February has Been an Epic Month

Eluveitie, Rotting Christ, Borknagar, Finntroll, Dark Tranquillity, Martriden, Burzum, Kawir, Whispered, Embryo, Shaolin Death Squad, De Profundis, Scythia, Daysend, Throes of Dawn, Jack Slater, Ov Hell, Nydvind, and Immolation have all released CD’s.

I’ll try to give you a one or two sentense preview of each one: Read more

2010 – Best of the New Year (So Far)

2010 is getting off to one hell of a start. January was pure insanity. Here are the ones to look for (IMO):

Ihsahn – After

Mother of God. This album is amazing. Vegard Sverre Tveitan keeps getting better. Now he is on an eight string guitar and the music is just madness.

Ihsahn is Read more

Foscor – Groans to the Guilty (2009) Review 8.5/10

Foscor is a black metal band from Catalonia, Spain.  According to their website, they exclusively play dark black metal. I fact, Fosor is a Catalan word meaning “darkness”.

A combination of melody and dissonance come together to create the eerie sounds of Foscor. The music is mostly mid-tempo and somewhat depressive sounding black metal. Dark black metal is a good way to describe it; I found that I actually enjoyed the album more at night. This it not the heaviest black metal out there. Think of a slightly more aggressive and darker version of Janvs. They also share some similarities with the depressive black metal band, Shining, from Sweden.

The music has a flow to it. The tempo changes really take the listener on a journey. At one point the band will be blasting and suddenly it will slow down to almost doom metal tempo. The vocals are standard black metal fare (and they sound perfect). They have added some spoken words and whispers during the softer moments to add dynamics.

The production is top notch. Everything is clean and clear. The bass and treble are perfectly balanced.

Some of the songs do get a little boring here and there but all in all this is a great dark black metal cd.

Check out their website for some sample songs: http://foscor.com

Verdict: 8.5/10

Keep it Metal User Manual

Here is how this place works (I am tired so this is gonna be messy).

Most of the site is controlled through he black bar across the top. You can register, edit your profile, and compose blogs here. Be sure to fill our your profile, upload an avatar, and click around a bit.

If you want to write a blog, review, article, etc. there are rules.

• If it’s not about metal it doesn’t go on the main page. You can discuss it in the forum.
• Use tags!
• Users are not allowed to use the “Keep it Metal” categories (“Official News/ Blog” and Official Review”). Those categories are not for the community.
• Use any other categories that apply.
• If you want your article to show on the main page be sure to select the “Community” category.

Comments and blogs are synced to the forum. If you like the forum better you can just live there.

Rules:

• No trolling. This is not gameriot. I will ban. If you want to be funny, play the pic war.
• No porn, no illegal stuff (links to torrents, etc.)
• If you don’t have anything to say, don’t. We don’t needs posts that say, “stfu,” and nothing else.
• No alternate accounts.
• No threats.
• Sig may be 800px x 120px, no larger.
• Keep It Metal

If you want your avatar to show up in the forum you have to actually go into the forum and edit your profile. You will need to copy the image location from your avatar on the wordpress site and paste it into your profile on the forum. It’s kinda stupid and we will fix this soon.

If you want to create a wiki article you need to write a normal blog article and then scroll all the way to the bottom of the page. You will see options to turn your post into a wiki page. If your post is a wiki page the h2 tags will be headers in the table of contents and the h3 will be sub-headers.

Now… let me know if there are bugs.