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We were planning on having the YouTube channel Black Metal Promotion do a full album video premiere but he declined to upload it because it doesn't sound like Black Metal, even though it's more Black Metal than Death Metal in my opinion, at least musically. Why does it matter so much how the production sounds? Isn't Black Metal and Metal, in general, a lot about doing the best you can with what you have?

We uploaded it to our own YouTube channel instead, and the first comment it received was "Amazing Black Metal sound! Great Guitars and imposing vocals! Hail Devourer 🤘😈". After that, I decided to change our genre description to Blackened Extreme Metal.
I'd greatly appreciate it if you who like the album would take a minute or two of your time and post the link to the album video on Facebook, Reddit, online forums like this one or any other place you can think of!

 

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Keep trying, there are many other YT channels besides BMP. This is clearly black metal to me. Blackened death maybe you could say but gun to head it seems to lean more towards black than death. Maybe some people don't like blackened death, they want black metal to be pure 2nd wave, idk but this is definitely black metal. Maybe he just didn't like it and was trying to be polite? To be fair though it does not sound like most of what I hear on his channel. He has a high standard there and a brand to consider as well as his own personal tastes and he can't be expected to accept every submission. Someone will probably pick it up though, it's not bad.

That's not a FA cover is it? I see gasmasks with little elephant trunks and it makes me wonder.

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7 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Keep trying, there are many other YT channels besides BMP. This is clearly black metal to me. Blackened death maybe you could say but gun to head it seems to lean more towards black than death. Maybe some people don't like blackened death, they want black metal to be pure 2nd wave, idk but this is definitely black metal. Maybe he just didn't like it and was trying to be polite? To be fair though it does not sound like most of what I hear on his channel. He has a high standard there and a brand to consider as well as his own personal tastes and he can't be expected to accept every submission. Someone will probably pick it up though, it's not bad.

That's not a FA cover is it? I see gasmasks with little elephant trunks and it makes me wonder.

He said he thought Raptus was good but that it sounds too much like Death Metal. He uploaded our 2nd album Across the Empty Plains from 2017, it's similar in style but not as well-produced as this one (in my opinion at least), that's what made me think it's a bit strange to deny this one.

What do you mean by FA cover? The Devourer gasmask was first introduced on our 2019 album Dawn of Extinction and it's stuck with us a bit since then, but we didn't do it intentionally, it was the artists idea. Both the cover for that album and this one was drawn by a guy from Russia who calls himself Vald, he has a Facebook page called Vald Evil Arts where he posts his works.

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21 minutes ago, DevourerMetal said:

What do you mean by FA cover? The Devourer gasmask was first introduced on our 2019 album Dawn of Extinction and it's stuck with us a bit since then, but we didn't do it intentionally, it was the artists idea. Both the cover for that album and this one was drawn by a guy from Russia who calls himself Vald, he has a Facebook page called Vald Evil Arts where he posts his works.

FA is me - I do some album illustration work. I've had gasmasks in a couple of pieces. Your cover art is pretty cool, I can see some similarities.

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I'd assume that claustrophobic means narrow, close and compressed? Band playing in a small room with all the windows closed? I'll be honest, while the production on the new album doesn't bother me, it doesn't sound particularly wide or airy to me (granted I am listening on Youtube) although it does sound noticeably better to me than the one track I heard on Youtube from the 2020 album. That track sounded compressed and claustrophobic. So you're moving in the right direction!

 

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21 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I'd assume that claustrophobic means narrow, close and compressed? Band playing in a small room with all the windows closed? I'll be honest, while the production on the new album doesn't bother me, it doesn't sound particularly wide or airy to me (granted I am listening on Youtube) although it does sound noticeably better to me than the one track I heard on Youtube from the 2020 album. That track sounded compressed and claustrophobic. So you're moving in the right direction!

 

Thanks, I put so much work into making these albums and always try to improve it so moving in the right direction is good at least. I tried to make it a bigger and more solid mix than the earlier albums and I think I succeeded with the vocals at least, guitars are okay too but it can always be improved. The main issue I had with the guitars was getting rid of annoying frequencies without making it sound dull.

The drums could have had more room sound mixed in.. No one ever mentioned the previous albums sound claustrophobic even though I think they're more narrow and thin than Raptus. The bass on the previous albums sound more like a guitar than a bass, very distorted and thin, but I used a different amp (Darkglass Alpha Omega 900) this time that sounds more rounded.

When I think about claustrophobic sounds it makes me think of death metal albums from the 90s where they used almost only the closest mics on the drums, not much room sound. Maybe Immortal's Blizzard Beasts too, but I don't think it's a bad thing on any of the old albums, like CCs Tomb of the Mutilated or Deicide's Once Upon the Cross. Maybe claustrophobic isn't as bad as it sounded to me at first. 

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