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Crypts of Despair – All Light Is Swallowed
All Light Is Swallowed is less of an album and more of a channeling of eviscerating darkness.
Hot Alien Sauce – Seeking Glory
“Seeking Glory” will be the one where they solidified their potential status as legends.
Serocs – Vore
All of the chaotic brutal beauty (breauty? beautality?) is on display here in Vore yet again.
Body Void/Keeper – Split
Earlier this year, two titans of the sludge world re-arranged the structural integrity of the earth’s core by releasing this monster split.
Æpoch – The Scryer
…has just enough touch of prog to keep it flowing and interesting.
Recorruptor – The Funeral Corridor
…if you are looking for the next titan to rise from the Murder Mitten, take a close look here.
Forged in Black – Ten Years at the Forge
…comes at you…bad-to-the-bone…
Wyrm Chasm/Psychiatric Regurgitation – The Purge of Shrouded Martyrdom
Honestly, I’m glad I don’t have to choose. I can sit back and listen to both.
Defeated Sanity – The Sanguinary Impetus
…they play a fast, brutal form of Death Metal that maintains a distinct technical aspect with quick succession of riffs and blasts.
Cryptic Shift – Visitations From Enceladus
From the very opening notes, it is obvious that Cryptic Shift is about to take you far, far away from Planet Earth.
Various Artists – A Fistful MORE of Rock n’ Roll, Vol. 3
This volume might just go down as my preferred comp ever.
Soulmass – The Weakness of Virtue
There is a burning sense of ominous intent throughout the release, yet the primary emotion seems to be one of grief, fitting for a game where the primary experience is death.
Golden Ashes – In the Lugubrious Silence of Eternal Night
…and turns it into an almost panic inducing feeling.
Black Falcon – Ego Mortem Machina
They have genuine creative minds and force both resonant and threatening…
Vile Creature – Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!
Hearing it will not be enough, but if you do hear it, you will feel it.
The Cheats – Cussin, Crying N’ Carrying On
To tune in to The Cheats is to encounter more than essentially a blast of flammable gen X rage, but to observe the codification of another type of melodic craftsmanship.
Sepulchral Curse – Only Ashes Remain
This album could probably beat up your dad and older brother combined.
Graceless – Where Vultures Know Your Name
There’s a storm thundering in the distance and I’m not sure I’ll survive.
Blight – Temple of Wounds
The music they create together is nothing short of sorcery.
Ice War – Defender, Destroyer
…invigorating straightforwardness to keep everything moving forward.
Bleed From Within – Fracture
Bleed From Within are in top form on this album. Years of experience are clearly paying off on this record.
Drought – Trimurti
Allow it to lead your journey. See where it will take you. Perhaps to some form of enlightenment, whether that be large or small.
Temple of Void – The World that Was
Think tearing yourself apart while still conscious, blood dripping, brain exposed, yeah, the death metal works.
Stabby the Kitty – I Have No Idea What I’m Doing
The rest of the brief but dizzying time span of the record is spent with absolutely everything on ten from the drum machine to the incomprehensible guttural vocals.
