most important thing an artist has to learn is not just what it put in to their work...

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THE SYNN REPORT (PART 197): OSTRACA - NO CLEAN SINGING

Recommended for fans of: Orchid, Envy, Deafheaven What’s in a (genre) name? Well, quite a lot – to some people, anyway – it seems, as picking the wrong genre tag for a band will mean some potential li...

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AN NCS PREMIERE: VEILCASTE - "CHAINS" - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) The Indianapolis doom/sludge band Veilcaste took shape in 2010 under the name Conjurer, adopted their current name in 2020, and continued surging forward on their mission to crus...

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SABERTOOTH - BLESSING RAGE - NO CLEAN SINGING

(Andy Synn is back with a recommendation from the Indonesian underground today) It’s perhaps not entirely surprising to note that the majority of bands we write about tend to be located on one of two ...

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AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: ORBSTRUCT - "A DECADE OF TRANSCENDENCE" - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) This is the tenth year of existence for Orbstruct, the blackened death metal band founded in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and later driven by war to a new home in Poland. During that decade...

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VULGARITY - BECKONED BEYOND - NO CLEAN SINGING

(Andy Synn wants you to stop what you’re doing and play this one as loud, and as often, as you can) We’ve been accused of being “pretentious” here at NCS a few times… which is actually pretty funny if...

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ALTARAGE - COGWHEEL - NO CLEAN SINGING

(Andy Synn returns to the darkness with a revitalised Altarage and their new album, out Friday) There’s an excellent question that Sir Michael Caine once asked, and answered… “why do we fall? So we ca...

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AN NCS PREMIERE: ENDSPACE - "FIRST TRANSMISSION" - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) The copy/paste keyboard function is vital to preserving the sanity of people who write about metal in its global settings. Sometimes that’s because band names, album titles, or s...

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THE OLDEST HOUSE - THE ART OF ABYSSWALKING - NO CLEAN SINGING

(Andy Synn would like to invite you all to enter The Oldest House) There’s another common phrase – and, boy, do I seem to be using a lot of them recently, don’t I? – that goes something like “better l...

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SALLOW MOTH - HYDROPHILOUS BROOD - NO CLEAN SINGING

(Andy Synn has more words to share about long-time NCS favourites Sallow Moth) It should be no suprise to learn that we love music here at NCS. After all, none of us makes any money from this site, or...

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AN NCS INTERVIEW: DAUÞUZ - NO CLEAN SINGING

(In this new interview our Comrade Aleks conversed with the two members of the Mining Black Metal band Dauþuz, whose new album Todeswerk: Uranium II was released in late May by Amor Fati Productions.)...

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PROTEST THE HERO - WITHIN - NO CLEAN SINGING

(Andy Synn has been a fan of this band for a long, long time… but is he a fan of their new album?) There’s a commonly quoted, but often misinterpreted, maxim which states that as you grow older there ...

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SALLOW MOTH - HYDROPHILOUS BROOD - NO CLEAN SINGING

(Andy Synn has more words to share about long-time NCS favourites Sallow Moth) It should be no suprise to learn that we love music here at NCS. After all, none of us makes any money from this site, or...

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SEEN AND HEARD ON A SATURDAY: BEYOND GRACE, ENTHEOS, HÄMND, SEV LEZU, BOÖTES VOID, HAIL CONJURER - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) I did enough listening over the last couple of days to make the usual difficult choices for this Saturday roundup, but other activities prevented me from getting a head-start on ...

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AN NCS PREMIERE: FEBRUUS - "SUICIDE BY PROXY" - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) The Swedish musician Andreas Karlsson has been on a creative hot streak since 2021. Beginning in that year his solo project Februus has pumped out a demo, three EPs, and a debut ...

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AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: SOOTHSAYER - "SOONER ACCEPTANCE" - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) The Irish blackened doom band Soothsayer released their debut album Echoes of the Earth in 2021. In the context of premiering a song from it, we described the music as “harrowing...

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SHORT BUT SWEET: BEYOND DEVIATION / FERAL WOUND / SALT DIVINATION - NO CLEAN SINGING

(Andy Synn is a busy man right now, but still found time to recommend three killer EPs today) Despite the fact that our work here at NCS may give the impression that we’re a professional, well-oiled m...

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FUMING MOUTH - THE RINGING BELL - NO CLEAN SINGING

(Andy Synn asks for whom the bell tolls… and it turns out it’s for him) There are lots of different ways we could begin a review of the new Fuming Mouth (which comes out Friday). We could, of course, ...

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AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: DEFIANT - "CAESARS MESSIAH" - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) Not for the first time, an extreme metal band has used excerpts from The Passion of Joan of Arc to illustrate one of their songs. This time it is the Croatian black/death metal b...

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THINGS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED (BUT SHOULDN'T) - NO CLEAN SINGING

(Andy Synn has four more albums from last month that he needs you to check out) I’m in a bit of a rush today, so don’t have time for much of a preamble here… suffice it to say that June was a very bus...

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AN NCE PREMIERE: SUFFERING QUOTA - "OVERPOWERING WEIGHT" - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) Three years ago we introduced the premiere of a Suffering Quota song with these words: “Adjectives like ‘terrorizing’ and ‘explosive’ have tended to surround the music of the Dut...

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NO CURE - IT IS GOING TO GET DARK - NO CLEAN SINGING

(Andy Synn shares his thoughts on one of his most anticipated albums of the year) What’s the difference between Metal and Hardcore? Some people, of course, see the two as entirely separate things… and...

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AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: FIMBUL WINTER - "WHEN THE SUN COMES OUT AT NIGHT" - NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) Like many other ardent fans of melodic death metal, we were first drawn to Fimbul Winter last fall by the musical pedigrees of their lineup: The band was formed by Amon Amarth co...

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THINGS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED (BUT SHOULDN'T) - NO CLEAN SINGING

(Andy Synn wants you to check out these four albums you may have missed in June) There’s an unfortunate “catch-22” involved in these “things you may have missed” columns… because while they’re importa...

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THE SYNN REPORT (PART 196): TODOMAL - NO CLEAN SINGING

Recommended for fans of: Moonspell, Anathema, Tiamat I always try my best to ensure that each edition of The Synn Report is different from the last, in the sense that I never want to have too many Bla...

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JUNIUS - SOTERA - NO CLEAN SINGING

(Andy Synn catches up with a band we’ve featured a lot of over the years) With so much music being released all the time, by both new bands and old ones, it’s all too easy to lose track of even your f...

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