Rage and Frustration

Pyramido – Vatten

Absolute Contempt is a fairly new label with only seven releases so far, but Daniel Zambrano, the owner, has a different vision for his releases. All proceeds from the label are going to cat rescue shelters.

Oblivion Circle – Oblivion Circle

I was immediately struck by the music. While Oblivion Circle doesn’t play straight-up black metal, they do play black metal with plenty of death metal influences and a ton of atmosphere.

Virus – Memento Collider

This is no simple strum-along–either take it as a challenge to figure out these knotty chords or surrender completely and let yourself dissolve in a wash of sound you may never be able break down or understand.

Tomb Mold – The Bottomless Perdition

There was so much gravel in the vocals that I had to empty my shoes at the end of the album.

The Night Watch – Boundaries

The music is challenging, but the presentation is deliciously unusual, and while one might envision such a piece as a cult classic…

Koneskin – Liberty Place

On Liberty Place, their new EP, the Italian three-piece band Koneskin conjure up a groove, fall into place, and never seem to look back…

They Mostly Come Out At Night – Scorched Upon This Earth

Band - They Mostly Come Out At Night Album - Scorched Upon This Earth Country of Origin - USA Genre - Post-Metal Release Date - May 18th, 2016 Label - Independent Author - Credible The atmospheric sound created by They Mostly Come Out At Night creates a...

Rail Yard Ghosts – Hiræth

Imagine, if you will, somewhere in an alternate dimension, Johnny Cash, Crass, and Mumford and Sons engaged in an open relationship which resulted in a child. That child would be the Rail Yard Ghosts.

Castle – Welcome to the Graveyard

Vocally, she reminds me of a siren, luring you in. The difference is that she is not luring you to sea, but to your eternal damnation.

Sallow Moth – Moss Deceptiva

Moss Deceptiva is a brutally beautiful meditation on the destructiveness of modern society… It is with this weapon of musical destructiveness that we will be cleansed.

Bifid Corpse – Dead and Decaying

The whole EP comes at you like a wounded bear, perhaps mortally wounded, but still having enough strength to eviscerate you on its way out. Dead & Decaying is filthy and ugly in the best possible way.

Scour – Scour

The short EP gives the sense of a relentless, many clawed demon screaming across the landscape for the sole purpose of rending flesh from bone.

Quinta Essentia – Initiates of the Great Work

I always love an album which forces me into some involuntary reaction, especially an album that touches whichever part of my lizard brain causing headbanging. Initiates in the Great Work is just such an album.

Nox – Ancestral Arte Negro 7″

It can be difficult to find worthwhile black metal in the underground, but also well worth the effort. The swirling riffs, brutal blasting, and flesh-rending vocal delivery of this brief release make it one of the black jewels that keep you looking.

Cough – Still They Pray

They are fantastic as making you feel the torment within the songs.

Anderson/Stolt – Invention of Knowledge

…a dazzling album overflowing with joy, warmth, drama, spectacle, and pure positive energy.

Asschapel – Total Destruction (1999-2006)

Though Asschapel doesn’t really sound like Napalm Death – you would never confuse the two – I was impressed by how much the rage of the songs reminded me of Napalm Death.

Ghoul – Dungeon Bastard

…from the very first riff, I was transported back to my 15 year old self, down in my basement bedroom, boom box cranked to 11, and shouting along with Mike that “All I wanted a Pepsi. Just one Pepsi.”

Inter Arma – Paradise Gallows

Paradise Gallows, like Sky Burial before it, is both expansive and oppressive in its ferocity, sometimes glacial, sometimes frenetic pacing, and its ability to suck all the light from the room in a way both tragic and beautiful.

Abominant – Napalm Reign

Let me present you with another exhibit in the case of “How to Make Excellent Death Metal.”

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