Forn – Rites of Despair
From start to finish, I want to sit with my eyes closed, in a dark room while the music pervades every fiber of my being. I would walk away a changed man I would wager.
Yovel – -Hɪðəˈtu-
Through their music, which is a vicious, yet emotionally moving black metal with some ambient elements, they seek to fight for the oppressed of the world, and I stand in solidarity with them in this mission.
Funeral Mist – Hekatomb
Those first notes hooked me and I found myself swept along, unable to fight the current, resting to preserve my strength for the moment I might break free.
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...
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 Fell Ruin
An interview with Brian Sheehan of Fell Ruin, along with a recording of their live set.