Well, well, well. We’re all still in this crap. But, at least we’ve got good tunes to ride it out with and this week, there’s no shortage of good to be found. So, let’s do this. Dark metallers Dool return with an absolute stunner (no surprise here, amazing band and amazing music), Akurion uncover all the dark corners in their love letter to death metal and all its wares, Benighted continue their reign of all things insane via grinding death metal, and High Priestess turn doom on its ear with some Pink Floydish twists. Four albums up top and many, many more to go so get to it!
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Dool – Summerlands (Prophecy Productions) – dark rock / metal
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Akurion – Come Forth to Me (Redefining Darkness) – death metal
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Benighted – Obscene Repressed (Season of Mist) – death / grind
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High Priestess – Casting the Circle (Ripple Music) – doom / psych
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Also on tap:
Across the Swarm – Projections (Time to Kill) – death metal
Ajna – Rengeteg (Inverse) – experimental rock / metal
Barrens – Penumbra (Pelagic) – post-metal
Brass Owl – State of Mind (Independent) – rock
Calligram – The Eye is the First Circle (Prosthetic) – black / punk
Cordyceps – Betrayal (Unique Leader) – brutal death
Curse – The Awakening..and the Old (Redefining Darkness) – black / thrash
Curse Upon A Prayer – Infidel (Saturnal) – black metal
Drain – California Cursed (Revelation) – hardcore / punk
Eternal Armageddon – In Light In Dark In Hate (Independent) – black / thrash
Flight of Eden – Dante’s Inferno, EP (independent) – metal
Gaytheist – How Long Have I Been On Fire (Hex) – metal
Gloom – Awaken (Slovak Metal Army) – gothic metal
Grim Fate – Perished In Torment (Xtreem Music) – doom / death
Har – Anti-Schechinah, Cassette (Blood Harvest) – black metal
HellgardeN – Making Noise, Living Fast (Brutal) – thrash
Kool Keith x Thetan – Space Goretex (Anti-Corporate Music) – rap? Metal?
Like Rats – Death Monolith (Hibernation Release) – death metal
Lord Vigo – Danse De Noir (High Roller) – heavy metal
Mass Murder – Extreme Extinction (Sliptrick) – brutal death
Mental Disaster – The Repulsive Abomination (Death to Music Productions) – groove death
Midwife – Forever (The Flenser) – heaven metal
Myth of I – S/T (The Artisan Era) – avantgarde metal
Noroth – It Dwells Amongst Us (Caligari) – death metal
Rabid Flesh Eaters – R.F.E. (Independent) – speed metal
Revulsion – Enough to Bleed (BDHW) – hardcore
Ritual Dictates – Give in to Despair (Artoffact) – extreme metal
Romano Nervoso – The Return of the Rocking Dead (Mottow Soundz) – rock
Savage Annihilation – Soumises à la procréation (Xenocorp) – death metal
Shakers – I Need You To Know (Independent) – screamo
Sovereign – Neurotic (Redefining Darkness) – death / thrash
Spell – Opulent Decay (Bad Omen Records) – heavy metal
Superhorror – Italians Die Better (Krach) – horror punk-metal
Symbolik – Emergence (The Artisan Era) – tech-death
The Earth Below – Nothing Works Vol. II: Hymns for Useless Gods (Unherd Music) – rock
Vanessa Skantze – Writhing Treasure Feast (Independent) – folk
Wayward Dawn – Haven of Lies (Mighty Music) – death metal
Whitephosphorous – Cruel and Unusual Punishment (Trepanation Recordings) – noise
Wolfheart – Wolves of Karelia (Napalm) – metal
Zero Fire – The Attic Sessions (Independent) – rock
– Josh
