Mar 25, 2020
0:25-4:51
BLACK ROYAL
(Finland)
Pagan Saviour
— Black Royal is a groove hard, fist
pump, beer chug, Finnish death guitar, chanting vocalist blast of
an album.
6:04-8:51
SERPENT COLUMN
(USA)
Wars Waged in Private II
— Free on Bandcamp, so that it can be
downloaded to your computer and possess it with the full power of
all that is evil.
9:16-13:27
MOANING
(LA)
Keep Out
— I worship, and I mean, worship this
poetry. It is a dance in the moonlight with a boy in a Bauhaus
t-shirt, and you are 16 and it's the 80's and you are only worried
about nuclear holocaust. Sweet, sweet times.
13:55-21:36
MALOKARPATAN
(Slovakia)
Filipojakubská noc na
Štangarígelských skalách
— Slovakia bros, they have it going
on, especially the song names. I mean, it is a wild ride of
Slovakian black metal hell with bouts of fun synth to break it
apart.
22:49-29:19
SWEVEN
(Sweden)
Visceral Blight
— First came Morbus Chron, who
released their last album "Sweven" in 2014. Now leader Robert
Andersonn starts a new band with the same title, going free into
long journeys of prog and jazz and psychedelic and a 70's
tone.
30:11-42:28
MARE COGNITUM (split w/
SPECTRAL LORE) (Portland, Greece)
Venus (The Priestess)
— This is one of favorite black metal
albums this year. These 2 bands are a great coupling, both
excelling in black metal that takes its time, and then completely
breaks apart into furious. So so fucking good.
42:52-46:34
MASTER BOOT RECORD
(Italy)
ANSI.SYS
— Italian brains create weird synth
compositions with random genres that somehow work.
47:30-56:19
HIGH TONE SON OF A
BITCH (Oakland)
Silhouette
— The who's who of Oakland create a
thoughtful E.P that jams a beautiful psychedelic stoner that
heavily riffs.
56:42-END
CRYSTAL COFFIN
(Vancouver)
Ride Through the Night
— Solid debut of Canadian black metal
with a stunner of a vocalist.