2012-05-10 Some Polish avantgarde metal for you today, in the shape of IBLIS' debut album. If something smells fishy, it's just my percolator. For something completely not-avantgarde, and even less metal (take some time to discuss the legitimacy of that statement tonight with your spouse/band mates/pets will you), here's a new ULVER video. And this time it's for realz, not just for lulz.

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2012-05-03 As you can see, we're taking a bit of a vacation here, or just having slightly better things to do with our lives than to feed you new delicious music from the fringes of metal insanity - yeah right, as if that was possible. But anyway. Go out and enjoy the pre-summer sun, or whatever is happening outside of your window. Some guys are working restlessly though, here's a brand new video from CHRYST:

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2012-04-20 Together with 2499 lucky sods, Alex Mysteerie went to Roadburn 2012. Curated by VOIVOD. Nothing needs to be added to that, I think? While some people travel around, meet people and have fun, others stay at home and listen to mind-blowing music. avoid for example. Some stay at home and make mind-blowing music. Jussi Lehtisalo for example.

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2012-04-12 Everybody is enjoying the coming of spring, as should you be, so no texts today - why don't you go back to last week's WATAIN review, which is now augmented with the illuminations that Thor envisioned from the beginning. And a recommendation for those of us unfortunate ones who didn't make it, couldn't make it, or just weren't to cool enough to be allowed on the premises of the Inferno and Roadburn Festivals: the Danish association that goes by the name of "Undergrundsmusikens Fremme" - purveyors of underground music - will in early May stage the first version of HEAVY DAYS IN DOOMTOWN, a happening in Copenhagen dedicated to underground heavy rock and doom metal. Just like their other festival, the old-school death metal orgy Kill-Town Deathfest (held in late August), HDDT is arranged according to DIY ethics: everyone works for free, there are no profits, no trends, no bullshit - a mindset & attitude we at Avantgarde-Metal.com appreciate highly and will always support, in a world of pay-to-play tours and corporate megafestivals posing as subcultural outlets. All done in unadulterated love for bloody heavy music, and line-ups to die for. Check it out.

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2012-04-05 Triumvirate in black kicking off this Easter weekend. WATAIN. ENTHRAL. MASTER'S HAMMER. Wrote a long, clever update text but the computer crashed before publishing it. Hence the asceticism. Have a nice full-moon Nazarene zombie weekend.

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2012-03-29 One night, one country, four bands - and what might be the highest concentration of AGM.com crew members ever at a venue - meet a triptych on stage whom you should be familiar with at some level: FARSOT, TODTGELICHTER and AGRYPNIE. Narrated by MysteryFlame. By the same mysterious wanderer comes 2/3 of this week's phonogram harvest: the English heathens of WODENSTHRONE and the surprising explorations of GERM. Last and, in certain aspects, the least comes BEASTMILK. Care for a drink? Then enjoy...

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2012-03-22 Wildhearts in Gull-town. Sweden. A new genre. Meet VILDHJARTA.

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2012-03-15 Transcending the barriers of the visible Cosmos: a dark kind of mindfulness. Meet the ORANGE PAZUZU of wintry grey Suomi, on philosophy, religion, composition and otherwise.

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2012-03-08 It shouldn't come as a surprise to our enlightened readers that today is, by decree of the UN, the International Women's Day, illuminating all the bullshit women are put through around the world by, well, the patriarchy of all kinds of cultural, religious and political variations, in the shape of a slighter paycheck or organized trafficking or whatever. So if you consider yourself a woman (by birth or by realization), cheers! Anyway, there's some music to read about here as well today. Envisioned & writ together by Alex Mysteerie, two text. LES DISCRETS, the French soft-spoken trio of nocturnal visionaries, we met them on stage about a month ago. Their frontperson and main artist Fursy speaks. The eternal return is as true within metal as with Nietzsche. Arising from a half-decade hiatus, the exploratory Bavarian duo LUNAR AURORA return with their Hoagascht.

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2012-03-01 And, it continues. Seth's interview with Daniel O'Sullivan. Right here. And as you shouldn't become too complacent now that you've been served more or less the same (but how tasty!) meal two weeks in a row, here's something to wrap your pretty heads around. Something new, something interesting (and decidedly dark) comes Suleiman's way from San Francisco. Read his thoughts on this promising debut EP.

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