Legacy of the Catacombs

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Total Tracks: 12   Total Length: 52:09

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Relapse Records Radio

By Andrew Parks, Director of Merchandising

To celebrate over 20 years of releasing forward-thinking heavy music, Relapse Records has assembled a monumental playlist featuring over 70 songs from the label's eclectic catalog. From the early days of crushing death/doom metal and blistering grindcore to the present days of whirlwind tech-death, atmospheric sludge, occult rock, progressive instrumental rock and everything in between, Relapse has remained at the forefront of extreme art. Presented in the following mix are tracks from genre leaders Mastodon, Baroness… more »

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Neither Norway: Black Death and Afterlife

By Lenny Kaye, eMusic Contributor

I was warned. "Watch out for the death metal," said my muso friends when I told them I was off to the wilds of Norway for a rock festival - as if I could somehow be mortally wounded by shards of satanic shrapnel. But when I arrived in Bergen, on the west coast of the country, supposedly the wettest place in Europe with over 200 days of rain each year, the sun shone brightly and… more »

They Say All Music Guide

By this point, anyone coming to a Nile record should know exactly what they’re there for: assaultive death metal mixed with lyrics informed by Egyptian mythology and occasional interpolations of Middle Eastern folk melodies among the death growl vocals and blitzkrieg riffs. Treasures from the Catacombs is, in the best possible sense, pretty much exactly the same. Centered by the nearly 12-minute epic “Unas Slayer” (which starts with a lovely but foreboding acoustic instrumental rudely split in half by the barrage of grunts and blastbeat drums), Treasures from the Catacombs delivers the goods exactly as Nile’s fans expect them to. Which of course also means that those who have been unmoved by the group’s previous work won’t find anything here to change their minds. – Stewart Mason

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