🌶️ To The Teeth | New Metal: Ahab, Obituary, Moonlight Sorcery, Dawn Ray'd, Kamelot & more
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Welcome to the all new To The Teeth newsletter! Your weekly update of new heavy music, moved to Substack because Revue went upside down. One of the upsides: Bandcamp embeds! You can still listen to almost everything in the playlist on Spotify. Peppers are hot 🌶️! If you like what you read and want help keep this in the air: please head over to Patreon or to my compilation: The Taste of Teeth (also for a small batch of merch).
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New albums
🌶️ Ahab (funeral doom from Germany. FFO: Evoken, Mournful Congregation, Skepticism)
The first single and openingstrack alone is worth it. Such a cool, fresh take on the genre from a band that has been around for almost 20 years. Beautiful album.
🌶️ Obituary (death from the USA. FFO: death from the USA)
Speaking of a band that has been around. Obituary has been around, goddamnit. And they still fucking rock. This new album is as filthy, groovy and intense as you’d hope.
🌶️ Cora’s Heart (blackgaze from Mexico. FFO: Sadness, Unreqvited, Lustre)
Victoria Carmilla Hazemaze must be one of the most exciting black metal artists of the moment. Her V.C.H. Music has been churning out interesting release after interesting release, under names like AIAA 7, Oblivion Castle, Oculi Melancholarium and lots more. Cora’s Heart is one of my favourites of those, and this is another cool album from the project. Keep an eye on V.C.H.!
🌶️ Moonlight Sorcery (melodic black from Finland. FFO: Stormkeep, Dissection, but also Children of Bodom)
Cheating a little bit here, since this ep came out independently last december. But it get’s a re-release (proper release?) at Avantgarde Music today and it’s worth it. Melodic black done very well.
There’s more: Scalp (🌶️ death/hardcore from the USA), Leper Colony (death from Sweden/Germany - w/ members of Morgoth, Paganizer), Ûkcheânsâlâwit (🌶️ black from Canada), Defy the Curse (death/crust from The Netherlands), Walg (🌶️ melodic black from The Netherlands), Ieschure (black from Ukraine 🌻), Necrodeath (black/death/thrash from Italy), Cephalophore (progressive death/post/djent from the USA), Sëht (raw atmoblack from India), and Great Cold Emptiness (atmoblack/funeral doom from the USA).
Plus, always good, the 🌶️ Transcending Obscurity label sampler (with new work from Gateway, Eternal Storm, Veilburner, Imperialist and lots more).
New singles
Single season is not officially open yet, but a lot of loose rocks are rolling down the mountain already. I suspect the next two weeks we’ll see lot’s of great new stuff coming round. Good stuff this week anyway, but not a lot of peppers from me.
There are new songs out from: Liturgy (experimental/avantgarde black - this is a weird track but believe me I’ve heard the album, it’s good), Dawn Ray’d (🌶️ black from the UK), Floor Jansen (alternative from The Netherlands - soloproject from the Nightwish-singer), Kamelot (prog/melodic power from the USA), Siege of Power (death/thrash from the USA - w/ members of Autopsy, Asphyx), Prong (groove/industrial from the USA), Kruelty (death/doom from Japan), Memoriam (death from the UK), Riverside (prog from Poland), Delain (symphonic from The Netherlands), Unfelled (atmospheric black from Australia - members of Woods of Desolation, Drudkh) and Sanguisugabogg (death from the USA). The rest is in the playlist!
Non-metal & next week
Non-metal album of the week: Naaz (indie pop from The Netherlands)
I’m looking forward to next week because of: Katatonia, Imperium Dekadenz, Tribunal & Dryad.
Not entirely done with 2022 yet? Listen to the 101 best heavy songs from last year in this playlist.
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I like the new format with bandcamp links, keep up the good work!
Right on! Great to see others writing about metal. Just started a similarly inclined substack with various deep dives. Will probably more about classic and familiar bands, but please do check it out if you have a chance! Thanks!