Botflies. Old Scratch’s botflies. Shiver me timbers that was a rough one to get away from and all of a sudden I’m a pirate. Last week I was a bit predisposed but I’m back basically because Old Scratch wants his music on display. And that, we do and do well. Exactly what you might be wondering…read on, dear reader…
In Gladiator, Russel Crowe asked ‘are you not entertained?’ and because of Plague from the UK’s Mastiff I will now ask ‘are you not entertained by the heaviness?’. Seriously, this band finds new ways to make sludge, hardcore and grind heavier than a really heavy thing. Ossuarium continues the heavy theme but in an old school nasty death metal vein on Living Tomb, Tennessee’s Thetan bring the power and the violence and the hardcore on sophomore effort Abysmal, and Unendlich hit the right combination of melodicism and second wave black metal on Thanatophobia.
Now, if I can just keep those botflies from ruining my hard drive…dive in below while I find an electric fly swat.
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Mastiff – Plague (APF) – sludge / grindcore / hardcore [profile]
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Ossuarium – Living Tomb (20 Buck Spin) – death / doom
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Thetan – Abysmal (Anti Corporate Music) – powerviolence / hardcore
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Unendlich – Thanatophobia (Horror Pain Gore Death) – black metal [profile]
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Also on tap:
Almøst Human – XS2XTC (Fastball / Normosis) – metal
Aneurysm – Awareness (Tor Johnson Records) – noise
Astronoid – S/T (Blood Music) – post-metal
Better Than Mending – Desire Lines, EP (Independent) – post hardcore
Blot & Blod – Ligæder (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Brave the Waters – Chapter II: Days of Solitude (Independent) – ambient / post-rock
Dead Head – The Feast Begins At Dawn, Reissue (Hammerheart) – thrash
Der Rote Milan – Moritat (Unholy Conspiracy Deathwork) – black metal
Dekathlon – The Thin Road, 7” (Ektro / Full Contact) – synthwave
Destroyers of All – The Vile Manifesto (Mosher) – prog death / thrash
Die Klute – Planet Fear (Cleopatra Records) – industrial metal
Enon Chapel – S/T, EP (Acephale Winter Productions) – black metal
God In A Cone – Passing (Independent) – experimental
Graves – Liturgia da Blasfemia (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Hazpiq – Cepheid (Melancholia Records) – prog metal
Hedfuzy – Waves (Hostile Media) – progressive metal
Innero – Chaoswolf (Third I Rex) – black metal
Juseph – Óreida (WOOAAARGH) – post-metal
Lazer Angel – Soul Exchange, 7″ (Ektro) – synthwave
Lighteater – Autoscopy (Independent) – post-rock / instrumental
Mörglbl – The Story of Scott Rötti (Laser’s Edge / Free Electric Sound) – progressive instrumental jazz metal
Morild – Så kom mørket… (Indisciplinarian) – atmospheric black metal
NEX – The World Collapses (Independent) – death metal
NŪR – S/T (Suicide Records) – post-metal
Optimist – Vermächtnis (BDHW) – death metal/hardcore
Örmagna – S/T (Signal Rex) – black metal
Pulchra Morte – Divina Autem Et Aniles (Ceremonial Records) – death/doom
Sammas’ Equinox – Pilgrimage / Boahjenásti (Signal Rex) – black metal
Se Lusiferin Kannel – Valtakunta (Signal Rex) – atmospheric black metal
Set It Off – Midnight (Fearless) – modern metal
Siberian – Live At Studio Underjord (The Sign) – sludge
Soen – Lotus (Silver Lining Music) – progressive metal
Split / Cross – Rise of Discontent (Independent) – grind / d-beat
The Sonic Dawn – Eclipse (Heavy Psych Sounds) – psych metal
Thronum Vrondor – Ichor (The Rebellion) (Pulverised Records) – black metal
Toxik Attack – Assassinos em Serie (Helldprod Records) – speed / thrash
Twilight Fields – Songs from the Age of Ruin (N/A) – rock
Various Artists – Heavy Psych Sounds Sampler Vol. 4 (Heavy Psych Sounds) – metal
Vex – Golden Times (Boersma) – modern metal
Zohamah – Spreading My Ashes (Redefining Darkness) – black / death / doom
– Josh
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