If All You Have Known Is Winter by Begotten<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\nIf, like me, you have some reservations about depressive black metal, set those aside for a minute. If not, continue to the embed and tell me if you like this, because I’m not totally sure you will. With a rather crisp (yet not too clean) sound and often high tempo, Begotten seem to play more into the blackgaze-y sensibilities of something like Woods of Desolation<\/strong> rather than the crushing hopelessness of acts like None<\/strong> et al<\/em>. Yes, it’s consistently sad throughout, but rather than funneling you down a corridor of misery, the band has more of an “open” approach to melancholy, tackling it from different angles and not neglecting its paradoxically beautiful, if not joyous, side. Take a walk in the woods and give them some money for… uh… I dunno. Light, maybe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On May 1st, Bandcamp will once again waive their percentage of proceeds, so that 100% of the money goes directly to the artists. We’ll be spending the week highlighting some releases that you might want to throw money at to help the creators through these shittiest of times. Oil Spill – Ashlands \ufeffAshlands by Oil Spill With a name and band photo like that, you might assume that Oil Spill isn’t your everyday black metal band. On the other hand, this demo was “recorded in a church beneath the full moon,” which sure seems like a quintessentially black metal thing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":101317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"This Friday, Bandcamp gives 100% of proceeds to the bands. Hans is here to tell you which pockets to line.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12],"tags":[5618,66,15701,13906,416],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/waiveheader.jpg?fit=710%2C375&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101304"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101444,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101304\/revisions\/101444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}