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Over the past.
As the title will hint we are now writing a new chapter.  This album as been a journey to hell and back for us all. Accidents, cancer and other illnesses has been thrown our way from the day we started writing and recording this beast. Never have an album title been more fitting.  Over the past!
There is no real lyrical concept on this album other than the usual suspects like darkness, mhopelessnes, void and the odd historical moments.
Musically it's the opposite of what we did on our debut. This time all songs are brand new except for one that we brought along from the 90's, heavily reworked.
The cover artwork is based on the song 'Four Hundred Years' witch is about the 'night of the four hundred years' that is a description of the years Norway were ruled by foreign kings. The artist,Alex Tartsus, really caught the nerve in the lyrics and created this masterpiece.

Only by the art cover one can understand what ‘Over the Past’ is all about. It’s gloomy and dark bringing back some day in the past, a description of the years Norway were ruled by foreign kings. That’s Legacy Of Emptiness! A band that mix an odd past, with a dark present to the unknown and uncertain future. It’s an inviting piece of a disturbing and melodic music that Legacy Of Emptiness shows us. Despair is a track that shows it very well. A piece of modern metal, in the good sense, with some ancient instruments. Angelmaker reminds me a lot the 1990 pioneers which created this disturbing, but amazing kind of metal music. But the one which drove all my attention was Into The Eternal Pits Of Nothingness, a track that can easily make you go trip for a while. It begins hard, fast and BM as it can be to soon slow down a little and whimsically open the gates to the obscure arts of using all that erudite instrumental that makes the song even more complex. And then we go to Drawn By Nightmare that uses and abuses of this same formula. But a bit slower. The highlight are the rich choirs. All that with touches of a sick and disturbed voice as There Was a Man and Four Hundred Years glimpses us. Last but not least, and the most disturbing song comes ‘Evening Star’ if you listen to the song and think about its name compared to the music you listen. So that was Legacy Of Emptiness’s ‘Over the Past’, a journey to the unknown, to the dark and gloomy views of the past made through epical songs that invite you to trip and have bad dreams…  POLETO

Band Members
Eddie Risdal - Vocals,Guitars,Programming
Kjell-Ivar Aarli - Bass
Øyvind Rosseland - Keyboards
Additional vocals on 'Drawn By Nightmares' performed by Jesse M. Jolly.
Lead guitar on 'Evening Star' performed by Dan Swanö.
Banjo on 'Despair' performed by Geir Emanuelsen.

Track List
01. Reminisce 06:36
02. Despair 04:39
03. Angelmaker 06:04
04. Into The Eternal Pits Of Nightmare 04:45
05. Drawn By Nightmares 06:27
06. There Was A Man 05:53
07. Four Hundred Years 05:28
08. Transition 02:58
09. Evening Stars 05:53
48:43

Symphonic Melodic Black Metal
Froland NO
Release Date:  Jun 12 2017
Label:  Black Lion Records
45 MB
128 Kbs

Zeit is a Black Doom Metal band fro Leipzig, Germany.  Zeit, which means 'time', is based on the philosophy that time is in fact motionless and only exists in our own minds.  Wir sind Nichts : We are nothing
Album Cover by Win

Konvergenz is the first full length release by the German band Zeit. While their sound is firmly rooted in mid paced riff-heavy black metal, there’s elements of sludge and doom in their music which makes the album an interesting listen to say the least.  The vocals come in as high pitched shrieks, cutting through the mid paced riffs with a cold, steely sharpness. There are hints of stoner doom mixed with the cold harshness of the black metal and the moody vivid melodies stick in your head like a sharp knife.  Zeit’s music is an interweaving of genres wrapping around black metal like a climbing vine.  KOJOTE

Band Members
Win  Drums
Fur  Vocals, Guitars
Flakmann  Bass

Track List
2. Rand 05:07
3. Nichts 05:31
4. Trüb 05:02
5. Weiter 04:31
6. Kalt 04:54
7. Boden 04:41
8. Latenz 05:45
40:12

Black Doom Metal
Leipzig, Saxony DE
Release Date:  Jun 02 2017
Label:  Independent
93.57 MB
320 Kbs

...and we stood vigilant to welcome the coming Saturn-Beast; the
herald of black iron and chaos, first conceived in the storm preceeding the
outbreak of an aeon. The sky twitched in its wake.
The sidereal entity known as CHARNEL WINDS was brought to existence in the autumn of 2003. Some early reflections were actualized in the form of a demo cassette "Stigma Prior Nefastvm", released by Spread Evil in December 2004. It is a truly vicious and intensive opus, albeit both musically and thematically somewhat elemental. Go find it.
At least for the time being, CW involves a number of minds, hands &
voices - whereas the material dating from the period of the First Stigma was nearly exclusively the work of one individual. This arrangement has so far proven to be quite efficient, allowing aural and lyric exploration of various themes from a myriad of different angles, on many overlapping levels.
RECEIVE.RESONATE.REMEMBER.RETURN

This second album release from Finland’s Charnel Winds provides the opportunity to explore what they call apocalyptic heterodox black metal. The patterns are bleak and irregular. In fact the patterns amount to creepy and sinister passages, not to mention torture-laden vocals. The riffs are off-key in a way that you might think they could be normal but they’re not.  Avitchi Blues makes steady progress but it’s distorted. The deliberate unpleasantness of the sound bears a resemblance to Ephel Duath, but then normality will resume for a short while and we’re listening to a progressive-sounding black metal. As for the vocals, they’re meant to be ghastly and raw, while reflecting the terrible nature of it all, but they are terrible in their own right.
The freezing sounds of hell link the tracks, so Avitchi Blues leads into the crusty and exploratory Atmaascornful, slowing down to the accompaniment of the ghostly vocals. That’s the politest way I can describe them. But the guitar tune marches along creepily and maintains the dark intrigue. This all comes from an alien world. Rebellion blasts on anarchically, with the insane vocals a side dish to the surging and indeed exciting instrumentals. The Abyss Gazes Als has a hypnotic and lingering quality. The more I listened to this album, the more I liked the pounding strength of the instrumentals. The out of tune vocals mingle with cat screams and even duet with them. The chorus is actually quite catchy. It’s different. Pumping riffs with injections of creepy colour are for me the strength of this well-constructed album. Sometimes it’ll take off for a while as a hidden wind ups the tempo, as it does on Beyond Null Reality before reverting to a strange and dark chant. Seven minutes are then devoted to a lengthy and laborious knife twist on The Heralding before a break and a powerful step-up for the final three minutes of this dark and threat-laden work.
If you’re looking for something oddball in the black metal genre, this may suit you well. Vocals don’t usually bother me, and they didn’t here, but they are strange. What they manage to do is to complete the picture of the grim and largely rule-free world, which Charnel Winds’s instrumentalists portray.  ANDREW DOHERTY

Band Members
Shoo - Guitars, Vocals
Termuthis - Guitar
Sandh - Bass
Wyrmfang - Drums

Track List
1. Devouring the Cursed Fruits of Tartaros 04:53
2. Avitchi Blues 06:08
3. Atmâsphere 06:46
4. Rebellion 03:55
5. The Abyss Gazes Also 06:50
6. Beyond Null Reality 07:52
7. The Heralding 10:17
46:41

Black Metal
Jyväskylä, Finland
Release Date:  jun 02 2017
Label:  Feuer Publications
106.96 MB
320 Kbs