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Atten Ash (Greene) Interview with Teeth of the Divine [April 6, 2015]

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, April 7, 2015, In : Interviews 
Atten Ash Interview with Teeth of the Divine
Interview by: E. Thomas
Published: April 6, 2015



A few years ago North Carolina’s Daylight Dies were the darling of the US death doom scene, picking up the mantle of the likes of Morgion and invoking the Finnish greats like Rapture and such. But 4 only albums in 10 years saw the band sort of fall from the genre’s pinnacle. But you know a band has left a positive legacy when a band starts to mimic you and your sound to a tee. And that...

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Atten Ash (Greene, Gambling) Interview with Extreme Metal Voyager [April 2, 2015]

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, April 7, 2015, In : Interviews 
Atten Ash Interview with Extreme Metal Voyager
Interview by: Erik Thomas
Published: April 2, 2015

There will always be bands, that pay tribute to other bands that paved the way for a certain sound or a certain completed style of music. You could call them copycats or just a group of people that are having fun at what they´re doing and are not attempting anything else. Then there´s bands whose influences are inescapable and yet they manage to have just enough of fresh ideas in thei...

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Atten Ash (Gambling) Interview with Dead Rheteric [March 17, 2015]

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, March 17, 2015, In : Interviews 
Atten Ash (Gambling) Interview with Dead Rheteric
Interview by: Kyle McGinn
Published: March 17, 2015



Good, solid doom/death is a formula that may seem easy, but often is riddled with difficulties. Go too doomy and you’ll lose the portion of the audience that wants the immediacy of death metal, yet go too far with death metal and you’ll lose the somber, sullen atmosphere of doom. Not to mention how the whole thing can fall apart without the proper vocalist to provide the properl...

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Atten Ash (Hunt) interview with No Clean Singing [March 4, 2015]

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, March 5, 2015, In : Interviews 
Atten Ash (Hunt) Interview with No Clean Singing
Interview by: Aleks Evdokimov
Published: March 4, 2015


Archie Hunt

(NCS Russian contributor Comrade Aleks interviews Archie Hunt of North Carolina’s Atten Ash, whose excellent new album The Hourglass was released by Hypnotic Dirge Records in February and whose similarly excellent split with Lycanthia was released by the same label in January.)

Hypnotic Dirge surprises me again! The label has another killer release after a one-year hia...

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Atten Ash (Greene) Interview with Doom-metal.com [February 20, 2015]

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, February 26, 2015, In : Interviews 
Atten Ash (Greene) Interview with Doom-Metal.com
February 20, 2015

We took the opportunity to have a chat with Atten Ash's James Greene to mark the reissue - three years after an obscure initial digital release - of the band's debut album.



(1) Greetings, and many thanks for agreeing to be interviewed for Doom-Metal.com. Could we start with the usual introductions to our readers: who are you and where are you from?

1.Thanks for the opportunity to do this interview. we'd also like to t...

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ALBUM RELEASE: Atten Ash - The Hourglass

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, February 19, 2015, In : Album Release 
The official worldwide release of the Atten Ash - The Hourglass album is upon us! 

The album is available in a gorgeous physical digipack CD, with a 12 page booket including all lyrics and liner notes for $10.00 + shipping, together with a free 11cm x 7cm Atten Ash sticker. The album is also available for free and unlimited streaming / download on the official Hypnotic Dirge Bandcamp page, so if you've been awaiting the re-release for a while, and first heard of the album through the Hypnotic ...

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Atten Ash signs with Hypnotic Dirge Records

Posted by Nick Skog on Saturday, December 6, 2014, In : Band Signing 
Atten Ash signs with Hypnotic Dirge Records
December 6, 2014

Atten Ash has signed a deal with Hypnotic Dirge Records to release their debut full-length album "The Hourglass" as well as a split vinyl release with Lycanthia, featuring the track "City in the Sea" both in early 2015. The split 7" vinyl is available for pre-order already with a release date of January 22, 2015 and more news about the full-length album will be revealed very soon!

A three-piece atmospheric/melodic death-doom band fro...

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