Pig’s Blood – Pig’s Blood
…a beast unleashed, full of abhorrent brutality and unchained rage.
Olde – Temple
They are a righteous beast awakened and ready to cleanse.
Laser Flames on the Great Big News – Laser Flames on the Great Big News
This quartet sounds much bigger than four and combines the best parts of many influences into a musical ride both melancholy and triumphant.
Undergang – Misantropologi (Review and Interview)
Feral creation is called forth to drag the listener bodily into the filthy pits of void from which the band springs forth.
Centenary – …Where No Lives Matter (Review and Interview)
A dark creature arises from the post-apocalyptic wastes.
Psy:Code – Morke
Lots of screaming about dying, murder, hate, and the like.
Poison Blood – Poison Blood
Poison Blood has my full attention. This debut album by the North Carolina duo is raw like an open wound, dark like a moonless night, unclean like an American Civil War hospital, and vicious like a thirsty vampire.
Five of the Eyes – The Venus Transit
You have to love a talented band that believes in itself and the music that they play.
Gravesite – Neverending Trail of Skulls
Gravesite, with their much more nuanced approach are maybe more comparable to a lich from Dungeons and Dragons fame. These creatures were evil sorcerers who extended their life even past death, basically intelligent, malevolent, animated corpses with great power.
Grande Royale – Breaking News
If you are filled with the urge to just rock out in a pickup truck to some honest to goodness straight forward rock with your lady beside you on the middle seat, then this is definitely worth buying.