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Sentinel (2012)

by Black Table

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MindOverFour
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MindOverFour I thought Black Table's "Obelisk" was a top 10 extreme metal release of 2016. This EP from 2012 is a bit less experimental but I think just as amazing. Wonderful, complicated guitar parts, progressive bass lines that you can hear, very clean and clear drums that do not muddy up the music, and some of the most unique shrieky vocals ever. I don't know if it's Black Metal...there are aspects of it that remind of Minsk or Rwake...so I think of it as progressive blackened sludge. Favorite track: Sentinel.
Steve Wood
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Steve Wood Smart and interesting Black Metal with a female vocalist who's got it goin' on. Favorite track: Sentinel.
Rhokeheart
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Rhokeheart Cool sludgy somewhat post metal sounding music with wailing vocals. Favorite track: Sentinel.
Claire Donner
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Claire Donner Where did you guys go??? I've been tracking and studying female-fronted harsh music meticulously and nothing has satisfied like this rich, addictive progressive EP. If you're all in different bands now I'd love to know, I want you to have my money. Favorite track: Heist.
F E M
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F E M This album redefined squealing! Favorite track: Heist.
Pagliacci is Kvlt
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Pagliacci is Kvlt An intense amalgamation of black, progressive, and post-metal that manages to leave the listener feeling battered and invigorated at the same time. Favorite track: Heist.
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1.
Heist 06:20
Under bruised skies, steel and blood sweat, from skin, our hearts humid like the mouths of wolves. We are the sons of chaos, left wild in darkness, beneath the moon. Trampled flowers in mud, with knives for petals. We will take your peace of mind, and we wont be the last we wont be the last. This the west, where young men are eaten and vomited kings. Heist! This a heist of the American dream, Heist! We will take your peace of mind. And we won’t be the last. We won’t be the last. This is...a heist of the American dream. This is a heist.
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Sentinel 08:38
let me die, upon a river. where the water creeps my flesh. have my form carry down. back into earth. Sentinel. Sentinel. I'm not afraid to die. I'm not afraid to die. I'm not afraid to die. I'm not afraid to die. I'm not afraid to die. a priori. now so clear. finite, now infinite. Sentinel. Sentinel. To Live. Is to Die.
3.
To Tear Down 04:00
Final light of May. burning cold. undoing of passion. blackened grains of carbon. golden cross of hypocrisy, crowned. Jete dans Le Siene. Maid of Orleans. god is war. god is war, war is god. god is war, war is god. god, war. god. war. god. war.
4.
1942 05:29
to the horizon, a remembering, death on the horizon, a dark star. It throbs in my gut, since birth. A shadow of a forgotten origin. I am a smear of primordial ache. a dead star. Carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen. A dead star, a dead star. The ruin of earth. The shudder of bombs. The wrath of kings. The christ of horror. The fall of Rome. In my flesh. In the blood an infinite tree stands. In the breath, I exist. In the water, I remember. Fire is my will and dark matter, my guide. I am a smear of primordial ache. A dead star, a dead star, full of dark matter.

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"boy is it a broiler. Do you like any of metal’s trends of the past decade (other than shitty slamcore)? Blackened rasps, sky-scraping post metal, doomy paces, technically inspired arrangements… Black Table offer all this and more"
- Dan Lake, Decibel Blog
- decibelmagazine.com/featured/throw-me-a-frickin-label-hack-black-table

"the quartet just released a new EP, Sentinel, which I’ve been rocking all day, and which is just A++++ WDBWA material"
- Axl Rosenberg, Metal Sucks
- metalsucks.net/2013/01/07/three-cheers-for-black-table )


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released December 17, 2012

Tracked and mixed at Trax East (South River, NJ)
Mastered at West West Side (New Windsor, NY)
Illustration by Matt Mellon

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experimental metal band from New York/New Jersey. We are Mers Sumida, Ryan Fleming, Mike Kadnar and DJ Scully

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