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“We refuse to exist in our despair / We will find inner sanctum / And so shall we prevail”
🌶️ Emptiness
Post black/death, Belgium (Season of Mist)
FFO: Oranssi Pazuzu, Howls of Ebb, Dolorian
Absolutely loved Nothing But the Whole and Not For Music, but I couldn’t stomach the insane decision to have a dead kid on the cover of their 2021 release Vide. It helped that I didn’t like the singles I heard off it. Anyway, the sound on their newest is what I want form them. Maybe I should’ve known because this is a continuation of Nothing But the Whole. Unnerving, dark, brooding, subtle, unique, and some of the coolest vocals in the game. Dreamy death metal.
🌶️ Left To Die
Death, USA (Relapse Records)
FFO: Mantas, Gruesome, Death
We already have Gruesome, we have Death to All and of course there’s the eternally brilliant Death catalogue. Do we really need another Death tribute? Well, I don’t know if it’s necessary, but I can’t help but fucking love this. These are all Schuldiner tracks, old demo’s and live rehearsals that never made the cut for Scream Bloody Gore or later (although I got goosebumps hearing the ‘Spiritual Healing’ riff in 'Legion of Doom’), so the quality was bonkers to begin with. But these guys really lovingly brought those tunes into the here and now.
🌶️ Beastlor
Black, USA (independent)
FFO: Krallice, Encenathrakh, Anicon
I first heard of Beastlor when Krallice covered ‘This Forest For Which We Have Killed’ (on their career highlight Go Be Forgotten). Then I learned it wasn’t just an obscure unearthed band, but Mick Barr’s side project. You know, Mick from... Krallice. This is his second full length, and it’s as adventurous as you’d expect from a Krallice side project.
There’s more: Protest the Hero (🌶️ progressive metalcore, Canada), Fuming Mouth (🌶️ death/crust, USA), Psycroptic (tech death, Australia), an ep from Haken (prog, UK), a split from Supremative & Crucifixation (black/death, Spain & black/death, USA), Jehovah On Death (occult rock, Greece), Ethereal Rot (blackened tech death, USA), Black Sites (heavy/prog, USA), Witches Hammer (speed/thrash, Canada), JPI Vio-Lens Kommand (black/death/thrash, Uruguay), Niveous (black, USA), Äxe (black/speed, UK), and Quicksand (🌶️post-hardcore punk, USA). The rest is in the playlist!
🌶️ Altarage (experimental death, Spain Basque Country)
🌶️ Employed to Serve (metalcore, UK)
🌶️ Wayfarer (atmoblack/folk, feat. David Eugene Edwards)
🌶️ The Ocean (sludge/post, Germany)
🌶️ Mastodon (sludge/prog, USA)
🌶️ Noctule (atmoblack, UK - solo project from Svalbard’s Serena Cherry)
🌶️ Akvan (folk/black, Iran)
🌶️ Znous (hardcore punk/folk, Tunisia)
🌶️ Sev Lezu (black/death, USA - w/ Melissa Moore of Sonja, Crossspitter)
Not-so-heavy album of the week: Cinder Well (experimental dark folk, USA)
Next week: Ripper, Sallow Moth, Madball, Rezn, The Hu & Torpor.
What is your favourite? What did I miss? Let me know!
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