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Review from Lords of Metal

Posted by Nick Skog on Saturday, March 16, 2019, In : Dutch 
From: Lords of Metal
Published: March 1, 2019

Waarom we bij Lords nu pas, bijna een jaar na release, Iris van het Canadese Altars Of Grief ter bespreking krijgen mag Joost weten. Maar ja, beter laat dan nooit zullen we maar zeggen. Of het moet een erbarmelijke plaat zijn natuurlijk, dan geldt uiteraard beter nooit dan laat. Gelukkig is Iris meer dan okay. Het is een heerlijke death doom plaat met heel wat black metalinvloeden (luister maar eens naar Desolation), wat funeral doom en...

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Review from Metal Gods TV

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, February 11, 2019, In : English 
From: Metal Gods TV
Published: February 9, 2019 

Canadian blackened funeral doom troop Altars Of Grief are definitely aptly named and on Iris, the bands second full length album, they mercilessly unleash a mixture of heaviness, sadness and all encompassing bleakness to devastating and stunning effect. This is music soaked in sadness but reveling in the triumph of that sadness. 

The epic and sublime (and again, aptly named) Isolation gets things off to the most funereal starts and yo...

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Review from The Pit of the Damned

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, February 3, 2019, In : Italian 
From: The Pit of the Damned
Published: February 3, 2019
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La Hypnotic Dirge Records sta facendo un buon lavoro, fondamentalmente votato a scovare band interessanti in territori black doom senza sbracarsi troppo in innumerevoli uscite annuali. Lo scorso anno tra le release più interessanti dell'etichetta canadese, c'è sicuramente da annoverare quella degli Altars of Grief, quintetto originario di Regina, nel Saskatchewan. Il genere in cui è possibile collocare i canadesi è quello ...

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 Released: March 21, 2018
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Genre: Blackened Doom Metal

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