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Genre: Black Metal
Label: Candlelight Records

Eastern Front have been around for awhile, and up until now I’ve never heard them, nor have I even heard OF them. Sure seems I was missing out.
When I first started playing the album I was immediately impressed by the pure ferocity of the playing; there is a lot more than just passion being pushed through these guys’ amps.
Extremely aggressive and still retaining a large amount of melody, Eastern Front’s ‘War Torn Black Metal’ (as they call it) brings some elements of death metal, doom, folk, and classical to the blackened aspects and create a new beast.
I was ready to give these guys a high rating, then I saw their MySpace page, and now they’re getting an even HIGHER rating. It’s wonderful to see a black metal band with this kind of professionalism with their MySpace. Band member shots, past shows, band history, reviews, videos, and more, and it’s all so nice and neat. Must be the English in them.
Straight up, this is some of the best black metal I’ve heard out of the UK; right up there with Wodensthrone (but very different), Primordial’s old stuff, and Intra Tenebrae.
8.5 out of 10.

Eastern Front on MySpace.

UKBM mastermind Anti of Intra Tenebrae has posted a new track on MySpace. “A Ritual Of Malice” is the new masterpiece, from the upcoming demo To Speak Your Name. Check out the new track at the Intra Tenebrae MySpace page.

Genres: Black Metal, Depressive Black Metal
Label: Thorn Laceration Records

Leave it up to ANTI to write some of the most vitriolic black metal to come out of Britain. Taking his normal style of writing and slowing it down a little, throwing in some depressive elements, then adding feedbacks from hell and tortured vocals, and you’ve got the new Intra Tenebrae.
It’s an amazing listen, and I think fans of Thy Light, Happy Days, Blut Aus Nord, and the like would like this a lot. Fans of “traditional” black metal like Carpathian Forest, Craft, Urgehal, etc. – you’ll probably enjoy it too. It’s got everything here.
8 out of 10.