🌶️ To The Teeth: damn, Rob Halford

Plus: Midnight, Skeletal Remains, Isenordal, Sinistro, Dark Tranquillity & much more!

Mar 08, 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

🌶️ Judas Priest

Heavy, UK (Sony)

FFO: Iron Maiden, Saxon, Accept

I can’t help but compare the new Judas Priest to Bruce Dickinson’s new album from last week. They both sound great, don’t get me wrong. But while Dickinson sounds great for his age, Halford just sounds plain fucking great for anyone in any category. I mean, damn. What the hell is this guy eating? There’s really no reason he should scorch a song like ‘The Serpent & The King’ so easily, or steamroll over ‘Trail By Fire’. He really sounds incredible and the band follows suit: fantastic album. Please give this band another 50 years.

There’s more: Midnight (black/speed, USA), Doodseskader (experimental sludge/post, Belgium - member of Amenra), Isenordal (🌶️ pagan black/doom/neofolk, USA), Municipal Waste (thrash/pizza, USA), Skeletal Remains (🌶️ death, USA), Slimelord (death/doom, UK) and Ecclesia (doom/heavy, France). The rest is in the playlist!