I’ll let Part 2 simmer in the pot for an hour or two and then spring that one on you today as well.Īs usual for this series, all the music is charred black to differing degrees. But I still thought that 10 bands might be too much for a single post, so I’ve divided it into two parts. In order to do that, I throttled my usual wordiness in what I wrote, atypically allowing the music to speak (mainly) for itself.
As I explained yesterday, I’m feverishly trying to spread the word about late-breaking new releases before being swallowed up by our year-end LISTMANIA orgy. Continue reading » Posted by Islander at 7:31 am Tagged with: Andy Synn, Black AnvilĪs I originally wrote this post, it included music from 10 bands.
#ANVIL BAND TOUR 2018 SKIN#
There’s more than one way to skin a cat… or to blast a beat… after all. But to write off a band simply because they haven’t followed the same path as you is just ludicrous. Particularly if it’s been such a formative part of your identity for so long.
I understand the urge, the need, to see and hold a style of music as “yours”. I mean, are we honestly still going with the whole “jocks vs nerds” stereotype?ĭon’t get me wrong. So I had to laugh when skimming through some of the coverage of As Was on the internet recently, noting several writers/reviewers still attempting to cast doubt upon the band’s sincerity and/or integrity, with the general gist seeming to be that it’s impossible for tattooed ex-Hardcore guys to truly “get” Black Metal, which is a genre that’s solely the preserve of weedy dudes in face paint, who truly understand “darkness” (no parents?). Towards the tail-end of 2016 I conducted an as-yet-unpublished interview with Black Anvil bassist/vocalist Paul Delaney about the band’s upcoming new album, As Was (out today on Relapse Records).ĭuring said conversation he ruefully acknowledged that the fact that the band’s members all have roots in the NYC Hardcore scene tends to unnecessarily dominate the conversation a lot of the time, often causing people to read into things, or hear things, that aren’t there, and leading interviewers to say or ask things which make it clear they’ve made certain assumptions about the band, and about their music, that they wouldn’t have otherwise. ( Andy Synn reviews the new album by NY’s Black Anvil.) Continue reading » Posted by Islander at 10:32 am Tagged with: Black Anvil, Selim Lemouchi, The Devil's Blood
#ANVIL BAND TOUR 2018 FULL#
We have a full stream of the EP for you today. Working with their friend Steve Macioci of STB Records, the band have readied Miles for release in March, in remembrance of, and dedication to, their lost friend Selim Lemouchi. After returning to Miles, the band wrote and recorded one more original song, the opener “Iron Sharpens Iron”, and recorded a cover of The Devil’s Blood‘s “Everlasting Saturnalia” to round out the EP. Work on it was put aside for a time while Black Anvil focused their efforts on their 2017 album, As Was. Initially, Miles consisted of just the title track and a cover of Mercyful Fate‘s “A Corpse Without Soul”.
Their new EP, Miles, was created as a tribute to him. The music made strong and lasting connections with many listeners, and led to friendships among fellow musicians, among them, members of New York City’s Black Anvil. As the founding member and guitarist of The Devil’s Blood, in which he was joined by his sister Farida, Lemouchi created emotionally powerful occult rock music that was beautifully evil and haunting, a combination of darkness and grandeur that reflected and channeled Lemouchi‘s Satanic spiritualism. On March 4, 2014, Selim Lemouchi took his own life at the age of 33.
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