🌶️ To The Teeth: Al Namrood, the brave

Plus: Ulcerate, Julie Christmas, Lucifer's Hammer, Rezn, Kerasfóra, Solar Temple & Dead Neanderthals, Sólstafir and much more!

Jun 14, 2024

Welcome to the To The Teeth newsletter! Your weekly update of new heavy music. You can listen to (most) everything in the playlist on Spotify. If you like what you read, go to Patreon (receive a patch!) & Bandcamp (buy a patch!). Peppers are hot 🌶️!

New Albums

🌶️ Al Namrood

Black/folk, Saudi Arabia (Shaytan Productions)

FFO: Melechesh, Seeds of Iblis, Akvan

It’s a few years ago, but I’ll always remember the face-to-face interview (in Dutch) I had with frontman Mephisto - the only one they ever did. It took me months to get them to trust me enough and to set this up at a place where we could meet safely. We’re still in contact on and off, he’s a great guy trapped in a terrible place. It’s absolutely insane, brave and awe-inspiring the risk they’re taking for this, and if that’s not enough to take the time to listen to their new album, I can tell you it’s also really good.

🌶️ Ulcerate

Avantgarde/tech death, New Zealand (Debemur Morti)

FFO: Gorguts, Dodecahedron, Portal

Not for the fait of hearted. Ulcerate is known to twist brains with their sprawling, intense technical death metal. They’ve been churning out records every three or four years or so, and this is album number seven. As usual it’s recorded by their own drummer, and this time the mastering was done by Cult of Luna’s Magnus Lindberg. They gave this complex sound great production: room to breathe, dynamic and still suffocatingly dense.

🌶️ Julie Christmas

Post-metal/noise/hardcore, USA (Red Creek)

FFO: Old Man Gloom, Helms Alee, Kowloon Walled City

Such a festive name, such disturbing music.

There’s more: Rezn (psych doom/stoner, USA), Solar Temple & Dead Neanderthals (🌶️ experimental doom, The Netherlands), Lucifer’s Hammer (🌶️ heavy, Chile), Sibiir (post-metal/hardcore, Norway), Dysrhythmia (prog math, USA - w/ members of Krallice, Gorguts), Crypt Sermon (epic doom, USA), Kerasfóra (🌶️ atmoblack, Chile), Fellwarden (atmoblack, UK), Perchta (black/folk, Austria), Cowardice (sludge/doom, USA), Vendel (epic/heavy doom, Russia), Apes (black/grind, Canada), Balwezo Westijiz (black, Sweden), Angel Sword (heavy, Finland), and Fugitive Wizard (raw black/ambient, USA). The rest is in the playlist!