Jul 6, 2022
0:25-5:07
HULDER
(Oregon)
Sylvan Awakening
— One-woman black metal that
annihilates. Saw her live in corpse paint and it is
breathtaking.
6:00-10:02
GORE GOAT
(OK)
The Angels Fall Like
Snowflakes
— Modern powerful hardcore with charm
and groove and tons of attitude.
10:23-12:16
KNOLL
(TN)
Flux of Knowing
— Every space of this sound is
enraged, from the screech to the gurgle and the experimental
bits.
12:36-18:55
VOLCANDRA
(KY)
Resonance Cascade
— A blend of heavy metal, death,
black metal, prog, with mind-bending guitar harmonies and galloping
riffs.
19:13-22:10
VICIOUS BLADE
(Pittsburgh)
Speed, Leather, & Hell
— Badass, snarling thrash with a
sinister female black metal vocalist and textured, brutal
guitar.
22:35-28:11
CHAOTIAN
(Denmark)
Into Megatopheth
— Raw, pummeling, suffocating death
metal with boiling vocals and drums in a rhythmic pulse of hate.
The riffs are delicious.
29:00-34:23
TUSCOMA
(NZ)
The Importance of Being
Vogue
— Sludge that builds into sharp black
metal, with imaginative melodic throughout.
34:47-39:22
PAGANIZER
(Sweden)
You are What You Devour
— Beefy vocals, monstrous drumming,
sinister gnarl of the guitar pack this sound, but the groove is the
champion.
39:47-45:37
AXIOMA
(OH)
A New Dark Age
— Aaron Dallison of formerly Ohio
gods Keelhaul is the lead singer. Flying from power doom to proggy
to pummeling pace, and beautiful melodic passages.
46:36-54:00
CONJURER
(UK)
All You Will Remember
— Rage and beauty, always a perfect
combination. Here the story is told through a range of vocals and
the immersion of melodic and hypnotic in the dissonance.
54:20-END
INSTIGATE
(Italy)
Atonement
— A chaos of death and grind,
relentless.