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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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From my home country I introduce you Uitzichtloos (English for “viewless”, if you accept their own meaning of it), a depressive, atmospheric and bleak Black Metal band. When it comes to lyrical themes they would like to keep it close at home with local myths and surroundings, which is sung in their native language. Their darkened art is a mixture of the second wave of Nordic Black Metal as well as the Eastern scene, which could easily be described as the Slavonic scene (like Drudkh, check out “Penetrante Lijkenlucht”). During the title track you also hear a Bathory like solo, like on “Call from the Grave”. A raw and bleak production makes it “depressive” (along with the screams), but it’s absolutely not lo-fi or can be slabbed with the DSBM tag. Melancholic is maybe better. At the end I think they are not quite there yet, but I do like this full-length and consider Uitzichtloos a band to keep an eye on. (Ricardo)