Délétère – De Horae Leprae
…complex riffs whose only purpose is to crawl insect-like into your brain, lay eggs, and let their larvae consume you from the inside.
Wolvhammer – The Monuments of Ash and Bone
Wolvhammer take the aggression and savagery of black metal and drag it down into the filth of sludge bile.
Imperial Triumphant – Vile Luxury
The music is also most reminiscent, to me, of free jazz, finding inspiration in many different styles of music, past and present, and then gutting them, turning them on their head, and subverting them in the most difficult ways.
Abstracter – Cinereous Incarnate
Band – Abstracter Album – Cinereous Incarnate Country of Origin – USA Genre – Blackened Doom Release Date – June 8, 2018 Label – Vendetta Records/Sentient Ruin Laboratories Author – Hayduke X Back in 2015, my ears found...
Atavisma – The Chthonic Rituals
…the strength is in the composition. One gets lost in it. The ritual is uncompromisingly effective.
Nasty Surgeons – Infectious Stench
There’s Carcass worship aplenty here though, with waves of grinding riffs, old school guitar tones, a rhythm section that gives the whole thing a little headbanging groove, and filth laden vocals that wash over you like used formaldehyde.
Arallu – Desert Battles
Arallu play a style of black metal owing a debt to the early masters, but infusing their music with traditional middle eastern instruments.
Interview with Discarnatus
Interview with the mighty Discarnatus from Grand Rapids, as well as a live track captured in their rehearsal space and an earlier live set from Mulligans.
Interview with Wake
An interview with two members of Wake, as well as their live set at Cellarmen’s.
Interview with Fell Ruin
An interview with Brian Sheehan of Fell Ruin, along with a recording of their live set.