Previous Witchery albums, although certainly evil sounding in their own right, often maintained a morbid sense of humor about them that gave the impression the band didn’t always take themselves too seriously. Around five years has passed since the release of the group’s last studio effort, “Symphony For The Devil” and Witchery has grown a great deal more serious in the meantime. “Don’t Fear The Reaper” is easily the band’s darkest themed record yet.
As always, Tue Madsen makes the difference at the mixing desk and for the first time, the band has managed to come up with a record that you need not be a Witchery fan to appreciate out-of-hand. Seeking a musical middle ground in comparision to their past efforts, “Don’t Fear The Reaper” sees Witchery taking advantage of slower tempos at times but the primary shift in the band’s songwriting focus lies in the arrangements in particular, with the band making a conscious effort to shift between sounds from track to track, giving the album as a whole a diabolical yet defined character.

Woods Of Desolation — австралийская блэк-метал-группа, основанная музыкантом Dolor в Вуллонгонге в 2005 году. Dolor воспользовался помощью Phillip Knight, который стал исполнять вокальные и бас-гитарные партии. Группа переместилась в Великобританию на период 2005—2007 годов. Там музыканты записали два демо и два сплита с группами Vorkuta и Drohtnung, которые вышли очень ограниченным тиражом. В ранних записях музыканты занимаются импровизацией, экспериментируя с разными техниками игры.

Звучит "Love Exchange Failure" несколько иначе, нежели его предшественник. В первую очередь в уши бросается сама фактура звука: он мне показался более сырым, более блэковым, более холодным и мрачным, в то время как "Futility Report" звучал более чисто и жирно, тяготея к звучанию прогрессивных блэкарей, а-ля поздние Enslaved, поздние Shining, Borknagar и т.д. Такая перемена в звуке в общем-то не идет альбому во вред, даже, я бы сказал, именно такое звучание во многом способствует созданию той меланхоличной атмосферы, которая, очевидно, и задумывалась музыкантами.

White Ward — украинская пост\авангард блэк-метал группа, образованная в 2012 г. в Одессе. Взяв начало в корнях сырого депрессивного блэк метала, группа развивает звучание добавлением пульсирующих ритмов и джазовых элементов. После записи дебютного полноформатного альбома "Futility Report" группу подписывает известный французский лейбл Debemur Morti. Выход альбома запланирован на весну 2017 года.

"Sorh" is an ideal introduction to the work of the depressive BM band Woods of Desolation: it's a short recording of four tracks and might be considered a mini-album. After a dreamy and lilting acoustic guitar introduction, we are plunged straight into a harsh...

The American group White Heart has had one of the longest careers in Christian rock, beginning in 1982 with the release of their debut album WHITE HEART and lasting all the way to 1997, when their last album REDEMPTION was released. Through these years they have been considered among the pioneers of Christian rock, and their popularity has not wavered, despite frequent personnel changes. The band's musical style is not totally straight-forward, as it includes a hint of progressiveness.

Even if you haven’t heard anything by, or know about, veteran New York City singer-songwriter Willie Nile, one spin through his newest rocking entry into a catalog that stretches back to 1980 makes it clear who his major influences are. Nile can count Bruce Springsteen and the late Lou Reed as fans, likely because his own music also captures the gritty, urban poetry of both. He seizes the former’s expansive, widescreen aspirations and resounding power chorus approach on the opening “Forever Wild” (which even sounds like a Bruce title), and closes with a cover of Reed’s “Sweet Jane” which, while it doesn’t redefine the well-worn classic, gives it a shot of adrenaline akin to Mott the Hoople’s version.

Willie Nile, The Bottom Line Archive 1980-2000, is two disc set, separated by a 20 year gap, and is a great example of Niles long term staying power, and the loyalty that Bottom Line owner/curator, Allan Pepper ( booker, or talent buyer does not suffice) extends to the artists that he really believes in. Exhibit A is this double-disc affair, highlighting two distinct eras in Nile s 35-year career. It is worth noting that one of the primary reasons we can enjoy the temporal contrasts contained in this collection is simply because, when Willie was ready to come back, Allan Pepper was just as ready to welcome him back to The Bottom Line. It was a second home for me, gushes Nile. Allan and the whole vibe of the club was so musician-friendly and warm. It was just the best place to play for that reason.

One of New York's Finest, this Double CD Set Collects Three Albums Willie Recorded for Arista and Columbia Between 1980 and 1991. The Quality of These Recordings Proves Why Willie is Held with Such High Critical Regard by the Likes of Bono and Lucinda Williams. Guests Include Roger Mcguinnand Richard Thompson While Willie's Band Featured Jay Dee Dougherty and Fred Smith, Both of the Patti Smith Group.

VETERAN ROCK 'N' ROLLER WILLIE NILE CELEBRATES HIS ROOTS WITH POSITIVELY BOB - In a consistently colorful musical career that spans nearly four decades, Willie Nile has established a reputation as a world-class rock 'n' roller, and as a singular songwriter with deep roots in rock's rich history. So it's not surprising that he'd choose to tip his hat to one of his most enduring musical inspirations with his eleventh studio album, Positively Bob: Willie Nile Sings Bob Dylan, a heartfelt, personally charged set of Dylan covers that honors it's subject while exemplifying the same qualities that have distinguished Nile's work since the beginning. "These songs meant the world to me when I was younger and they mean the world to me now. The mystic leap of faith it took to write them, and the courage it took to believe and make a stand in hopes for something better, makes my heart sing and wander now as it did when I first heard them."

New York at Night is the 13th studio album by American singer-songwriter Willie Nile, released on May 15, 2020 by River House Records, it was co-produced by Nile and Stewart Lerman who has worked with Nile on eight of his previous albums.

If I Was a River is the ninth studio album from American singer-songwriter Willie Nile. The all-piano album was released in November 2014 under River House Records. Nile recorded If I Was a River on the same Steinway grand piano that he played the night John Lennon was killed, December 8, 1980. Nile was in Studio "A" at The Record Plant in New York City making Golden Down and John and Yoko were working on Walking on Thin Ice in Studio C that night.

Children of Paradise is the twelfth studio album by American singer and songwriter Willie Nile. It was released on 27 July 2018 by River House Records. Nile says of the album, "The music always lifts my spirits, and that's what these songs do for me and it's why I wrote them. Hopefully they can lift others’ spirits as well." "I believe in the basic goodness of most people, and that's where these songs come from."

Streets of New York (2006) is the fifth studio album by New York City based singer/songwriter Willie Nile. This is Nile's tribute to the city that gave him international exposure to the music world through the critical eyes and ears of the New York Times. The album is a tour book of City images; The tourists, the subway, the West Side, Rivington Street, a circus at Washington Square where one meets Bo Diddley, a Broadway night out with Annie, where we encounter a saddened aging actress whose best years are far behind her. A protest and a chilling reminder of the modern dangers we all face in today's world. The album is a portrait of the maze of iron, stone, and people that makes New York so unique, while mocking its opulence; still Nile always finds his way back home to the "Streets of New York".

Places I Have Never Been is the third studio album, and first in ten years, by singer/songwriter Willie Nile.