Selim Lemouchi: A Conversation / by Metal Eye Witness.

More than a year has passed since Selim's departure and here it is, finally, the M.E.W. audio special as a tribute to the art, life and death of The Devil’s Blood mastermind. Perhaps the longest recorded audio interview with the man, and definitely one of the last. And still so many things remain unasked, unanswered, absent of words here but forever present in the music and the poetry. 
The Devil's Blood ▼ Selim Lemouchi & His Enemies.

Conducted by Fernando Serani | MetalEyeWitness.com, VII·XXIII·MMXIII.
Prologue by Farida Lemouchi, IV·XXII·MMXV.
SL·AO▼FL·MOS

Music (courtesy of Ván Records and Farida L.):
1. When Satan Walks -demo- (The Temple of Azoth)
2. The Yonder Beckons (The Devil's Blood)
3. The Lullaby Of The Burning Boy (The Devil's Blood)
4. The Anti Kosmik Magick -demo- (The Devil's Blood)
5. She (The Devil's Blood)
6. White Faces -Roky Erickson cover- (The Devil's Blood)
7. Next Stop, Universe B (Selim Lemouchi & His Enemies)

Image photo credit: Sandra Ludewig/Christian Misje.

Selim Lemouchi: A Conversation / by Metal Eye Witness

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INVICTUS PRODUCTIONS, in conspiracy with DARK DESCENT RECORDS, is proud to present the highly anticipated debut album of Sweden's ENSNARED, Dysangelium. A work of careful, continual evolution, ENSNARED's Dysangelium is the fiery, fearless fruit born of conflict and strife, the descent into one's self and ascent into the Beyond - beyond possibility, beyond doubt, beyond boundary.

As with all things born that are destined to die, ENSNARED has slithered and slavered, hungered and hated, corrupting those waves of air most precious to the ones with ears to hear, ever worsewards since that momentous year of 2010. Rehearsing, rearranging, and recognizing the infinite possibilities of failure, its firstborn tore its way out of its cunt and saw the greyness of the Swedish sky in 2011. As a demo, as the opening statement of intent and disorient, it bore the eponymous title of Ensnared.

The sum of its parts exchanged on numerous accounts, withdrawing withershins with wanton wounds: reorganizing, reconstructing, and returning to spew forth a second scorn in 2013, once again by the radiance of Nuclear Winter Records, it bore the title Ravenous Damnation's Dawn. Wrought in somber soundscapes, the toil of its tilling bore fruit and bore calamity to calmness and an end to silence: ENSNARED killed, crafted, and descended to Hell’s Pleasure in 2014.

As with all things dying that are destined to live, ENSNARED has toiled and trodden on paths worn down by those before. Ever failing, ever finding new futility in the opulence of expression, but by the virtue of perseverance did the dysangelical take its form and was moulded in its fathomless form. It now bears the title Dysangelium, wreaking purulence in hearts perverse, as a full-length display of magicks harnessed and discarded. 

Verily ENSNARED in its immediate sonic sensation(s) yet very much its own rancourous, cantankerous creation stripped of precedent, Dysangelium is an electric plunge into cryogenic labyrinths perversely coursing with molten lava. It is these very contrasts with which the band work their zealous magick, creating discordance in accordance with an iron will, gleefully given to slipstreaming mischief and malevolence alike. Death metal undeniably forms its foundation, ancient as it ever was, but bearing no tangible geography nor chronology; the genre's continuum is a straight line, and ENSNARED's path across Dysangelium zig-zags both above and below that line.

Where most bands take multiple records - if any at all, before inertia sets in for good - ENSNARED have already made their bolder/boldest strides forward (and maybe backward, twisting time to their own design) with the treacherous terrain of their debut album. Void terra firma and enter the void of Dysangelium...

Ensnared - Apostles Of Dismay

"Chasing Bone" from Paris, France is a powerful trio of excellent musicians,  who did their analog Direct-to-Master recording at Magnetic Fidelity in April 2017. Their new album "State Of The Underdog" will be released soon in audiophile vinyl and DSD format.

D.A.F.O - Saudade

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