🌶️ To The Teeth: Gouge Away give all the other hardcore bands a run for their money
Plus: Stress Angel, Udåd, Necrophobic, Vltimas, Ulcerate, Al Namrood, Bossk & much more!
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New Albums
🌶️ Gouge Away
Post-hardcore, USA (Deathwish)
FFO: Gel, Scowl, Angel Du$t (but also Nirvana, Pixies)
Such an exciting band. Fusing (post-)hardcore, grunge, alternative rock and noise into something melodic and catchy. Sounds easy but the secret is: good songs, and Gouge Away don’t forget that. They’re named after a Pixies song (I guess?) so they kinda have to. I think ‘Idealized’, a dynamic and emotional mood-changer with palpable traces of Nirvana is their best song yet. But ‘The Sharpening’ comes very close. Great album!
🌶️ Udåd
Black, Norway (Peaceville)
FFO: old Mork, old Darkthrone, old everything from 90’s Norway
It seems Thomas Eriksen wasn’t completely satisfied with just his main project, Mork, and that’s good news. Because now not only do we have the layered, thick black metal of Mork, but also his lo-fi grim, primal shit from hell. It’s totally captivating and hypnotic, I love it.
🌶️ Stress Angel
Death/thrash, USA (Dying Victims Productions)
FFO: Death Strike, Negative Plane, Aura Noir
Stress Angel. The name is a little wonky, and the cover with two wrestling beetles doesn’t make it better - although I guess it’s better than the brothers De Witt. But inside is filthy, thrashy metal of death with a lot of personality.
There’s more: Necrophobic (🌶️ death/black, Sweden), Vltimas (blackened death/international - w/ David Vincent from Morbid Angel and Blasphemer from Aura Noir), Aborted (death/grind, Belgium), Defect Designer (🌶️ death, Russia), Hadit (death/black, Italy), Wounds (tech death, USA), Μνήμα (🌶️ raw black, Greece), Dragonforce (power, UK), Savage Oath (heavy, USA) and Brat (🌶️ grind/death, USA). The rest is in the playlist!
Five new songs
🌶️ Ulcerate (avantgarde/tech death, New Zealand)
🌶️ Al Namrood (black, Saudi Arabia)
🌶️ Bossk (atmospheric sludge, UK)
🌶️ Gatecreeper (death, USA)
🌶️ Darkthrone (metal, Norway - not a song, but a trailer. Close enough!)
The rest is in the playlist!
Not-so-heavy & next week
Not-so-heavy album of the week: Four Tet (electronic, UK)
I’m looking forward to next week because of: Hamferð, Dödsrit, Brodequin & Khold.
What is your favourite? What did I miss? Let me know!
I really liked that Necrophobic on first listen.
Defect Designer is a weird one!
Glad that Ulcerate has decided that dynamic range is good. Speaking of which, Fallujah remixing and remastering The Flesh Prevails is something I’ve waited a long time for, that album kind of awakened me to bad mixing.
Super cool!