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SHADOW OF DOUBT Premieres “No Mercy”

By Lindsay OConnor
Today marks the release of Řvoucí Vichry, the latest seven-inch from BLACKOSH, the black metal project led by Petr Hosek, original guitar player for iconic Czech black metal band Root and current member of the legendary Master’s Hammer.

With a reputation of manifesting inventive and genre-pushing black metal, BLACKOSH’s Řvoucí Vichry seven-inch — which translates to “Roaring Winds” — follows the band’s 2013 and 2014 splits with Master’s Hammer and the 2015-issued Iron Bonehead full-length, Kurvy, Chlast A Black Metal.

With Řvoucí Vichry, BLACKOSH continues along the path traversed by Kurvy, Chlast A Black Metal, which Metal Temple likened to, “hordes of demon spawn torturing and killing a congregation with twisted, murderous devices from an ancient world,” in an 8/10 review, by resurrecting the eclectic combination of influences and styles used in the now twenty-five-plus-year-old early Root records (namel Zjeveni and Hell Symphony) but with a more modern production. The artwork and lyrics also follow the dark but also spirited sensibility seen on Kurvy…

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