Pyramids will be covered on here soon enough.

Spite Extreme Wing - Vltra

I was very surprised by this Italian Black Metal Band - this album is almost a combination of spaghetti western and surf rock melodic tremolo riffs over a dynamic variety of blast-beats. Very good production, great vintage guitar tone - a vintage Orange amp!!

This is to be their last album, though. Check them out!!

is this album different from the earlier stuff? Cause I just listened to earlier stuff on a fan myspace and it just sounds like your typical BM.

Actually, it is VERY different - imagine The Mermen (the surf rock band) playing black metal - seriously. A lot of the tremolo guitar riffs are almost surf rock - Dick Dale-ish, even! And the music is far more inventive than their earlier albums, much more variety.

I understand that people think of them as pretty standard BM, but this particular album is completely different. And it is to be their last album. Too bad - things are just getting interesting.

im hopefully getting the spit wing promo soon

chk out narjahanam a band from behrain that plays atmopsheric death metal..somewhere between a lo fi nile and sympho bm....nice and those arab melodies and percussion in the osngs great..its on the sam label as that agm.co contest band

yak...crazy mix of aggor core and faith no more plus a million other things....insane

this is quite interesting:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu ... =305765001

Psychometry, an experimental atmospheric melodic metal band from USA, Mike Smith from Suffocation should record drums for the upcoming debut.

I've just discovered them:

http://www.myspace.com/ovobarlamuerte

it says tropical bluegrass black what that means?

they're italian and they are playing tomorrow with Nergura Bunget, in a venue not far from I live. I'm going, and I'm curios what the hell they do!!
The 2 songs they put on myspace sounds very weird

I know this was posted in the "upcoming albums" section, but I had to put it here, too. Highly recommended. HIGHLY.

JT Bruce - "Universica"
Talented one-man band releases another FREE masterpiece to the world - all instrumental, somewhere between Ayreon, Flower Kings, Steve Howe's solo albums, with a lot of spacey, bubbling synths and FX.

http://subjectruin.net

Someone has to review this guy.

http://www.myspace.com/altanurag
ALTAN URAG - Mongolian folk rock. Very cool image, the traditional outfits etc. "Ethnic"/rock-fusions = awesome.

Hah, if you like mongolian folk check out TRANSMONGOLIA. I am afraid I have no other link... But they are really good.

Interesting! Seem a bit more traditional than Altan Urag. Will listen to them shortly.
And keeping on the subject of Mongolian music:
ORNAMENTS OF AGONY
http://www.myspace.com/bandmnornaments
experimental doom? remind me of Abruptum. very very strange, I don't know if it sucks or if it just appeals to me from an exoticist p-o-v. Did I mention I'm terribly fascinated by Central Asia & the Gobi desert? Well I am. Fact is, the bubonic/black plague originated from the Gobi desert in the 13th century. After reading a bit too much Lovecraft, I can't help but thinking of what horror lurks there. I mean, Leng? It's Mongolia all the way.

Anyone else heard of a band called Fist in Fetus? I was just on their Myspace page, recommended from the Teeth of the Divine forum.

Insane Avant-Grindcore 2-man band with Classical music interludes
http://www.myspace.com/fistinfetus

here is the guitarist's Youtube page:
http://www.youtube.com/AmbitusFIN

yeah Fist in Fetus is cool. Also some neoclassical shred in there. weird mix.

also mentioned them in the Now Playing Thread -
Nightbringer - Death and The Black Work
Very interesting atmospheric black metal - imagine Darkspace with actual "songs" and clearer production where you can actually hear the individual instruments. Not all super-speedy blast-beats. Actual slower parts, too.

hello. first time here.

can anyone recommend me a band/group like Thy Catafalque? love the samples and atmosphere.