🌶️ To The Teeth newsletter: Wode, Bodom After Midnight, Fuoco Fatuo, Motorpsycho, Dead Neanderthals, Thy Catafalque, The Armed & more!
Three new albums you should hear
🌶️ Wode - Burn In Many Mirrors (black from the UK, listen)
Black metal wherein the riff wins over atmosphere. They impressed me on their 2016 debut and the follow-up a year later. They're back with a more potent poison in their tunes, with flourishes of death metal and a few progressive elements.
🌶️ Dead Neanderthals - Rat Licker (jazzgrind from the Netherlands, listen)
Jazz and grindcore, I hear you say, is that a fair categorization? I don't know. But the improvised, ever changing style of this duo is as much free form as it is uncompromising. Interesting, too. And fucking loud.
🌶️ Fuoco Fatuo – Obsidian Katabasis (funeral doom from Italy, listen)
Take your time, hurry up. These Italians add a little pinch of death metal in their funeral doom concoction and I have always learned: when there are Italians cooking, you shut up and taste. It's massive and intense.
There's more
Gnod (drugs/riffs from the UK - it says this comes out in may, but it's out on Spotify), The Sun and the Mirror (experimental from doom/ambient from Italy), a collaboration from Rorcal & Earthflesh (black/doom & harsh noise from Switzerland), 夢遊病者 (Sleepwalker) (black from Russia/USA/Japan), Steel Bearing Hand (death/thrash from the USA), Urthshroud (black from the USA - a new Colin Marston - Krallice etc - project), Mythic Sunship (prog/psych rock from Denmark), Jute Gyte (experimental black from the USA), Ghostbound (prog from the USA), Tenue (blackgaze/post rock from Spain), and Olhava (atmoblack from Russia). More in the playlist!
New singles
There are new singles, songs and advance tracks out from: Bodom After Midnight (🌶️ melodic death/power - project from the late Alexi Laiho), Motorpsycho (🌶️ psych rock from Norway), Esoctrilihum (avantgarde black from France), Thy Catafalque (avantgarde from Hungary), Paysage d'Hiver (black from Switzerland), Dödsrit (black/crust from Sweden), Grey Aura (avantgarde black from the Netherlands), The Armed (🌶️ post hardcore/hardcore punk from the USA), Vreid (meloblack from Norway), Acausal Intrusion (tech death from the USA), Kælan Mikla (dark artpunk from Iceland) and a cover from Amenra (doom/sludge from Belgium). The rest is in the playlist!
Bonus: top five of 2021 (first quarter)
Because I'm a nerd.
Mare Cognitum - Solar Paroxysm
Gatecreeper - An Unexpected Reality
Terminal Bliss - Brute Err/Ata
Krallice - Demonic Wealth
Witherfall - The Curse of Autumn]
Next week
Non-metal album of the week: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! (music genres, from Canada)
I’m looking forward to next week because of: Kauan, The Lion's Daughter.
Have a great weekend! - Peter