Funeral Rain Press Corps

Genre: Pagan Black Metal
Label: Bindrune Recordings

From the very beginning of this album, Wodensthrone set themselves apart from everything in black metal.
Full of big sound and wonderful yet savage melodies, Loss truly does hearken one back to the late 1980′s, early 1990′s black metal, the pure stuff that still allowed experimentation and individuality.
But even more than that, after Wodensthrone shows you the past circa fifteen to twenty years ago, they keep rewinding further and further into the past, showing you (and making you live) 700 years ago.
The England that is now immortalized in beautiful fairy tales and fantasy is shown for what it is: beautiful still, but also a place of hard living, of battles and oppression. The sound, the lyrics, everything that Wodensthrone is, is this dichotomy of beautiful and dangerous.
And it’s amazing, and also inspiring. It’s a breath of fresh air in a genre that can become stale fairly easily.
Wodensthrone’s Loss for me is an instant classic.
10 out of 10.

Today I saw a nice tweet from Kenosha Wisconsin’s JUNGLE ROT:

Its Official: We will be making a video for the song “Worst Case Scenario” during the first week of March! More details soon”

Sweet. Until then, here is the classic Director’s Cut of “Victims of Violence”.

Nuclear Blast is proud to announce the signing of a real metal legend – mighty German thrash metal titans KREATOR!

Commented guitarist/vocalist Mille Petrozza: “We’re happy to anounce that KREATOR has just signed a new long-term deal with Nuclear Blast! Based on a friendship with Andy Siry (head of A&R of Nuclear Blast) that lasted for decades we will now finally join forces on a professional level! Becoming a part of the Nuclear Blast family means a lot to us and together with the world’s biggest metal label we will conquer the future!”

Added Andy Siry: “For me another ‘thrash dream’ has come true with the signing of Germany’s finest and Europe’s leading thrash legends KREATOR!!! I still remember the day when I heard ‘Endless Pain’ for the first time, I became a huge fan of the band. I have been following KREATOR through their career and I built up a very good friendship with Mille. The last years I have been working very hard to make it possible that KREATOR would join the Nuclear family. Together we are looking into a very bright future in which we will be leading KREATOR onwards to world domination!”

ENEMY REIGN features the punishing lineup of former Skinless vocalist Sherwood Webber alongside drummer Andon Guenther (Deadspeak; creative director, programmer, and co-creator of Sick Drummer Magazine), guitarist Nick Guenther (Becoming The Enemy, Masakado) and bassist Cassie Begay (Throat Culture/Throcult, Deadspeak).