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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

### Acherontas: Vamachara

#### 16/12/11 || BamaHammer

This is definitely your standard, run-of-the-mill Norwegian black metal album from 1995, only they’re from Greece and it’s 2011. From a songwriting standpoint, this is actually pretty decent for a modern black metal album that’s trying to sound like it was released fifteen years ago, with some surprisingly nice, noticeable melodies peppered around and between blasts.

Thinking about the production while I’m hearing it, however, gives my cerebrum diarrhea. The guitars have a good edgy black metal tone, but the drums sound like they were laid down on a Tascam 4-track cassette recorder, creating a huge disparity in the sound of the two instruments when heard together. And, of course, Acherontas abides by the age-old black metal custom of making sure the bass guitar is completely inaudible so that the music is pussified beyond belief.

These fuckers also try to be a bit too pretentious at times as well. They’re lucky I gave enough of a shit to keep listening to them after the ridiculous 2:41 intro track filled with cheap keyboard noises and some semi-evil narrated nonsense that did nothing for me but make me dumber. I’m also at a loss trying to figure out what they were trying to accomplish with the sudden change of pace just after the four-minute mark in the third track when everything takes a hard fade-out only to be replaced by a pointless, lonely, and repetitive clean guitar for the remainder of the track that sounds as if it was recorded in a different studio at a different time by a different fucken band with an angsty teenage guitarist.

These guys aren’t terrible, but they aren’t anything I’m going to be flogging the dolphin over either. This is really a tired genre these days, and these Greeks don’t really do anything to change that perception.

5/10: This is raw, old-school atmospheric black metal. I’ve heard a lot fucken worse. I’ve also heard a lot fucken better.

- 10 Latest Stubs
- Complete Stubs-listing

After going thru that crap, you most likely wanna read something way more interesting. You do, admit it.

Below are some links to most recent articles, take your pick.

## 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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