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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

### Ebony Lake: In swathes of brooding light

#### 27/07/12 || The Duff

I’ve come across some unusual, unfitting bandnames in my time. Ebony Lake would hint at doom, funeral doom perhaps, or maybe even elven power metal. What we get is an eclectic melange of Satan, Deathspell Omega, Ulcerate, Portal, classical, jazz, Virus, bizarre, unnerving synth, Borknagar-folk, Leviathan/Twilight, Sorgeldom and epic film scores, altogether drawing on repetition and dark riffs alternating between meandering and full-throttle to stimulate a feeling of restlessness.

The production is raw but thick, cavernous, and very effective (like a muddled Portal), the album nine tracks total each ranging from a modest just over four minutes to a staggering ten and a half minutes long. Is it good? Hell yes. I love the first half of this fucking record, but it’s a mess. It sounds like a random excursion into twisted noise, Hellish visions, dark caves and pagan sacrifices, orgies of blood and goats… goats everywhere. So many fucking goats.

Then we reach the midway mark and things take a shift towards the bizarre: entire music-less sections set to the sounds of wind and rain mixed with slightly Dillinger Escape Plan spazziness, and then followed by Morbid Angel of all things. This is where the record nose-dives a fair bit as the music becomes less remarkable, the sound far less ambitious. It sounds like Mithras with vocals and without the high-end musicianship. They aren’t terrific songwriters either, so for third-rate MA riffs, the record takes a saddened turn.

8,5/10 for the first half, 3/10 for the second.

- 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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