How I like my #blackmetal. Raw, minimalistic, and Canadian. 😍🇨🇦

#Conifère #NowPlaying

https://open.spotify.com/track/1dtXZvMVKKAwrcxUoHZA8c?si=4LBkurMKSlWCCMsdUlz-Jg

To The Death Vol 1

Foufounes Electriques, Friday, July 25 at 05:00 PM EDT

La PREMIÈRE édition du festival TO THE DEATH aux Foufounes Électriques à Montreal le 25 et 26 juillet 2025.

To The Death vous amène une sélection des groupes les plus crasseux de notre scène pour deux soirs de pur chaos. Pas de niaiseries, pas de compromis, juste du death direct des cryptes.

Passe de week-end: $45 +frais.

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The FIRST edition of TO THE DEATH festival is coming to Foufounes Électriques in Montreal on July 25th & 26th.

To the Death brings the filthiest underground acts in the scene together for two nights of unrelenting chaos. No bullshit, no compromises, only death straight from the crypts.

Weekend pass: $45 +fees.

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BANDS:

OUTRE-TOMBE (https://outretombemetal.bandcamp.com)

NOVEMBER GRIEF (https://novembergrief.bandcamp.com)

SEDIMENTUM (https://sedimentum.bandcamp.com)

SERPENT CORPSE (https://serpentcorpse.bandcamp.com)

PRIMAL HORDE (https://primalhorde.bandcamp.com)

SULFURE (https://sulfureqc.bandcamp.com)

LAST RETCH (https://lastretch.bandcamp.com)

CONIFÈRE (https://conifere.bandcamp.com)

THROE (https://throe666.bandcamp.com)

ZERO STATE (https://zerostatemtl.bandcamp.com)

MORTAL RITES (https://mortalrites.bandcamp.com)

A.T.E.R. (https://atercrust.bandcamp.com) 

INSADE (https://insade.bandcamp.com)

GRAVE WITHIN 

https://montreal.askapunk.net/event/to-the-death-vol-1

I Did not know that the #larch #flowers so beautyfully! Aparently the red flower is a female cone, while the smaller yellowish ones are male cones.

These twigs where collected from larger branches that broke off after last weeks sudden heavy snowfalls. Those were caused by #climatecatastophy warming up the mediterranean sea say metereologists. As large quantities of wet snow fell on #trees already in leafe, the weight tore down whole trees and major parts of trees. Looking out of the train, it seemed like about every second tree at the bottom of the #rhone valley was heavily damaged. The twigs in the picture stem from a higher altitude (about 2000m AMSL).

#conifere #climate #fediflowers #naturecultures

Vous avez l’embarras du choix si vous voulez #planter sous un #conifère !

https://magazine.hortus-focus.fr/blog/2025/02/16/que-planter-a-lombre-dun-grand-conifere/

C'est un montagnard assez costaud au charme délicat.

#arbres #conifère #jardin

https://magazine.hortus-focus.fr/blog/2025/01/23/un-petit-pin-des-montagnes-chez-soi/

Cherd’s Raw Black Metal Muster [Things You Might Have Missed 2024]

By Cherd

There are two types of people in this world: those who appreciate raw black metal, and those who live fulfilling lives with friends and careers and family who speak to them at holiday gatherings. Since the advent of Bandcamp, the kvltest of all metal genres has become infinitely more accessible. Every year I wade through acres of tape hiss and tinny treble, looking for the half dozen or so raw black releases that rise above the buzzing tangle of cobwebs to rarified, putrid air. The following represent a cross-section of the seemingly infinite number of corpse-painted weirdos in basements the world over making music with no hope of even the smallest commercial success. This is for the fans, like me, as well as the curious. And if anyone in the comments says “This would be pretty good if the production wasn’t so shitty,” I swear on Quorthon’s grave I’ll craft a 1920’s flapper fringe dress out of strips of raw bacon, show up to your niece’s bat mitzvah, and shake my money maker on the dance floor. The shitty production is the point.

Conifère // L’Imp​ô​t du Sang – Let me get this out of the way: this is much less raw production-wise than a lot of raw black metal, but it’s my piece and I decide what goes in it. Besides, look at that shitty cassette tape cover art. See? Lo-fi. Montreal’s Conifère play the kind of Québécois melodic black metal their stomping grounds are well known for, but they run it through with punk undertones and rollicking black’n’roll. Their main goal on L’Imp​ô​t du Sang is packing as many blazing riffs into 31 minutes as possible. After spinning this taut little meloblack gem over and over, I’d say they’re lucky the seams haven’t blown out completely.

Hekseblad // Kaer Morhen – For those of you looking for that contemporary black metal album that captures the gloomy piss and vinegar of the 2nd wave 90s heyday, Kaer Morhen awaits. With lyrical themes set in the world of The Witcher, also a product of the 90s, Hekseblad owe much of their sound to the likes of Emperor and Gorgoroth. It’s not quite all pastiche, however, as the old-timey piano waltz segment of “A Grain of Truth (Nivellin’s Waltz)” and the organ grinder/harpsicord-ish melodies in “The White Flame” and at the end of the title track help throw the band’s serrated riff-craft into sharper relief. Closer “Vatt’ghern” even wanders through a stretch of atmospherics before bringing the record to a triumphant close.

Keys to the Astral Gate and Mystic Doors // Keys to the Astral Gate and Mystic Doors II – This is the stuff here. Raw black metal. Look at those two weirdos standing on a pile of snowy rocks in a Wisconsin winter, holding swords, while their buddy takes a picture with their phone. Look at the OCD doodle for a logo. Listen to that production. Doesn’t matter if I listen to it on my expensive headphones or on an answering machine from 1993, it sounds exactly the same. That said, unlike so many of their self-serious peers, Keys to the Astral Gate and Mystic Doors are downright gleeful, not only in their melodic riffage, but in their presentation. Not to mention the closer to this their second demo/EP, “What Is the Glimmer ‘Top the Looming Castle Bell” has an infectious jangle-rock structure that hints at evolutions to come.

Lander // Heroic Lands – Most of the bands here were on my radar before their respective releases, but Lander crashed this list out of nowhere, making it my favorite raw black find of the year. This Seattle based, two-person, war themed project has a mean streak the other entries don’t; heavy, knuckle-dragging riffs mixed among the triumphant Viking metal melodies and tastefully restrained synths. With a dedicated drummer in Krieger, a rarity in raw black projects, Lander boast a more organic sound than many of their genre counterparts. On the same day Wergild Records released this EP on cassette, they also released the band’s first full length—10 whole minutes longer in run time—Boreal Tactics. While I also recommend visiting that release, it’s Heroic Lands that hit me hardest.

Nimbifir // Der b​ö​se Geist – I’ve been waiting quite a while to put Nimbifir on one of these lists. Five years ago, I was just getting into raw black metal when I discovered their first two demos and four-way split Ruins of Humanity. Something about these Germans’ hard charging songs and exultant riffs stuck in my craw. I had to wait until 2024 for their debut full length Der b​ö​se Geist, and thankfully it did not disappoint. There’s no one song that rises above the others, so it’s best to take this record all in one sitting. Easy enough since it’s a brisk 36 minutes front to back. There’s an ebb and flow to each song and to the album composition as a whole that gives the impression of a battle, desperate in places, epic in others, with an almost cinematic sweep that keeps you riveted.

Vampiric Coffin/Enshroud // Reek of a Thousand Graves – This wouldn’t be a decent raw black metal list without a Grime Stone Records release, and for the second year in a row, it’s Vampiric Coffin leading the charge, with Enshroud covering their six. Count Jeffery the Vampire contributed to two splits on Grime Stone this year, and his new batch of the combined 11 songs are the same thrashy, punky, raw blacky, infectious as MRSA ditties he’s come to be known for. Reek of a Thousand Graves gets the nod over his split with 1692 AD thanks to Carmilla Dracul and Ysbryd of Enshroud and their ability to craft a complimentary set of dungeon synth infused black metal songs that never forget to be vicious on top of lugubrious.

Wraithlord // Phantasmal Warfare – If Wraithlord’s 2022 full length Dawn of Sorrow had been released any time before or after December 22nd, it would have made my ’22 or ’23 list. It got lost in the shuffle of the holidays, as all releases do around that time, which is probably why the kvltest of the kvlt like to release around then. Thankfully, the June release of Phantasmal Warfare gave me plenty of time to acquaint myself with another quality release by this one-man Flint, Michigan project. M, the mono-consonant moniker of Wraithlord’s brainchild, has a knack for stringing together riffs and transitions that don’t end up in the places you expect them to. This is easily the longest release in this feature at 48 minutes, but it suspends time by pulling you into its own twisted internal logic.

#AmericanMetal #BlackMetal #BlogPost #CanadianMetal #Conifere #DerBöSeGeist #EmptyPitRecordings #Enshroud #GermanMetal #GrimeStoneRecords #Hekseblad #HeroicWorld #HypnoticDirgeRecords #KaerMorhen #KeysToTheAstralGateAndMysticDoors #KeysToTheAstralGateAndMysticDoorsII #LImpôTDuSang #Lander #Nimbifir #PhantasmalWarfare #QuebecoisMetal #RawBlackMetal #ReekOfAThousandGraves #SelfRelease #ThingsYouMightHaveMissed2024 #VampiricCoffin #WergildRecords #Wraithlord

Poison Ruin, Béton Armé, White Knuckle, Conifere

The Rockus-Espace Tapage, Thursday, 4 July (20:00)

https://montreal.askapunk.net/event/poison-ruin-beton-arme-white-knuckle-conifere

Nächtlich / Vespéral / Chalice Of Vomit / Conifère / Jute @ L'Achoppe

L'Achoppe, Saturday, 11 May (19:00)

https://montreal.askapunk.net/event/nachtlich-vesperal-chalice-of-vomit-conifere-jute-lachoppe