🌶️ To The Teeth: Revocation, Bloodbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Netherlands, Crippled Black Phoenix, Psychonaut, Dream Unending & more!
New albums
🌶️ Revocation (tech death/thrash from the USA. FFO: Skeletonwitch, Vektor, Obscura)
The whole album is fire. But - much like the one below - the last song is perfect. The last recordings of Trevor Strnad are there, and man, when the whole thing collapses and Corpsegrinder crawls out of his cave I just die.
🌶️ Bloodbath (death from Sweden. FFO: Edge of Sanity, Entombed, Dismember)
Another album with a great closing track. It's slow and dark and completely (and to be honest: finally) fits Nick Holmes like a bloody glove. It's a little paint by numbers death metal for the rest of it, but hardly boring. And even when it is, it's quality boring.
🌶️ Netherlands (sludge/noise from the USA. FFO: KEN mode, Torche, Old Man Gloom)
Such a weird band. Weird sounds. Weird songs. Weird. Weird is a weird word when you write or say it a lot. Just like fungus, and queue.
There's more: Ozzy Osbourne (heavy from the UK), Warforged (progressive/blackened death from the USA), Crippled Black Phoenix (🌶️ experimental/post from the UK), Fallujah (progressive/tech death from the USA), a split from END & Cult Leader (both metalcore/hardcore from the USA), Holy Fawn (🌶️ experimental/blackgaze from the USA), Valborg (progressive doom/death from Germany), Mo'ynoq (black from the USA), Nadja (drone/doom from Germany), Vermilia (atmospheric black from Finland), Abrams (sludge/post from the USA), An Abstract Illusion (🌶️ atmospheric/progressive death from Sweden), and a compilation (actually one of the inspirations for making my own!) from Machine Music (with: Baazlvaat, Suffering Hour, Kaatayra, Sleepwalker, amongst others).
New singles
There are new songs out from: Psychonaut (🌶️ post-metal from Belgium - with guests Colin H. van Eeckhout from Amenra and Stefanie Mannaerts from Brutus), Lamb of God (groove/metalcore from the USA), Brutus (🌶️ progressive mathrock/shoegaze from Belgium), Dream Unending (🌶️ atmospheric doom/death from Canada/The USA - members of Tomb Mold, Innumerable Forms plus guests vocalist Phil Swanson, ex-Sumerlands, and Leila Abdul-Rauf on trumpet, Vastum), Strigoi (death/crust from the UK - members of Paradise Lost), Sumerlands (heavy from the USA), Coldworld (depressive black from Germany), Morbific (death from Finland), Fucked Up (post-hardcore from Canada), Givre (black from Canada - formerly ánd presently Entheos), Sarcator (🌶️ blackened thrash from Sweden), Firstborne (heavy from the USA - (ex-)members of Megadeth, Lamb of God), Vananidr (melodic black/death from Sweden), Apocalyptica (symphonic heavy/rock from Finland) and KEN mode (noise/post-hardcore from Canada),
Non-metal & next week
Non-metal album of the week: Jockstrap (experimental pop/electronic from the UK)
I’m looking forward to next week because of: Behemoth, Sumerlands, Wolfheart, Clutch and Mork.
Have a great weekend people, stay safe - Peter