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High Roller Records, reissue 2024, opaque halloween orange vinyl, ltd 200, 425gsm heavy cardboard cover, 2 inserts, poster, A5 photo card

Transfer, audio restoration and mastering by Patrick W. Engel at TEMPLE OF DISHARMONY in July 2024.

Sepulchral Voice, jewelcase, 4 page booklet, To all death metal lunatics and black metal psychopaths left out there in this toothless and tamed scene, CONCRETE WINDS are back to push spikes, needles, and barbed wire into your ears! Once again, the noise aggressors slit the veil from beyond and step into our world to pillage and hound to death all what was known, predictable, and comfortable in metal music. Their third album is self-titled for mandatory reasons and shows the band furthermore exploring the EXTREME in extreme metal. This truly is rabies set to music! As expected, the album is rooted in outrageous speed, heaviest trembling rhythm passages, abysmal croaked curses, turbulent breaks, and repulsive shrieking leads which let you drown in a maelstrom of insanity. But this time, new layers are also added to the pandemonic universe, as weird staccato riffing sections bleed into witching industrial scenarios. CONCRETE WINDS have always gone further than any recent extreme metal outfit and leave out everything that's established in music, cut off what became comfortable in metal, and blow away what still feels "appropriate" in extreme metal. It seems that this once-urgent attitude to explore limits finally has a new helmsman.

In the wake of the night" is premium class atmospheric black metal. The spheric synths are very orchestral and far away from nowadays synth-pop black metal with its dumb "ding dong ding" sounds. Though differing in dynamic and pace all epic tracks are characterized by majestic melancholy. Sometimes I think at Summoning or Sear Bliss, but these references are not too dominant. An emotionally intense release with a dense atmosphere!  (Bandcamp)

Montreal extreme metallers CRYPTOPSY will release their new EP, "The Book Of Suffering Tome 1",
It has been three years since CRYPTOPSY's last release and many fans have expressed their eagerness to hear new material. ?This time, rather than a full album, CRYPTOPSY will release a series of EPs titled "The Book Of Suffering".
 

Cryptopsy continues to be a leader when it comes to extreme Death Metal and this new EP is their latest delivery to completely wreck everything in their way!

As a follow up to their 2015 EP, "The Book of Suffering - Tome I", Cryptopsy will be releasing the next instalment, Tome II, in the fall of 2018. "The Book of Suffering - Tome II" was produced, mixed and mastered by, Cryptopsy’s guitarist, Chris Donaldson at The Grid studio in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Cryptopsy states, "The Book of Suffering - Tome II" is some of the most intense, gnarly, brutal yet organic material we have written to date.”

What we have here is what I would call a mixture of "Whisper Supremacy" with "And Then You’ll Beg", and that’s a very fine place to be for Cryptopsy. Back are the frenzied, seemingly out of control guitars, manic drumming, excellent bass playing and dare I say it... really good vocals.