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CANTO: Thy Catafalque, Predatory Void, Vomit Forth, and More

March 22, 2023March 22, 2023CoreyLeave a comment

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Coming in a little later tonight because work was… well, it was. That’s all I got.

Leading off, we’ve got fresh updates from Predatory Void. Their debut album, Seven Keys to the Discomfort of Being, drops on April 21 through Century Media. A new single, “Grovel”, can be streamed here.
Sticking with Century Media, we’ve got a new video from Vomit Forth. With their tour with Upon Stone officially underway, they released a clip for “Pain Tolerance”, a track taken from Seething Malevolence, which dropped last year.
Boston’s Gozu are releasing their fifth album through Metal Blade and Blacklight Media, titled Remedy. That will be out on May 19, and you can check out “Tom Cruise Control” (lol) here. I can guarantee that’s going to be a good time.
Over at Prosthetic, Calligram have announced a new album. Position | Momentum drops on July 14, and the lead single, “Ex-Sistere”, can be heard (and watched) here.
We tend to be Thy Catafalque fans around these parts, so let’s end with that. The latest from Tamás Kátai, Alföld, will be out on June 16 through Season of Mist. Check out the video for the first single, “Néma vermek”, below.

“Ein Bier… bitte.”
– cmb

CANTO: Morbid Angel, Thy Catafalque, Anti-Flag, and More

November 2, 2022November 2, 2022CoreyLeave a comment

Things I didn’t realize I still owned until I started packing… two guitars. Who knew?

Morbid Angel are back, and are celebrating their 40th anniversary with a massive headlining tour next March and April. They’ll be joined by Revocation, Crypta, and either Skeletal Remains or Vitriol. Tickets go on sale this coming Friday.
Next we have Anti-Flag, and their video for “NVREVR”, a track that features Stacey Dee of Bad Cop/Bad Cop. Their new album, Lies They Tell Our Children, drops on January 6 through Spinefarm.
And then we have a couple early full album streams. First up, Mord’A’Stigmata, who unveiled Like Ants and Snakes ahead of it’s November 4 release through Pagan Records.
And secondly we have Black Anvil with Regenesis. Also a November 4 release, through Season of Mist. Additionally, their tour with Cannibal Corpse, Dark Funeral, and Immolation kicks off tomorrow.
Closing out we have a new live video from Thy Catafalque for “Fekete Mezők”. That clip is taken from Mezolit – Live at Fekete Zaj, which will be out on November 25 through Season of Mist.

“Ein Bier… bitte.”
– cmb

Best of 2021: Corey’s List

January 11, 2022January 10, 2022CoreyLeave a comment

Is that it? Am I the last one? Dang. Again. Wait, maybe one more to come… Anyway, I guess I’ll start this off on my soapbox as always, by noting that I truly cannot comprehend where we are as a society. Well, I suppose I can, which is even more frustrating. If 2020 wasn’t a brutal enough year (not in a good way), 2021 seemed to serve as an appropriate encore. Seemingly everything we experience in life has been weaponized for political gain in one way or another, a global pandemic has been widely accepted as an endemic thanks, in part, to widespread misinformation, and, just as bluntly, climate disasters resulting from human activity are on the brink of running rampant for the duration of humanity’s remaining existence… however brief that may be. And those are just my three favorite, non-personal, items to discuss in our corner of the universe. It sucks, and I’m burnt out. Optimism has completely faded at this point, and I’m ready to run screaming into the woods. But hey, cheers to 2020, right?!

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Best of 2021: Chris’s List

December 29, 2021December 22, 2022Chris4 Comments

The beginning is the end. Literally, in this case. I started this post with the entries for my list a few weeks ago, wrote my 1,000 word review (sorry) on my Album of the Year and concluding paragraph right before Christmas, and now here I am in the vaporous ether before the new year pondering the introduction.

And there are no words left.

I’ve wrangled with the why, trying to make sense of the music I consume and what it says, and I hit a point where trying to find an answer was…pointless. Not because it’s unimportant to know, but in the last two years the rest of the world became so much harder to deal with, life became so much harder to deal with, something in my brain went into emergency mode and just shut down the logic circuits, sending one single message over and over again:

“Stop thinking, stupid. It’s just music.”

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Scholar of the First Sin: Hera’s Best of 2021

December 28, 2021December 25, 2021Hera2 Comments

I am the Scholar of the First Sin, and I have insight to give.

Last year, my list was short and to the point, as I spent more time listening to music that gave me respite and comfort than to new releases. This meant that, once I had more time on my hands, I was finally able to go out and see what I had missed. The fact that I can’t include Dark Tranquility’s Moment, an album that deserves more attention, on this list because it came out last year fucking kills me.

Despite the Omicron variant (at this time) destroying all hope for a small sense of normalcy, 2021 was an absolutely fantastic year for music. After many bands either couldn’t tour because of the onset of the pandemic or postponed a lot of their releases, this year provided us with new music, which meant that a lot of vetting had to happen in order for me to make this list. After graduation, I suddenly had more time than I ever had to do with and decided to dive deep into what I had been ignoring for the better part of five months.

Welcome to EOY list season!

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