Some of y’all’s responses to 72 Seasons have been hilarious. The funniest are these: “man I only listened to a minute and a half or so and had to turn it off.” I mean, for real?! LOL me off my chair. While I will admit that it would benefit from some trimming, this is the best version of Metallica we’ve had in…a while. But, whatever, just go back to your latest Jester Race clone and keep lapping that up. Anyway, we got another new list of metal and other things on the heavy spectrum for you and grind captains Birdflesh kick us off this week. Next up are Margarita Witch Cult (bad ass band name alert) with an all in but the kitchen sink approach to psychedelics, Grave Pleasures are back to prove why they are holding down the best goth band tag, and Dorthia Cottrell gives a damn class on how to do vary dark americana / folk / country / etc. And, as always, there’s many more in the list that follows these four. Happy hunting…
Birdflesh – Sickness In The North (Everlasting Spew) – grind
Margarita Witch Cult – S/T (Heavy Psych Sounds) – industrial doom and other heaviness
Grave Pleasures – Plagueboys (Century Media) – goth
Dorthia Cottrell – Death Folk Country (Relapse) – dark
Also on tap:
Anthem – Crimson & Jet Black (Reaper Entertainment) – heavy metal
Argenthorns – The Ravening (Avantgarde Music) – symphonic black metal
Astral Sleep – We Are Already Living In The End Of Times (Saarni) – doom
Atavistia – Cosmic Warfare (Independent) – metal
Avgmnt – Seqvences (Independent) – industrial
Barditus – Dein Schwert (Purity Through Fire) – neofolk
Blödtar – Det förtegna förflutna (Nordvis) – black metal
Blood Star – First Sighting (Shadow Kingdom) – heavy metal
Bonginator – The Intergalactic Gorebong of Deathpot (Barbaric Brutality) – stoner death
Caedeous – Malum Supplicium (Black Sunset) – symphonic black metal
Cani Dei Portici – Hype For Nothing (Time To Kill) – noise
Century – The Conquest Of Time (No Remorse Records) – heavy metal
Cilvarium – New Beginning (Sliptrick) – ambient
Circle of Sighs – Circle of Sighs Performs an Invocation (Pillars of Creation Rkds) – doom / prog
Dawn of Ouroboros – Velvet Incandescence (Prosthetic) – black / prog
Decipher – Arcane Paths To Resurrection (Transcending Obscurity) – black metal
Dimwind – The Futility of Breathing (Independent) – post-metal
Dope Skum – Gutter South, EP (Independent) – sludge
Dozer – Drifting in the Endless Void (Blues Funeral) – psych sludge
Dyspläcer – Temple Heights (Independent) – New Wave of Traditional Kung Fu Heavy Metal
Ember Sea – Shine (My Dying Star) (Green Bronto) – goth
Eternal White Trees – The Summer That Will Not Come (My Kingdom Music) – dark metal
Evermore – In Memoriam (Scarlet) – power metal
Exploding Corpse Action – Inter-Dimensional Annihilation: 1995 – 1997 (Armageddon) – grind
Fall of Earth – From The Ashes (Independent) – metalcore
Gyrdleah – Spellbinder (Independent) – atmospheric black metal
Hämärä – Ivory Tower (WormHoleDeath) – symphonic black / death
Heretic Cult Redeemer – Flagellum Universalis (Ill Damnation) – black / death
Hirax – Hate, Fear and Power, Reissue (Armageddon Label) – thrash
Hirax – Raging Violence, Reissue (Armageddon Label) – thrash
John Cxnnor X The Devil’s Trade – Live at Roadburn (Season of Mist / Pelagic) – folk
Jonathon Stewart – Syncopated Angel (No Remorse Records) – heavy metal
Kouta – Kaarnakoydet (Independent) – black / folk
Magnify The Sound – Don’t Give Us That Face (Crispin Glover) – experimental
Magnus Rosen Band – It’s Time To Rock The World Again (X-World) – rock
Mavorim – Ab Amitia Pulsae (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Morrath – Centuries of Blindness (Independent) – death metal
MMXX – The New Wave (Candlelight) – doom
Nachtig – Eisig’ Romantik (Purity Through Fire) – death / doom
Nethermancy – Worship Evil Sacrifice (Helldprod) – black metal
Nightside – Lions, Demo 2023 (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Orme – S/T (Trepanation Recordings) – doom
Orpheus Omega – Portraits, EP (Independent) – melodic metal
Pestifer – Defeat Of The Nemesis (Debemur Morti Productions) – death metal
Predatory Void – Seven Keys to the Discomfort of Being (Century Media) – metal
Revolution Saints – Eagle Fight (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – rock
Sarmat – Dubious Dusk (I, Voidhanger) – progressive metal
Sintage – Paralyzing Chains (High Roller Records) – heavy metal
Skinher – Heartstruck (Aural Music) – rock
Smackbound – Hostage (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – melodic metal
Smoulder – Violent Creed of Vengeance (Cruz Del Sur Music) – heavy metal
Stryfe – Cursed Theatre (WormHoleDeath) – modern metal
Tanith – Voyage (Metal Blade) – metal
Terms – All Becomes Indistinct (SKiN GRAFT) – noise
Terzo – S/T (Icons Creating Evil Art) – darkwave
The 69 Eyes – Death of Darkness (Atomic Fire) – goth rock
The Eating Cave – The Miscalculation (Independent) – tech death
These Beasts – Cares, Wills, Wants (Magnetic Eye) – sludge / noise
Trading Aces – Rock ‘n’ Roll Homicide (Ripple Music) – metal
Trapped In Thought – For Those Who Never Came Home (Independent) – rock
Ulvedharr – Inferno XXXIII (Scarlet Records) – death metal
Unchosen Ones – Sorrow Turns To Dust (Independent) – power metal
Undrask – God Emperor (Independent) – melodic metal
V:XII – Lu-cipher Sabbatean (Sentient Ruin) – black / death / industrial
Wolfnaut – Return of the Asteroid (Ripple Music) – stoner
— Josh
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