Welcome to the To The Teeth newsletter! Your weekly AI-free update of new heavy music. You can listen to the playlist on Spotify. If you like what you read, go to Patreon (receive a patch!) or Bandcamp (buy a patch!), or consider becoming a paid subscriber. Peppers are hot 🌶️!
This is my last newsletter before I’m out for a week or three! Time for holiday, I’m out for Spain. If I get the opportunity, I’ll try to update the playlist, but usually I will update it after my holiday with a big fat summer update when I’m back. Cyaaaa!
“Unbidden guest drawn through the gateway of exposed nerve / an open portal / a door unhinged by soured expectations / harsh resentment / constricts the chest”
🌶️ Rezn
Psych doom/stoner, USA (Sargent House)
FFO: Windhand, Monolord, Elder
In Rezn I hear like a stoner/doom version of a Pelagic band. Ethereal, dreamy, hard to turn off once it’s spinning. This is their sixth album and you can hear the confidence in their writing. And, as the eye needs something too, beautiful artwork.
🌶️Ripper
Death/thrash, Chile (Dark Descent Records)
FFO: Kreator, old Sepultura, Hellion
I’ve told you before: there’s something in the water in Chile. And whatever it is, the guys in Ripper have been binging it. This is a shot of energy with riffs flying around like a meteor shower. Super exciting band and album.
There’s more: Sallow Moth (prog death, USA), Madball (hardcore, USA), Torpor (black/heavy, Poland), Mould (postpunk, UK), Tharaphita (pagan black, Estonia). The rest is in the playlist!
🌶️ Insomnium (melodic death, Finland)
🌶️ Chelsea Wolfe (dark folk/doom, USA)
🌶️ Russian Circles (post/sludge, USA)
Not-so-heavy album of the week: Haven’t heard anything special
Next three weeks: Altarage, Nothingness, Hulder, Taake and Temple of Dread. Not too much indeed!
What is your favourite? What did I miss? Let me know!
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