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Review from Ech(((o)))es and Dust Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, August 13, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Ech(((o)))es and Dust Webzine
Published: August 1, 2014

When I ask myself what black metal is, I’m at a loss of words sometimes. Everyone out there thinks they are right, they know what black metal is, should be, etc. etc. I personally don’t care. I know the genesis of black metal, the bands that a lot of people site as starters of the genre. But, here isn’t the place to have this major debate that will forever be had. I’ll call Obsidian Tongue a black metal band, alb...

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Review from Disfactory Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, August 13, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Disfactory Webzine
Published: August 1, 2014
*Google translation of Italian review

I do not know the onset Volume I: Architecture Subradiant (but I promise that I'm going to find out, maybe I should do so before talking about the new creature but some things "just happen"), then entry into the world of Americans Obsidian Tongue takes all 'dark, thanks to the usual, talented label overseas Hypnotic Dirge Records . By now it's safe-or quasi-(depends on the individual and unique ...

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Review from Moonspell Rites Promotions

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, May 6, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Moonspell Rites Promotions
Published: May 5, 2014

The release has been out for a while now,but damn!I most definitely missed out on something!Combine influences from bands such as US located bands such as Agalloch with bands from the Scandinavian scene like Ulver (especially the record 'Bergtatt'), and some Doom influenced massive melodic Black Metal.This is just a pure massive piece of songwriting no doubts about that. The song are really diverse and there is not a negative ...

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Review from Forgotten Path Magazine; Issue 6

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, March 19, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Forgotten Path Magazine; Issue 6
Published: November 2014

This band is a typical Black Metal project. Its history is a hundred times told story - from the very beginning it was a one-man project, after a half-year a drummer had joined and they have been playing for four years, releasing one demo and two albums... Besides that, their photos are taken in the forest and in concerts (I mean, where else could they have been taken?) and the lyrics about nature and emotions, whic...

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Review from The Pit of the Damned Blogspot

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, March 10, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: The Pit of the Damned Blogspot
Published: March 7, 2014
*Google translation of Italian review

The Hypnotic Dirge Records continues its search in the deepest underground, looking for bands that have something interesting to say in the field of black metal. Today I stop to expatiate on the second chapter of the discography of American Obsidian Tongue, from the cover that drew in some way my attention. A stylized face in black and white (I think) of the feathers on the head and a...

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Review from Volumes of Sin Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, February 28, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Volumes of Sin Webzine
Published: February 26, 2014

Initially, Obsidian Tongue was formed as a solo project by vocalist/guitarist Brendan Hayter in 2009; however shortly after the formation drummer Greg Murphy joined the now two man group. They later released their initial album, Volume I: Subradiant Architecture via Dissociation Records in 2012; this label has also co-released the band's follow-up endeavor, A Nest of Ravens in the Throat of Time which was released a little o...

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Review from Transcending Obscurity Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, February 28, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Transcending Obscurity Webzine
Published: February 25, 2014

Hypnotic Dirge Records has got some fascinating bands under its roof, among the lukewarm groups comprising the label's roster. The more I explore the various releases bearing the Hypnotic Dirge logo, the more I realize I have been missing out some of the action this fine label has been offering. First, I was blown away by Galaktik Cancer Squad's ‘Ghost Light’, and now this album, the second full length by America...

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Review from Legacy Magazine; Issue #86

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, February 28, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Legacy Magazine; Issue #86
Published: September 2013
*Google translation of German review

If you want to know exactly why the U.S. Black Metal in this country enjoys a still rather mixed reputation, the second album of the two East Coast musician Greg Murphy (drums) and Brendan Hayter (residual) should be pure drive. Obsidian Tongue dig deep into the spice rack for too unique genre assignments to escape. There are songs like, The Birth of Tragedy 'or the opener, Brothers In...

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Review from Pure Nothing Worship Magazine; Issue 2

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, February 17, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Pure Nothing Worship Magazine; Issue 2
Published: March 2014

The second full-length album of this young act from USA offers around 50 minutes of unique, dark and natural black metal in the ever intriguing style arising from the USA, known for  it’s primordial and natural sound, that first appeared with the rise of Cascadian black metal movement. Filled to the brim with a vast array of emotions, this album is a storm of pride, melancholy, heathenism and sorrow, and is a solid...

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Review from Alternativ Musik Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, December 5, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Alternativ Musik Webzine
Published: December 5, 2013
*Google translation of German review

'A Nest of Ravens in the Throat of Time' is the second album of the now two-headed Black Metal project grown Obsidian Tongue from Illinois. Musically one moves in typical American black metal realms, as we know it from Wolves in the Throne Room or Agalloch: So the pieces are all about long advised atmospherically dense and vary in mood again and remain unpredictable. Sometimes melancholic...

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Review from Metal Wave Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, November 22, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Metal Wave Webzine
Published: November 22, 2013
*Google translation of Italian review

Americans of Massachusetts Obsidian Tongue arrive at this second album mileage under Hypnotic Dirge Records, the record company that seems to have a penchant for the more diaphanous sonorities of Black Metal. It does not change the music with Obsidian Tongue, atmospheric black metal duo who prefers precisely this kind of sound. 

At a superficial listening there would be every reason to frame t...

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Review from Lachryma Christi Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, November 21, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Lachryma Christi Webzine
Published: November 20, 2013

Obsidian Tongue, Black Metal band from USA released a few months ago a new album called A Nest of Ravens in the Throat of Time through Hypnotic Dirge Records.
Even though the two member band formed in 2009, they sound as if they have been playing together since always.

This is their second album and hopefully they will present us with so many more like this, so good! It is very atmospheric, very melodic, very tuned and serio...

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Review from Sic Maggot Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, November 8, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Sic Maggot Webzine
Published: August 20, 2013 [missed it until now]
*Google translation of Czech review

Obsidian Tongue is a group of Massachusetts in the United States dedicated to atmospheric form of black metal. Of course, black metal music, which in my humble opinion, had become primarily to the atmosphere, whether in any form of the genre, but here it is downright one of those forms, which we call direct atmospheric black metal, which is a matter which in North America re...

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Review from Miasma Magazine

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, October 18, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Miasma Magazine
Published: October 18, 2013

“Atmospherical black metal” seems to be quite a hot thing what it comes to genres in the United States nowadays, and the band in question, Obsidian Tongue, also is a player in that same field. This album, A Nest of Ravens in the Throat of Time, has been blessed with quite a lengthy name and is their second full-length release, of which the previous one was last year’s Volume I: Subradiant Architecture. As has been the case wit...

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Review from ZWare Metalen Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, October 16, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: ZWare Metalen
Published: October 16, 2013
*Google translation of Dutch review

Obsidian Tongue from Massachusetts is best known as the band of Brendan Hayter , who had to work here at Woods of Ypres . He took out for his new album with a drummer , a good thing as it turns out . Obsidian Tongue brings black metal , of a particular kind .

Which in A Ravens Nest or hear in the Throat of Time , I can best describe as modern Canadian Cascadian black and black , but less than 90 % on ...

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Review from Global Domination Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, October 9, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Global Domination Webzine
Published: October 5, 2013

OT: Oh hi guys, look at my new record! It is called “A nest of ravens in the throat of time”“
Everyone else: ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Except one guy: Cool dude! Let’s listen to it and drink a couple of Pabst blue and do some promo pictures using my analog camera!
OT: Super awesome, we know a couple of trees which are close. If we do it right we will not even see the sidewalk and it will look as if we was in a ...

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Review from Aristocrazia Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, October 7, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Aristicrazia Webzine
Published: October 7, 2013
*Google translation of Italian review

The Obsidian Tongue were made known in 2010 with the demo "demo tape" and subsequently had proposed the first album entitled "Volume I: Subradiant Architecture" came out in 2012 and that he had received good feedback from both listeners and critics alike. In 2013 this fall instead on the scene with the second disc supported by collaboration between the Canadian label Hypnotic Dirge Records an...

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Review from Post Christ Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, September 23, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Post Christ Webzine
Published: September 23, 2013
*Google translation of French review

A year after his first album Volume I: Subradiant Architecture , OBSIDIAN TONGUE returns with a second album where the United States duo takes the ingredients of the previous album highlighting the method, but without making a record actually better ...

The set consists of six titles rather long, that is to say an average of more than 8 and a half minutes, a few distinctive style as they dig ...

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Review from Rock Freaks Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, September 20, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Rock Freaks Webzine
Published: September 20, 2013

The American black metal scene is thriving these days. Not only are lots of bands popping up all over the country, many of them are also really good. Obsidian Tongue is yet another name in this USBM uprising. Formed in 2009, the band currently consists of drummer Greg Murphy and guitarist/vocalist Brendan James Hayter. Stylistically Obsidian Tongue clearly take inspiration from two quite different bands from their country, nam...

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Review from Ave Noctum Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, September 19, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Ave Noctum Webzine
Published: September 18, 2013

Not the catchiest of names or titles I’ll grant you but one I would urge you to remember as if there’s any justice, you’ll be hearing it a lot more over the next 12-18 months. I was introduced to this Massachusetts-based duo courtesy of their fiery performance at 2012’s ‘Winter is Coming’ festival in Connecticut and was immediately struck by the power of their set. For a two-piece (Vocalist/Guitarist Brendan Hayter ...

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Review from Rock Metal Essence

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, September 19, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Rock Metal Essence Webzine
Published: September 18, 2013
*Google translation of Italian review

The American duo of Obsidian Tongue returns to the international extreme metal scene with his second album, titled A Nest of Ravens in the Throat of Time , published by Hypnotic Dirge Records.

The product, which boasts the participation as a guest on the title track of Agalloch, ricoferma the good show from training with the onset, distinguishing itself as one of the most inspired pub...

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Review from Nocturnal Cult Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, September 17, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Nocturnal Cult Webzine
Published: September 17, 2013

A cool wind of atmospheric black metal breezes in from the frigid forests of Massachusetts.  Obsidian Tongue's sophomore album is lovingly crafted and you can discern the care that went into each slowly developing track.  From the lumbering dirge of the opening notes of Brothers In The Stars you get a sense of isolation and despair.  The tempo picks up and you get cascading riffs with melodic accents and haunting shrieks.  ...

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Reviewed by Teeth of the Divine Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, September 9, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Teeth of the Divine
Published: September 9, 2013

After a little bit of a misstep with the Netra release, Hypnotic Dirge is back on track with a handful of very solid releases (Odradek Room, Galaktik Cancer Squad, Lycanthia, Frigoris), the best of which is the second album from Massachusetts atmospheric black metal act Obsidian Tongue, and for those of you who are fans of Agalloch , early Woods of Ypres and Thrawsunbalt, you should probably get this now.

And I don’t just thro...

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Review from Hollywood Metal Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, September 6, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Hollywood Metal Webzine
Published: August 29, 2013

I really wanted to love this album. Certainly, as the first few moments of “Brothers in the Stars” washed over me (after the drums kicked in – I’m not talking about the introduction) I was in good standing to do so. The song is quite beautiful, featuring dreamy guitars, pulsing drums, and savage vocals that float out of the mix like some beast howling in a forest at night. These hallmarks of atmospheric black metal ar...

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Review from Metal Temple Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, August 30, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Metal Temple Webzine
Published: August 29, 2013

Black Metal has an ample range of sonorities inside of it, being almost a self-style out of Metal. If VENOM guys could look at this back in 1978, they would be proud of their creation. And another son of the English team comes to the light (please, no ironic puns here), the North American group OBSIDIAN TONGUE, with their second coming, “A Nest of Ravens in the Throat of Time”.

In the very same vein of ABIGAIL WILLIANS and WO...

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Review from Lunar Hypnosis Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, August 27, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Lunar Hypnosis Webzine
Published: August 26, 2013

The majority of the time one-man black metal bands are just a bad idea. Massachusetts based band, Obsidian Tongue, has their roots as originally being formed as Brendan Hayter's one-man band, but more than likely realizing his limitations and silliness of using a drum machine, drummer Greg Murphy stepped in before the band even released their first recording. 2010 marked the bands lone demo, which was followed by their debut f...

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Review from Metal.tm

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, August 27, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Metal.tm
Published: August 25, 2013
*Google translation of German review

It's time again for a tip. Not only does it to "A nest of Ravens In The Throat of Time", the second album by the Americans OBSIDIAN TONGUE not a single review in German is - even otherwise should the duo from Massachusetts fewest music listeners on our side of the Atlantic, a term be. And that's a shame drum. OBSIDIAN Although TONGUE indulge many of their countrymen the endless expanse of Cascadian black ...

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Review from Bleeding 4 Metal Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, August 19, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Bleeding 4 Metal
Published: August 17, 2013
*Google translation of German review

Obsidian Tongue come only a year after their debut album "Volume I: Subradiant Architecture" with a new disc into the record. And this album gives me enough reason to enthusiasm again, because the duo has refined its Trademarks and made ​​a few subtle changes. Inspired me already feeling the depth of its predecessor, Obsidian Tongue end up with this year's output of a direct hit. There is, fir...

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Review from Desolation Infinite Blogspot

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, August 4, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Desolation Infinite Blogspot
Published: August 3, 2013

Obsidian Tongue is a band that I wasn't aware about until it was sent to me as promo from the staff of Hypnotic Dirge Records.  Hell, I am glad they sent it because in the end, it was a great album to listen to.  Hailing from Massachusetts, the band started as a one man by Brendan Hayter (Blood of the Gods, Thrawsunblat, and ex Woods of Ypres).  Later in 2009, the sampled drums were replaced by a real drummer in Greg Murp...

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Review from Angry Metal Guy

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, August 1, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Angry Metal Guy
Published: August 1, 2013

Say what you like about the U.S. black metal scene, they know how to make so much out of so little. The number of American bands taking black metal in its arguably most minimalistic form and taking it in much more ambitious directions with long and winding song structures is quite staggering. But when you consider the roots of the black metal scene in the US, and the opus that made arguably the biggest impact on it, it doesn't seem so...

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Review from Echoes and Dust Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, July 29, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Echoes and Dust Webzine
Published: July 27, 2013

When I ask myself what black metal is, I’m at a loss of words sometimes. Everyone out there thinks they are right, they know what black metal is, should be, etc. etc. I personally don’t care. I know the genesis of black metal, the bands that a lot of people site as starters of the genre. But, here isn’t the place to have this major debate that will forever be had. I’ll call Obsidian Tongue a black metal band, albeit one...

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Review from Destructive Music

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, July 29, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Destructive Music
Published: July 27, 2013

From Massachusetts in the US comes the atmospheric black metal duo of Greg Murphy (Blood of the Gods, Deadstation) and Brendan Hayter (Blood of the Gods, Thawsunblat) and their second album, the enigmatically and thought provoking “A Nest of Ravens In The Throat Of Time”, released through Hypnotic Dirge Records and as an added bonus features a guest vocalist, one John Haughm of a certain well know band, Agalloch!

I doubt very much...

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Review from The Sonic Sensory

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, July 26, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: The Sonic Sensory
Published: July 24, 2013

Enjoy the finer side of aging beauties… it won’t be beautiful forever, but it will never be ‘ugly’.

It’s no laughing matter, Obsidian Tongue has been well around the block. They might not have an extensive albums list, but the band has seen enough of the metal world to make ends meet in their own distinct manner. If anything has been set in stone it’s the fact that you’ll be hearing from Obsidian Tongue’s music for yea...

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OBSIDIAN TONGUE - A NEST OF RAVENS IN THE THROAT OF TIME 

 Released: July 29, 2013
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