SONG OF THE WEEK: Vermin Womb – Age of Neglect
This song, and the album from which it relentlessly crawls forth like an invading creature of spiteful violence, are among the most brutal, hateful, bile-filled creations I have ever heard.
Anagnorisis – Peripeteia
Musically, Peripeteia is has grown immensely from Beyond All Light. Pablo Picasso once said, “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” Beyond All Light is the band’s masterpiece after learning the rules of black metal as an art form. It is darkly beautiful, full of vile, pent-up aggression and ceaseless rage. Peripeteia is where Anagnorisis begin to break the rules like an artist.
Astral Blood – Astral Blood
The two songs and the interlude sandwiched between are ominous, destructive, and diabolic while also taking the listener on a dark, dimensional journey.
Discarnatus – Awakened Through Pain
Discarnatus is like a re-animated corpse with blackened, putrefying flesh layered over a skeleton of death metal.
Terrorist – Post-Mortem
Vicious. Feral. Intense. Unhinged. These are all adjectives which could be used to describe Post-Mortem by the now defunct Florida grindcore act Terrorist.
Interview with Andy Schoengrund of Feral Light
[I’m] just taking the Icy black metal parts a bit further and the melodic parts a bit further.
Wolves in the Throne Room/Cloud Rat at Lee’s Palace – September 24th, 2016
Cloud Rat is always amazing and Wolves in the Throne Room was near transcendental.
The Body and Full of Hell – One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache
I’m not sure that I can even say that I like the album. What I can say with certainty is that it is one of the most compelling listens I’ve heard all year.
Scorched – Echoes of Dismemberment
The opening riffs…seem to take their time clomping up the stairs with the realization that killing you may be more of a challenge than they thought.
Void Omnia – Dying Light
Dying Light is a rich, layered album full of black metal darkness.