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A new review section: Buried by Time And Dust

We added a new review section, coincidentally another Mayhem reference following 'The Past is Alive', with the title 'Buried by Time and Dust'. Over the years, a lot of promos have been gathering dust simply because a fresh wave of promos arrived the following month and they were consigned to oblivion. We will review them here to make a clear distinction with our other reviews. We will also use it to complete a discography in terms of reviews. Feel free to contact us if you would like to submit your music or would like to join the staff.

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After an EP called “Thanatos” in 2013, the duo behind Sarcoptes, Garrett Garvey and Sean Zimmerman signed a deal with Cimmerian Shade Recordings and started working on new material. And here you have it; “Songs and Dances of Death”. It is a blend of everything within extreme metal; typical Symphonic and Melodic Black Metal – mid/late 1990s keyboard usage (Cradle of Filth, Heacate Enthroned, Dimmu Borgir), Thrash Metal (just listen to the start of “The Fall of Constantinople”) and Death Metal. And most of the time at up-tempo speed. It has lots of twists and easily transforms from some Belphegor bombastic composition into a typical Morbid Angel passage. Interesting release because you won’t hear something like this that often. (Ricardo)