Rage and Frustration

Rudra – Enemy of Duality

Enemy of Duality, is intense in a restrained manner. It is fierce and harsh, but not savage, uncontrollable, but not out of control.

Echelon – The Brimstone Aggrandizement

Sometimes playing an established style to the point of excellence is preferable to masturbatory experimentation. That is certainly the case with Echelon.

Aenaon – Hypnosophy

Hypnosophy brings to mind the gods of old, risen again to walk the earth and to have their final vengeance on usurper man.

Soothsayer – At This Great Depth

Through this two song album, you are able to understand and see as the soothsayer into your own future.

Khaos-Dei – Opus II: Catechism

Only the glare of red flames give any glow and it is a dark malevolent glow indeed.

Grossty – Crocopter

Crocopter is insanely fun or possibly just insane.

Eggs of Gomorrh – Rot Prophet

The savagery of Rot Prophet gives us much to consider. We are invited to examine the most putrid layers of depravity, presented with vileness personified, and tainted forever by chaotic filth.

Graves at Sea – The Curse That Is

The complete package is moving and feels rooted in an organic, malevolent intensity.

I would think a more accessible hard rock sound & production as found on this album would warrant more clean-singing, like it does on the title track. However, many songs lean heavily on the harsh growls.

Calligram – Demimonde

Calligram is a consuming fire raging across the landscape to destroy all who are unworthy with their brand of blistering hot blackened crust.

SONG OF THE WEEK: Night Demon – The Chalice

Check out The Chalice in all of its ritualistic glory below, and then move on and discover the rest of the EP.

Oozing Wound – Whatever Forever

Oozing Wound remain my favorite black mold metal band, their style jokingly dubbed with this genre label during an interview I did with them two years ago. I am, however, determined to make the label stick.

SONG OF THE WEEK: Vermin Womb – Age of Neglect

This song, and the album from which it relentlessly crawls forth like an invading creature of spiteful violence, are among the most brutal, hateful, bile-filled creations I have ever heard.

Anagnorisis – Peripeteia

Musically, Peripeteia is has grown immensely from Beyond All Light. Pablo Picasso once said, “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” Beyond All Light is the band’s masterpiece after learning the rules of black metal as an art form. It is darkly beautiful, full of vile, pent-up aggression and ceaseless rage. Peripeteia is where Anagnorisis begin to break the rules like an artist.