Free digital compilation album "Subarctic Nocturnes: Within the Ice" [Volume II] released now!

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Free digital compilation album "Subarctic Nocturnes: Within the Ice" [Volume II] released now!

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, April 2, 2015 Under: Digital Only Releases

A few weeks ago, we released a Doom Metal collection under the Subarctic Nocturnes banner. As we stated at that time, it was meant to be the first of a three-part trilogy series of compilation albums that we would be releasing. Now, we present to you "Subarctic Nocturnes: Within the Ice[Volume II]", a collection of Black Metal and associated genres!

Free stream / download

Within this volume, a few different variations of Black Metal is included. The start of the album includes more fast-paced, and aggressive Black Metal, while the end of the album includes more introspective and melancholic Post-Black Metal. It is not a perfect science to be sure, but an effort was made to make the songs flow as best as possible, which can be a challenge when including twelve different visions!

There is equal measures of new and old material included within, with a nice mixture of Hypnotic Dirge artists and associated guests. A french rendition of Celtic Frost`s 'A Dying God Coming into Human Flesh' is included from the French band Verlies, new material from netra presenting one of the most straight-forward Black Metal songs in the project's history, new demo material from Galaktik Cancer Squad, a reworked track from Epitimia, a track from Immortal Bird (ex. Woods of Ypres Drummer Rae's band), a track from Quebecois legends Sorcier des Glaces, introspective blackened metal from Harrow, and the album closer "Let me in" from the fantastic new Post-Black Metal band from Calgary, Numonerean. These, among others, are some of the pieces included in this collection.

1 - Sorcier des Glaces - Morbid Ritual

2 - Grieving Mirth - Optio

3 - Immortal Bird - Spitting Teeth

4 - Galaktik Cancer Squad - Ghost Crypt System (Demo)

5 - Verlies [ft. Morne & Psycho] - Un Dieu Mourant Devenant Chair Humaine (Celtic Frost Cover)

6 - netra - Don’t keep me waiting

7 - Veldes - Woe Eater

8 - Windbruch - No Stars

9 - Obsidian Tongue - Brothers in the Stars

10 - Epitimia - Chapter V - Jamais Vu

11 - Harrow - Stream-Enterer

12 - Numenorean - Let me in