In this article we’re presenting two premieres — a full stream of Shattered Lament Unmoored, the debut album by the Costa Rican band Deplorable, which will be released today by the Dutch label Breathe Plastic, and a video for one of the album’s six songs. Perhaps the best one-word description for both of them is… [...] The post AN NCS VIDEO AND ALBUM PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): DEPLORABLE — “SHATTERED LAMENT UNMOORED” appeared first on NO CLEAN SINGING ..read more

I got a late start on the day and my NCS time is rapidly running out, so I’ll skip the usual long-winded introduction and just quickly summarize what I’ve picked to recommend below: This collection includes startling new songs from forthcoming records by four bands whose past releases I’ve enjoyed, and one recently released album [...] The post SHADES OF BLACK: VETER DAEMONAZ, SEPTUAGINT, NADSVEST, JOURS PÂLES, HEKSEBLAD appeared first on NO CLEAN SINGING ..read more

This has been an unusual week for me. I broke out of my hermit-like existence (originally provoked by covid but comfortably extending to the present) and made a quick Wednesday-Friday trip to Texas for a celebration of an old friend. The travel part of it was an annoying hassle; the celebration part of it was [...] The post SEEN AND HEARD ON A SATURDAY: AGRICULTURE, BLESSINGS OF MARA, CAVERN WOMB, DEVOURER, GOM JABBAR, OIL SPILL, URZAH appeared first on NO CLEAN SINGING ..read more

(In March of this year Pantheist released a new album-length EP, and Comrade Aleks found it tremendously good, and he reached out to conduct the following excellent interview with Pantheist‘s Kostas Panagiotu.) For the past 24 years Pantheist has provided us with the one of most thoughtful and intelligent examples of doom metal in almost [...] The post AN NCS INTERVIEW: PANTHEIST appeared first on NO CLEAN SINGING ..read more

Canis Majoris is a musical project created in Gdansk, Poland by the multi-instrumentalist musician and lyricist Alienus, joined on the project’s debut album by invited vocalist Brut from the death metal band Raspatory. The name of that album, which will be released by Satanath Records on April 28th, is Eternity Borns From A Moment. It [...] The post AN NCS PREMIERE: CANIS MAJORIS — “THE END OF CIVILIZATION” appeared first on NO CLEAN SINGING ..read more

(This is the second interview that our Hanoi-based contributor Vizzah Harri conducted with Downfall from the Vietnamese black metal band Dødssanger. Find the first interview here.) Taken from Audio recorded in conversation on February 27th, 2024. I first met Kyle Newman aka Downfall from Dødssanger when he was still a university student; he’s grown more [...] The post LOST IN A LIMINALITY OF IM-PURE WRATH AND REFLECTION (READ: REFRACTION) — AN INTERVIEW WITH DØDSSANGER (PART 2) appeared first on NO CLEAN SINGING ..read more

The occult death metal band Deadspeak was formed in 2008 in Ireland, where its two Polish co-founders (Krakus and Tomasz Prokop) were then living. They recorded a pair of demos in 2008 and 2010, but then the band seemed to disappear for a long time. Yet after returning to Poland the creative embers caught fire [...] The post AN NCS EP PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): DEADSPEAK — “NO RESPECT – NEITHER FOR LIVING NOR FOR THE DEAD” appeared first on NO CLEAN SINGING ..read more

(Andy Synn brings you part 1 of a 2 part review, with the second to follow… later this year) To start things off I should probably let you know that I’m lucky enough to have heard both parts of the upcoming Amiensus double-album, Reclamation, and thus my perspective on it is – inevitably – going to [...] The post AMIENSUS – RECLAMATION, PART 1 appeared first on NO CLEAN SINGING ..read more

Downfall, Dødssanger (In an effort to help shine a light on metal from Vietnam, our Hanoi-based correspondent Vizzah Harri has brought us the following very erudite and very entertaining interview of Downfall, the person behind the Hanoi-based black metal band Dødssanger.) Dødssanger is Downfall, writer, multi-instru-mentalist and creator of the depressive black metal project that [...] The post LOST IN A LIMINALITY OF IM-PURE WRATH AND REFLECTION (READ: REFRACTION) — AN INTERVIEW WITH DØDSSANGER (PART 1) appeared first on NO CLEAN SINGING ..read more

On May 10th the Cleveland-based extreme metal band Paradox Rift will release a debut album named Ensnared. It features harrowing cover art by the famed by Mark Erskine, which captures key elements of the album’s themes. In the band’s words it depicts: “A figure or entity stuck/being torn between two dimensions; A demolecularizing body that [...] The post AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: PARADOX RIFT — “THE SKY BENEATH” appeared first on NO CLEAN SINGING ..read more