New Releases: Catamenia, Trauma, Carach Angren

There are a few new releases out today they everyone might want to check out.

Trama - Archetype of Chaos

These guys are my favorite technical death metal band. So far, from the preview track floating around online, it sounds like they are staying true to their sound.

If you like technical death metal with a dose of groove, this is for you. It’s not the typical “blast as fast as you can” style of tech death. They do blast, but only when it fits.

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New Kalmah Album Released Today in Japan (Europe on March 3)

Kalmah has a new album out today in Japan.  It will be released in Europe on March 3rd. I hate when they stagger the release dates. It makes no sense. The album will be online today.

The album is called 12 Gauge and it is filled with close to 43 minutes of their of blackened melodic death metal!

Here is a random video from their studio:

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.

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Klabautamann

Genre(s)

Black Metal, Folk Black Metal

Location

Germany Read more

Silberbach

Genre

Black Metal

Band Members

Athanassius – Vocals, Drums (Dunkelgrafen, Nebelwald)

Malus Deus – Guitar, Bass

Discography

Inferno – Full-length, 2005
Von Blutes Stimme gereinigt / Sturm in die Anderswelt – Split, 2005
Satanic March for Victory – Split, 2007
Terror Aus Fleisch Und Blut – Full-length, 2007
Salvation Through Despair – Split, 2008
…there will be Blood – Full-length, 2009

Review of …there will be Blood coming soon (hint: best black metal of 2009).

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.

Windir

Windir Photos

Genre(s)

Black Metal, Melodic Black Metal, Viking Metal, Folk Metal

Members

• Terje “Valfar” Bakken – Vocals, Accordion (Formerly also Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, up to “Arntor”) (R.I.P. January 14, 2004)
• Jørn “Steingrim” Holen – Drums (1994-2004) (Vreid, Cor Scorpii, Ulcus)
• Stian “Strom” Bakketeig – Guitar (2001-2004) (Cor Scorpii, Ulcus, Mistur)
• Sture Dingsøyr – Guitar (also Vocals on “SognaMetal”) (2001-2004) (Vreid, Ulcus, Finnugor)
• Jarle “Hvà ll” KvÃ¥le – Bass (2001-2004) (Vreid, Ulcus)
• Gaute “Righ” Refsnes – Keyboards (2001-2004) (Cor Scorpii, Ulcus)

Lyrical Theme(s)

History, Vikings, War, Misanthropy, Myths

Samples (Videos)