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.
Cardiac Arrest – A Parallel Dimension of Despair
…the composition of the whole is brutally vile and compellingly tight.
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...
Atavisma – The Chthonic Rituals
…the strength is in the composition. One gets lost in it. The ritual is uncompromisingly effective.
Witchkiss – The Austere Curtains Of Our Eyes
Band – Witchkiss Album – The Austere Curtains Of Our Eyes Country of Origin – USA Genre – Doom/Sludge Metal Release Date – July 13th, 2018 Label – Argonauta Records Author – Johnny The Fox Sparse. Dirgelike. Funereal. All...
Nasty Surgeons – Infectious Stench
There’s Carcass worship aplenty here though, with waves of grinding riffs, old school guitar tones, a rhythm section that gives the whole thing a little headbanging groove, and filth laden vocals that wash over you like used formaldehyde.
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.