🌶️ To The Teeth: Amorphis, Cult of Luna, Voivod, Napalm Death, Mortuary Drape, Vanum & more!
New albums
🌶️ Amorphis (progressive/melodic doom/death from Finland)
A whole bunch of big names have new albums out today, which is cool. My favourite is the new Amorphis. A fun band, if anything. They discovered fun in 1994 with their landmark Tales From the Thousand Lakes and through lots of pentatonic melodies, progressive influences, cheese, saxophones and a coming and going of band members, they're still so much fun. I'm not sure if I think Halo is as good as Queen of Time yet, but I've been really enjoying myself with it the past couple of weeks just as much.
There's (a lot) more: Voivod (prog/thrash from Canada), Cult of Luna (sludge/post from Sweden), Napalm Death (🌶️ grind/death from the UK), Mortuary Drape (your fathers' black/death from Italy), Zeal & Ardor (avantgarde black from Switzerland), Author & Punisher (industrial/doom/electronics from the USA), A Pale December (🌶️ dark metal from Italy), Hangman's Chair (gothic/doom from France), Vanaheim (🌶️ pagan/folk from The Netherlands - missed this last week), Karmanjaka (black from Sweden), Wait (prog death from the USA - members of Obscura, Defeated Sanity, Cynic), Alto Arc (🌶️ experimental from the USA - featuring George Clarke from Deafheaven), Eldritch (black from the UK - missed this too), The Silent Wedding (heavy/power from Greece), Hammr (black/speed/punk from the USA), Nervochaos (death from Brazil), Shield of Wings (symphonic/gothic from the USA) and Inhuman Nature (🌶️ thrash/hardcore from the USA).
New singles
There are new songs out from: Satan (NWOBHM from the UK), Vanum (🌶️ black from the USA), Midnight (black/speed from the USA), Unru (black/crust from Germany), Dark Funeral (black from Sweden), Incandescence (epic black from Canada), Andvaka (funeral doom from Iceland), Christian Death (deathrock/gothic from the USA), Sabaton (power from Sweden), Demonical (death from Sweden), Bhleg (black from Sweden), Konvent (death/doom from Denmark), The Gathering (prog from The Netherlands), Static Abyss (🌶️ death/doom from the USA - featuring Greg Wilkinson & Chris Reifert from Autopsy), Sanhedrin (heavy from the USA), Morgue Supplier (death/grind from the USA), Hell Militia (black from France), Vio-Lence (thrash from the USA), Tome of the Unreplenished (atmoblack/noise from Cyprus/England), Mosaic (black from Germany), Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard (psych/sludge/doom from the UK), Eric Wagner (doom from the USA - a posthumous release from the Trouble singer), Cailleach Calling (atmospheric black from the USA), Crisix (thrash from Spain), Våde (prog death from - I think - Norway), Sylvaine (atmoblack/blackgaze from Norway) and Al Namrood (🌶️ black from Saudi Arabia - read my interview with Mephisto, the only face to face he has ever done, here in Dutch).
Next week
Non-metal album of the week: Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
I’m looking forward to next week because of: Immolation, Star One, Buñuel, Annihilator, Matt Pike, Crimson Throne and Pure Wrath.
Have a great weekend people, stay safe! - Peter