Cognizant/Bad Rites Split
Regardless of which side sounds more your style, I recommend brewing a pot of chamomile tea prior to listening. You may need it to calm your nerves.
Rübezahl – Tempering of Northern Iron
Mighty warriors walk this land of heathen beauty, while the earth and elements hold their own battles of life, death, existence, and the void.
Slumlord Radio – Gonna Be A Riot/I Wanna Be Your Dog
…they are straightforward, no frills, downright filthy rock and roll.
Wasteland Coven – Ruined
What a monstrous statement these three songs make!
Dearth – To Crown All Befoulment
To Crown All Befoulment strives to take the throne for unremitting nihilism and sonic annihilation of 2020 with it’s infernal, terror-inducing, and lethal combination of black metal, death metal, and bestial/war metal.
Wailin’ Storms – Rattle
…rough, energetic, profoundly moving, yet subtle, magnificent and significant like a perfect work of art.
Enox – Sequence (single)
…all signs point to it being musically diverse and very competently written.
Polemicist – Zarathustrian Impressions
The journey the riffs take you on is full of bizarre twists and turns, progressive in a vicious, abrasive way.
xIron Sharpens Ironx – The Tragedy of Mankind
This genre-defying album throws all emotions into the mix to really bring home the message.
Andor – Deconstructing Constructs
As heavy and unrelenting as this release is, it never forgets to swing.