THE OMINOUS CIRCLE - Cloven Tongues of Fire CD

THE OMINOUS CIRCLE - Cloven Tongues of Fire CDIn a long overdue return, Portugal's The Ominous Circle rise again from the mist with their sophomore album "Cloven Tongues of Fire", a deeper descent into the great, endless chasms. A maelstrom of fire and relentless chaos that defies everything in this age of empty standards and sterile paradigms, the new full length effort represents their darkest, most intense and uncompromising manifest to date, both a witness to the wickedness of iniquity and a

which saw the band touring relentlessly around the globe once again

the multiple voices appearing throughout the album and the way they are arranged play a pivotal role in “Maldorör Disco” too

VoidCeremony once again resists easy grasp

and an almost-album-length mini-album – and the requisite compilation appearances

PALLBEAERER’s landmark sophomore album Foundations of Burden given the complete overheaul

all the while keeping one foot in Manilla Road-ian epic heavy metal

As they journey through sonorous blood and fire

Eight tracks drenched in visions of dead space

making for another flawless addition to what is inarguably one of the premier catalogues the genre has thrown up

Night Danger is a speed metal record

one can see now

bleak and essential