Staff picks
Giant Squid continue to evolve. They are hard to put in a box because every song is a tantalizing experiment. Minoans reveals itself slowly with shorter songs, powerful blasts and instrumental finesse. There is refinement in the melodies and a perfect marriage between the voices of Jackie Perez Gratz and Aaron Gregory. The enticing cello and sorrowful atmosphere of the songs form layered waves of exotic sounds. Giant Squid gracefully offer us another treasure from the sea.
Enjoy!
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BloodTears R'Vannith, Mr. Doctor |
Morost plays the grooviest, yet most beautiful death metal in Slovenia, or just about anywhere else on Earth.
Excellent vocals, a thundering bass, dynamic guitars, and blast beats in all the right places.
Fall in love at Bandcamp.
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Susan |
A cheesy band name if there ever was one but, man, do these Australians make up for it music-wise. Of course this won't come as a surprise to those of you who know the now defunct Unitopia. To the rest of you I can only advise to trust my judgement. This here is one spectacular progressive rock album.
Try the teaser or listen to "Intersection."
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Ivor BloodTears |
In the vein of late-70's metal, when metal sounded, and looked, like Lemmy. Ugly. And fun.
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Xnoybis wormdrink414 |
Doomy, Sludgy Stonerrifferic hails to Sabbath. Sure, Phil's voice sounds a tad ravaged by time, but group has it's mojo on with second part of IV.
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Xnoybis Apothecary, Abattoir |
You want a party? You've got a party! The French provide and everyone's invited! I believe somewhere there's probably a law of some kind or other against having so much fun on a record. Time to dust off that party sombrero of yours.
Listen to the album at Bandcamp.
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Ivor Darkside Momo, Fat & Sassy! |
The Body does their The Body thing for the first half, then Sandworm takes over and sandworms you to fuck with their early Burzumish, garage rockish, raw black metal.
Stream it here
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wormdrink414 Apothecary |
Ever wondered how Ulcerate would sound if they were less extreme and more progressive? That's Nero Di Marte for you: a melodic take on the post-death sound, less suffocating but maybe more disquieting.
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Darkside Momo R'Vannith, Nefarious, Susan, Ag Fox, Xnoybis, Mr. Doctor |
Ooh, this is so bloody sweet! Free form jazz-like songwriting meets heavy, stonerish guitar - this stuff feels like a half hour slow guitar jam. Mind you, no vocals.
Listen to the album teaser here or the first track "Laughing John" on the homepage.
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Ivor BloodTears, Apothecary |
Coming off of a powerful debut with last year's U.M.A, this Italian BM duo decides to follow it up with a curveball, a nonmetal EP. Best be off with you if you're looking for the more aggressive side of the band's personality with this one. Asteroidi is for those listeners who delighted in the ringy ding ding electronics of the debut, and wished to see the band go deeper with them, an effort at which they certainly succeed here.
Beware the Metroid scum.
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Apothecary Introspekrieg, Ag Fox |
Supersexy Swingin' Sounds? Hell yeah!
Trepalium have been searching since XIII for the perfect mix between the aggression in death metal and the swing and catchiness in jazz. Well, they nailed it perfectly with that awesome EP!
Check Moonshine Limbo's video if you haven't already!
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Darkside Momo Nefarious, Demonic Tutor, BloodTears, Introspekrieg |
Four songs, one hour of pure heavy and pounding doomy stuff. Dynamic, entrancing, atmospheric, all at the same time.
Beware, this beast is HUGE!
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Darkside Momo Apothecary, R'Vannith, Mr. Doctor, BloodTears |
The album that features acknowledged members of doom metal scene, coming from bands such as Eye Of Solitude, Shape Of Despair, Officium Triste, Pantheïst etc.
Stream HERE.
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Abattoir Marcel Hubregtse, ScreamingSteelUS, Mr. Doctor |
If you're a serious follower of this style, you know the usual. The project of Jacob Buczarski, Mare Cognitum is raw and hard hitting black metal, but also interspersed with all those beautiful, melodic, and dreamy undercurrents that we all know and love and that've come to make this style so goddamn good when it's executed right. Highly recommended for fans of Chaos Moon, Spectral Lore, Sombres Forêts, etc. And shoutout to my buddy Fearmeister for turning me onto all the great stuff on I, Voidhanger's current roster, definitely a label worth investigating.
BANDCAMP.
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Apothecary BloodTears |
In the grand scheme of things this album has got one strength and one weakness. At the core of it the reason is one and the same. This album is so packed with different and great ideas, it's really becoming ridiculous. However, this also accounts for the length of the album and the lack of consistent direction in development of said ideas and thus it appears to be all over the place. High marks for the début effort and future promise, though.
Listen to the full album over at Bandcamp.
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Ivor Introspekrieg |