🌶️ To The Teeth: it's double Dutch Day with God Dethroned & Officium Triste (plus Opeth!)

Plus: 40 Watt Sun, Opeth, Pyrrhon, Godthrymm, Opeth, Wolfheart, Opeth Sanctuarium, Aluk Todolo, Circle of Ourboros, Opeth and much more!

Sep 06, 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 🌶️!

Merry new Opeth Song and a happy Bandcamp Friday to all those who celebrate!

New Albums

🌶️ God Dethroned

Blackened death, The Netherlands (Reigning Phoenix)

FFO: Behemoth, Necrophobic, Hypocrisy

Around since 1991, and still there are monotheists in The Netherlands! So, time for a new album from Henri Sattler and co - with a relatively new band around him. They sound like vintage God Dethroned anyway: vicious and angry like hell.

🌶️ Officium Triste

Doom/death, The Netherlands (Transcending Obscurity)

FFO: My Dying Bride, Celestial Season, Shape of Despair

These guys are from my town, and I’ve never seen them live! I really have to fix that soon. This album is very heavy and very melodic, exactly what you want from them.

🌶️ 40 Watt Sun

Folk/alternative/doom, UK (Cappio Records)

FFO: Warning, Pallbearer, Opeth’s Damnation

I almost put this in the non-heavy section, but in the end this is still the same Patrick Walker who made Watching From a Distance and the heart of that crushingly heavy doom is also in his solo project. His music may not have the same surface heaviness, but the impact it has is still incredible.

🌶️ Kaikkivaltias & Silent Millenia

Meloblack/symphonic black, Finland (self released)

FFO: Weald & Woe, Mythras, Stormkeep, Limbonic Art

Kaikkivaltias was a recent awesome discovery in the roster of connaisseur vinyl label Ixiol. I absolutely love Astu. They’re back with a split with the to me unknown Silent Millenia, symphonic black metallers. Sounds very cool on first listen.

There’s more: Wolfheart (melodeath, Finland), Pyrrhon (🌶️ experimental death, USA), Sanctuarium (death, Spain), Together To The Stars (post-black, Sweden), Aluk Todolo (occult rock, France), Eldamar (atmoblack, Norway), A Swarm of the Sun (post-metal, Sweden), Black Sites (heavy/prog, USA) an ep from Godthrymm (🌶️ epic doom, UK), Castle (heavy/doom, USA), Vestige (prog/post-hardcore, France) and Circle of Ourborus (🌶️ experimental black, Finland). The rest is in the playlist!