Didn’t we just do this? Just confirmed and it has indeed been a week. Anyway, much metals to tend to this week and since I can’t manage to figure out where the hell a week went let’s just get to it.
You know, I haven’t had an album completely captivate me as much as Dead To A Dying World’s third full length Elegy has, it’s like listening to GY!BE In one ear and blackened doom in the other but as the minutes tick off it transports your mind to some decaying world that’s all too familiar. And that production, hoooo boy – get this in your ears. Moving on to a pair of albums that excite and charge me; the first is Mork’s Det Svarte Juv which brings the early Norwegian black metal strain roaring back to life in a way that is as cold and chaotic as it is warm and vibrant, yea I know that may be impossible to understand but once you hear it, you will. The second of these is Finnish black metal vets Förgjord who lay down a viciously scalding 41 minutes on their fourth effort Ilmestykset – why do these excite me? Mostly due to this pair being what I want to hear when I want to hear black metal, period. All this leads us to Allegaeon’s fifth outing of technically busy, progressively minded, melodically leaning, and best may I add, Apoptosis. They shed some of their shell here but add so much more depth, Charles has the run down so click the full review link when you get there.
So much more to go and I’m just surprised another week hasn’t gone by already…
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Dead To A Dying World – Elegy (Profound Lore) – apocalyptic dark metal
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Mork – Det Svarte Juv (Peaceville) – black metal
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Förgjord – Ilmestykset (Werewolf) – black metal
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Allegaeon – Apoptosis (Metal Blade Records) – technical / progressive / melodic death [full review]
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Also on tap:
A Constant Knowledge of Death – Vol III: Forth From the Quiet to the Air That Trembles (Independent) – acoustic metal
After the Burial – Evergreen (Sumerian) – modern metal
Ancalagon – Noctopoth (Independent) – melodic black metal
Ancient Altar – Cosmic Purge/Foie Gras (Black Voodoo Records) – doom
Archaic Decapitator – The Apothecary, EP (Independent) – melodic death metal
Atlas Pain – Tales of a Pathfinder (Scarlet) – pagan metal
Benjamin Hinz – DEEP (Philip K Discs) – psych rock
Black Sites – Exile (Hoove Child) – progressive metal
Black Tree Vultures – S/T, EP (BTV) – heavy rock
Brannthorde – Die Letzte Aller Wahrheiten, EP (Astat Entertainment / Silent Pendulum) – black metal
Chalice of Suffering – Lost Eternally (Transcending Obscurity) – atmospheric death / doom
Chemical City Rebels – A New Plague (Independent) – stoner punk
Cosmic Putrefaction – At the Threshold of the Greatest Chasm (I, Voidhanger) – death metal
Countless Goodbyes – Cycles (Inverse) – metalcore
Dawn of Demise – Into the Depths of Veracity (Unique Leader) – death metal
Deathwomb – Moonless Night Sacraments (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Devoid of Thought – Cosmic Apoptosis (Caligari) – death metal
Dratna – An Cath (The Battle) (Independent) – black metal
Embludgeonment – Barn Burner (Comatose Music) – deathgrind
Everest Queen – Dead Eden (Independent) – progressive sludge
False Gods – The Serpent and the Ladder (Independent) – doom
Fatal Curse – Breaking the Trance (Shadow Kingdom) – speed metal
Fractal Universe – Rhizomes of Insanity (Metal Blade Records) – progressive death metal
Gods Forsaken – Smells of Death (Soulseller) – death metal
Grand Magus – Wolf God (Nuclear Blast) – heavy metal
Haze Mage – Chronicles (Grimoire) – fantasy doom
Hedonihil – I (Inverse) – death metal
High Priestess – S/T, Cassette (Tridroid Records) – desert psych
Hosemen – Saturday Night Conformity (Independent) – alt-metal
Lethal Vendetta – No Prisoners No Mercy (Black-Roos) – metal
Martelo Negro – Parthenogenesis (Helldprod) – black / thrash / death
Mephorash – Shem Ha Mephorash (Shadow Records) – black metal
One Day In Fukushima – Ozymandias (WOOAAARGH) – grind
Pagan Altar – Judgement of the Dead (Temple of Mystery) – doom
Sabbath Assembly – A Letter of Red (Svart) – dark rock
Sangue – Culś (Nuclear War Now! Productions) – black / death
Solar Haze – S/T (Metal Assault Records) – stoner metal
Sólveig Matthildar – Constantly In Love (Artoffact) – melancholic
The Chris Rolling Squad – Spitfire (WormHoleDeath) – metal
The Wolf Howls When I Scream Your Name – To Be Where There Is Pale Light (Independent) – alt-rock
Totengott – The Abyss (Xtreem) – dark metal
Tripsitter – The Other Side of Sadness (Prosthetic) – blackgaze
Twilight Fauna – That Old Time Way (Independent) – folk / acoustic / black
Uncured – Epidemic (Seek and Strike) – death metal
Various Artists – BC 35 Volume Two: Martin Bisi (Bronson Recordings) – alternative
Various Artists – Brown Acid: The Eighth Trip (RidingEasy) – proto-metal
Vitriol – Chrysalis (Iron Bonehead) – death metal
Wounds – Light Eater, EP (Everlasting Spew) – technical death metal
– Josh
