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Review from Forgotten Path Magazine; Issue 6

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, September 25, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Forgotten Path Magazine; Issue 6
Published: November 2014

What’s up with DSBM nowadays? It used to be an interesting, atmospherically convincing genre with experimental tendencies and various musical influences. Now there are so many bands claiming to belong to this genre, but their music does not have an expected emotional effect; there’s too much Post-Rock and not enough depression. Windbruch is one of these types of bands. The strange thing about it is that their ly...

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Review from Necromance Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, September 25, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Necromance Webzine
Published: September 3, 2014
*Google translation of Spanish review

From one of the most cold and desolate areas of Russia, Siberia, comes WINDBRUCH a draft Iluzii Optice, who was in charge of recording all instruments and give life to the 7 themes that confirm this work and have been edited to through the seal Hypnotic Dirge Records. A job where we will find a depressive black metal and slow cut, heavily influenced by the atmosphere of the place of residence...

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Review from Teeth of the Divine Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, September 25, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Teeth of the Divine Webzine
Published: September 3, 2014

Canada’s Hypnotic Dirge Records is really carving a niche out in the style of the label’s namesake, and their three early 2014 releases from Epitimia, In My Shiver and Russia’s one man project Windbruch are no exception.

No Stars, Only Full Dark is the second album from sole member Illuzii Optice, who performs all of the instruments, and it fits in line perfectly with all of Hypnotic Dirge’s other bands and relea...

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Review from Scholomance Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, September 25, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Scholomance Webzine
Published: September 3, 2014
*Google translation of French review

Windbruch is a solo project of Depressive / Atmospheric Black Metal led by multi-instrumentalist artist, iluzii Optice his distant and cold Siberia. It was in 2009 that, "Collision of the Worlds," the first album of the One-Man Band out via Sun & Moon Records. In 2013 a split entitled "Silentium! "Made with Gmork and Depicting Abysm released by Hypnotic Dirge Records. Then in 2014, Windbruch ...

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Review from Transcending Obscurity Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, August 13, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Transcending Obscurity Webzine
Published: August 2, 2014

Windbruch from Russia has released a sublime album. At first it seemed too simple and in parts saccharine for my taste. But the CD wouldn’t come out of the player because the music always seemed apt for my mood. I couldn’t get over the beautiful opening intro song The Dance of Liquid Fire and often had it tied up in a loop. The next song was another hurdle for me, simply because it was strongly reminiscent of the go...

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Review from Deaf Sparrow Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, August 13, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Deaf Sparrow Webzine
Published: August 2, 2014

You can imagine from word of mouth, dirty internet forums, those days where you somehow lose an hour or two diving into Wikipedia, that Russia is a cold, wintry, place and holds the largest chunk of the world’s largest biome  (which is the source to a wonderful documentary about it available on Netflix). While Windbruch hasn’t explicitly stated that this album is to serve as the atmospheric background to conjurations of conif...

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Review from The Sound Projector

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, August 13, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: The Sound Projector
Published: July 30, 2014

On first hearing this album, the second by Russian one-man band Windbruch, hailing from Nizhnevartovsk in the Khanty-Mansi region in western Siberia, I get an impression of  raw and sometimes angry music, ragged and sharp in tone with a full bass backing, shaped into actual songs edged with delicate ambient sounds and tones that add touches of ice coldness.

Lone Windbruch member Iluzii Optice brings skill and imagination to craft an...

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Review from Heathen Harvest Periodical

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, July 21, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Heathen Harvest Periodical
Published: July 14, 2014

Hypnotic Dirge Records is among the few labels I consider myself to be ‘following‘, so to speak. The label’s roster (and subsequent Bandcamp page) is a proverbial treasure trove of extreme and experimental music. Even the less impressive experiences I’ve had with them have been at least intriguing. I suffered little hesitation, then, when Windbruch were brought to my attention. Even if one-man atmospheric black metal...

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Review from Disfactory Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, June 19, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Disfactory Webzine
Published: June 16, 2014
*Google translation of Italian review

The art of discovering never fail, never stop repeating it against the Hypnotic Dirge Records , output quality always or frequently-as in this case-"valuations" came from an earlier self. Oh yes because this No Stars, Only Full Dark was there on the sidelines, ready to move indifferent to many, if not all, because it is increasingly difficult to disentangle and move in different outputs, then the...

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Review from Rock Metal Essense Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, May 12, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Rock Metal Essense Webzine
Published: May 12, 2014

It 'was released in February 2014 No Stars, Only Full Dark , the second album in the study of the formation of the Siberian atmospheric black metal Windbruch

A disk of cold atmospheric black metal, often delicate and emotional melodies in its most refined, but also capable of showcasing a good masculinity and aggression where the pace becomes more urgent or more doom, or at times when it can emerge ferocious growl of good and ...

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Review from Chronicles of Chaos Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, May 11, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Chronicles of Chaos Webzine
Published: May 6, 2014

Thanks to technology, a single person can become a band of musicians; one instrument, human or musical, can become an orchestra, especially if you're an aspiring musician residing in the remotest regions of the planet. Like Siberia, for instance.

Windbruch is a Russian one-man band hailing from the coldest, most desolate parts of Russia, namely Siberia, but the blessed technology has enabled the artist to produce a full album ...

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Review from Lords of Metal Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, May 11, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Lords of Metal Webzine
Published: May 1, 2014

No Stars, Only Full Dark is Windbruchs second full-length album and the follow-up to Collision Of The Worlds, which was an interesting album full of astral atmospheric black metal. The album was seriously hampered by its vocals, which were poorly done and distracting from the atmosphere. On No Stars, Only Full Dark the vocals are sparsely used and vastly improved, no longer a distracting factor. Windbruch now opts for a more strai...

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Review from Rock Metal Essence Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, May 6, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Rock Metal Essence Webzine
Published: May 6, 2014
*Google translation of Italian review

It 'was released in February 2014 No Stars, Only Full Dark , the second album in the study of the formation of the Siberian atmospheric black metal Windbruch

A disk of cold atmospheric black metal, often delicate and emotional melodies in its most refined, but also capable of showcasing a good masculinity and aggression where the pace becomes more urgent or more doom, or at times when it can...

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Review from Aristocrazia Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, May 6, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Aristocrazia Webzine
Published: May 5, 2014
*Google translation of Italian review

It's been over three years since I made ​​the acquaintance of Rodion Mikhailov (then known as IO) and its solitary project Windbruch thanks to "Collision Of The Worlds" , a considerable amount of time that had led me to forget the existence of this Russian group. Yet it took only a couple of tracks from the new album "No Stars, Only Full Dark" to bring back vivid memories and positive sign th...

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Review from Pest Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, April 24, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Pest Webzine
Published: April 23, 2014

It seems Hypnotic Dirge starts fishing in East European waters, I guess the collaboration with Solitude Productions had its share of influence on this matter, especially since Ukraine and Russia are so rich in doomy, depressive bands. Windbruch already released a split on Hypnotic Dirge and they extended their contract with this second full-length, the first being released by Romanian Sun & Moon Records in 2009. Windbruch seems to borrow...

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Review from Sic Maggot Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, April 9, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Sic Maggot Webzine
Published: March 29, 2014
*Google translation of Czech review

When I was in May last year wrote a review on the split "Silentium" on which participated in the formation of three Russian Depicting you , Windbruch and Gmork , I did not expect that it will pass about ten months and our menu will review two of these three groups and top one mate. Talking about the albums you Depicting a epitimy (main band members Depicting you ) still awaits us in the near futur...

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Review from Headbang Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, April 2, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Headbang Webzine
Published: April 2, 2014
*Google translation of Italian review

The art of discovering never fail, never stop repeating it against the Hypnotic Dirge Records , releases always high quality and often-as in this case-"valuations" came from an earlier self. Oh yes because this No Stars, Only Full Dark was there ready to go indifferent to many, if not all, more and more difficult to move and to disentangle the various outputs, then the time is always less, seems to...

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Review from Alternativ Musik Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, April 1, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Alternativ Musik Webzine
Published: April 1, 2014
*Google translation of German review

As the album begins to use sounds that sound as if the CD jumping and one wonders if the CD is not broken. But no, right after the album of the one-man project from Siberia, the atmospheric Black Metal makes and so the album ends with the same noise begins. Right in the middle will transport you to the Siberian cold, which acts as bleak as it suggests the album, produced by discreet eigesetz...

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Review from Post-Christ Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, March 25, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Post-Christ Webzine
Published: March 24 2014
*Google translation of French review

Born in 2009 with a debut album Collision of the Worlds , the one-man-band Russian WINDBRUCH offers us in this year 2014 its second opus lasting almost 50 minutes. Little precedent for the progenitor of this group, but the level is nonetheless there in a very conventional style altogether.

The style is rather atmospheric, without bidding keyboards yet, and control of the whole is quite interesting...

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Review from Dead Rhetoric Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Dead Rhetoric Webzine
Published: March 16, 2014

Bordering on the “is it metal or not” fence is Russia’s Windbruch, a one-man musical project.  Combining atmospheric black metal, shoegaze, and a sense for the cinematic, No Stars, Only Full Dark is described as a “soundtrack for the heart of winter.”  The follow-up to 2009’s Collision of the Worlds, No Stars, Only Full Dark was originally issued independently in 2013 but pressed to CD for the first time early this y...

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Review from Les Eternels Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, March 10, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Les Eternels Webzine
Published: March 10, 2014
*Google translation of French review

No Stars, Only Full Dark . That a black metal album clearly and proudly announces color: black black black black. We can already imagine the true disk smelling, corrosive, cold and dark at best. Pourléchage of lips and dark Alphonse engaged. Nothing rude Gertrude do we imagine. Little prior history still to set the mood. Windbruch Russian and is the work of one man: Iluzi optice which occupies...

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Review from Ave Noctum Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, March 10, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Ave Noctum Webzine
Published: March 10, 2014

Although this is their second album, I don’t recall crossing the lonely path of this one man Siberian atmospheric black metal band before. I’m quite glad I have now though.

We get a gentle, melancholic intro with ‘The Dance Of Liquid Fire ‘, a little chill sweeping in before ‘No More Entry, No More Exit’ rises up with cold but subtle black metal riffs. There is a touch of Fen about this; that ability to conjure up the fl...

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Review from A Dead Spot of Light Zine

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, February 23, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: A Dead Spot of Light Zine
Published: February 16, 2014

I am amazed how little attention and energy is being spent on such a trifle as a band name or a title of an album. As there is all to often no immediate necessity to rush things in terms of a physical release, which in this respect has even seen a delay, it opens the questions on why this negligence is indeed necessary? It seems superfluous somehow. 

The opening and closing of “No Stars, Only Full Dark” are some kind o...

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Review from Dark Festivals

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, February 19, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Dark Festivals Webzine
Published: February 18, 2014
*Google translation of German review

So Metal goes global: The group windfall from the cool Siberia (Russia) published their equally cool sound at a Canadian record label. This is with "No Stars, Only Full Dark" recently namely the second album of atmospheric Black Metal band appeared.

Wind damage are not representative of the raw, classic Black Metal of the 90s. Instead, the Russian band is among those demanding groups, they ...

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Review from Bleeding 4 Metal Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, February 17, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Bleeding 4 Metal Webzine
Published: February 16, 2014
*Google translation of German review

How pleased I was that "No Stars, Only Full Dark" is the beginning of February Hypnotic Dirge Records published by! The one-man project Windbruch, behind the IO, which is called in real life Rodion Mikhailov is native to Siberia and put 2009 his first sign of life under the title "Collision Of The Worlds" before. At last year's split "Silentium!" with Gmork and depicting abysm now follow...

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Review from Atmosfear Magazine; Issue 13

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, February 16, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Atmosfear Magazine; Issue 13
Published: April 2014
*Google translation of Russian review

«No stars, only full dark», the second full-length album project Windbruch from Nizhnevartovsk ( Russia ) . Work is interesting at least that participates in the group , only one person - Rodion «Iluzii Optice» Mikhailov ( lyrics, vocals , music) . Each song - some story told by the author link which appears beautiful organic music . I note that all the tracks on the album are English n...

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Review from Volumes of Sin Webznie

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, February 10, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Volumes of Sin Webzine
Published: February 9, 2014

Windbruch is a Russian one man project from the mind of Iluzii Optice. He released the debut Windbruch album, Collision of the Worlds, in 2009 under Sun & Moon Records and in 2013 followed up with a split release. Now taken under the wing of Canadian label Hypnotic Dirge Records, No Stars, Only Full Dark was recently released at the beginning of February 2014 after an initial hope that the record would be released in the earl...

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Review from Black Phoenix Rising

Posted by Nick Skog on Saturday, February 1, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Black Phoenix Rising 
Published: February 1, 2014

One man project Windbruch prove once again there's no shortage of good music emerging from Russia and the surrounding region. On first impressions "No Stars, Only Full Dark" appears to pitch its tent firmly into the black metal/post rock/shoegaze fusion camp that we've seen become rather popular over recent years, comparisons to bands such as Alcest would not be far wrong. However for Windbruch the connection is one of inspira...

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Review from The 10th Doctor of Prog

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, January 31, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: The 10th Doctor of Prog
Published: January 31, 2014

2013 saw a new age for black metal. The age of accessibility and mainstream coverage. Yes, as most black metal fans will point out, ‘hipster’ black metal happened long before Deafheaven dropped Sunbather, but 2013 really saw it take off, with huge appeal worldwide, a following on the trendiest of music boards and support from the trendiest of publications. 2013, coincidentally, was the year I got into black metal, but I ...

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Review from The Sound Projector/Metal Archives

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, January 31, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: The Sound Projector/Metal Archives
Published: November 29, 2013

No Stars, Only Full Dark ... I take that to mean that from here on in, Windbruch's not messing about doodling with experimental effects and ambience ... this is going to be full-on depressive melodic black metal, intense and aggressive, yet with moments of reflection and subtlety. On first listen, this is what we get: a raw and sometimes angry music, ragged and sharp in tone with a full bass backing, shaped into ...

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 WINDBRUCH - NO STARS, ONLY FULL DARK

 Released: February 1, 2014
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Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal/Soundtrack

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