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Cloak In ‘Early Stages Of Working On New Material’ 

Posted in Interviews with tags , on 06/09/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

Like the Olympic torch, black-metal band Cloak seems poised to be on fire forever. The Atlantans delivered the strongest set at last year’s Hell in the Harbor in Baltimore, parted ways with their former record label and issued The Bad Penny’s favorite record of 2023—yet Scott Taysom and company are showing no signs of letting up.

Speaking of “signs,” Music Connection just published a new “Signing Story” on Cloak, written by yours truly. (Please quickly forget the abysmal attempt at a pun in the previous sentence.) The print edition of the mag is now available, but if you can’t afford or find it, here‘s the online version of the piece.

Signing Story with Mammoth Black Metal troupe Cloak

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Top 100 Best Live Performances Of 2023: Mars Volta, Be’lakor, Hexis, Covet

Posted in Concert Reviews, Reviews with tags , , , , , , , , , on 01/17/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

Head over to FLOOD to read my epic roundup of the best sets among the 150 that I caught last year. Also featured: the Jesus Piece, Show Me the Body, Jason Isbell, Portrayal of Guilt, Cloak, Deafheaven … go here for the full enchilada.

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Best Albums of 2023: Cloak, Insomnium, Horrendous, Jeromes Dream

Posted in Lists with tags , , , , , , , , , on 12/20/2023 by Kurt Orzeck
  1. Cloak – Black Flame Eternal (Season of Mist)
  2. Insomnium – Anno 1696 and Songs of the Dusk EP (Nuclear Blast)
  3. Horrendous – Ontological Mysterium (Season of Mist)
  4. Jeromes Dream – Gray in Between (Iodine)
  5. Warcrab – The Howling Silence (Transcending Obscurity)
  6. The Armed – Perfect Saviors (Sargent House)
  7. Svalbard – Weight of the Mask (Nuclear Blast)
  8. Fen – Monuments to Absence (Prophecy Productions)
  9. Thy Catafalque – Alföld (Season of Mist)
  10. Great Falls – Objects Without Pain (Neurot)

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Exclusive: Cloak Part Ways With Season of Mist; New Label Deal Imminent

Posted in Exclusives with tags , , on 12/04/2023 by Kurt Orzeck

Cloak, Atlanta’s hottest black-metal band and the quartet responsible of one of the year’s highest quality rock records, Black Flame Eternal, has parted ways with Season of Mist, Cloak confirmed to The Bad Penny on Monday.

The midnight marauders told disclosed in a conversation Monday morning that their deal with Season of Mist recently ended but that they are already ready to ink a new deal. The furious — and, surprisingly, hoodless — quartet said it expects to announce its new label home by year’s end.

Season of Mist signed Cloak in October 2016, and the label released the fiery foursome’s debut, To Venomous Depths, the following year. Season of Mist also released 2019’s The Burning Dawn and, last May, the teeth-gnashing Black Flame Eternal.

[Go here to read Cloak frontman Scott Taysom’s breakdown of Black Flame Eternal with the Bad Penny.]

Cloak continues to tour heavily behind the well-received record, having started the band’s current trek in late August.

Perhaps as a farewell gift, Season of Mist just released Cloak’s covering of “Black Dream” by Samhain on Halloween Day.

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Cloak Frontman on Making ‘A Monumental Piece in the History of the Band’

Posted in Interviews with tags , on 06/13/2023 by Kurt Orzeck

Catch up with Cloak in my just-published New Noise interview with Scott Taysom, who spoke about the black-metal band’s game-changing new LP and Cloak’s gig tonight at Oblivion Access.

Interview: Cloak Dead-Set on Draping Oblivion in Darkness

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Memento: A Spellbinding Set List From Bewitcher

Posted in Concert Reviews, Features, Mementos, Reviews with tags , , , , , on 07/04/2022 by Kurt Orzeck
Bewitcher’s frontman, Unholy Weaver of Shadows & Incantations

Bewitcher, Portland’s most scintillating speed-metal band since Toxic Holocaust, blew the garage doors off the Shredder in Boise once again on Friday night. It was an exhilarating set played by the band that played the same venue with Nile in mid-April, and with Exhumed and Creeping Death in November 2021.

The 50-or-so attendees danced and rubbed knocked elbows during each song, before and after which Bewitcher’s gracious frontman — who goes by the tough-to-memorize moniker Unholy Weaver of Shadows & Incantations — frequently expressed his appreciation for the crowd.

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Exclusive: Cloak Finish Recording ‘Faster, Harder’ Third LP; Debut New Song Live

Posted in Exclusives, Interviews with tags , on 06/30/2022 by Kurt Orzeck
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Summer generally leads to an absence of black in Boise. Black clothes are stowed away in closets. Black cars stay parked in garages. Even the black of night lasts fewer than eight hours. But tonight, two of the most hottest heavy-metal bands currently on tour in the U.S. — Cloak and Bewitcher — will paint the city black. Their co-headlining gig at underground venue the Shredder on Friday night is poised to be the most potent metal concert in Boise for the next two months.

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