De link met Morbid Angel hoor ik niet.
De band begon als afgeleide van Paradise Lost, zoals eigenlijk elke band uit de Holy records-stal. Ik verwacht nav het persbericht dan ook meer van die oude kenmerkende PL-leads zoals op de oudere platen.

Live zijn ze idd vrij geniaal; Spiros is echt een bandleider en kan de nummers goed aan het publiek overbrengen.
Nu ze met Fotis eindelijk een vaste drummer hebben en Christos meer ervaren is met het arrangeren van het orkestrale gedeelte is er inderdaad een doorontwikkeling te verwachten.

Meh, 2011 duurt nog veel te lang.

SEPTICFLESH Completes Recording New Album - Nov. 4, 2010

Greek extreme metallers SEPTICFLESH have finished recording the follow-up to 2008's "Communion" for an early 2011 release. After a long period of intense work in Athens, Prague and Sweden, the evolution of the band's symphonic death sound has been achieved with the help of the Filmharmonic Orchestra of Prague and well-known producer and PAIN/HYPOCRISY mainman Peter Tägtgren (AMON AMARTH, MARDUK, THERION, CHILDREN OF BODOM, CELTIC FROST, IMMORTAL).

130 musicians were involved in the recording process. Besides the traditional classic orchestra instruments, this time SEPTICFLESH incorporated harpsichord, some bizarre ethnic instruments and a boy soprano to their sound, pursuing a more "horror soundtrack" approach. Of course, the guitars will still shred you to death!

The release of the forthcoming 10-song album is expected for the first quarter of 2011. In the meantime, a brand new song will be available worldwide as an exclusive digital download single from December 17.

SEPTICFLESH previously stated about the direction of the new material, "The musical result can be described as a great mass of emotional death. One of the dominant elements of the album is the use of the characteristic guitar melodies of the band in a more intense and dramatic way. In combination with the orchestral parts that will surpass everything else that the band has done in the past, the sound resembles to a funeral concerto. Actually, it appears that the whole atmosphere of the album is one step closer to the depths of Hades… Also, as actually SEPTICFLESH is in the wider sense an artistic dark experiment, the nightmarish visual world of Seth Siro Anton that is part of this experiment is going to be expanded towards extremity in order to 'dress' fittingly the soundscapes and the new mysterious lyrical thematology."

Necroterror Records, the Cyprus-based underground record label and distributor which specializes in high-quality black metal releases mainly in the vinyl format, released the 12" LP/box version of SEPTICFLESH's latest album, "Communion". Limited to 350 copies, this vinyl release features all-new alternative cover artwork and layout to the CD version, created by Seth Siro Anton. A special edition gold vinyl boxed set is also available containing several unique extras.

For more information, go to this location: http://www.necroterror.net/

[Dit bericht is gewijzigd door Mutilator op 05-11-2010 16:01]

30 seconden van een nieuw nummer, het hele nr komt vrijdag a.s. uit. Het hele album pas 18 april.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Vampire-from-Nazareth/dp/B004DH4IAO

Het hele nummer...

Leuk nummer

Zozo, Slapstic flesh op blu-ray:

SEPTICFLESH: 'The Great Mass' Track Listing Revealed - Feb. 16, 2011

Greek demons SEPTICFLESH will release their new album, "The Great Mass", on April 18 in Europe (April 19 in North America) via Season Of Mist. The new opus will be made available in the following formats:

* CD + Blu-ray digipak
* Collector's book, including 2 CDs + Blu-ray
* 12" gatefold LP
* CD jewel case
* Digital download

The cover artwork of the album's jewel case edition, designed by Seth Siro Anton himself, can be viewed below.

"The Great Mass" track listing:

01. The Vampire From Nazareth
02. A Great Mass Of Death
03. Pyramid God
04. Five-Pointed Star
05. Oceans Of Grey
06. The Undead Keep Dreaming
07. Rising
08. Apocalypse
09. Mad Architect
10. Therianthropy

Commented Seth: "This is a small fragment of the artwork that will dress the new artistic experiment of SEPTICFLESH, 'The Great Mass'. It is a small part of an occult machine made from marble and flesh, fantasy and reality, order and chaos. A great machine composed from the blasphemous union of strange figures, creations of Man, the creator of the gods and demons. Their grotesque purpose will be revealed soon, when all the cover editions of the new album will be presented and will be combined together… Let the great self-cannibalistic symposium begin."

The main artwork for "The Great Mass" will appear on the limited digipak edition, the gatefold LP and the dust jacket of the collector's book.



Sven Letourneur, editor of France's Hard Rock magazine, conducted an interview with SEPTICFLESH guitarist/composer Christos Antoniou, on November 15, 2010. The chat follows below.

Hard Rock: Christos, you worked on all the orchestral parts and arrangements of course. Why did you choose to work with the Orchestra of Prague again?

Sotiris: With "Communion" they did an excellent job and their interpretation on the new album is amazing. I know them, they know me very well and I can say, although it's still very early, that they will perform also for our next album in the future.

Hard Rock: Were they the same musicians that already recorded the classical parts for "Communion"? Do you know what they think of the final result of this album? Are they interested in what SEPTICFLESH sounds like once everything is mixed? As classically trained musicians, do they appreciate your music even during the metal parts?

Sotiris: A majority of them were already on the "Communion" album. But we used more people, especially for the brass section: we had eight horns, four trumpets, four trombones and two tubas. The sound is massive. Of course, we added some more players, like a boy soprano and a harpsichord player for the color. The boy soprano, especially, added a really dark atmosphere in the new album. The orchestra musicians haven't listened to the result yet as we are in the mastering process, but I'm sure they will like it. There are nearly 130 people, but I think the majority of them will not really be interested in SEPTICFLESH. As you understand, they record every day, but I saw some metal fans in the percussion section and they will definitely buy the record. Some of them might not understand that it was for a metal album as they only listen to the click in the recordings and they don't hear the metal parts. They do an excellent work and I consider them as our fifth member. I don't expect that everybody will like or understand our music. At the end of the day, their interpretation is what counts.

Hard Rock: How did you start working on the first orchestral ideas? Did you work on some songs starting from the metal ideas and adding symphonic parts to it or the other way around mainly?

Sotiris: I followed a different approach than on "Communion". Back then I orchestrated many metal riffs, but this time I composed the majority of the orchestral parts in the first place. Then Seth, Sotiris and Fotis added their ideas on top of the orchestra. I started composition on March (2010) and I had many ideas for the orchestra. During the summer I was working a lot on orchestrations, 17 hours per day non stop. But the result is really great, I'm really satisfied with the material. I composed on the piano and then I orchestrated both on paper and notation software.

Hard Rock: When did the actual orchestra recordings happen and how much time did they need?

Sotiris: It took four days. As the orchestra was really big, we separated the recordings in families: first strings-woodwinds, then brass-percussion, then choir and at the end the boy soprano, the harpsichord and the piano. It was a hectic work since many people were involved but the producer and the contractor were very organized in order to have the sessions running smooth. Everything is on score, I write everything with a lot of information and they just perform what is on their music sheets. Unless there is an improvisation section, which was rare on the scores.

Iets in mij zegt dat dit best een goed album gaat worden

Waarom is hij nog niet gelekt?!? Zin in!

De trailer is ook al een aanrader!

http://www.zwaremetalen.com/nieuws/17902/Septicflesh-prikkelt-met-trailer-update.html

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Op 14 maart 2011 20:55 schreef Mutilator het volgende:
De trailer is ook al een aanrader!

http://www.zwaremetalen.com/nieuws/17902/Septicflesh-prikkelt-met-trailer-update.html

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Niet echt, blijft constant hangen.

Ai...buffert ie niet?

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Op 14 maart 2011 21:02 schreef Mutilator het volgende:
Ai...buffert ie niet?

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Hij doet zijn best, maar hij redt het niet. De teksten die verschijnen zijn ook nogal moeilijk leesbaar, hoort dat?

Ik zal eens op de bandwebsite kijken, misschien doet hij het daar beter.

edit:Daar doet hij het beter. Beetje jammer van die hollywoodknallen op het einde, dan hoor je de muziek niet meer zo.

[Dit bericht is gewijzigd door bokaj op 14-03-2011 21:20]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. Wanneer gaat iemand dat ding nou lekken?!?

Snel hopelijk, ben zeer benieuwd!

Ik heb die nieuwe plaat net binnen. Na eerste luisterbeurtje kan ik zeggen dat dit hoog gaat eindigen op de jaarlijst.

You lucky bastard

Veel positieve reviews, erg veel, maar...

http://www.teethofthedivine.com/site/reviews/septicflesh-the-great-mass/
The band, not so much. You get the sense the band did everything they could to not get in the way of these excellent orchestral recordings. The drums are muted and controlled, the guitars downright polite in Septic terms. When it’s a choice between a Zimmercore cue and a metal sound, you know which is going to get a thumb’s up, mix-wise.

Hmmmm, hier begin ik toch wat door te twijfelen of ik het echt gaaf ga vinden. Wat mij betreft vallen die orchestrale dingen vaak na een aantal luisterbeurten enorm door de mand. Vette sound, maar vaak niet zo diepgaand en lichtelijk kitscherig. En dan is er dus geen metal bij om het weer gaaf te maken

Godver, nog steeds niet gelekt! AAAAAAAARGH!

dit nummer blijft zo ongelofelijk gaaf!

Het geheel staat als een huis. Vette massieve sound. Als je de orkestraties weglaat blijft er niets van over. Dat geeft natuurlijk niet want de muziek is op die manier geschreven.

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Op 8 april 2011 21:19 schreef Ascendant Grotesque het volgende:

Godver, nog steeds niet gelekt! AAAAAAAARGH!

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Doen ze goed.

Tja. Bij Benighted ging er bij mij wat fout maar hier houd ik hem lekker zelf...

Klootzak.

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Op 9 april 2011 11:07 schreef Ascendant Grotesque het volgende:
Klootzak.

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Twee weekjes wachten nog lieverd.