Jun 10, 2020
0:25-7:37
PATRONS OF THE ROTTING
GATE (Ireland)
Bleached Bones
— Rotting is a good word. Richly
textured proggy death and black with a vocal clenched around
it.
8:31-17:39
RANNOCH
(UK)
Void
— Both ends of the spectrum with
melody and edge. Threads of Opeth-style dynamic prog, but with
their own modern twists.
18:10-22:03
XIBALBA
(CA)
En la Oscuridad
— My 2012 Best Mosh. Hardcore and
death wearing steel-tipped boots.
22:46-31:36
AKOLYTH
(?)
A Work Of Ages
— Yeah, this is not for the
faint-hearted, but what a joy: desperately filthy, but memorable
riffs and a surprising amount of underlying emotion that beats a
very lovely heart.
32:09-36:47
COSMIC PUTREFACTION
(Italy)
The Glooming Murk of His Telluric
Shrieks
— Deeply monstrous proggy death with
bits of space to liven shit up. The gnarly vocals are both shrieks
and growls, and interwoven are truly magical Fabio-romance novel
covered loveliness. Stylish, and of course Italian.
37:07-40:06
END (NJ)
Absence (feat. Pete
Morcey)
— A supergroup of razor-sharp
technical grind and chomping hardcore, and stealing bits and pieces
from the distortion and fast pace of black metal.
40:33-46:51
COSMOVORE
(Germany)
The Watchers
— Ugly death within a strange,
dystopian universe of tortured clashing chaos and an unearthly
vocalist.
47:56-56:38
THE RUINS OF
BEVERAST (Germany)
Hunters
— Oh my German black metal overlords
Ruins have released (2) splits so far this year, both so different,
but very representative of their style of delving into ambient and
ritualistic emotional black metal. I am dying for a full
release.
56:58-END
GRUESOME
(LA/FL)
Led into the Dark
— A split with a shared lead singer,
Gruesome does its uzzze with wicked riff-heavy death-loving
guitar-soloing mayhem.