I love the delightfully nerdy parental advisory on this “Stench of Sorcery” album cover - “Parental Advisory: Castle Metal may corrupt the pure”
Also, the album rips if you’re in the mood for some fantasy themed old school death metal.
#metalsky
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I can’t get enough of that Gavran record!
I listened to the new 10th Anniversary edition of Touché Amoré's "Stage Four" this morning. I've always loved that record and the demos and remixes really elevate it. Highly recommended!
toucheamore.bandcamp.com/album/stage-...
Patrick writes, sings, and plays like someone deeply acquainted with grief. There’s a peace to it though. A “largeness” of spirit, like en expansion that can accommodate it. It makes sharing grief a reality.
Anyway, that’s the overly mystical way I think of it.
“Infinite Illumination” - Spirit Adrift
A farewell album with dark and old school doomy roots. Excellent.
#newmusicfriday
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This was my first exposure to them and I loved it!
“Not A Sound In Heaven” - Sugar Horse
This is very much my shit. Noisy, industrial, experimental doomgaze that is somehow full of exquisite hooks and melodies that are bafflingly gorgeous. This might be my favorite thing that came out today.
#newmusicfriday
sugarhorse.bandcamp.com/album/not-a-...
“Life and Other Horrors” - Paisaunt
Raw melodic black metal with some unique flavor out of France. In the bands own words “Paisaunt creates highly melodic Black Metal with atmospheric & Rock ‘n’ Roll elements.”
#newmusicfriday
paisaunt.bandcamp.com/album/life-a...
I have this one in the queue and am really looking forward to giving it a spin!
I really dug this. Feels like the vocals are stronger than ever and that closing track was a 10/10.
"Descent" - Immolation
35 years into the game and still dropping top tier bangers. Can this even be called Old School Death Metal anymore? If not what is it? I don't know but it's good!
#newmusicfriday
immolation.bandcamp.com/album/descent
“Through The Hourglass” - Witch Ripper
Proggy stoner sludge that reminds me of early Baroness and bands like Dvne while staying in contact with classic heavy metal and showing some surprising melodic vocal chops. I really enjoyed this!
#newmusicfriday
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“Heaven Wept” - Inferi
tech death concept album that frames God as the antagonist in a story of cosmic injustice and betrayal. Pulling from Christian, Greek and (maybe) gnostic source material it’s a compelling reframe of a familiar mythos.
#newmusicfriday
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The closing track on this was the highlight for me. I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would going in!
If melodic blackened death metal centered on eldritch horrors from the depths of the ocean sounds like something you’d be into make sure you checkout “The Descent” by Skaphos. Lovecraftian sea monster metal FTW.
#newmusicfriday
skaphos.bandcamp.com/album/the-de...
It definitely feels more like a “Melvins featuring members of Napalm Death” thing than the inverse. I’m a Melvin’s fan so it works for me but if someone came in looking for Napalm Death shaped grind they’d be disappointed.
“Savage Imperial Death March” by The Melvins & Napalm Death is out today and it’s a great listen! It definitely scratches that Melvins shaped itch.
#newmusicfriday
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That Melvins / Napalm Death collab album is out digitally (was a physical only thing on their tour last year) - it’s pretty great.
I've got a new generator I built up at lastfmgenerator.tommyokeefe.com - it works like other generators by default but there's also a mode for approximating play time rather than track count. It takes some manual configuration but it's worth a shot!
5x5 of the top albums I listened to last week
5x5 from the last week - it's #fivebyfriday!
#coresky
#metalsky
As a DC resident I’m dreading that so much 💀
WHY LOWER PRICES WHEN WE CAN BRING THE OCTAGON TO THE WHITE HOUSE LAWN!
Some of the most bread and circus ass bullshit I’ve ever seen.
As a kid who grew up in a fairly fundamentalist evangelical environment, it can’t be overstated just how radicalizing Christian punk rock was for me in the 90s.
Calling out Christian nationalism?✅
Criticizing the police state?✅
Pointing toward the revolutionary nature of cross-shaped love?✅
For folks who may not have seen this yesterday:
Randomly remembered the little EP that Numero put out where Pelican covered a Karate song (Gasoline) and an Unwound song (For Your Entertainment) and paired them with the originals. I love those Pelican covers.
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12 is looking mighty fine
Best show!
I gave “Watching From A Distance” a listen for the first time in a couple of years last night and it just left me feeling so gutted.
When Patrick sings “Can someone feel too much? I wish you were here with me tonight” 💔
