EXCLUSIVE FULL ALBUM STREAM: Done – Rest to Rust EP
The six tracks are more nuanced, more blackened, and meaner than what was found on the already stellar prior releases.
EXCLUSIVE ALBUM PREMIERE: Wounds – Ruin
The key point here is that the album is excellent, a brutal example of tech death as it should be, chock full of malevolent soul and spiteful menace.
EXCLUSIVE FULL ALBUM STREAM: Engulf – The Dying Planet Weeps
My one complaint is that I wish it were about five minutes longer, but there is something to be said for an album leaving the listener wanting more.
EXCLUSIVE FULL ALBUM STREAM: Seraphic Entombment – Sickness Particles Gleam
It lives within the boundaries of the style (with some blackening, but that’s not so abnormal), but does so with a unique putrefaction that makes it stand out above the rest.
EXCLUSIVE FULL ALBUM STREAM: 71TonMan – Of End Times
Layering sludge metal with noise and subtle blackening, 71TonMan join a very select few in creating a soundscape of palpable nihilistic dread.
FEATURE: Vulgarian – Human Scum
Musically ugly, the nasty riffs, abrasive drumming, destructive bass, and visceral howls of rage-filled horror mirror the ugly underbelly of society, an underbelly that has always been there, but that has been crawling ever further into the light during the tenure of this administration.
EXCLUSIVE FULL ALBUM STREAM: Fordomth – Is, Qui Mortem Audit
There are many individually exceptional moments, but they don’t draw you away from the dark infernal majesty of the whole.