To The Teeth: Nightwish, Azusa, Gruesome, Wolfheart
New albums
There are relatively new albums, ep’s, splits and demo’s out from Nightwish (symphonic from Finland), Dool (dark/post rock from the Netherlands), Azusa (extreme prog from Norway, USA, Macedonia and Greece), Like Rats (sludge/death/hardcore from the USA), Ripper (death/thrash from Chile - missed it last week), Traveler (heavy from Canada), Mesarthim (atmoblack from Australia - a single song ep), Benighted (brutal death/grind from France), Wolfheart (melodeath from Finland), Perchta (folk/black from Austria), Sadness (depressive black from the USA), Calligram (black/hardcore from the UK), Barrens (post from Sweden), Dyssidia (prog from Australia), Aktor (heavy/hardrock from Finland/USA), Bríi (black/ambient from Brazil - do check out if you liked that Kaatayra from last week), Dark Sky Burial (electronic/experimental from the UK - it's Napalm Death's Shane Embury's new project), Curse (black/thrash from Sweden), Spell (heavy/hardrock from Canada), two releases from Belgium's Déhà 1 and 2 (experimental/black from Belgium - number 1 is proggy black/death and 2 is more ritualistic, ambient), Ixachitlan (atmoblack/folk from the USA), Dark Forest (heavy/power from the UK), Ritual Dictates (death from Canada), Myth of I (tech death/prog from the USA), Savage Annihilation (death from France), Midwife (shoegaze from the USA), Akurion (tech death from Canada), Black Curse (death from the USA), Caustic Wound (grind from the USA), Ayyur (black from Tunisia), High Priestess (psych doom from the USA), Lebenssucht (black from Belgium/Austria/Germany), Ajna (instrumental prog from Hungary), Failed Treatment (goregrind from Japan), Invictus (death from Japan), Triage (death/grind from the USA), Kimura (grind/noise from Argentina), Nimbifer (black from Germany), Lithopaedia (brutal death from the USA), Golden Blood (black/thrash/punk from Austria), Seeds of Iblis (black from Iraq - although that's questioned by some), Autumnfall (black from Finland), Meurtrières (heavy/hardrock from France), a collaboration between Chepang & Takafumi Matsubara (grind from Nepal and Japan), Molested Divinity (brutal death from Turkey), Moonknight (black from the USA), Altar of Gore (black/death from the USA), Spirit Possession (black from the USA), Tzun Tzu (death from Australia), Gaytheist (sludge/rock from the USA), Grim Fate (death from the Netherlands), Lord Vigo (epic doom from Germany), Noroth (death from the USA), Sovereign (death/thrash from Norway), Luctus (black/thrash from Lithuania), Völur (ambient folk/doom from Canada), and live records from Archgoat (death/black from Finland) and Outer Heaven (death/doom from the USA).
New singles
There are new songs, singles and advance tracks out from Gruesome (death from the USA), Acherontas (black from Greece), Bezwering (black from the Netherlands - ex-members of Wederganger), Youth Code (industrial/hardcore from the USA), ...And Oceans (symphonic black from Finland), Sojourner (epic/atmoblack from New Zealand/Sweden), Sühnopfer (meloblack from France, this is an acoustic song), Cryptic Shift (tech thrash/death from the UK), Warbringer (thrash from the USA), Boreal (black from the USA), Insidious Disease (blackened death from Norway - featuring members of Napalm Death, Dimmu Borgir and more), Ofermod (black/death from Sweden), October Falls (atmoblack/folk from Finland), Ancient Burial (raw black from Portugal), Canis Dirus (black from the USA), Hegemony (black/death from the USA), Black Funeral (black/ambient from the USA), Ljosazabojstwa (death/black from Belarus), Bythos (black from Finland), Marrowfields (atmospheric doom from the USA), Czérn (sludge/post from Poland), Lesser Glow (sludge/doom from the USA). Terrestrial Hospice (black from Poland), Valdrin (meloblack from the USA), Astralborne (melodeath from the USA), a live song from Panopticon (atmoblack/folk from the USA), and members of doom bands Aeonian Sorrow & Clouds did a Madonna cover. Yes. You gotta hear it.
Next week
I’m looking forward to next week because of: Oranssi Pazuzu, Cemetery Filth & At The Altar of the Horned God.
Non-metal album of the week: Laura Marling - Songs for our Daughter
Have a great weekend, please stay safe - Peter.