Viking Crown - Banished Rhythmic Hate

Viking Crown is an obscure project of Phil Anselmo, also featuring his ex-wife Opal Enthroned and Killjoy of Necrophagia.
This is the second and last Viking Crown full-length album.
The nature of this project makes it very inaccesible; some parts sounds like they were recorded with a cell phone in a cave. Even the most elitist fanatics of "kvlt" black metal don't often forgive the production of this.
So, for tasteful minorities:

Viking Crown - Banished Rhythmic Hate


Ammunition:

1. Christianity Has No Chance

2. Possessed (From Within)

3. Banished Rhythmic Hate

4. Contemplating The Pitch Black

5. View of a Desolate Wasteland

6. Swallowed By Black Mass

7. Accepting The Rise of Satanism

8. Unspoken Vows of a Midnight Offering

9. Draped In Treachery

10. The Woods Own Countless Voices

11. Poisoned By The Blood of Christ

Other specs:

Bitrate: 256 Kbps
Format: MP3
Genres: Black Metal / Dark Ambient
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11

Vreid - Kraft

Some of you may have of Windir, a black metal band from Norway led by Valfar, that features characteristic beautiful melodies in its sound.
Vreid is where the majority of Windir's musicians left to when Valfar sadly left this world and Windir came to a premature end.
Needless to say, Vreid features excellent quality melodic black metal unlike any other.

Vreid - Kraft

Ammunition:

1. Wrath of Mine

2. Raped By Light

3. Helvete

4. Unholy Water

5. Eldast, Utan Å Gro

6. Evig Pine

7. Empty

8. Songen Åt Fangen

Bitrate: 192 Kbps
Format: MP3
Genres: Melodic Black Metal
Year: 2004
Tracks: 8

Satyricon - The Age of Nero

Satyricon is a band so well-established in the world of black metal, that it needs no introduction.
This is their latest album, and it kicks ass.

Satyricon - The Age of Nero

Ammunition:

1. Commando

2. The Wolfpack

3. Black Crow On A Tombstone

4. Die By My Hand

5. My Skin Is Cold

6. The Sign of The Trident

7. Last Man Standing

8. Den Siste

Other specs:

Bitrate: 256 Kbps
Format: MP3
Genres: Black Metal
Year: 2008
Tracks: 8

Brujeria - Raza Odiada

Hailz, friends.
It's been quite a while since I last made a post here, but I expect 2009 to be much more of an active year for this blog.
In today's offering you'll find a raw and brutal death metal/grindcore sound from Mexico, and Brujeria's second album, Raza Odiada, or "Hated Race" as it would translate.


Brujeria - Raza Odiada

Ammunition:

1. Raza Odiada (Pito Wilson)

2. Colas de Rata

3. Hechando Chingazos (Greñudos Locos II)

4. La Migra (Cruza la Frontera II)

5. Revolución

6. Consejos Narcos

7. Almas de Venta

8. La Ley de Plomo

9. Los Tengo Colgando (Chingo de Mecos II)

10. Sesos Humanos (Sacrificio IV)

11. Primer Meco

12. El Patrón

13. Hermanos Menendez

14. Padre Nuestro

15. Ritmos Satánicos

Other specifications:

Bitrate: 192 Kbps
Format: MP3
Genres: Death Metal / Grindcore / Goregrind
Year: 1995
Tracks: 15

Brujeria - Matando Güeros

This is the first album released by Mexican death metal/grindcore band Brujeria.
Although this band is by no means famous, it has become quite notorious for their lyrics, among other things.
The lyrics, as well as the cover of this album (which depicts a real severed head, with the booklet including pictures of the rest of the body [presumably destroyed by a grenade or otherwise dismembered and showing third-degree burns]), have got this group's albums banned from dozens of countries.
While the band became less extreme with the years, this album still contains explicit descriptions of ritual murder, rape, necropedophilia, drug smuggling, drug abuse, and racism against white people.
Another factor that made these lyrics seem much more extreme was the fact that in 1989, 4 years prior to this release, a cult was discovered and caught in Mexico, which was proved to engage in torture, human sacrifice, production and distrubution of cocaine, and hold occult ceremonies to offer "blessings" to politicians and celebrities, among others, for a price. That last practice is not so rare from religious groups based in Yoruba mythology.
The media reported that the cult consisted of Satanists, which of course caused mass hysteria in a 98.5% catholic country, but in fact, it's much more likely that the cult practiced a form of Santería or Palo Mayombe; perhaps a combination of the two, or otherwise another Yoruba belief system.

Further reading can be found here.

Brujeria probably use lyrics about Satan worship to exploit that national scandal more than anything, even if it's clear that the cult wasn't Satanic, and this has payed off as they have received some media coverage, being called a "morally dangerous" musical alingment, among other nonsense.

Although numerous translations exist, most are Google translations.
Instead, you can go here and take a look at translations posted by your humble author, whose native language is spanish.

Brujeria - Matando Güeros


Ammunition list:

1. Pura de Venta
2. Leyes Narcos
3. Sacrificio
4. Santa Lucía
5. Matando Güeros
6. Seis Seis Seis
7. Cruza La Frontera
8. Greñudos Locos
9. Chingo de Mecos
10. Narcos-Satánicos
11. Desperado
12. Culeros
13. Misas Negras (Sacrificio III)
14. Chinga Tú Madre
15. Verga del Brujo/Están Chingados
16. Molestando Niños Muertos
17. Machetazos (Sacrificio II)
18. Castigo del Brujo
19. Cristo de la Roca


Other specifications:

Bitrate: 192 Kbps
Format: MP3
Genres: Death Metal / Grindcore / Goregrind
Year: 1993
Tracks: 19

Today I also bring you a newer album. In fact, Ihsahn's new album, Angl.
What else is there to say about this? You can't go wrong with Ihsahn.
But it's worth adding that there is a collaboration with Mikael Åkerfeldt from Opeth.

Ihsahn - angL


Ammunition list:

1. Misanthrope
2. Scarab
3. Unhealer
4. Emancipation
5. Malediction
6. Alchemist
7. Elevator
8. Threnody
9. Monolith


Other specifications:

Bitrate: 256 Kbps
Format: MP3
Genres: Black Metal / Symphonic Black Metal / Progressive Metal
Year: 2008
Tracks: 9

Dorso - Disco Blood

Greetings, reading ones.
Today I bring you a release very far away from the mainstream. This is Disco Blood by Chilean metal band Dorso.
Dorso is one of the oldest metal bands in Chile, and quite possibly the most respected. Staying true to their style and never selling out from 1984 to this day. Their lyrics are often sung in spanglish and cover subjects of gore, sex and monsters with an overly humorous tone, and the music is typically a form of thrash metal with elements of the progressive, death metal, avant-garde and the occasional acoustic.
This album in particular features some of the best riffs I've heard in a while.
Judge for yourself, support the kvlt bands.


Dorso - Disco Blood


Ammunition list:

1. Satánica Dirty Slut
2. Disco Blood
3. Chupa Cabras
4. Abducción
5. Dunwich Animal Child
6. Marte Horror Planet
7. Consumer By Pollito Spider
8. Mi Querida Señorita
9. Lesbiánica
10. Plutonium Project Q
11. Nasty Ritual
12. Los Voy A Correr A Palos
13. Alquimia Y Búsqueda


Other specifications:

Bitrate: 192 Kbps
Format: MP3
Genres: Thrash Metal / Death Metal / Avant-Garde/ Progressive Metal
Year: 1998
Tracks: 13