October 2022 - Subterranean Blackened Goth Special 2
Here is another round of hybrid goth rock/post punk I've run into. One of the songs featured within this mix was the one that started off my entire kick for trying to find hybrid bands like these. That would be Mexican artist Vestron Vulture during his early to mid career collaborating with also Mexican death metal group Tormental. Phantom was the song that started it all which made me catalog this particular harsh style of goth. The extreme side of metal and goth/post punk colliding together as one. Down these short years it opened a pathway that was more than enough to put together a mix of these two opposites coming together as one.
Last mix much like this didn't contain any post punk so I decided to add a few bands that harken back in my past when the black metal scene was changing as the US and France spear headed the movement to a whole new era of post black metal. The raise of blackened shoegaze or blackgaze as some people called it was an interesting time. A compilation that introduced me to this movement was The World Comes to an End in the End of a Journey which contains a band featured here, Shyy. This band takes me back. The compilation was mainly new acts at the time which were all a form of shoegaze or post punk coated in black metal.
Aves and Abesse2084 are also around this era and have even been featured in Pest Production's other compilations much like the one mentioned above. Aves in particular eluded me for the longest time until I finally found a copy through the label. A mysterious post punk/black metal group from the US. I only know they are from the US because of their bandcamp page. What makes them so mysterious is nobody knows who is behind the band or whether its a solo project or not. They disappeared as fast as they came.
This mix set also includes bands leading up after the 00's with DSBM band Happy Days post punk/rock side project Dreams as well as modern up to date hybrid goth/black metal groups such as the very recent Night of the Vampires to Throe Garden. All links provided, please support these bands for their amazing work.
Tracklist:
Aves - Cold Streets (from Feathers EP bonus track)
Dreams - Abduct Me (from 3Am EP)
Vestron Vulture feat. Tormental - Phantom (from Morningstar)
Spear of Teuta - Scorn (from Scorn EP)
Throe Garden - We Lied (from Demo MMXXI)
Wraithlord - Pray (from Summer Graves)
Night of the Vampire - Enchanted Cold (from Eternal Night)
The Murder Cult - Bela Lugosi's Dead (from Cut Bela)
Opium Grave - With Dark And Poisoned Tears (from Shround of Sorrows Split)
Pyre of Black Roses - V (from Demo II)
No More Light - Emit (from Residual demo)
Shyy - Senescência e Morte (from Shyy)
Abesse2084 - Monotown (from Monotown View EP)
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