Chaos Perversion – Petrified Against The Emanation
Come join the ritual. Offer your hand to the feral, sentient darkness. Let the ritual weave you a new skeletal structure. Join the Chaos (Perversion).
Ars Magna Umbrae – Throne Between Worlds
This is not an album to be listened to in the bright daylight. In fact, if you were to try, the world would feel strange and dim as you listened.
Hosts of Lord – A Chamber Above Cosmic Waters
This third full length by this new, yet prolific artist is a potent example of paying homage to past masters, while still creating something viscerally fresh in its horrifying darkness. Pay attention!
Antiverse – Under the Regolith
Musically, Under the Regolith is a masterwork in slightly progressive death metal.
OrphanOfKos – Arcane Worship Demo 2018
As you approach, her child is born right in front of your eyes. The unnamed Orphan of Kos is a humanoid creature that is holding what appears to be its own bladed placenta.
Vanha – Melancholia
Other bands attempting the Death Doom should look to the album as an example of how to play the style properly.
Ferum – Vergence
Take no prisoners, no holds barred, realest of the real, capital D for Death, capital M for Metal, Death Metal.
Ernia – Ernia
Playing death leaning grindcore, the five guys throw a fair amount of weird into the mix. The riffs are outstanding (what’s that? a grind band that knows how to play riffs?)
Tryptamyne – Tryptamyne
The self titled release actually feels much longer in a wild ‘What just happened?’ kind of way.
Amiensus/Oak Pantheon – The Gathering II
This time, each band offers a track to the release, as they did last time, but in addition, they sandwich a collaborative track in the middle. Big picture, this split is everything I’d hoped it would be.