For all you Facebookers out there, Australian Black Metal band Ne Obliviscaris has released a song from their upcoming album "Portal of I"! Check it out here:

http://www.facebook.com/NeObliviscarisB ... 4879526524

holy fuck at 5:33, amazing song, did not like them at first and was unsure about this album but its sounding amazing, both vocalists have stepped up too(not that they were ever bad or anything they just both improved)

Not Black Metal,shit band of rip-off queers.

Scorntyrant, I could not agree more - Disgrace to Australian Heavy Metal

Pretty good! They have indeed improved. Rad cover art too.

Who gives a shit if it's black metal or not? Call it whatever you want, their debut was really fucking good.

Yeah it's definitely not black metal. It doesn't really click with me though. Very talented musicians and all, but just catchy to me.

This shit sucks. It's just boring. I dunno, I can see why others like it, the same way I can see people liking folk metal...but all in all I'd prefer to lose a limb.

Loved the debut. The new song sounds great. They have a lot of comparisons to Opeth, which threw me off because I just never really liked Opeth or many bands labeled 'progressive.' But Ne Obliviscaris is pretty awesome. Looking forward to the album.

Wasn't this the band that tried to emigrate their guitarist using aan Exceptional Talent visa or something, despite only having a single demo at the time? If so, whatever happened with that saga?

This new song isn't so much BM as much as Proggy Extreme Metal, but if you guys check out their debut, it's definitely Black Metal. ;/ Took me a few listens to completely get into the new song, but damn. Seriously looking forward to this album.

Really digging this, is there a place to download it or not?

yes there is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMorAdnCixg

then type in youtube to mp3 in google and then there should be quite a few sites you can use(for free) to convert the video into an mp3 of the song

Not a bad song, but does it seem to anyone else like they named the song by pulling random words out of a hat?

Edit: Just listened to the song again, and I'm moving it up from 'not bad' to 'pretty friggin' sweet'.

http://www.mediafire.com/?r2adnzyojti7xqe Here's a quality download link.

The more I listen to this, the more I like it. And from what I've heard about the album sampling they did, the full album is just as good, if not better.

And yeah, I agree about the name. Dunno wtf that's all about. <<

There's been a live version of this song on Youtube for a pretty long time now, and I got my hands on a performance they did for an Australian radio station where they played the song.

I'm very pleased with the studio version. After hearing how well The Aurora Veil was produced, I was a bit afraid the full-length would end up sterile and lifeless. The production here is more modern-sounding, but definitely not sterile.

The intro is great, but the song itself goes nowhere. There a couple of very good moments, but as a whole is inferior to the The Aurora Veil material. The modern production doesn't help either.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/notes/ne-obl ... 0253276507

They won.

sorry to bump this up but new song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wa4zqBw ... e=youtu.be

Never understood what inspired such hate - in australia there are some RABID anti-this band people. personally I couldn't give a shit. I think I heard a song once, maybe not. But it's weird to see.

This is incredible, I'm definitely excited to hear the rest of this album.

The part starting from 8:10 onwards is incredible.

glad people like the new song took me so long to get used to but i now like it, not sure why they are so hated on but still

Fail to see how they can pass this off as black metal. Sounds like prog rock to me.

Yeah, certainly not black metal. It's good, that's what it is.

its not black metal but i dont think the band try to pass themselves off as black metal(i think)

They just massively failed the "how to make friends and influence people" test viz the rest of the Australian scene. If you know any Australian people, you may have noticed that culturally we really frown on hype and self-promotion, so they really pissed a lot of people off with their massively self-indulgent promotional campaigns which, as far as most people were concerned, had nothing of substance to back them up. There was also a big shitfight about them weaseling their way onto the support slot of Suffocation - they complained to MySpace about the derrogatory comments going round and had several other bands pages deleted as a result. Also some incidents relating to them mishandling gigs they were supposed to be organising. Basically the consensus is that they havent "paid their dues" and should shut the hell up and let the music do the talking. To their credit they have toned it down a lot, but they are more or less persona non grata as far as most of the established bands go.

Thank you to the people who support us...(yes I'm from said band), and we do appreciate negative feedback and criticism so thanks to those who step up...we do like constructive criticism instead of people whinging and name calling...its a bit ordinary. We've no real tolerance for whingers.

We do realise that in Australian culture its more of a laid back approach to things, but its frustrating when most of the time you hear about bands complaining about nothing happening for them or no one turns up to their shows etc. Whether we promote more than other bands...or make up the difference for other bands not promoting (therefore seeming excessive) or whatever, with no promotion, no one really knows about you. Thank you "scorntyrant" for noting we have toned the promo down...well, we have and haven't, we've just redirected it I think. Perhaps mistakes were made, whatever, we all learn, its music...life goes on.

In regards to Suffocation, if I remember correctly we were asked if we wanted to play, we said yes, thought it a great opportunity. Had no idea about whatever other bands were after the spot. We were new and were a little green, so whether we were ignorant to other bands or not, really unaware of the support being a trophy. I do have to say though, the whole flier thing was amusing, it was great promo. We had to laugh..."wimps and posers leave the hall" (Manowar seriously?). We got a lot of threats etc, but when we played the gig there was no heckling, bashings or anything (...it was a little disappointing that our haters let us down). Also, if the band needed to promote their hate for us on their myspace site...sad things like that need to disappear, hence why the site did. Only really know for sure of the one site that was removed.

No, we're not black metal and don't try to pass ourselves off as a BM band either. We only really have some black metal influences thats about it.

Great songs and looking forward to listening to the whole album. Also, I find it very nice that Noyr came and explained/justified the various criticism expressed here without any shitstorm. It's classy and a bit unexpected with all the shitstorms that I've seen recently in the metal scene.

Anyway, can't wait to listen to the complete album. I'm thinking of ordering the T-Shirt + CD package, but shipping to Canada must be kinda expensive. Oh well, I'll see.

to be fair ne do plenty of promoting other bands too, never noticed if they promote themselves too much but it was nice for one of their members to come on

i'll probablly see them live and get a bunch of merch there, both belakor and them seem the biggest thing in australian metal atm

Really? Maybe within Australia itself (and then only within a certain age group - I dont think you'd find too many people over 30 that enthusiastic to be honest), but definitely not outside of it. and thats mostly because many of them are over doing Aussie gigs because they get regular offers to play abroad Ask 9/10 poeople on message boards which Aussie bands they want to see tour their country and the answers you get back are the barbaric/evil bands our country specialises in - Portal, Impetuous Ritual, Cauldron Black Ram, Destruktor, Ignivomous, Gospel of the Horns, Stargazer. All bands with multiple full-lengths and international touring experience. Not that I'm trying to start an argument here, but I think its an odd perception and I'm curious to know how you came to it.

i meant in terms of young and upcoming bands(sure ne might not be young in terms of their age but they are in terms of how many releases they have) and belakor are quite young in terms of how long they have been around

i totally agree that when people think of australian metal bands they think of Portal, Impetous ritual, Ignivmous and all the other bands you mentioned i just meant inside australia and young bands if that makes any sense

As someone outside of Australia I have to say Be'lakor are big enough to be regularly mentioned among the first bands considering Australian metal, wherever I look. They'll be doing a second European tour inside two years in August, with Summer Breeze and Brutal Assault already confirmed. Locals at Summer Breeze said they gathered a large crowd as a first band of the day when they performed there. Their overseas following is substantial, otherwise they wouldn't be as active in the touring front.

And speaking of Ne Obliviscaris, they'd have much harder time even existing without their overseas fans. The Aurora Veil was an underground hit.

i knew both bands were well known in australia but its hard to tell their popularity internationally i know portal are well known most places especially after peforming at that massive festival in america

This is totally true. Besides Be'lakor and Destroyer 666, I could tell that people here who think in Australian metal goes for Portal, Impetuous Ritual and Ignivomous. NO it's still pretty underground to my knowledge and having just 3 songs officially released, it's not surprising at all.

Seven songs actually. But it's true that NeO are still quite underground. They just announced a deal with a European label though.

I didn't know the album was out, but still they don't represent their country as much as other better known bands.

The demo had some interesting stuff - especially the Malone-esque bass - and the musicianship was pretty good, but the kaleidoscope song was lacking, so we'll see.

just finished listening to their album, extremely good had a few little issues with it but mostly really good, last song is really good but i was trying to read the lyrics while they were being vocalised but it really didnt work since both vocalists sung at the same time good album though

Just got done listening to the album for the fifth time, and I have to say... no, it isn't black metal. So what? The music is really fucking good and the melodies are subtly catchy. It's not going to be a record that grabs you by the nuts the very first time like some other stuff. It's easy to notice more and more going in the song the more times you hear it. Also, the lyrics are fantastic. If I had to write a review, it's definitely an 88 to 90% record.

Even the haters need to listen to it at least once, if not twice before coming to a full conclusion.

imo its a really good album, wouldnt complain if they had some doom or drone sections but maybe that wouldnt suit the album also And Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope has to be one of the most catchy songs i ever heard in my life would like to see more of that kinda hting too but thats only because i really like doom and drone and i love And Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope , the rest of the album is almost perfect but not quite up to And Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope's standards imo but the entire album just works really well