Poison Blood – Poison Blood
Poison Blood has my full attention. This debut album by the North Carolina duo is raw like an open wound, dark like a moonless night, unclean like an American Civil War hospital, and vicious like a thirsty vampire.
Five of the Eyes – The Venus Transit
You have to love a talented band that believes in itself and the music that they play.
Gravesite – Neverending Trail of Skulls
Gravesite, with their much more nuanced approach are maybe more comparable to a lich from Dungeons and Dragons fame. These creatures were evil sorcerers who extended their life even past death, basically intelligent, malevolent, animated corpses with great power.
Grande Royale – Breaking News
If you are filled with the urge to just rock out in a pickup truck to some honest to goodness straight forward rock with your lady beside you on the middle seat, then this is definitely worth buying.
Cloud Rat/Disrotted Split
Where in my top five will this one fall?
Cloud Rat/Moloch Split
The split is a cohesive whole, sort of different respective takes on darkness and futility.
Broken Hope – Mutilated and Assimilated (Review and Interview)
There is a malicious streak that shows forth here in ominous riffs, there in embedded grind, and yet again in ambient samples, which all serve to drag the listener by their exposed entrails into the abyss that is this album.
Leprous – Malina
According to their press release, the album took four times as long
for them to make as previous records did, but the results never sound belabored. Indeed, the
final product is well worth the effort.
Candle – Demo 2016 (Review and Interview)
See that guy? The one who looks a little dangerous? That is the personification of Candle.
Bison – You Are Not The Ocean You Are The Patient (Review and Interview)
Bison take rage and violence and make it atmospheric and calming. They take beauty and make it viscerally deadly.