Thy Catafalque - Cor Cordium Demo

The experimental black metal tag can be a giant red flag that screams "I make shitty music in my mom's basement!" So it is always good to take these things with a grain of salt...or sometimes a whole ocean of salt.

Thy Catafalque have been around for over 10 years now, so I suppose they have a bit of underground cred. They're a couple of moody Hungarians that go in and out of cold black metal and weird soundscapes. Unfortunately what I have for you here is not their strongest effort. Truth be told, this might be my least favorite Thy Catafalque release. I'm posting Cor Cordium because it's their demo from 1998 and it is a little harder to find than the other stuff.

Not as black as the coffee that sits in front of me, but...

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Antaeus - Supremacist Dawn Demo

Cut your flesh and worship satan. This tape is muffled, raw, and French. Don't get me wrong, I like Antaeus a lot, but I always imagine them in corpse paint with little black berets. Black metal mimes! Only these guys make quite a bit of noise.

This is their first demo, Supremacist Dawn. The drums are buried so deep they need a tombstone in order to be located. The vocals sound like this dream I have, where I choke the life out of the raccoon that digs into my trash cans at night. Ghhhhrraaahrreeeeraaaaghrrrraarffgh...

I've also thrown in their 1995 rehearsal tape entitled Y.A.T.B.O.T.M.. Listen to that atrocious drumming! Trve.

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