🌶️ To The Teeth: Napoleon can't get a rest with Departure Chandelier
Plus: Unaussprechlichen Kulten, Ghoul, Solbrud, Agriculture, Darkspace & 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
Black, Canada/USA (Nuclear War Now!)
FFO: Ash Pool, Akitsa, Véhémence
It’s been hard to miss the hype around this band. Their 2019 debut full length already made the water ripple, even though it was recorded almost ten years earlier. The band with members of Ash Pool and Akitsa is back with brand new work this time, and it’s still exciting. Poor Napoleon can’t get rest.
Death, Chile (Iron Bonehead)
FFO: Immolation, Morbid Angel, Sulphur Aeon
Hello, Chile! I could use a cliché like ‘what the hell is in the water there’, but who am I kidding - I’ve been using chili peppers to highlight the good stuff for years. Chile just does what it was apparently made for: churn out great heavy music. Unaussprechlichen Kulten makes thick, murky death metal with a dissonant undertone and great vocals. It’s tasty and unsettling, and very good.
There’s more: Ghoul (🌶️ death/thrash/grind from the USA), Solbrud (🌶️ black from Denmark), Baazlvaat (black/folk.. hardrock? from the USA), House Of Atreus (🌶️ melodeath from the USA), an ep from Persefone (prog/melodeath from Andorra), an ep from Conan (sludge/stoner/doom from the UK), Apparition (🌶️ death from Spain - w/ members of Ataraxy), Dodenbezweerder (raw black/ambient from The Netherlands), Necrowretch (death/black from France) and Obsidian Tongue (atmoblack from the USA). The rest is in the playlist!
New songs
There are new songs out from: Agriculture (🌶️ post-black from the USA), Darkspace (🌶️ atmoblack/ambient from Switzerland), Hamferð (🌶️ melodic death/doom from the Faroe Islands), Dödsrit (🌶️ black/crust from Sweden), Midnight (black/speed from the USA), Acathexis (black, international - w/ members of Mare Cognitum, Déhà and Seelenmord), Job For A Cowboy (death from the USA), Arð (🌶️ melodic doom from the UK), Morvigor (melodic death/black from The Netherlands), Mages Terror (thrash/black from Australia - w/ member of Dödsrit), and a live track from Ayreon (prog from the Netherlands - I was at this show, amazing evening). The rest is in the playlist!
Non-metal & next week
Non-metal album of the week: Burial (acid from the UK)
I’m looking forward to next week because of: Spectral Voice & Hulder.
What was your favourite? What did I miss? Let me know!
Unaussprechlichen Kulten is pretty kickass!