🌶️ To The Teeth: At The Gates, Year Of No Light, Obscura & The best albums of 2021 so far
Two albums you need to hear (and some more)
🌶️ At The Gates - The Nightmare of Being (melodeath from Sweden)
No introduction necessary, but I will tell you this is one of my favourite comeback stories. I like everything they've done from 2014 onwards and I think it's amazing they've come back this creative and full of bravado - and even a little proggy. Cool band, doing cool shit.
🌶️ Year of No Light - Consolamentum (sludge/doom/post from France)
You've got to put a little effort into this one: this band takes it's time to build up and to take apart again. Layered intensity, carefully composed and brought with the perfect production: not too smooth, not too gritty.
There's more: Drawn & Quartered (🌶️ death from the USA), Mannveira (black from Iceland), Friisk (atmoblack from Germany), Lost in Grey (symphonic from Finland), Dharma (🌶️ death/folk from Taiwan), Die Apokalyptischen Reiter (death/folk/heavy from Germany), Sallow Moth (death from the USA), Nifrost (viking/folk/black from Norway), Scythelord (🌶️ death/thrash from Sweden/USA), Noctambulist (black/death from the USA), Diabolizer (death from Turkey) and Stress Angel (blackened death from the USA). The rest is in the playlist!
New singles
New songs: Obscura (prog/tech death from Germany), King Woman (🌶️ doom/post from the USA), Shining (avantgarde prog from Norway), Poppy (groove/industrial/pop from the USA), Hail Spirit Noir (prog/psych rock/black metal from Greece), Kryptan (🌶️ black from Sweden - with members of October Tide), Netherbird (symphonic from Sweden) and Wraith (blackened speed/punk from the USA). The rest is in the playlist!
The best of 2021 so far!
Here are the heavy records I loved most this year so far.
Gojira - Fortitude (listen)
Mare Cognitum - Solar Paroxysm (listen)
MEER - Playing House (listen)
Gatecreeper - An Unexpected Reality (listen)
Panopticon - ...And Again Into The Light (listen)
Moonspell - Hermitage (listen)
Darkthrone - Eternal Hails (listen)
Krallice - Demonic Wealth (listen)
Terminal Bliss - Brute Err/Ata (listen)
Amenra - De Doorn (listen)
Have a great weekend!
Peter