
It’s Initial Descent time which means another list of new metal for your earholes. The quality is still high so count your blessings. Or don’t.
My love of noise rock runs deep but up until this point in the year nothing has really grabbed me by the throat. Ohio’s Night Goat offer up a scorching debut that has everything I need to call it THE noise rock album of the year; it’s loud, visceral, nasty, and has an unshakeable darkness to it – in other words, perfect. In Human Form put the A in avantgarde with an even larger batch of 70s prog to go with their forward thinking black metal, and NEDXXX cash in on the whole ‘sent by the devil to do the devil’s work’ schtick with the kind of black metal that sounds like ol’ scratch himself puked it up. Put those three in your pipe and smoke them but don’t forget about the rest that await immediately below. GO.
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Night Goat – Milk (Independent) – noise rock [profile]
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In Human Form – III (I, Voidhanger) – avantgarde
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NEDXXX – S/T (NoEvDia) – black metal
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Also on tap:
Arkona – Age of Capricorn (Debemur Morti Productions) – black metal
Benighted In Sodom – Carrier of Poison Apples (I, Voidhanger) – gothic metal
Bethledeign – Iconography of Suffering (Independent) – extreme
Calibre – The Storm Inside (Downfall) – metalcore
Cancer Clan / Desteufels – Split (Merciless) – metal / punk
Comando Praetorio – Ignee Sacertá Ctonie (ATMF) – black metal
Conjurer / Palm Reader – Split (Holy Roar) – post-metal / hardcore
Death Wolf – IV: Come the Dark (Blooddawn Productions) – death / punk
Fjældmark / Wintarslāf – Split (Trepanation Recordings) – dungeon synth
Halphas – The Infernal Path Into Oblivion (Folter) – black metal
Hellknife – Dusk of Doom (WOOAAARGH) – crust
Horrified – Sentinel (Testimony) – progressive death metal
In Obscurity Revealed – Glorious Impurity (Blood Harvest) – black / death
Insanity – Moneyfest (Bastardized Recordings) – hardcore
Iron Curtain – Danger Zone (Dying Victims Productions) – speed / thrash
Israthoum – Arrows From Below (New Era) – black metal
Lifvsleda – Manifest MMXIX (Shadow / Regain) – black metal
Mosaic – Secret Ambrosian Fire (Eisenwald) – ambient
My Funeral – Graveblaster (Independent) – thrash
Neverland In Ashes – The Human Experience (Independent) – metalcore
Nightbearer – Tales of Sorcery and Death (Testimony) – death metal
Nova – Veniamo Dal Cielo (ATMF) – pagan black metal
Oath of Cruelty – Summary Execution at Dawn (Dark Descent) – death / thrash
Officium Triste – The Death of Gaia (Transcending Obscurity) – doom
Oni – Alone, EP (Metal Blade Records) – progressive metal
Resonance – Out of the Silence (Inverse) – modern metal
Shredder 1984 – Resistance (Lazerdiscs) – dark synthwave
Skullcrush – Archaic Towers of Annihilation (Redefining Darkness / Raw Skull) – death metal
Solace – The Brink (Blues Funeral Recordings) – metal
The River – Vessels Into White Tides (Nine) – doom
Trajeto de Cabra – Supreme Command of Satanic Will (Iron Bonehead) – war metal
Voltumna – Ciclope (Extreme Metal Music) – black / death
Wacht – La mort (Auric) – black metal
Xantam – Altered State (Blood Harvest) – black / death
– Josh
Late to the post – Josh, you might want to check out the new Hepa Titus ‘Blue Fat Pussy’ LP on Rock is Hell Records. My pick for AOTY & best noise rock LP this year. Kevin Rutmanis from Cows/Melvins/Tomahawk doing uncomfortable freak shit.
Man yes! Always down for a good noise recommendation. Checking it out now. Thanks Buck and hope you’re doing well! Merry Xmas
Yessir, everything is A-OK, relatively. Here’s a link to an exhaustive noise rock Spotify list I did – 120 hours, everything from Arabrot to Zeni Geva. Hit shuffle and you’ve got your next 5 days planned.
Enjoy your holidays, buddy.
Nice! I’ll enjoy this playlist and thanks for the link. Cheers bud