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# Global Domination

### Recent updates

- S(crap)s: I Miss My Death / Kaoskult / Raus & Perunwit (split) / Spatial / Thy Flesh (13/06/14)
- Hatebreed: The rise of brutality (12/06/14)
- Vomiting Corpses: Coma - The spheres of innocence (11/06/14)
- Mayhem: Esoteric warfare (10/06/14)
- S(crap)s: Akrotheism / Black Altar / Druknroll / Enthroned / Funeral Sutra (09/06/14)
- Agalloch: The serpent & the sphere (08/06/14)
- Dark Tranquillity: Construct (07/06/14)
- In Flames: The jester race (06/06/14)
- S(crap)s: Souldrainer / Tonic Breed / Rude / Defying / Electric Hellride / Scorned Disciple (05/06/14)
- Culted: Oblique to all paths (04/06/14)
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## Stubs

### Smargroth: Empyreal cycle

#### 12/10/11 || sly

The band: “The leader and the founder Smargroth, from whom the band got its name, had dwelled in the musical spheres for many eons until he found black metal as a superior genre. He started Smargroth in 2006 and soon recruited new experienced members Kos, Vraan, Ulverbite and Oybl. In the fall of 2009 band published their first album “The Arrival of Necrotronian”, limited to just 200 copies. Two years later, new album, named Empyreal Cycle, that was forged for 6 months in dark secrecy, is promising to change your days into inferno.” This self-description is straight from their website.

The music: “Black metal demons Smargroth… finally unearth well hidden secret of their forthcoming 2nd musical opus, named Empyreal Cycle. Forged in the darkest atmospheres, the conceptual album offers 9 songs in dynamic black metal style and fantasy inspired songwriting. In the early fall of 2011 your boring days will turn into inferno.” Again, directly from what is, I assure you, a very impressive website.

The promise: Apparently my days will turn into inferno. Whatever the fuck that’s supposed to imply.

The truth: With the exception of three places on the record where it’s either clear soaring girl vocals, soft guitar and birds tweeting, or a mystical siren vocalizing in the distance, every minute of “Empyreal Cycle” sounds the fucking same. Blazing fast blastbeats, double bass kicks, and a small assortment of Marduk riffs. Their MySpace states their influences to be: Dark Funeral, Satyricon, The Abyss, Marduk, Gorgoroth, 1349. Sure, fair enough.

The verdict: It’s definitely listenable, but unless you’re a die-hard for pompous black metal bands who only sing about warriors, wizards, and magical fantasy worlds, you’re not missing anything you haven’t heard before. One-dimensional Slovenian black metal on an ego trip that very few will give a fuck about.

5,5/10: P.S. My days never turned into inferno. I want my money back.

- 10 Latest Stubs
- Complete Stubs-listing

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## Audio autopsy

  Audio Autopsy - June 2014
  Audio Autopsy - May 2014
  Audio Autopsy - April 2014
  Audio Autopsy - March 2014
  Audio Autopsy - February 2014
  Audio Autopsy - January 2014
  Audio Autopsy - December 2013
  Audio Autopsy - November 2013
  Audio Autopsy - October 2013
  Audio Autopsy - September 2013
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## Reviews

  Hatebreed: The rise of brutality
  Vomiting Corpses: Coma - The spheres of innocence
  Mayhem: Esoteric warfare
  Agalloch: The serpent & the sphere
  Dark Tranquillity: Construct
  Culted: Oblique to all paths
  V/A: One and all, together, for home
  Cemetery: Enter the gate
  Ancient Ascendant: Echoes and cinder
  Dead Congregation: Promulgation of the fall
  more

## Class 6(66)

  In Flames: The jester race
  Overkill: Taking over
  Primus: Sailing the seas of cheese
  Destruction: Live without sense
  Merauder: Master killer
  Forced Entry: Uncertain future
  Evildead: Annihilation of civilization
  Flotsam And Jetsam: No place for disgrace
  Venom: Black metal
  Black Sabbath: Headless cross
  more

## Demons

  Distress Of Ruin: Predators among us
  Torchia: One
  Begrafven: Begrafven
  Children Of Madness: Howl from beyond
  Necrophor: Verbum vexillifer
  Seven Against: III
  Forlorn Chambers: Unborn and hollow
  Black Overdrive: Demo
  Told By Blood: Steamworks
  Sorkka: Ensimmäinen jae
  more

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