1 December – French and American Black Metal edition
This week’s edition of Loud Fast Rules focuses on black metal from outside of Scandinavia.
The set starts with a few songs from the Les Legions Noires, a French black metal collective who supposedly was formed in response to the existence of the so called Norwegian Black Metal Inner Circle. While there were at least 20 bands involved in the LLN, only a handful of self released recordings were put out during their period of activity. Of the remaining bands, Mutiilation is the only one still active, though members of all the bands have founded newer projects.
The second half of the set is focused on some more recent USBM releases, including Krallice and Liturgy, and concluding with a track from one of the two new Velvet Cacoon albums (unfortunately the last bit of this track was cut off due to the set going over a few minutes).
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Here’s the link to the playlist for specific tracks: 1 December