Ablaze

Horizon Ablaze from Kristiansand is a relatively new band to me, even though they got started back in 2008. The band consists of members and ex-members from bands such as 1349, Den Saakaldte, Blood Red Throne, Pantheon I and Absu, among others. Up until now they have released one ep and one full-length, and they are now ready with a new full-length, titled “Dødsverk”, which will be out on Code666 at the end of the month.“Dødsverk” is a very varied album that contains inspiration from many different styles within extreme metal. Styles such as black, death and thrash metal just to mention a few, but the list just goes on and on so I guess the best description here is that this is pure extreme metal.

Douglas Knehans (b.1957) - Lux Dei: New Works for Choir - CCM Chorale, Brett Scott (2015) {Ablaze Records ar-00021}
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Classical / Modern Classical / Choral / Sacred / Post-Modern

The works included on this disc traverse an almost 25 year span of interest in writing for large vocal forces. Some of my largest works have been for choir—such as my St. Luke Magnificat or my Shoah Requiem—but on this disc the works, apart from my Missa Brevis, are for a cappella choir. Writing for a cappella choir is a very inspiring medium coupled, as it is, with text and language and the inherent timbral interest of varied vowel and percussive consonant sounds in the voice. The works, apart from Silence from my Two Looks at Silence, are all in Latin and owe more than a little to my background as a Catholic and Catholocism's traditional sacred liturgical literature. —Douglas Knehans.

“Ablaze” is about to prove what PERVERSITY's revitalized and exhilarating line-up is capable of. An intro plus nine tracks deliver skillfully executed, unrelentingly bludgeoning death metal that’s true to the obscurity of the underground. The music stands on its own as a collection of original, authentic sonic assaults, but fans of Incantation, old Sinister, and all who love to sink their teeth into complex death metal brutality will take notice where it’s all coming from.

“Black in itself is no colour but a condition” This is more than just a phrase but a true statement which refers to many different moods. Dark frames of mind and feelings on the brink of the abyss can simply be described as „Black“. That’s why none other title fits the new songs by Ablaze My Sorrow better. 14 years after “Anger, Hate And Fury”, we finally hear new gloomy melodic death metal by the Swedes who reformed in 2013!The perfect sound for the eleven tracks was created with the help of producer Christian Svedin (The Unguided, Faithful Darkness) in his Studio Haga while Niclas Malmström designed the sinister artwork which stands synonymously for every note on the record. Music, sound and artwork runs like a threat through the whole piece of art.