MONARCH! (fr)

Located in the far reaches in the south of France lies Bayonne, a small City untouched by modern architecture and home to one of the slowest, heaviest and loudest funeral doom metal bands Europe has to offer. They call them selves Monarch! and they ascended to this Earth in the year of 2004.
Drawing comparisons to the likes of heavy weights Khanate, Burzum, Corrupted and the Melvins, Monarch! are a unique band with the pure intent on creating blood curdling feedback drenched physical sound through the use of insane volume and low end frequencies, oh, and with a wall of sweet vintage amps.

Clearly the focal point of the band, Monarch! are fronted by the very beautiful and ultra guttural screaming banshee Emily Bresson, on bass we have MicHell Hammer, who single handedly designs all of Monarch! artwork, typography and imagery. On guitar we have Shiran Fabrice and on drums Robert MacManus, formally of Melbourne, Australia’s Grey Daturas.

In the words of Monarch!, let it be said!
Monarch! unleash a slow motion avalanche of impossibly glacial, blackened sludge and hypnotic feedback, each song a series of epic tarpit riffage stretched out eternally over lumbering drums and the cavernous rumble of speaker cabinets. Over these yawning expanses of black void appears the demonic, throat-shredding shrieks and ghostly singing of Emilie, whose petite appearance belies one of the harshest throats in the underground Doom spectrum. Beyond heavy.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Monarch/121146434822

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IZAH (nl)

Hailing from the depths of the Tilburg (Netherlands) underground, IZAH takes elements of sludge, noise, hardcore and post-rock and blends these into a dark and melancholic mix of heavy riffing, dynamic sound layering and chaotic drum battering. The band’s first and self-produced EP ‘Finite Horizon/Crevice’ received rave reviews from around the world and IZAH has since then played shows with such diverse bands as Baroness, Mono, Cult of Luna, Wolves in the Throne Room, Animals as Leaders and The Ocean.

For their second studio effort IZAH teamed up with Amsterdam post-rockers Fire Walk With Us for a split release. Their 11 minute noise drenched, sludge fueled track ‘Antagonized’ was recorded by Textures guitarist Bart Hennephof and Pestilence/Exivious drummer Yuma van Eekelen, and mixed and mastered by Textures guitarist and producer Jochem Jacobs, the latter with whom the band is currently also working on their first full length album entitled ‘Sistere’.

www.izahband.bandcamp.com

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ALKERDEEL (b)

Alkerdeel (b) spits out droney black doom metal with blown out practice space production, grinding guitars, blasting distorted drums, filthy super sick vocals, with bursts of sludge and stretches of loping minimal crunch, sort of mathy, all very very heavy, doomy and even psychedelic. Essential for fans of Darkthrone, Burning Witch, Wolves In The Throne Room, Beherit and why not, Mount Eerie … as well as other practitioners of grim buzz and noise.

The band was originally raised as a three piece garage jam project (only guitar, drum and voice, no bass) in 2007, to satisfy a hunger for filthy and lousy music. All sessions were partly improvised and recorded on a tapedeck. Blesken, of Sylvester Anfang fame, got his hands on one of the recordings, recognized its rough value, baptised the bastard as 'Luizig' (lousy) and released the tape on a ridiculously yet logic amount of 66 tapes through his label, Funeral Folk. Ofcourse it sold out in no time and even before the thought of a re-release, Al from Scotland's At War With False Noise offered to give 'Luizig' a proper cd-release through his label. A repress followed shortly after due to increasing demand. By the time the band started to play live sporadically and on the brink of writing new songs, long time friend QW joined on bass. Not only his psychedelic drones elevated the music to untrodden fields of intoxication, the subterranean blasts from his speakers chopped many spectator's head clean off. Stages were crushed with a.o. Wolves in The Throne Room, Jex Thoth, AmenRa, Aluk Todolo, Lugubrum, Urfaust ...

After the recording of 'The Bollaf!', an EP released by Universal Tongue which even contained an Ildjarn medley, Blesken from S.A. entered again. Famous for his analog and first take obsession, he captured the erupting volcano that is Alkerdeel live to tape, giving birth to 'The Speenzalvinge', the actual debut album which got Roadburn's 'Album of the day' approval stamp. The album opened doors to play at (in)famous festivals such as Ashes To Ashes Doom To Dust, Incubate, Aurora Infernalis, the amazing Roadburn Festival and now recently, Ieperfest. The difference between these different festivals marks Alkerdeel's schizophrenic and disturbing nature: whether to play a doom, indie or black metal audience, souls are captivated regardless.

2012 gave birth to 'Morinde', the new full-album released by Consouling Sounds (a.o. Amen Ra, Aderlating, Aidan Baker) from Ghent, the band's homeground. Four tracks fearlessly walking the valley of black, doom, sludge and even war metal. Recorded live, without overdubs, in one night with an honest mastering by Tom Kvalsvoll from Strype Audio (a.o. Dodheimsgard, 3th and the Mortal, Aura Noir, Darkthrone …), 'Morinde' confirms Alkerdeel's punk attitude to making music: what you hear is what you get!

Early 2013 saw the release of a split album (vinyl only) with A Den Of Robbers, sludge-crust friends from Ghent, titled 'CM Kamp 1996', featuring three unreleased tracks dating back from the 'Luizig' sessions. Recorded with a dictaphone and raw as fuck!

Only live is real!

alkerdeel.bandcamp.com

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Oh gaaf! Ik wil graag komen, maar heb geen facebook en dus ook weinig info!