
A couple of items to touch on from last week: If you missed “Black Brick” from Deafheaven, definitely rectify that and same for “12 Years In the Tomb” from Saint Vitus. They both rip and don’t @ me, all my shits to give are gone.
New business this week — and there’s plenty of it — starts with a rousingly heavy debut album, They Came With Sunlight, from Norway’s atmospheric sludge metal trio Sâver and for a young band, the sound here is massive and so meticulously created it took me completely by surprise. Next up is Rituals of Power from the destructive death metal denizens in Misery Index and even though it is, at times, disjointed and slightly off in sequence it still will cause bruised necks and damaged eardrums. Moving right along, Cloaked Climax Concealed may only be two tracks but the atmospheric death / doom 0N0 presents within is hallucinogenic, otherworldly, and all-encompassing at the same time. Last up top is the debut, Demiurgus, from the star-studded membership of Equipoise and based on the lineup, it’s no surprise to hear the vast, jaw dropping array of technical and progressive death metal they’ve conjured up – inject it straight in the veins.
We’re far from done so stick around for what’s left.
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Sâver – They Came With Sunlight (Pelagic Records) – atmospheric sludge
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Misery Index – Rituals of Power (Season of Mist) – death metal
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0N0 – Cloaked Climax Concealed, EP (Transcending Obscurity) – atmospheric doom / death
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Equipoise – Demiurgus (The Artisan Era) – progressive death metal
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Also on tap:
Anni Hogan – Lost In Blue (Cold Spring) – dark rock
Aria – Curse of the Seas (Sliptrick) – heavy metal
Aseptic – Senses Decay (Redefining Darkness) – death metal
Bergraven – Det framildna minnet (Nordvis) – avantgarde metal
Bewitcher – Too Fast for the Flames, EP (Shadow Kingdom) – speed metal
Black Anvil – Miles, EP (STB) – black metal
Black Lung – Ancients (Ripple) – psych doom
Bong-Ra – Antediluvian (Tartarus / Svart Lava) – doom
Children of Bodom – Hexed (Nuclear Blast) – melodic death metal
Crypt Trip – Haze County (Heavy Psych Sounds) – classic rock
Dark Years from Now – S/T (Independent) – progressive extreme metal
Degraey – Reveries (Independent) – post-metal
Eat Me Fresh – Mob (Demons Run Amok) – hardcore
Fen – Stone & Sea (Eisenwald) – post-black metal
For the Lost – Fantasma Nera (Svart) – doom
Forged In Black – Descent of the Serpent (Fighter Records) – heavy metal
Foul Body Autopsy – The Unquiet Dead (Independent) – melodic death / thrash
Gjendød – Krigsdøger (Hellthrasher Productions) – black metal
Happily Ever Blind – Good Enough For… (Realm) – heavy rock
Iron Fire – Beyond the Void (Crime Records) – power metal
Iron Savior – Kill Or Get Killed (AFM) – power metal
Kings Destroy – Fantasma Nera (Svart Records) – stoner doom
Leather Glove – Perpetual Animation (Sentient Ruin) – death / doom
Malakhim – II (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Meadows End – The Grand Antiquation (Black Lion Records) – melodic death metal
Misandr / Whitephosphorous – This Can Not Continue, Split (Tridroid) – black metal
Mustan Kuun Lapset – Valo (Inverse) – dark metal
Mystifier – Protogni Mavri Magiki Dynasteia (Season of Mist Underground Activists) – black / death
Pterodactyl Problems – Esoteric Hobbies (Independent) – avantgarde [profile]
Ringarë – Under Pale Moon (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Ruphus – New Born Day, Re-release (Karisma) – prog rock
Sinmara – Hvísl Stjarnanna (Ván Records) – black metal
Stonecast – I Earther (Pitch Black) – heavy / power metal
Temple of the Fuzz Witch – S/T (Seeing Red) – occult doom
The Absense – Khronocracy (Sliptrick) – alt-rock
The Haunting Green – Natural Extinctions (Hypnotic Dirge) – ambient drone
Thormesis – The Sixth (MDD) – black metal
Tyr – Hel (Metal Blade Records) – viking metal
Wendigo – Wasteland Stories (Independent) – stoner rock
Wolfsblood – Vomit & Lice (Troglodyte Records) – crust /d-beat
– Josh
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