Beithíoch to (not) release new album

Beithíoch ditches new album in favor of not polluting world with sub-standard music:
I’ve decided to scrap most of the material [ed. for the new album]. It was pretty much ready to go, but I don’t think its up to scratch any more.
Good enough by contemporary metal/music standards. But if we’re honest “good” nowadays doesn’t have [...]

Abhorrent MP3 download

Intricate, intense death metal from San Antonio, Texas. Just about the only exciting prospect in death metal these days.
Download MP3 of Abhorrent track “Metaphysical Tyranny”
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Abhorrent @ Myspace

Download remaster of Aisling Dhorcha

The downloadable version of Beithíoch’s Aisling Dhorcha has changed. The version that was on this site has been replaced with the newer remastered version of the album, albeit at a lower (but still listenable) bitrate.
For those of you who have the old mp3 version of the album its still worth downloading the new one [...]

Beithíoch: new album news and preview track

News from Beithíoch.
Alot of people I know will still be getting their heads around Aisling Dhorcha, for the rest of the world though I’m happy to announce that more Beithíoch is immanent.
“An Sealgaire” is a short-form work part of a two-album set. Its in the droney, ambient, instrumental metal format of pieces like “Battle Fury”, [...]

Metal and motifs

Inspired by a post at metal site hessian.org:
The use of motifs and leitmotifs is very frequent in the musical genres of classical and opera, but we can also find some examples of their use in that furious contemporary “classical” brand of sound making we known as heavy metal.
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Motifs have been used in metal music for [...]