For prior Evcharists my pairing of music and drink has tended to depend more on the latter, with the accompanying album just so happening to fit in some way — this time music led the charge. Drink from the cup of heresy with this week’s offerings: ass-kicking death metal on Torture Rack’s Primeval Onslaught and ass-kicking beer with Creative Creature’s The Cake Eater.
Hearing Thantifaxath’s debut full-length Sacred White Noise for the first time in 2014 formed an epiphany, an immediate realization of witnessing the manifestation of an instant contemporary classic in the field of black metal, a work of art almost too strange, horrifying and beautiful to comprehend, and one that has stood the test of time. Those of us ravenously chasing the first high of experiencing the album got their fix in the form of 2017’s magnificent, and aptly titled, Void Masquerading as Matter EP. At long last, we have Hive Mind Narcosis, a new portal to the collective creative psyche of Thantifaxath.
Life has been a bit of a rollercoaster lately, and suitably so, I am about to tell you about two things that do not go together at all. However, I can say that the two enjoyed together provide a nice balance of sorts. Please enjoy this juxtaposition of heavy doom and a bright fruity ale and let us drink from the cup of heresy. This week’s offerings: Moor‘s Heavy Heart and Campanology Brewing’s Peach Ale.
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It’s no secret that I have become incredibly invested in Phlebotomized ever since I found Immense Intense Suspense/Skycontract back in 2017. So much so that when I requested to cover their demo Devoted to God (context) last year, I did it with the specific intention to prepare myself for their, at that time, impending new album Clouds of Confusion. This is a band who continues to play with the 90s death metal aesthetic and inject every single ounce of weirdness seemingly for the fun of it. Will their blend of avant-garde death metal truly pay off where old school death metal rules supreme? Let’s discuss.
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Few things carry as much anticipation and dread as the words “band reunites.” At this point, band reunions are less a question of “will it happen?” and more “when does it happen?”. These reunions tend to be preceded by a lot of PR, followed by album and tour announcements building that anticipation and dread. In the year of our Lord 2023 though, Khanate surprise released a new album, To Be Cruel. This is the first album since 2009 from the doom metal supergroup comprising OLD’s James Plotkin and Alan Dubin, Sunn O)))‘s Stephen O’Malley, and Blind Idiot God’s Tim Wyskida. No build up. No PR blitz. To Be Cruel is only available digitally at the moment, and both the tour and physical releases will come. For now though, this is four people getting together to make truly exciting minimalist doom music.
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Nine Circles 