🌶️ To The Teeth: Turnstile goes everywhere and I follow

Plus: Gruesome, Katatonia, Funeral, Volbeat, Gaahls Wyrd, Amorphis, Paradise Lost, Dark Angel & much more!

Jun 06, 2025

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 🌶️!

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New Albums

🌶️ Turnstile

Hardcore punk, USA (Roadrunner)

FFO: Angel Du$t, Quicksand, Scowl

There’s almost equal parts rough and restraint on Never Enough, and it’s amazing how well it all clicks into eachother. The dreamy parts are fleshed out more than on Glow On, and it works all the better because they’re taken seriously. Some commenters will say there’s too much filler, but they’re mistaking tasteful jazzy, dreamy passages for unnecessary ideas. I love hearing Shabaka motherfucking Hutchings flute out on a hardcore track! And in the perfect choruses they’ve always been good at, they’re at the top of their game. “Sohohohoohohoooole!” It’s a combination that is *chef’s kiss*. Wherever this band goes on the album, I follow. One of the best records of the year.

🌶️ Gruesome

Prog death, USA (Relapse Records)

FFO: Death

Everyone has their own personal favourite Death album, but everyone’s number two is Human - if it’s not number one. Death-scientists Gruesome have finally put their stethoscopes on that landmark of progressive death metal, and asked: what if Chuck, Sean, Steve and Paul asked us to make 8 more tracks? It works so so well. If there’s a cd player in death metal heaven, I’m sure Sean Reinert - who was mentor to Gruesome drummer Gus - would be fucking proud.

🌶️ Katatonia

Gothic/alternative, Sweden (Napalm Records)

FFO: Opeth, Swallow the Sun, Leprous

Bad news. I couldn’t get through this new Katatonia album in one sitting. It’s not bad, it’s just not very compelling. There are just not enough moments that really grab my attention, and I would consider myself a Katatonia fanboy! I’ve loved most of their discography, but I do think that after the brilliant The Fall of Hearts, the band seems to scramble for ideas. Which is also the last album now departed guitarist Anders Nyström had written for. Coincidence?

There’s more: an ep from Funeral (🌶️ gothic/doom, Norway), Volbeat (heavy/groove, Denmark), Gaahls Wyrd (black/heavy, Norway), Drakenhöld (black, France), Ukhu Pacha (black, USA), Austere (depressive black, Australia), A-Z (prog/hard rock, USA), King Parrot (thrash/grind, Australia), and a demo from Invocation Ritual (🌶️ death, USA). The rest is in the playlist!