Aug 26, 2020
0:25-5:27
BEAR MACE
(Chicago)
Xenomorphic Conquest
— Mark Sugar has helped create a
chomping beast of massive riffs, snarling vocals that bely the
groove and insanely good guitar.
6:27-14:56
SILVER KNIFE
(Belgium)
Sundown
— The Belgians mix genres so
breathtakingly effortlessly, moving from one and building to the
next. Light and dark, sweet and evil, and a hurricane to blow you
away.
15:21-20:28
EXPANDER
(Austin)
Cryptosteal
— Futuristic imagery created within
in industrial cage, morphing to industrial to metal and back to
noise without taking a breath. Relentlessly on the move.
20:58-25:19
ARS MAGNA UMBRAE
(Poland)
She Who Splits the Earth
— Dense and foreboding, sometimes
dreamy atmospheric, churning slow pace malevolence within melodic
black metal.
25:49-30:43
TEMPLE OF DREAD
(GER)
Commands from a Black Soul
— Running thrash stumbling forward to
a death roar.
31:05-37:08
OV SHADOWS
(Sweden)
I Djävulens Avbild
— The Swedish know frost, this one
with moody mutterings, tribalistic drums, and layers of
melody.
37:28-41:34
NYKTOPHOBIA
(Germany)
Yearning from an Uncharted
Grave
— Riffs soar high, because this is
German and German can only do epic to the epic degree.
42:22-46:15
UTZALU
(Oregon)
Separation Trajectory
— Apparently Oregon is a fantastic
breeding ground for steel-tipped daggers of raw.
46:39-51:03
INCANTATION
(PA)
Propitiation
— Over 30 years and a solid
decimating technical death offering with modern funeral doom
breaking it apart.
51:26-END
THE SPIRIT CABINET
(Netherlands)
Devils in the Details
— Finally some heavy metal, powered
up and a vast range of glam, death vocals, theatrical and
pagan.