Olde – Pilgrimage
“One small world, in decline.” – In Defiance
Subterraen – Rotten Human Kingdom
Above all else, Rotten Human Kingdom is a pissed off beast of an album, a creature formed from the earth itself, sent forth by its mother for the vengeance so richly deserved.
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Great beauty is buried within a dark morass of dissonance destructiveness.
Rise Of The Stateless Wolf – Born Dead/Year Of The Rats
Sometimes you just want meat and potatoes at the dinner table. Sometimes you just want extreme metal that rips in your ears.
Primitive Man – Immersion
Immersion is still an overwhelming and pummeling experience, but it’s one you might be able to share with an extreme music friend who wants to get into the band but doesn’t know where to start.
Gravecoven – Coughing Blood
The whole album is bleak and hopeless, yet incredibly, viscerally powerful.
Adzes – No One Wants To Speak About It
Listening might be something akin to swimming in the icy waters off the coast of Seattle, home of the artist.
Eremit – Desert of Ghouls
Monolithic, yet with catchy riffs and foot tapping rhythms, the band treads a fine line on the release, pulling off masterfully what sounds like it could have been a yawner on paper.
Room 101 – The Burden
It is utterly bleak, like walking into a ghost town.
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.