🌶️ To The Teeth: Critical Defiance: thrash metal? Chile? I know enough
Plus: Hamferð, Svrm, Dödsrit, Khold, Brodequin, Leaves' Eyes, Pallbearer, Necrot & much more!
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
Thrash, Chile (Unspeakable Axe Records)
FFO: Vektor, Kreator, Ripper
Well jesus christ. That was a nice way to wake up. The signs were right: thrash metal, Unspeakable Axe, Chile. A combination of words that’s enough for metalheads worldwide to perk their ears, if you weren’t already familiar with Critical Defiance because of the excellent two earlier albums. The Search Won’t Fall is another big burst of energy, great songwriting and yet another sign that Chile is the place to watch.
🌶️ Hamferð
Melodic doom/death, Faroe Islands (Metal Blade Records)
FFO: Swallow the Sun, Mourning Beloveth, My Dying Bride
Jón Aldará is one of the best voices in metal at the moment, if you ask me. The way he pulls and pushes the songs with his melancholy ánd power is fantastic. Great new album from one of the best bands from the Faroer Islands.
🌶️🌻 Svrm
Atmoblack, Ukraine (independent)
FFO: Drudkh, Afsky, Aara
Lyrical themes according to the Metal Encyclopedia: ‘death, despair, existence’. Well you can imagine that coming from a band who’s in the middle of a terrible war for existence. Svrm from Kharkiv transports us ánd them to another time and place.
There’s more: Dödsrit (🌶️ black/crust, Sweden), Brodequin (brutal death, USA), Khold (black, Norway), Aberration (🌶️ black/death, USA - w/ members of Suffering Hour, Nothingness, Void Rot), Het Universumpje (🌶️ desert rock, The Netherlands), Apparition (death, USA), Acathexis (black, international - w/ members of Mare Cognitum, Déhà, Seelenmord), Severoth (ambient/atmospheric black, Ukraine 🌻), Horresque (blackened death, Germany), Civerous (black/death, USA), Sylvaine (folky mcfolkfolk, Norway), Moon Incarnate (doom/death ,Germany), Lhääd (black, Belgium - w/ member of Hemelbestormer, Rituals of the Dead Hand), Funeral Oration (black, Italy), Leaves’ Eyes (symphonic, Germany) and a demo from Corpus Offal (🌶️ death, USA - w/ members of Cerebral Rot, Demoncy, Bell Witch). The rest is in the playlist!
Five new songs
🌶️ Pallbearer (doom/heavy, USA)
🌶️ Necrot (death, USA)
🌶️ Unleash the Archers (power, Canada)
🌶️ Haunted Plasma (psych/black, Finland - w/ members of Oranssi Pazuzu, Circle, Hexvessel)
🌶️ Sulfuric Cautery (ploinkploink/blraaghhhrrrrggh, USA)
The rest is in the playlist!
Not-so-heavy & next week
Not-so-heavy album of the week: Jlin (electronic, USA)
I’m looking forward to next week because of: Coffin Storm, Nø Man & Verwoed.
What is your favourite? What did I miss? Let me know!