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Here is a photo from yesterday of our students in Tanzania. Are you interested in getting hands-on experience under the tutelage of board-certified physicians?
Are you an EMT or higher? Come to Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College and put your training and experience to the test.
Here is our Field Guide in the wilds of Belize. Where have you used your CoROM Field Guide?
https://corom.edu.mt/field-guide/
Physical and digital copies available.
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We're always striving for the best possible student experience. That's why we're now using EmergeLMS developed by @flightbridgeed
This fantastic learning management system has a great user experience and is incredibly intuitive.
We're still migrating many of our courses across to the new platform over the coming months, but have a look at what's already available.
https://emergelms.corom.edu.mt/
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Are you planning an extreme expedition in a remote location? Whether that's in an international or domestic context, you need to plan and be prepared for all risks.
The next classroom days for our Award in Remote Emergency Medical Technician course are scheduled for September, 8th - 13th. Applications close on July 20th. There's still time to enroll!
https://corom.edu.mt/award-in-remote-emergency-medical-technician/
Learn the skills, act with confidence.
For @HailsandAles' #BlackMetalMonday:
#ImhaTarikat: Confessing Darkness
Have #Austere always been sounding like #ParadiseLost? I am not that familiar with them. Thought, they are a black metal outfit.
Katatonische Vollbedienung: wer's modern mag, gönnt sich das heute erschienene „Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State“ des Originals, Anhänger:innen des Alt-Sounds sollten mal bei #Austere reinhören.
We’re here at SOMA 2025 with our senior lecturer Dr Ella Corrick who runs our doctoral programme.
Do you want to study for a doctorate in Austere Medicine? Or Special Operations Medicine?
Get in touch:
Next week, May 5th to 9th, we're at the Special Operations Medical Association (SOMA) 2025 conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. Come by our stand to learn more about our courses.
https://specialoperationsmedicine.org/soma-2025/
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Album-Alarm: #Austere veröffentlicht am 06.06. „The Stillness Of Dissolution“.
YouTube-Clip zu ‚Redolent Foulness‘: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l5rsKCe8QA
What a great show! #austere #metal #blackmetal #livemusic #supporttheunderground #music #centralerockpub #erba
Alex im Westerland
23.03.2025 Düsseldorf / Pitcher
Austere
31.03.2025 Bochum / Die Trompete
Bolzenschuss
20.04.2025 Neukirchen-Vluyn / Sägewerk
Breakdown of Sanity
17.10.2025 Essen / Turock
Guitar Gangsters
26.07.2025 Essen / Don't Panic
Slash N' Roses
03.10.2025 Herten / Schwarzkaue
System Of A Stu
07.11.2025 Herten / Schwarzkaue
The Cloverhearts
06.03.2025 Düsseldorf / Pitcher
Thyrfing
02.10.2025 Essen / Turock
03.10.2025 Köln / Live Music Hall
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Die #austere #Politik von #USAID unter #Elon #Musk eliminiert die Zuwendungen der USA für den #Klimaschutz sowie den Erhalt der #Natur und #Biodiversität in #Lateinamerika. Insbesondere #Amazonas Gebieten.
Harakiri for the Sky – Scorched Earth Review
By Dear Hollow
Harakiri for the Sky is one of those bands that is consistently very good but constantly eludes greatness. The Austrian duo’s grasp on melody is second to none, pairing yearning atmospheres with blackened aggression and meditative tempos, resolute in its muscular weight and melodic motifs without devolving into either jadedness nor frailty. While devoted to the style’s trademark slow-burning growth, they constantly avoid the pitfalls of the “post-black” descriptor, refusing to fall into the weak and twinkly shenanigans of their counterparts. However, composition remains mid-tempo and largely too safely confined to the overlapping of predictable melodies and their organic resolutions. This is not a bad thing and Scorched Earth makes that clear.
Harakiri for the Sky has made its trademark unmistakable, and had five full-lengths of practice in doing so. Instrumentals provided by Matthias Sollak are richly layered with heart-wrenching melodies and bound by thick plodding riffs with the edge of blackened rawness, while J.J.’s formidable barks communicate both riveting charisma and rending pain alike in a bit of a post-hardcore spin. Career highlights like 2016’s III: Trauma and 2021’s Mære firmly establish this balance and run with it, while 2018’s Arson fell into forgettable territory by virtue of simply being in an excellent discography. Frankly, that’s a fantastic problem to have, and I had no doubts that Scorched Earth was going to be anything short of enjoyable. Featuring guests like Tim Yatras of Austere and Serena Cherry of Svalbard and Noctule contributing to this instrumental and vocal tapestry,1 Scorched Earth feels like the natural next step for Harakiri for the Sky in renewed vigor and intensity.
Harakiri for the Sky’s grasp on melody remains largely the same, retaining the “twinkly” description but imbued with a heartbreak reminiscent of more depressive styles. Scorched Earth descends deeper into this dirge, with solemn passages and slower tempos letting the breadth of harmony and desperation echo further across its empty outstretched hands. The approach remains very simple, with Sollak’s chord progressions doing the talking in all their natural crescendos and organic dissolutions. Tracks can take on a nearly folky feel reminiscent of melodeath greats like Insomnium or Amorphis (“Heal Me,” “With Autumn I’ll Surrender”), while the clever layering of riffs, leads, and melodic motifs offer a place of utmost emotional intensity between placid passages of yearning (“Keep Me Longing,” “No Graves But the Sea”), while notable tension in unorthodox chord progressions adds a texture beyond just “pretty black metal” (“Without You I’m Just a Sad Song,” “I Was Just Another Promise You Couldn’t Keep”). While Austere’s Tim Yatras performance is difficult to discern in “Heal Me,” Svalbard/Noctule’s Serena Cherry lends her sirenic croons in closer “Too Late for Goodbyes,” ending Scorched Earth on a solemn and desolate note.
Harakiri for the Sky’s melody, although front and center, is bolstered by tracks featuring a more unpredictable instrumental presence than before. A voiceless venom keeps the sound grounded, as more morose and beautiful movements are contrasted with heavier riffs and moments of darkness that bare a track’s teeth. While the rhythmic chugs kick through the beauty with recklessness (“Without You I’m Just a Sad Song,” “With Autumn I’ll Surrender”) and more upbeat punk rhythms and blastbeats inject a blasting vigor (“No Graves But the Sea,” “Keep Me Longing,” “Too Late for Goodbyes”), dissonance serves as a necessary and ugly thread to keeping the hyper-melodic palette from getting too much (“Heal Me,” “I Was Just Another Promise You Couldn’t Keep). While the vast majority of Scorched Earth is dominated by beauty, it’s nice to have more dimension and more humanity from Harakiri for the Sky in its darker passages.
At its core, Scorched Earth is quintessential Harakiri for the Sky. Setting out with more reckless elements such as heavier riffs, blackened blastbeats, or a touch of dissonance, it feels a tad more dangerous and experimental than in previous iterations.2 However, the epitome of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” formula, Harakiri for the Sky plays it close to the vest with the true star of the show: layers and layers of melody. While shorter than Mære, Scorched Earth is nonetheless daunting in its hour length, and its hyper-melodicism can oft grow tiring while J.J.’s post-hardcore-influenced barks has always felt slightly out of place against the crystalline melody, Harakiri for the Sky remains amazingly melodic and always pleasant to listen to. Scorched Earth, once again, is frustratingly safe – truly the act’s signature.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: AOP Records
Websites: harakirifortheskyofficial.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/HarakiriForTheSky
Releases Worldwide: January 24th, 2025
#2025 #35 #Amorphis #AOPRecords #Austere #AustrianMetal #BackwardsCharm #BlackMetal #Groza #HarakiriForTheSky #Insomnium #Jan25 #Karg #Megadeth #MelodicBlackMetal #Noctule #PostBlackMetal #PostHardcore #Radiohead #Review #Reviews #ScorchedEarth #Svalbard
Lascar – Equinox Flower Review
By Dear Hollow
Ah, my old friend. We look upon our very first reviews fondly, as opportunities for meditation and embarrassment alike as we grow older and just plain old. Six years ago, for my first assignment as a meek n00b (10), I was assigned to Chilean post-black act Lascar and its third full-length Wildlife. It was, uh, not a good experience. The biggest gripe was its obvious paper-thin Deafheaven worship, pretty ambient post-rock passages copied and pasted atop milquetoast blastbeats and shrieks, which gave it an ultimately disingenuous feel that undermined the post-black necessity for emotional connection. Mastermind Gabriel Hugo wasn’t a one-and-done, no sir, as his 2023 side project Voidmilker’s trver and rawer black metal attack offered meager redemption. Time has passed, so how will Equinox Flower fare?
Hugo has not been sitting on his hands; although Wildlife was the first release sent to our humble establishment, it was the third full-length and there have been three(ish) full-lengths and two EP’s since its 2018 release.1 In Hugo’s defense, Lascar has taken a more streamlined approach. Instead of a stark contrast between the heart-wrenching and the blackened attack, Equinox Flower feels more dynamic and balanced. While atmosphere is first and foremost, as you’d expect from myriad post-black acts, its more diminished chord progressions and fusion of lush ambiance and heavier black metal instrumentation set it above Lascar’s history. Old habits die hard, but Equinox Flower is a better album than I ever expected from this act.
The streamlined approach works for Lascar’s aesthetic better, that while Equinox Flower’s first priority is melody and beauty, it does awkwardly juxtapose it with black metal but rather fuses them. As such, the four tracks here are given more opportunity to flow and breathe, effectively utilizing its atmosphere in place of hooks, while the blackened attack gives it needed momentum. Also useful is that Hugo seems to have taken a more depressive approach not unlike Naxen or Austere which doesn’t undermine its blackened thrust while more diminished chord progressions and melodies recall Evilfeast or Midnight Odyssey. More long-form tracks do the album a fair amount of good, because while the atmospheric bombast felt rushed and muddled in Wildlife, Equinox Flower effectively balances, with a fairer production and mixing blueprint to go by, each of Lascar’s instruments given its due.2
Case in point, closer “Late Autumn” feels like a very solid black metal song complete with melodic tremolo, double bass, and blastbeats as a backbone while the soaring ambiance serves as a transcendent motif that enhances the nature-based vibe. The opening title track and “Early Spring” also utilize memorable hooks and passages of tranquility to provide an organicity that was sorely lacking in the stiff and unyielding Wildlife. In fact, aside from listener stylistic choices, third track “Floating Weeds” is the only track with issues. Existing as the only cut without lulling passages, the overwhelming synth hook gets incredibly old incredibly fast as the track length backfires. Of course, Lascar remains post-black or blackgaze or whatever, and an extremely triumphant version of it, the more subtle atmospheres of Wolves in the Throne Room or Alcest be damned, and thus listeners who are expecting more subtlety will be disappointed by the (albeit better) post-black bombast.
When I was alerted of Lascar’s new album, I sighed heavily, expecting the pretty and paper-thin shenanigans of Wildlife from my fledgling years to rear their ugly pretty heads. However, thanks to a more organic songwriting and safer utility of melody and ambiance, Equinox Flower turned out to be a surprisingly pleasant experience. It’s still stubbornly post-black with all the warts and bombast you expect, but channeled into a far more productive form. Sorry for ever doubting you, Lascar. Keep improving, you glorious bastard you.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Tragedy Productions
Websites: lascar.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/lascarmusic
Releases Worldwide: June 7th, 2024
#2024 #30 #Alcest #AmbientBlackMetal #AtmosphericBlackMetal #Austere #BlackMetal #Blackgaze #ChileanMetal #Deafheaven #DSBM #EquinoxFlower #Evilfeast #Jun24 #Lascar #MidnightOdyssey #Naxen #PostBlackMetal #Review #Reviews #TragedyProductions #Voidmilker #WolvesInTheThroneRoom
Austere – Beneath the Threshold Review
By Dear Hollow
Austere’s third full-length, and first album in fourteen years, was one of my biggest disappointments of 2023. Corrosion of Hearts was listenable as a pleasant form of DSBM, but showcased a unique and legendary act fall into the tropes of the genre. It felt as though depressive black metal moved on while Austere stayed stuck in the past, and I’ll be the first one to admit that expectations were unfairly high for this duo. Austere on To Lay Like Old Bones is no longer – the Austere of now is more important. In many ways, this is what makes Beneath the Threshold even more crucial.
The duo, comprised of members Desolate and Sorrow,1 has a storied history, releasing 2007’s Withering Illusions and Desolation and 2009’s To Lay Like Old Ashes in a depressive metonymy of the outback’s blazing sun rather than Scandinavia’s frigid woods, to widespread acclaim. Austere’s Corrosion of Hearts was released last year, a depressive and aptly scathing affair that suddenly felt shrouded in cold fog – a jarring departure. We are met with Beneath the Threshold less than a year later, a continuation of Corrosion but far more cohesive and memorable than its predecessor – basking in cold and clarity alike. While imperfect and stalwart in a painfully mundane style of black metal, its melodic approach and appreciation for texture sets Austere a step above.
Right off the bat, it feels as though Austere returns refreshed and vigorous. While still melancholy, opener “Thrall” simmers with an undercurrent of vigor, melodic motifs overlapping and moving with impressive fluidity and organicity, recalling Harakiri for the Sky’s template of heart-wrenching black metal. This impressive flow is followed elsewhere by “Cold Cerecloth” and closer “Of Severance,” gentleness leading to explosions of heartache, allowing the simplicity of chord progressions and melodic leads to carry the movements. Clear highlight “The Sunset of Life” maintains largely the same methods, but the hissing vocals are searing with pain rather than dwelling in despondence, while the driving dirges showcase a desperation needed in DSBM.2 Clean vocals are more present in Beneath the Threshold, which have a potential to derail, but cry out in abysmal depths in “Thrall” and “The Sunset of Life.” Contrasting with Corrosion of Hearts, Austere’s production and mixing feel far clearer and more fiery, rarely allowing moments of boredom.
Austere’s approach feels far more clarified in Beneath the Threshold, but there are some minor issues. “Faded Ghost,” for instance, is a slower and more ambiance-based track with clean vocals featured more prominently, unfairly sandwiched between the grandiosity of “The Sunset of Life” and the urgency of “Cold Cerecloth,” and loses a bit of the despondence and melancholy it might successfully provide elsewhere. Similarly, interlude track “Words Unspoken” feels a bit out of place, as Austere’s focus on synth sprawls contrasts harshly with the album’s emphasis on guitar. On a far more minor note, some tracks feel drawn out slightly too long, with ending passages of “The Sunset of Life” or “Of Severance” slightly overstaying. While Beneath the Threshold is head-above-shoulders better than its predecessor, it nonetheless does little to stray from the depressive path.
DSBM in general is morose and boring, and the fact that Corrosion of Hearts played into that stereotype after fourteen years of silence made it much more frustrating. However, Austere manages to make Beneath the Threshold sound fresh and vigorous without forsaking the key tenets of misery and melancholy. While not perfect with a few issues of flow and solidarity, it nonetheless feels like a new chapter for the band, one that has put the last nail in the coffin of the past and emerges ready to once again take the style by storm.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
DR: 8 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Lupus Lounge
Websites: austere-official.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/OfficialAustere
Releases Worldwide: April 5th, 2024
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Meddl-Meddl-Meddl! #Austere veröffentlicht am 05.04.2024 „Beneath The Threshold“.
YouTube-Clip zu ‚Faded Ghost‘: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnIW-h65jeM
