{"id":90065,"date":"2019-02-21T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/?p=90065"},"modified":"2019-02-21T10:16:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T16:16:55","slug":"catacomb-ventures-emanations-from-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/catacomb-ventures-emanations-from-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Catacomb Ventures – Emanations from Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One year since the last installment of this series and the snow has not even begun thawing. Yet underneath the slush and fading ice, six treasures emerge and each proposes a distinct view of funereal and alien music unbound from the expectations and conventions that frequently surround it. Welcome to the first of this year’s Catacomb Ventures.<\/p>\n

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Nostradamus<\/strong> (Poland)
\nVanitas Vanitatum et Omnia Vanitas<\/em>
\n1997, Ceremony Records<\/p>\n

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The best kind of \u201cprogressive\u201d or \u201cavant-garde\u201d extreme metal usually happens by accident and its even better when it sounds the part. Formed in 1991, Nostradamus got their part playing an extremely dense grind-tinged sort of furiously filthy death metal with an unusual penchant for cheap horror movie synths floating over the churning carnage. In the latter half of the 90\u2019s they would undergo a strange transformation into a more experimental domain like many of their genre compatriots. What they had hinted at with 1994\u2019s Non Omnis Moriar<\/em> would now take the centre stage. However while many others would abandon their gnarly roots (and usually any semblance of quality too), Nostradamus managed to go to some bold new dimensions while retaining the intensity of their origins. It\u2019s still defiantly rooted in death metal but the end result simultaneously was more oldschool and just outright bizarre and perplexing than almost any other death metal band making a huge stylistic leap.<\/p>\n

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