Not much interesting stuff lately, can see why no one's posted anything.

A couple of nice, noisy black metal things, both taking a different approach.







And a new Conan track.




Really great sounding, retro black metal demo. Full of energy and riffage. Artwork is cut off by the player.



The full, whopping 10 minutes can be heard here.


Lo-fi, atmos black on the soon to be defunct Sentient Ruin. Sounds good. Originally a 2015-tape only release.




And for something different, with a bit of colour in, how about some instrumental prog / djent slathered with sci-fi synth.




Uplifting DSBM mixed with ambient and effortlessly-woven subtle electronic elements.




Super tight, drum-focussed black/death. This is of that modern variant style that seems to get quite a few fans, which isn't usually to my taste, but I like the artwork.




Missing PSUDOKU? This will tide you over. Wacky, avant-garde grind.




Filling all obligatory requirements for a post, this band play death / doom // doom / death and have "Void" in their name, and are also on Sentient Ruin. That's 3 sips right there.




LotR-themed melodic / atmospheric black metal, but with a thankfully thick and aggressive sound.




Instrumental post-metal / rock with nice art.



Icelandic black metal. Sounds a bit Oranssi Pazuzu-lite to me.

Written by Mercurial on 31.07.2018 at 15:58

Not much interesting stuff lately, can see why no one's posted anything.

Lo-fi, atmos black on the soon to be defunct Sentient Ruin.

Acutally we haven't posted anything because we are fucking lazy and miserable.

And how do you say SR is going to be defunct? Haven't seen any such hint on the label's official site or facebook page.

Arachnaphobia saves the day - New Entropia track from their upcoming third LP 'Vacuum' is dope. Ufonaut was awesome, so really hoping for something similar.

Written by 3rdWorld on 31.07.2018 at 20:44

Written by Mercurial on 31.07.2018 at 15:58

Not much interesting stuff lately, can see why no one's posted anything.

Lo-fi, atmos black on the soon to be defunct Sentient Ruin.

Acutally we haven't posted anything because we are fucking lazy and miserable.

And how do you say SR is going to be defunct? Haven't seen any such hint on the label's official site or facebook page.

Ah you reced that, re-releases are the best stuff on SR this year. I listened to it once but didnt get an opinion. And dont say SR is going down, best label last year and one of the stronger this year.

Yeah, I'm thinking of Fallen Empire, not Sentient Ruin. Ruin / Fallen = kinda the same thing.

Stop posting so much i cant keep up

Ok now for some real black metal

Matron Thorn side project. Somewhat psychedelic black metal. Again, weird sound discordance between the first track and the rest. Probably an uploading problem but then it is Matron Thorn producing so could just be his ineptitude.




Moody, dissonant and nasty black / grind / sludge, or somewhere along those lines.




Crusty doom / sludge.



Black / death that I dig.




Potentially very nice sounding blackened thrash. Really like their artwork for it too.

The supermassive mothersludgers are 'ere.



Dirty sludge infused grind/death from Sentient Ruin.

Some decent sounding stuff I haven't listened to much, so I can clear out some tabs.

Post-rock / Metal / Shoegaze. Great logo implementation.




Demo version of an upcoming record. Already sounds like great psychedelic black metal.




Absolutely spot-on sounding frosty old-school black metal. Remixed and remastered version of their debut 2002 record.




Really good sounding melodic, possibly Pagan-influenced black metal.




Post-black metal niceness.




Interesting sounding Icelandic black. Sounds like they take a different approach on each track, but track 2 is the standout for me, though the last track has some wicked leads.



Super solid sounding, pounding OSDM.




Japan know how to make some fucking noise. Awesome sounding hardcore / grind.




New Windhand track. Haven't kept up with them but they seem to have lost a lot of their murky fuzz since the awesome debut, still better than the last Electric Wizard.




Eadem, very cool avant-garde black thing coming out on Iron Bonehead. Lots going on in this song.

Candelabrum - Needs to be here to be unlistened to. This guy had some friends over for wine, real hipsters, and he went for wine in a cellar and fell down in a even deeper cellar and then he recorded this album.

Thick and beefy sounding black/death from Italy.



Absolutely kick-ass sounding death metal. Their demo and they have an upcoming full length via Dark Descent as well.



More awesome death metal from the Dark Descent camp. Mindfuck of an artwork by Paolo Girardi, one of his gory best.



Malthusian had one of the thickest, bassiest and heaviest sound I've ever for a black/death band. Looking forward to their full length.



Solid, drum-heavy and bludgeoning black metal in the vein of Old school Marduk records.



Post-black metal teeming with life and bleeding with emotions, lots of good songwriting on showcase here.



Yet another great black metal demo here with tons of tremolo picking and riffs that go interesting sounding places.



Amazing blend of death with synth passages, one of the most well made combinations of this style I've heard.



Awesome sounding stoner doom. Instantly catchy, great sounding epic vocals and outstanding songwriting. Definitely one of the highlights in the genre this year.



In case you missed, the latest Scientist record kicks all kind of asses in the technical-blackened-hardcore-grind-sludge-doom genres.

Quality DSBM with a quality painting. My guess is that it's the same guy who painted the latest Faustcoven:

Bit of a King Diamond and Mercyful fate vibe going on in this record. Very solid heavy metal album imo.

Really folksy doom-y Agalloch/Panopticon inspired black metal with lots of acoustic guitar, tribal vocals, choruses and sweeping melodies. Most fresh sounding bm I've heard this year.



An interesting cross between thrash and heavy metal. This is definitely going to be good at the very least and the artwork is great as well.



B-horror inspired death/thrash with retro style vocals. No-nonsense and guaranteed to wreck your neck.



Intriguing demo from an underground black metal circle from Portugal.



Yet another high potential packing progressive death metal this year.



Funtastic and ridiculously awesome sounding deathgrind from France. Brilliant artwork.

Some instrumental post-metal from Germany.

In Willowtip we trust for great techdeath.

Kickass and wicked sounding old school death doom from Boston. Doom part are the highlights.



Highly death metal-inspired stoner doom from Australia.



I bet its near impossible to find a more bluesy stoner album current year than this. Great songwriting as well.



Epic, woeful and despondent atmospheric black/doom, sounds quite outstanding and definitely worth a listen. Quite fittingly self labelled ''Acadian Black Metal, Cinematic doom metal".



Groovy and jolly good fun album of retro stoner.



Vicious and seething with occult evil, this is some serious acid spewing blackened death nightmare from Brazil.



Solid sounding death/black metal demo.



Now its these guys' turn to provide some impenetrable wall of noise black/death packed with as much malice as it musically possible.



Noise infused death/doom from Portland, Oregon.



Tight and well played death metal from Italy. Production is nice and perfect fit for a modern death metal sound.



And well, there's a new Daughters record coming as well. Yes, they are back after 8 years, the math/noise rock Daughters. Fuck yeah.



Oustanding melodic and atmospheric doom/post-metal from LA.



Convulsing are back with another vicious slab of blackened death metal terror. Artwork by Jef Whitehead is top notch as well.

That Ancesters album is pretty good.Really liked it.

Good find!

Written by tominator on 23.08.2018 at 02:22

That Ancesters album is pretty good.Really liked it.

Good find!

Thanks. It is on the german band The Ocean Collective's own label Pelagic Records which is a roster for many amazing atmospheric sludge/doom/post albums. Do check out if you are interested in more similar bands.

Written by 3rdWorld on 24.08.2018 at 04:46

Thanks. It is on the german band The Ocean Collective's own label Pelagic Records which is a roster for many amazing atmospheric sludge/doom/post albums. Do check out if you are interested in more similar bands.

Nice. Just subscribed to their youtube channel. Thanks for the tip.

Post-dump of vaguely interesting stuff not already posted here to listen to later, just to keep on top of things. Surprisingly nothing overwhelmingly good released that I can see in the past 3 or so weeks since I last checked, other than a few I'd already had my eye on (Innumerable Forms, Mare, Bleeth and Hesperian Death Horse which all turned out great).

















New Dysylumn and House Of Atreus records sounds promising:




New Barus, and rerecording of Temple Nightside's debut.




Can also stream a track (a 30 minute track that is) from the new Nadja. Sounds kind of incredible.

No one noticed this? Apparently there's a side project from the Anaal Nathrakh/Napalm Death guys.



Absolutely brain-melting Eva-grind.



Even more grind, of the face melting type now.

Written by 3rdWorld on 26.08.2018 at 22:30

No one noticed this? Apparently there's a side project from the Anaal Nathrakh/Napalm Death guys.

Oh that's it. Heard they had a project together but ignored that on Bandcamp because of the rubbish name and art lel. Doesn't sound bad. Like a less good than usual Napalm Death with some Nathraky bits thrown in.

Can't keep track of all the Aevangelist records at the moment so not sure if this one has been posted. Sounds ok tbh.




"Atmospheric" black with an awesomely weird, eerie ambient sound.




Rehersal record from the excellent Palace of Worms. Random set tracks presented as one track played live in their studio. Still sounds great. Loving that artwork too, would be interested to see what it's from. [edit] it's from City of the Living Dead (1980).




Super nasty excellent crust from the UK.




Technical Death-worship, y'all?




New Author & Punisher, for people who like Author & Punisher.




Pretty damn cool sounding post / prog metal with some light black metal elements. Energetic, diverse stuff from the two songs out.




Harp infused black metal from the UK. Very unblack sounding but quite well done. They had an Indigogo for this apparently.




So-called thrash doom. Not sure about that but it's quite decent sounding.




And some assorted black metal stuff I found on Youtube.

I Have Tried To Keep Up With This Thread But I Can't Any Longer.

Absolute quality doom from my hometown of Canterbury. Bit of an Alice In Chains vibe with the vox. Shaping up to be one of the best doom things this year.




Big, rich sounding post-hardcore / metal with a shimmering atmospheric. Light on vocals so has an instrumental sensibility.




Wacky but contained experimental metal with some grind elements, that I can figure. Great balance in their approach with frenetic variety. Technical as fvck, insanely fun.




New Set and Setting track sounds killer. Superior post-metal.

Heavy Deep Purple/Jethro Tull worship, sounds pretty good.

Very nice sounding, slightly dissonant, off-kilter black metal on Transcending Obscurity, from one of the members of Wormed.




New record from what I assume is the excellent UK blackened death band Spearhead. It's on Invictus so guessing it is those guys. Sick art.




I assumed Hydra Head were done with new releases but apparently not. Nasty sounding crust / sludge.




As the Bandcamp reviewer states: "Like Godflesh Meets Alice In Chains meets Deftones Meets Ministry "




Excellent, foreboding black metal EP. Killer sound.




Confident sounding doom demo.




Not much in the way of music but the new Vanhelgd is imminent.




Not metal, but a couple of releases this year, one being a split, from Uboa, a Khlyst-ian noise and soundscape nightmare.




MASTER BOOT RECORD has another project, this time mixing synth metal with piano and organ. It sounds awesome; very gothic and Castelvania-esque.

Screamo in the vein of Loma Prieta for ya all. Adam Burke did the artwork

Written by Mercurial on 01.08.2018 at 13:36

Moody, dissonant and nasty black / grind / sludge, or somewhere along those lines.

A New Machine

Hey this band is local to my hometown! Cool to see them posted.