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LilMikeSFDecades old <a href="https://c.im/tags/LiveMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LiveMusic</a> venue's existence threatened by inept bankrupt <a href="https://c.im/tags/Oakland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Oakland</a> city <a href="https://c.im/tags/bureaucracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bureaucracy</a>. Eli's <a href="https://c.im/tags/MileHigh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MileHigh</a> club, which was started by late Eli Thornton in 70s (before he was murdered in the joint by his girlfriend ), has hosted live gigs in its late last quarter of the 20th century blues heyday when John Lee Hooker, <a href="https://c.im/tags/CharlieMusselwhite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CharlieMusselwhite</a>, Etta James, Lowell Fulson, Tommy Castro, James Cotton, Little Charlie & The Night Cats, and even James Brown might make the scene, as patrons feasted on giant burgers, gumbo, andouille sausage and fried shrimp made by the ol' lady in the back. More recently, after it's musician owner Troyce Key passed, new ownership fought for years to regain a <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cabaret" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cabaret</a> permit to begin a 21st century phoenix rising era of mixing emergent <a href="https://c.im/tags/hardrock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hardrock</a> & punk band bookings including locals like Sleep, <a href="https://c.im/tags/HighOnFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HighOnFire</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Entombed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Entombed</a> in with local blues and barbq, but now in 2025, those days are over. <a href="https://c.im/tags/WestOakland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WestOakland</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DiveBar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DiveBar</a> has been forced to cut staff and close their outdoor smoking & bar bq area portion. Long used by Eli's patrons for decades, but apparently a 'non permitted' backyard area (according to city), it has become an issue now after new neighbor complaints, including many from a recent <a href="https://c.im/tags/residential" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#residential</a> highrise that was built long after the bar was an <a href="https://c.im/tags/EastBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EastBay</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/nightlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nightlife</a> fixture . Mgmt is asking for support from patrons, and particularly seek photos over a decade old that hopefully show previous outdoor backyard activity.<a href="https://www.kqed.org/arts/13972851/elis-mile-high-club-oakland-patio-closure" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.kqed.org/arts/13972851/elis-mile-high-club-oakland-patio-closure</a>

Angry Metal Guy<a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/act-of-impalement-profane-altar-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Act of Impalement – Profane Altar Review</a>By Dear HollowNashville trio Act of Impalement’s sophomore release Infernal Ordinance, in spite of the low-hanging HOA jokes, was badass. <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/act-of-impalement-infernal-ordinance-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Its unfuckwithable blend of death and crust styles</a> led to a sore neck from endless headbanging, while its passages of doom tempos and thick weight did the sludge and doom influences justice. I still spin the likes of “Summoning the Final Conflagration” and “Erased,” reliving that pummeling that hurts so good again and again. You can imagine how excited I was, then, to discover Act of Impalement has a new album.To accurately sum up Act of Impalement’s musical arsenal is an exercise in futility, and Profane Altar amps the obscurity – although the trademark groove remains stalwart. While Ethan Rock remains the band’s pivot point as primary songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist, a revamped lineup replacing bassist Jimmy Grogan and longtime drummer Zack Ledbetter emerges with its own streamlined take. As such, while Infernal Ordinance felt almost entirely like the one-man Ethan Rock show, Profane Altar finds bassist Jerry Garner adding more rumbling weight to the riffs while drummer Aaron Hortman brings a newfound manic energy and mania to the rhythms. While the influences remain the same in death metal royalty Bolt Thrower, Incantation, Entombed, and Asphyx – and the sound is deceptively straightforward – the streamlined approach, more pronounced black metal influence, and filthier riffs offer new planes for Act of Impalement.Act of Impalement’s biggest change is a more cohesive fusing of its sludge and death metal influences alongside its newfound obscure black metal bleakness. While opener “Summoning the Final Conflagration” from its predecessor set a precedent of buzzsaw riffs driven to a sludgy end, Profane Altar opens with “Apparition” – while the groove and riffs are similar, they are absolutely suffocating, a swampy tar filling every crevice of the sound. Act of Impalement is down with the thickness, and it grants them a fluidity that kept the disjointedness of its predecessor from truly soaring. From ten-ton bruisers dripping with patient swagger (“Apparition,” “Final Sacrifice”), filthy 6/8 death metal waltzes (“Sanguine Rites,” “Gnashing Teeth”) to vicious crust punk-influenced black metal beatdowns laden with blastbeats and shred (“Piercing the Heavens,” “Deities of the Weak”), their potentially disconnected collection of blasting and bruising is blessedly woven together by its all-consuming weight.Brevity is the name of Act of Impalement’s game, and it no longer feels like a one-man show. No track exceeds five minutes for a total of thirty-one minutes, which is absolutely reasonable and almost necessary for this breed of intensity. While the professed styles don’t feel particularly unique, Act of Impalement manages to lay them atop the incredibly sturdy foundation of groove, which serves the brevity extremely well – the album hits hard and fast and never overstays its welcome. Better still, Garner’s bass shines throughout and Hortman’s percussion feels both unhinged in its blastbeats and steadfastly reliable in its plodding groove – both members shining alongside Rock’s riffs and hellish roars. That being said, Act of Impalement offers a brutal riff-fest with elements borrowed from death, death/doom, crust punk, and black metal, a tribute to the hallowed halls of metal history – but the product is remarkably straightforward in its punishing groove.If you’re looking for a nuanced album that showcases a rich and layered approach to its songwriting, Profane Altar is not for you. However, if you’re okay seeing all its influences as riders of the one-trick pony called groove, it doesn’t get much better than Act of Impalement’s breed of pummeling. Profane Altar is fucking heavy, simultaneously a more in-your-face and obscure release for a band renowned for their breakneck intensity. Balance and the bravery to embrace its disparate blend of influences sets it apart from its already formidable predecessor, even though the shortsighted groove makes it blackened, deathened, crusty, doomy ear candy. Infectiously groovy ear candy. Rating: 3.5/5.0 DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3 Label: <a href="http://www.caligarirecords.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Caligari Records</a> Websites: <a href="http://instagram.com/actofimpalement" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">instagram.com/actofimpalement</a> | <a href="http://facebook.com/ActOfImpalement" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">facebook.com/ActOfImpalement</a> Releases Worldwide: February 28th, 2025<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/35/" target="_blank">#35</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/act-of-impalement/" target="_blank">#ActOfImpalement</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/american-metal/" target="_blank">#AmericanMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/asphyx/" target="_blank">#Asphyx</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/black-metal/" target="_blank">#BlackMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/blackened-death-metal/" target="_blank">#BlackenedDeathMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/bolt-thrower/" target="_blank">#BoltThrower</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/caligari-records/" target="_blank">#CaligariRecords</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/crust-punk/" target="_blank">#CrustPunk</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/death-metal/" target="_blank">#DeathMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/death-doom-metal/" target="_blank">#DeathDoomMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/doom-metal/" target="_blank">#DoomMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/entombed/" target="_blank">#Entombed</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/feb25/" target="_blank">#Feb25</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/incantation/" target="_blank">#Incantation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/profane-altar/" target="_blank">#ProfaneAltar</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/review/" target="_blank">#Review</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/reviews/" target="_blank">#Reviews</a>

Weener70<a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/dieburg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dieburg</a> <a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/nocdu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nocdu</a> <a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/nomerz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nomerz</a> <a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/noafd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#noafd</a> Die Stände der o.g. gerade auf dem Marktplatz gesehen, sehr nahe beieinander und auch farblich sehr nahe, was ich nicht wusste. Ich hatte zum Glück noch nichts gefrühstückt sonst hätte ich es wieder erbrochen. Jetzt brauche ich es erstmal sehr hart. <a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/metal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#metal</a> <a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/deathmetal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#deathmetal</a> <a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/entombed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#entombed</a> <a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/rock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rock</a> <a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/nowplaying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nowplaying</a> <a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/vinylrecords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vinylrecords</a> <a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/vinyl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vinyl</a>

Abimelech B. 🐧🇩🇪| wörk ™️<a href="https://chaos.social/@dickenhobelix" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@dickenhobelix</a> <a href="https://fulda.social/tags/entombed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#entombed</a> style: alle Regler voll auf die drölf! <a href="https://fulda.social/tags/slayer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#slayer</a> style: jede Gitarre auf einen anderen stereo Kanal 🤘🏻

Angry Metal Guy<a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/pyre-where-obscurity-sways-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Pyre – Where Obscurity Sways Review</a>By Dear HollowSwedeath is one of those games I have zero skin in, but its close overlap with hardcore-influenced death metal and death ‘n roll makes that relationship complicated. Like I could not be bothered by Left Hand Path, but Wolverine Blues is a stalwart among my music collection; Bloodbath is regrettably not an act I return to regularly,<a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/pyre-where-obscurity-sways-review/#fn-210619-1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">1</a> but I consider Black Breath one of those rare successful intersections of grind, death metal, and death ‘n roll. My point is, I don’t know where the line is drawn between these styles but I know I like some of it and then can’t be fussed about the rest of it. With Pyre, the jury’s still out.Where Obscurity Sways is the Saint Petersburg quartet Pyre’s third full-length, and it wavers between full-on Entombed worship and something resembling Fuming Mouth. Professing a frigidity more closely resembling black metal coursing throughout, Pyre offers chunky riffs, feral vocals, tense tremolo and chuggy shreds, and a bouncy sense of ubiquitous buzzsaw and passages of doomier tempos, alongside a wailing lead guitar whose rip-roaring solos are owed to multiple members’ contributions to the traditional heavy metal sister act Blazing Rust. Pyre throws the kitchen sink at us, blurring the lines between hardcore- and Swedeath-influenced death metal, boasting that black metal chill and no-holds-barred attitude – only for Where Obscurity Sways to go in one ear and out the other.That’s not to say you won’t swing your fists and break your neck across Where Obscurity Sways. Big groovy meatheaded fun is front and center with Pyre, a monosyllabic approach that’s as effective as its moniker, despite its various experimentalisms. In the sweet spot that finds itself between chunky riffs, wailing leads, and punishing weight at the mercy of the shifting tempos (“Murderous Transcendence,” “Writhing Souls”), the album pumps adrenaline, utilizing sticky chugging riffs as both capitalization of crescendo and simmering burn. When black metal rears its despondent head (“Murderous Transcendence,” “Prognostic of the Apocalypse”), the sound is transported to a cold second-wave atmosphere that it aims for. Composition is precise and effective, as a smart use of shifting tempos and proper utility of punk beats lead to satisfying conclusions of both intensity and doom (“Where Obscurity Sways,” “Pestilential Fumes”). Barked and howled vocals, provided by bassist Dym Nox, land squarely in crusty territory throughout, although the isolated occurrence of death metal gutturals (“From the Stygian Depths”) is a welcome change of pace for Pyre.Pyre’s monotonal vocals and inconsistent uses of tempos keeps it from achieving its true potential. The Russians run quite similarly into the same issues as Arizona’s deathgrind/death-doom band Thorn, in which the atmosphere and weight is communicated well enough, but nothing more breaks through the surface. Where Obscurity Sways is entirely inconsistent, Pyre’s tracks blur together in monotonous doom sprawls, but then utilize different tricks for each half of the album: the first half weaponizes wailing leads and ominous melodies, while the second dwells entirely in darkened tremolo. Each has its highlights (“Where Obscurity Sways,” “Pestilential Fumes”) and their droning sloggers (“Domains of the Nameless Rites,” “Chanting Ancient Incantations”). While the two instrumental pieces are decent enough to establish a semblance of atmosphere, their motifs are not utilized across the rest of the tracks for it to stick. In true crusty fashion, Pyre saturates its sound into a crusty, HM-2, Swedeath goo, so it’s easy to let the album at large settle into the background.Apart from “Murderous Transcendence” and “Writhing Souls,” the whole of Where Obscurity Sways hangs out in relatively decent yet ultimately forgettable territory. Somehow Pyre makes the album seem too long even at a very reasonable thirty-six minutes, but when several songs blur together into a featureless expanse, it’s difficult to track. Some tracks are smartly composed, others painfully dull. Despite its attempt to blend Swedeath, hardcore, doom, and black metal, it keeps tripping itself up with inconsistent tempos and motifs. Utilizing more death vocals, sticky chugs, and black metal, Pyre will have a winning formula. As it stands, Where Obscurity Sways stays obscure. Rating: 2.0/5.0 DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3 Label: <a href="https://www.osmoseproductions.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Osmose Productions</a> Websites: <a href="http://pyredeathmetal.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">pyredeathmetal.bandcamp.com</a> | <a href="http://facebook.com/pyredeathmetal" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">facebook.com/pyredeathmetal</a> Releases Worldwide: January 31st, 2025<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/20/" target="_blank">#20</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/black-breath/" target="_blank">#BlackBreath</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/black-metal/" target="_blank">#BlackMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/blazing-rust/" target="_blank">#BlazingRust</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/bloodbath/" target="_blank">#Bloodbath</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/death-metal/" target="_blank">#DeathMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/death-doom-metal/" target="_blank">#DeathDoomMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/entombed/" target="_blank">#Entombed</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/fuming-mouth/" target="_blank">#FumingMouth</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/hardcore/" target="_blank">#Hardcore</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/jan25/" target="_blank">#Jan25</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/osmose-productions/" target="_blank">#OsmoseProductions</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/pyre/" target="_blank">#Pyre</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/review/" target="_blank">#Review</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/reviews/" target="_blank">#Reviews</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/russian-metal/" target="_blank">#RussianMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/thorn/" target="_blank">#Thorn</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/where-obscurity-sways/" target="_blank">#WhereObscuritySways</a>

Angry Metal Guy<a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/maceration-serpent-devourment-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Maceration – Serpent Devourment Review</a>By Steel DruhmLittle known fact: All the best Swedish death metal comes from Denmark. Okay, maybe that’s not entirely accurate, but it makes for a helluva lede. Maceration hail from Hamletville and they’ve made it their business to mine Sweden’s Stockholm sound for all its worth, focusing on HM-2 pedal abuse and Entombed and Dismember worship. On their first few albums, they had the good fortune to recruit Dan “the Fucking MAN” Swanö to handle vocals (using an alias on their debut). Here on third outing Serpent Devourment, Mr. Swanö decamps and leaves vocal duties to Jan Bergmann Jepsen, but otherwise, the approach is the same: bulldoze the listener with buzzing riffs and pummel them with d-beaty death. There are worse battle plans since Swedeath is an enduring style that continues to yield satisfying results when done properly. Can Maceration get their material to the perfect level of moldy moistness?Seconds into the opening title track you know this will be a riff-forward beast war with big Entombed / Dismember energy, traces of Bolt Thrower, and even a few choice nasty bits from uber-caveman US deathers, Massacre. Large, in-charge riffs stomp everything in their path, sending the weak to hurtle the dead. The tempos shift from thrash-blasting to heavy tank assault grinding and back again to shake the Jimmies, and over the top of the relentless axe fusillades, Jepsen bellows brutally in Kam Lee-esque style without a hint of subtly. This is the wet rub recipe Maceration marinates you in and though you’ve heard it countless times, it’s done here with enough conviction to give it the illusion of semi-freshness. “The Den of Misery” is thrashy, aggressive Swedeath by the numbers but it hits hard with big riffs and chonky doom downshifts. “The Corrosive Heart Fell Below” may sound like a lost Nevermore track, but it’s a standout moment of abject crushitude with HUGE grooves and heavy as fook riff action. This one is especially beefy, requiring not one, but TWO pairs of oversized cargo shorts to contain its ponderous girth.As with any album of this particular ilk, there will be unavoidable highs and lows, but to their credit, Maceration keep the quality fairly consistent over Serpent Devourment’s sprawl, and even the “lesser” cuts bring a howitzer to the bake sale. You could sink a certain reader’s mega-yacht with the mammoth heft of “Where Leeches Thrive” and I fully support such efforts.<a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/maceration-serpent-devourment-review/#fn-210700-1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">1</a> “In Rot Unleashed” has a nerve-jangling lead riff that sets the pain receptors on edge and makes you want to remain violent. The least gobsmacking like “When Torment Befell My Pain” and “Revolt the Tyrant Dream,” but they aren’t a waste of time or skip-bait. At a trim 39-plus minutes, the album rolls roughshod and retires before you get overly fatigued. The production brings the guitars way forward and makes sure you feel their weight the whole time. This is a smart play as the riffs are the band’s bread and saliva butter.Jakob Schultz and Robert Tengs come to kill with a body bag full of abrasive, chewy riffs and fat grooves. Some of these remind me of Black Royal and their ginormous axe work. Of course, their playing will remind you of the acts that did this style first, and there’s no avoiding that, but they bring enough of their own identity to the music and turn your brain into buttered porridge in the process. I especially enjoy the hammering chugs they lapse into at key moments to shape the battlefield. Jan Bergmann Jepsen does a good job replacing a living legend like Mr. Swanö. Sometimes he sounds like L.G. Petrov, at others Johan Hegg, and the rest of the time he’s all about that Neanderthal Kam Lee approach. He’s brutal for the sake of brutality and that’s good enough for me.Maceration deliver a no-frills but satisfying slab of gym-ready death on Serpent Devourment and what it lacks in originality it partially makes up for with vicious rage and furious anger. This is high-octane, lo-brow death metal with one foot on the gas and the other in the Grave. That’s a deathstyle deserving of a loud blast session. Now let’s make some snake sushi! Rating: 3.0/5.0 DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3 Label: <a href="https://emanzipation.dk/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Emanzipation Productions</a> Websites: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/maceration" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">facebook.com/maceratio</a>n | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/macerationdenmark/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">instagram.com/macerationdenmark</a> Releases Worldwide: January 31st, 2025<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/30/" target="_blank">#30</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/black-royal/" target="_blank">#BlackRoyal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/danish-metal/" target="_blank">#DanishMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/death-metal/" target="_blank">#DeathMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/dismember/" target="_blank">#Dismember</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/emanzipation-productions/" target="_blank">#EmanzipationProductions</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/entombed/" target="_blank">#Entombed</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/jan25/" target="_blank">#Jan25</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/maceration/" target="_blank">#Maceration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/massacre/" target="_blank">#Massacre</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/review/" target="_blank">#Review</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/reviews/" target="_blank">#Reviews</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/serpent-devourment/" target="_blank">#SerpentDevourment</a>

Angry Metal Guy<a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/stuck-in-the-filter-october-2024s-angry-misses/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Stuck in the Filter: October 2024’s Angry Misses</a>By KenstrosityNever fear, the blog’s penchant for <del>deep lateness</del> punctuality persists! It is likely the new year already by the time you see this post, but we’re taking a step back. Way back, into October. I was deep in the shit then, and therefore couldn’t do anything blog-related. And yet, my minions, those very laborers for whom I provide absolutely no compensation whatsoever, toiled dutifully in the metallic dinge that is our Filter. Unforgiving though those environs undoubtedly are, they scraped and scoured until, at long last, small shards of precious ore glimmered to the surface.These glimmers are the same which you witness before you. Some are big, some are small. Some are short, some are tall. But all are worthy. Behold! Kenstrosity’s Belated Bombardments <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Cosmic-Putrefaction-331030417723505/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Cosmic Putrefaction</a> // Emerald Fires atop the Farewell Mountains [October 4th, 2024 – <a href="http://www.profoundlorerecords.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Profound Lore Records</a>]I was originally slated to take over reviewing duties for Cosmic Putrefaction this year, as Thus Spoke had a prior commitment and needed a buddy to step in. Unfortunately, I was rendered useless by a force of nature for a while, so I had to let go of several items of interest. But I couldn’t let 2024 go by without saying something! Entitled Emeral Fires atop the Farewell Mountains, Cosmic Putrefaction’s fourth represents one of the smoothest, most ethereal interpretations of weird, dissonant death metal. The classic Cosmic Putrefaction riffsets under an auroric sky remain, as evidenced by ripping examples “[Entering the Vortex Temporum] – Pre-mortem Phosphenes” and “Swirling Madness, Supernal Ordeal,” but there lurks within a monstrous technical death metal creature who rabidly chases the atmospheric spirits of olde (“I Should Great the Inexorable Darkness,” “Eudaemonist Withdrawal”). While in lesser hands these distinct aesthetics would undoubtedly clash on a dissonant platform such as this, Cosmic Putrefaction’s particular application of sound and style coalesces in devastating beauty and relentless purpose (“Hallways Engraved in Aether,” “Emerald Fires atop the Farewell Mountains”). Were it not for some instances wherein, for the first time ever, Cosmic Putrefaction threatens to self-plagiarize their own material (“Eudaemonist Withdrawal”), I would likely consider Emerald Fires atop the Farewell Mountains for year-end list status.<a href="https://www.facebook.com/feralswe/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Feral</a> // To Usurp the Thrones [October 18th, 2024 – <a href="https://tometal.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Transcending Obscurity Records</a>]Another one of my charges that I unfortunately had to put down against my will, Swedish death metal fiends Feral’s fourth salvo To Usurp the Thrones deserves a spotlight here. Where <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/feral-flesh-of-funerals-eternal-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Flesh for Funerals Eternal</a> impressed me as my introduction to the band and, arguably, my introduction to modern buzzsaw Swedeath, To Usurp the Thrones impresses me as a singularly vicious record in the style. Faster, meaner, more varied, and longer than its predecessor, Thrones offers the punk-tinged, thrashy death riffs you know and love, with bluesy touches reminiscent of Entombed’s Wolverine Blues adding a bit of drunken swagger to the affair (“Vile Malediction,” “Phantoms of Iniquity,” “Into the Ashes of History”). Absolute rippers like “To Drain the World of Light,” “Deformed Mentality,” “Decimated,” and “Soaked in Blood” live up to the band’s moniker, rabid and relentless in their assault. In many ways, Thrones evokes the same bloodsoaked sense of fun that Helslave’s <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/helslave-from-the-sulphur-depths-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">From the Sulphur Depths</a> conjured, but it’s angrier, more unhinged (“Spirits Without Rest,” “Stripped of Flesh”). Consequently, Thrones stands out as one of the more fun records of its ilk to come out this year. Don’t miss it!<a href="https://www.facebook.com/sunworshipband" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Sun Worship</a> // Upon the Hills of Divination [October 31st, 2024 – <a href="https://vendettarecs.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Vendetta Records</a>]Back in 2020, our dear Roquentin offered some damn fine words of praise for Germany’s Sun Worship and their third blackened blade, <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/sun-worship-emanations-of-desolation-things-you-might-have-missed-2019/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Emanations of Desolation</a>. It’s been six years since that record dropped, and Upon the Hills of Divination picks up right where Emanations left off. That is to say, absolutely slimy, post-metal-tinged riffs bolstered by dense layers of warm tremolos and mid-frequency roars. Opener “Within the Machine” offers a concrete encapsulation of what to expect: bits and pieces of <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/hulder-verses-in-oath-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Hulder</a>, <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/gaerea-coma-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Gaerea</a>, and <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/vorga-beyond-the-palest-star-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Vorga</a> melding together into a compelling concoction of hypnotic black metal. Using the long form to their utmost advantage, Sun Worship craft immersive soundscapes liable to scald the flesh just as quickly as they seduce the senses, leaving me as a brainwashed minion doing a twisted mystic’s bidding unconditionally (“Serpent Nebula,” “Covenant”). Yet, there roils a sense of urgency in these songs, despite many of them occupying a mid-paced cadence, which unveils a bleeding heart willingly wrenched from Sun Worship’s body (“Fractal Entity,” the title track, and “Stormbringer”). This is what sets it apart from its contemporaries, and what makes it worthy of mention. Why it’s gotten so little attention escapes me. It is with the intent of rectifying that condition that I pen this woefully insufficient segment. Dolphin Whisperer’s Duty Free Rifftrocity<a href="https://www.facebook.com/extortednz/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Extorted</a> // <a href="https://extorted.bandcamp.com/album/cognitive-dissonance" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Cognitive Dissonance</a> [October 16th, 2024 – Self Release]You don’t need to read this review to know that the Kiwis of Extorted plays pit-whipping death/thrash. Though not adorned with other obvious symbols, like Vietnam War paraphernalia or crushed beer cans, the Ed Repka-penned brain-ripped head figure screams “no thoughts only riff” all the same. With snares set to pow and crashes set to kshhh, Cognitive Dissonance finds low resistance to accelerating early Death-indebted refrains. Vocalist Joel Clark even plays as a dead ringer for pre-Human Schuldiner or Van Drunen (<a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/asphyx-necroceros-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Asphyx</a>, ex-<a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/pestilence-exitivm-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Pestilence</a>) as the torture in many lines grows (on “Infected” and “Ghastly Creatures” in particular). And in a continued tour of Van Drunen-associated sounds, Extorted’s ability to find a push-and-pull cadence that twists the fury of thrash with the cutting drag of death hits that hard-to-nail early Pestilence pocket with studied flair (“Deception,” “Limits of Reality”). Though a considerable amount of the Extorted identity rests in ideas borrowed and reinterpreted, a modern tonal canvas gives Cognitive Dissonance’s rhythms a punchy and balanced low-end weight that doesn’t always present itself in the world of old. Couple that with hooks that reach far beyond the limits of pure homage (“Transformation of Dreams,” “Violence”), and it’s easy to plow through the thirty minutes of tasteful harmonies, bending solos, and spit-stained lamentations that Extorted offers with their powerful debut.<a href="https://brii.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Bríi</a> // Camaradagem Póstuma [October 11th, 2024 – Self Release] With Camaradagem Póstuma we enter the hazy, folky world of Caio Lemos’ unique vision of what experimental electronic music can be colored by the underpinnings of atmospheric black metal and jazz fusion. Using terraced melodies like baroque music of old and distant breakbeats like the <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/bong-ra-meditations-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Bong-Ra</a> of recent yesteryears, Brazil’s Bríi represents one man’s highly specific melding that rarely occurs in this space. The guitar lines that do exist play out as textural, slow-developing passages. On tracks “Aparecidos” and “Baile Fantasma” this looping and hypnotic pattern shuffle resembles ambient Pat Metheny or <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/yer-prog-is-olde-king-crimson-in-the-court-of-the-crimson-king/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">King Crimson</a> colors, the kind where finding the end of nylon pluck into a weaving, high-frequency synth patch feels not impossible but unnecessary. And on the more metallic side of things, Lemos cranks programmed blasts that carry his tortured, panning, and shrouded wails as a guide for the melodic evolution of each track, much in the same way a warping bass line would in a progressive house track. But maintaining the tempo of classic drum and bass, Camaradagem Póstuma wisps away in its atmosphere, coming back to a driving rhythm either via pummeling double kick or glitching break. Despite the hard, danceable pulse that tracks “Enlutados” and “Entre Mundos” boast, Bríi does not feel built for the kvlt klvbs of this world, leaning on a gated, lo-fi aesthetic that makes for an ideal drift away on closed cans, much like the equally idiosyncratic <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/amgs-unsigned-band-rodeo-wist-strange-balance/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Wist album</a> from earlier this year. And similarly, Camaradagem Póstuma sits in an outsider world of enjoyment. But if any of this sounds like your jam, prepare to get addicted to Bríi. Thus Spoke’s Rotten Remnants<a href="http://www.facebook.com/livloesband" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Livløs</a> // The Crescent King [October 4th, 2024 – Noctum Productions]Livløs are one of those bands that deserves far more recognition than they receive. With LP three, The Crescent King, they might finally see it. Their punchy intriguing infusion of Swedish and US melodic death metal—though the band themselves hail from Denmark—has a pleasing melancholia and satisfying bite. Here in particular, there’s more than a passing resemblance to <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/hath-all-that-was-promised-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Hath</a>, to <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/cognizance-malignant-dominion-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Cognizance</a>, and to <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/in-mourning-the-bleeding-veil-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">In Mourning</a>. Stomping grooves (“Maelstrom,” “Usurpers”) slide in between blitzes of tripping gallops, and electrifying fretwork (“Orbit Weaver,” “Scourge of the Stars”). Mournful, compelling melodies woven into this technical tapestry—some highlights being the title track, “Harvest,” and “Endless Majesty”—turn already good melodeath into great melodeath; melodeath that’s majestic and powerful, without ever feeling overblown. With its relentless, groovy dynamism, the crisp, spacious production seals the deal for total immersion. If this is your first time hearing about Livløs, you’re in for a treat.<a href="https://www.facebook.com/sordideband" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Sordide</a> // Ainsi finit le jour [October 25th, 2024 – <a href="https://lesacteursdelombre.net/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions</a>]And So Ends the Day, whilst another begins where I rediscover Sordide. I know not how I forgot their existence despite the impression that 2021’s Les Idées Blanches made upon me, yet all I could recall was the disturbingly simple, <a href="https://sordide.bandcamp.com/album/les-id-es-blanches-2" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">melty art.</a><a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/stuck-in-the-filter-october-2024s-angry-misses/#fn-207332-1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">1</a> Ainsi Finit le Jour arrives with a hefty dose (53 minutes no less) of punky, dissonant black metal that’s even rawer and more pissed-off than their usual fare. “Des feux plus forts,” “La poesie du caniveau,” and the title track stand out as the most vicious, near-first-wave cuts the trio have ever laid down, with manic, group wails, and chaotic, jangling percussion. But as is so often the case with Sordide, perhaps the truest brutality comes in the slower discordant crawls of “Sous Vivre,” “Tout est a la mort,” and the particularly unsettling “La beauté du desastre,” whose creeping, half-tuneful teasing and turns to eerie spaciousness get right under your skin. It is arguably a little too long for its own good, given its intensity, but its impressiveness does mean that, this time, Sordide won’t be forgotten. Dear Hollow’s Droll Hashals <a href="https://www.facebook.com/annihilistmetal/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Annihilist </a>// Reform [October 18th, 2024 – Self Release]What Melbourne’s Annihilist does with flamboyant flare and reckless abandon is blur the lines of its core stylistic choices. One moment it’s chugging away like a deathcore band, the next it’s dripping away with a groove metal swagger, ope, now it’s on its way to Hot Topic. All we know is that all its members attack with a chameleonic intensity and otherworldly technicality that’s hard to pin down. An insane level of technicality is the thread that courses throughout the entirety of this debut, recalling Within the Ruins or <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/the-human-abstract-digital-veil-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The Human Abstract</a> in its stuttering rhythms and flailing arpeggios. From catchy leads and punishing rhythms (“The Upsend,” “Guillotine”), bouncy breakdowns, clean choruses, and wild gang vocals (“Blood”), djenty guitar seizures (“Virus,” “Better Off”) to full-on groove (“N.M.E.,” “The Host”), the likes of <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/lamb-of-god-lamb-of-god-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Lamb of God</a>, early <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/architects-the-here-and-now-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Architects</a>, Born of Osiris, and <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/children-of-bodom-hexed-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Children of Bodom </a>are conjured. Lyrics of hardcore punk’s signature anarchy and societal distrust collide with an instrumental palette of melodeath and the more technical kin of metalcore and deathcore, groove metal, and hardcore. As such, the album is complicated, episodic, and unpredictable, with only its wild technicality connecting its fragmented bits – keeping Reform from achieving the greatness that the band is so capable of. As it stands, though, Annihilist offers an insanely fun, everchanging, and unhinged roller coaster of -core proportions – a roller -corester, if you will. Under Alekhines Gun<a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheurgyBDM/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Theurgy</a> // Emanations of Unconscious Luminescence [October 17th, 2024 – <a href="https://newstandardelite.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">New Standard Elite</a>]In a year where slam and brutal death have already had an atypically high-quality output, international outfit Theurgy have come with an RKO out of nowhere to shatter whatever remains of your cerebral cortex. Channeling the flamboyancy of old Analepsy with the snare abuse and neanderthalic glee of Epicardiectomy, Emanations of Unconscious Luminescence wastes no time severing vertebrae and reducing eardrums to paste. Don’t mistake this for a brainless, caveman assault, however. Peppered between the hammiest of hammers are tech flourishes pulled straight from Dingir era <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/rings-saturn-lugal-ki-en-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Rings of Saturn</a>, adding an unexpected technical edge to the blunt force trauma. The production manages to pair these two disparaging elements with lethal efficiency. Is it the techiest slam album, or the wettest, greasiest tech album? Did I mention there’s a super moldy cover of <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/devourment-obscene-majesty-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Devourment</a>‘s “Molesting the Decapitated”? It slots right into the albums flow without feeling like a tacked-on bonus track, highlighting Theurgy’s commitment to the homicidal odes of brutality. Throw in a vocal performance that makes Angel Ochoa (Abominable Putridity) sound like Anders Fridén (<a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/in-flames-foregone-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">In </a><a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/in-flames-foregone-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Flames</a>), and you’re left with one last lethal assault to round out the year. Dive in and give your luminescence something to cry about. GardensTale’s Great Glacier<a href="https://www.facebook.com/GhostsofGlaciers/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Ghosts of Glaciers</a> // Eternal [October 25th, 2024 – <a href="https://translationloss.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Translation Loss Records</a>]Ghosts of Glaciers’s last release, The Greatest Burden, was a masterclass of post-metal flow and has become a mainstay in my instrumental metal collection since <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/ghosts-of-glaciers-the-greatest-burden-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">my review</a> in 2019. Dropping in tandem with several other high-profile releases, though, I could not give its follow-up the kind of attention it deserves. And make no mistake, it absolutely deserves that attention. The opening duo, “The Vast Expanse” and “Sunken Chamber,” measure up fully to The Greatest Burden, though it takes a few spins for that to become clear. Both use repetitive patterns more than before, but closer listens reveal how subtle variations and evolution of each cycle build gradual tension, so the release becomes all the more satisfying. I’m a little more ambivalent on the back half of Eternal, though. “Leviathan” packs a bigger punch than more of the band’s material, it lacks the swirling and sweeping currents that pull me under and demand full and uninterrupted plays every time. Closer “Regeneratio Aeterna” is a pretty but rather demure piece that lasts a bit longer than it should have. But despite these reservations, the great material outstrips the merely good, and Eternal is a worthwhile addition to any instrumental metal collection.<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/abominable-putridity/" target="_blank">#AbominablePutridity</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/ainsi-finit-le-jour/" target="_blank">#AinsiFinitLeJour</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/american-metal/" target="_blank">#AmericanMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/analepsy/" target="_blank">#Analepsy</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/annihilist/" target="_blank">#Annihilist</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" 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Angry Metal Guy<a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/rotpit-long-live-the-rot-review-happy-rotsgiving-to-all/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Rotpit – Long Live the Rot Review (Happy Rotsgiving to All)</a>By Steel Druhm2023 was a good year for death metal, and amidst all the quality knuckle-dragging, Rotpit’s Let There Be Rot debut was a most welcome unearthing. Spewed forth by fiends from such acts as Heads for the Dead, Wombbath, and Revel in Flesh, Let There Be Rot blended the worst angels of the Swedish and American schools of decay to deliver an entertaining dose of infectious medical waste with a shocking number of greasy hooks. It’s an album I return to often and it still sounds freshly deceased. This is why I was so surprised to see the Pit boys back only a year later with Long Live the Rot. With their commitment to all things rotten firmly in place (5 of the 10 tracks contain “rot” in the title) and a new drummer on board, can these pit demons once again show us where the slime lives while keeping things interesting and appropriately grotesque? Welcome to the first ever Rotsgiving!Things open on an especially dank, brown note with “Sewer Rot” which is really the worst kind of rot if you think about it. It’s cavernous, slimy, slithering and oh-so unclean. It offers all manner of ear contamination, but somehow feels less bestial and brain-stimulating than the offal served up on the debt. The overall style is much the same as last time, with cuts like “Massive Maggot Swarm” and the title track throwing reverb-thick riffs and horrid vocals at the cavern wall to see what sticks. Enough does to keep you listening, but the overall fun levels are less than what I was hoping for. The Incantolation influence of the title track is quite endearing nonetheless. Prime cut “The Triumph of Rot” feels like it drops a cubic ton of wet concrete on you with its thick plodding advance that borrows muchly from Bolt Thrower. Standout “Tunnel Rat” is more urgent and in-your-face with a punky d-beat leading the way. It sounds like the earliest Entombed material and that’s always a good thing. “Funeral Mock” also stands tall with meaty riffage and enough aggression to infirm a femur.While no track is completely barren of merit, the overall excitement and intrigue levels are lessened and none of the material hits as hard as the best stuff on the debut. I like that there are bits and pieces that recall the earliest days Paradise Lost, and the expected nods to Entombed and Dismember are fine (and, you know, expected), but the album feels overly restrained, which is not what one would expect from a band called Rotpit. Take “Dirt Dwellers” for example. It rides along in a doomy dirge with only brief hiccups into mid-tempo chuggery. It’s not bad, but it’s fairly dull and never takes flight. Maybe it’s just me, but I want more menace and anger in my mass grave of moldering corpses. At a svelte 35-plus minutes, Long Live the Rot doesn’t feel like a chore to get through, but a few cuts have flabby love handles that could have been trimmed. The production is cavernous, full of reverb, and skews a bit muddy, muting the instruments more than it should while lacking a big, oppressive guitar tone. That’s a miss for me, dawg.Once again Jonny Pettersson (Massacre, Heads for the Dead, Wombbath) handles guitar and bass and brings chonky leads and gravely grooves to the decay ditch. His playing reeks of the early 90s Swedeath scene with frequent side quests into classic Incantation cave swamp doom riffage and the shitfun of Autopsy. I’m a sucker for the blueprint and when he executes it well, the songs crackle and pop like a diseased boil. However, the tendency to remain in a mid-tempo space for too much of the album saps a lot of energy from the material and truly killer riffs are few. Ralf Hauber (Heads for the Dead, Revel in Flesh) offers excellently ginormous, echoey death roars that suit the music and he sounds as large and in charge as last time. He’s the right man for the job and makes everything sound extra moist and squishy. New kit-man Erik Barthold (Darklands) brings plenty of percussive brutality to the crime scene, but again, things end up too restrained for him to work up a good mouth foaming.I get the feeling the minds behind Rotpit spent the last year binging on old Incantation and Immolation albums and that oozed into their writing this time. The result is less about an orgy of violence and more about murky atmospheres. I prefer a potent blend of both and thus, Long Live the Rot leaves me feeling partially unburied.<a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/rotpit-long-live-the-rot-review-happy-rotsgiving-to-all/#fn-206698-1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">1</a> This gives me the sadz, and on the first Rotsgiving no less! I truly enjoy this project since it’s essentially the modern-day Death Breath, so I hope they have a longer shelf life than those Swedish sickos did, and that they can regroup to shove us deeper into the putrescence in the future. In the meantime, I’ll still celebrate the Rot season so give me a maggoty turkey leg and a bottle of hobo pruno and I’ll go sulk in the pit corner.Rating: 3.0/5.0 DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3 Label: <a href="http://www.war-anthem.de/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">War Anthem Records</a> Websites: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Rotpit666" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">facebook.com/rotpit666</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/rotpit_official/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">instagram.com/rotpit_official</a> Releases Worldwide: November 29th, 2024 FelagundThe band’s name is Rotpit. Half the songs on their sophomore album Long Live the Rot have the word “rot” in the title. This is knuckle dragging, club wielding, marsh-dwelling caveman metal. This is grimy, slimy, choking-on-swamp water metal. So if you’re here desperately searching for a review of the latest avant-garde post-metal release by a critically-acclaimed one man black metal project, I suggest you take your frontal lobe and shove it (preferably into the steaming heap with the others), because the noise the Neanderthals in Rotpit produce is only fit for plaque-addled amygdalas. As the proud owner of such grotesque brain matter, I found their 2023 debut Let There Be Rot to be a splendidly nasty affair. But can the same be said for their follow up? Can Long Live the Rot live up to the brutish power of its predecessor? Will I walk away once more, id pulsating and hip waders overflowing with viscous offal? I should be so lucky.This may come as a shock to many of you, but Rotpit don’t appear to be overly concerned with musical evolution or artistic growth. The band that so disgusted you last year are back with a vengeance in 2024, and not much has changed. Long Live the Rot continues the pummeling assault Rotpit introduced on their first album, bashing in your eardrums with landslides of rumbling riffs, driving drums, and serpentine solos that slink between and above the perilous mountain of ichor. But as the record thunders onward, you can’t ignore the whiffs of Entombed or Bolt Thrower, nor can you overlook the understated but no less pungent stench of Sanguisanibog or the odoriferous Acid Bath riffs. But taken together, Rotpit continues to be their very own disgusting thing, an ethos that is driven home on Long Live the Rot.“Sewer Rot” is a serviceable, fetid opener that boasts burly riffs, a doomy chorus, and plenty of buzzsaw guitar work. But in my estimation, the album truly finds its greasy footing on second track “Massive Maggot Swarm.” You’ve got an Acid Bath-infused main riff that disappears and reappears in between bouts of thick, trudging guitar, punishing double bass, and searing solos, all played through what sounds like a generous coating of soggy slime mold. Truth be told, most of the tunes on Long Live the Rot conform to a version of this approach, weaving in impenetrable walls of murky sound alongside heaving, repetitious riffs, mid-paced grooves, cavernous death growls, and understated drums that maintain momentum even when the guitars refuse to be moved. “Long Live the Rot” and “Funeral Mock” are album standouts, equipt as they are with both choruses and riffs that find their success through repetition. And while “Triumph of the Rot” and “Tunnel Rat” bring some welcome freneticism to the party, I’m here for the buzzy grime; the kind of oozing, musical muck that would make Anton Arcane gag. It’s hard to have too much of a good thing, and thanks to a tight runtime and their ability to strike just the right balance between brutality and brevity, Rotpit have crafted a fun album that knows exactly what it wants to be. That’s not to say that every song is a prime cut (although they’re all beginning to turn). “Dirt Dwellers” is probably the most egregious example, sandwiched as it is between two stronger tracks and falling victim to that age old problem of death metal maniacs everywhere who traffic in the big, the dumb, and the grungy: monotony. Fortunately, while the dreaded M-word may rear its head from time to time, Rotpit knows not to overstay their welcome, and Long Live the Rot is all the better for it. While this type of metal won’t be for everyone, I found Rotpit’s second album to be a grimy good time. And while I admit to being overly critical of “serious” artists in my opening, I can’t close without identifying what I believe to be the overarching ethos permeating Rotpit’s entire oeuvre. Tongue planted firmly in cheek though it may be, titles like “Triumph of the Rot” speak to a larger ideal; a philosophical undercurrent demanding that we, the listeners, learn to accept, embrace, and ultimately laugh at our own fleeting immortality. Just as Camus demands that we imagine Sisyphus happy, Rotpit demands that we imagine Sisyphus, well…rotting. In this way, Rotpit compose album-length memento mori, inviting us to reflect upon the inevitable. …But they also have a song called “Shitburner,” so what do I know?Rating: 3.0/5.0 FeroxAh, Rotsgiving… a holiday for those of us who feel most alive when contemplating our own demise. We gather round the butcher’s block, as did death metal fans of yore, to celebrate an abundance of decaying riches. The Rotsgiving Day Parade plays in the background while Steel Druhm and Holdeneye prepare a traditional feast of Mystery Carcass and N00b Innards. Felagund spins tales of the Olde School while Maddog and Thus Spoke argue for novel ingredients and a cruelty-free Rotsgiving. Some of us are at home here in the mausoleum, and some stop by to visit from time to time. Cherd reminds everyone to slow down, that sometimes death is best appreciated with a side helping of doom. Have you been off traveling for a spell, like Mark Z.? Welcome back to Rotsgiving–and even if you can’t make it home this year, we always leave a place open for absent family members like Kronos and Ferrous Bueller. There’s even a kid’s table, where Doom et Al is free to blather while Kenstrosity and Dolph mash everything on their plates together and rate the resulting slop a 4.5.We have high hopes for this year’s main course. Various religions exist to sell you on what happens to your soul after you die. Sweden’s Rotpit knows what happens to your body, and that’s all the inspiration this trio of diehards needs. On the band’s 2023 debut <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/rotpit-let-there-be-rot-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Let There Be Rot</a>, guitarist and Guy in A Lot of Bands Jonny Pettersson (Wombbath, Berzerker Legion) teamed with fellow Heads for the Dead-head Ralf Hauber for a slab of scuzzed-up death built around the question: “What if the meaning of life is to provide food for maggots after you die?” The album resonated bigly with Steel Druhm and with death-inclined staff and readers. A scant year later, Rotpit returns to bestow the blessings of Long Live the Rot upon all who celebrate Rotsgiving. Will the staff leave the holiday table satisfied, or is this just reheated fare?The ingredients in Long Live the Rot are the same as the ones in last year’s meal, even if this dish emerges from the oven with a subtly different mouthfeel. Pettersson’s reverb-basted guitars still dominate. A Rotpit jam typically kicks off with a stomping, stöopid down-tuned riff, after which a dental-drill lead guitar line asserts itself. This is scabby, dank death metal in the vein of Undergang or Autopsy. Pettersson tamps down his gift for hooks in favor of an approach that emphasizes grime and atmosphere. Ralf Hauber’s vocals always sound like he’s nauseated, which suits these songs about decay and the maggots that cause it. So what’s different? Let There Be Rot found an elusive sweet spot between murk and mirth, managing to engage even as it sickened. Long Live the Rot, in contrast, goes heavy on the scuzz and fuzz at the expense of songwriting. It’s still a fast and fun listen, but the new album finds Rotpit falling back into the death metal pack.Not to air my controversial opinions during Rotsgiving dinner, but the best songs on Long Live the Rot are the ones that have good riffs. Standouts like “Triumph of the Rot” and “Funeral Mock” entice even as they envelop you in Rotpit’s signature fetid cloud. “Tunnel Rat” kicks off with a killer passage that evokes a tunnel borer drilling through tons of earth. If the album came fully stocked with riffs of this quality, Long Live the Rot would be a worthy companion piece to Let There Be Rot. Instead, there are songs and sections where the perfunctory riffage makes it difficult to distinguish one ode to decay from another (“Eat or Be Eaten,” “Dirt Dwellers.”) Maybe Rotpit needed more time between albums, or maybe the concept is already losing steam. Either way, Long Live the Rot is a perfectly nice set of scabby death metal anthems… which makes it a disappointment compared to the band’s opening salvo.So maybe the main course is drier than we hoped. That doesn’t make Rotsgiving a disappointment. Look around the table. There’s a tray of Stenched that just came out of the oven. The Void Witch and Noxis courses should be along shortly, and I hear there’s Ripped to Shreds for dessert. As for this dish? Meat and potatoes always have their place.Rating: 3.0/5.0 <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/2024/" target="_blank">#2024</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/30/" target="_blank">#30</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/acid-bath/" target="_blank">#AcidBath</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/autopsy/" target="_blank">#Autopsy</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/bolt-thrower/" target="_blank">#BoltThrower</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/death-metal/" target="_blank">#DeathMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/dismember/" target="_blank">#Dismember</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/entombed/" target="_blank">#Entombed</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/heads-for-the-dead/" target="_blank">#HeadsForTheDead</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/incantation/" target="_blank">#Incantation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/international-metal/" target="_blank">#InternationalMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/let-there-be-rot/" target="_blank">#LetThereBeRot</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/nov24/" target="_blank">#Nov24</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/paradise-lost/" target="_blank">#ParadiseLost</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/revel-in-flesh/" target="_blank">#RevelInFlesh</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/review/" target="_blank">#Review</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/reviews/" target="_blank">#Reviews</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/rotpit/" target="_blank">#Rotpit</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/war-anthem-records/" target="_blank">#WarAnthemRecords</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/wombbath/" target="_blank">#Wombbath</a>

Angry Metal Guy<a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/carnal-savagery-graveworms-cadavers-coffins-and-bones-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Carnal Savagery – Graveworms, Cadavers, Coffins and Bones Review</a>By Steel DruhmHM-2 pedal worshiping Swedeath purveyors Carnal Savagery have a strange way of doing business. In 2022 they released not one, but TWO full-length albums. The product was the same both times: Dismember and Entombed worship with enough buzz and fuzz on the guitars to disrupt air traffic over Scandinavia. I covered Worm Eaten and found it to be “meat n’ scab taters death” and enjoyable if not essential. They were pretty quiet in 2023, but in January of this year, they dropped Into the Abysmal Void, which our man Felagund considered a standard issue “Meat and potatoes”<a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/carnal-savagery-graveworms-cadavers-coffins-and-bones-review/#fn-206426-1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">1</a> death platter with enough good bits to hit the spot. Now, 10 months later they drop a second album. Graveworms, Cadavers, Coffins and Bones may sound like the companion album to Autopsy’s Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts, but it’s another dose of Dismembercore with only occasional nods to American stenches. Can the band keep producing fresh sounds with such an ambitious release schedule and a style that was already dated at the turn of the century? Let’s examine their burial plan.You know exactly what you’re getting with these guys, so when opener “Nailed to the Cross” mimics the sound of Dismember’s magical debut, it won’t come as an everflowing stream of surprise. It’s quite good and those H(e) M(an)-2 riffs are potent and packed with raw power. It’s thrashing, brutish, and reeks of 1991 so I’m hard-wired to enjoy it. If the rest of Graveworms were this stout, I would put myself on a strict Diet of Worms. Unfortunately, the album swings from tasty gravecakes to bland and timid entries, suitable, perhaps, for patients recovering from a Taylor Swift deprogramming. First the good. “Gallery of Flesh” is a slashing, flaying warbeast full of sharp riffs and bulldozing momentum. It got moved to Steel‘s Leg Day Playlist after half a spin and there it will live in eternal infamy. The title track is also highly enjoyable, ripping away with whirring riffs and thunderous drumming only to segway into hideously massive death doom that smells like Autopsy looks. At one point vocalist Mattias Lilja bellows something that sounds like “PAPA JOHNS” and it makes me want to order crappy, salty pizza every time I hear it. “Burnt to Death” also stands out with a mighty d-beat and some shockingly nimble and slick solo work.On the flip side of the casket garden, several tracks feel stock standard or suffer from issues that derail otherwise decent tuneage. “Carnal Blasphemy” has a jaunty swagger that feels out of place with the rest of the album and the song never really clicks into high gear. “Bind, Torture, Kill” is the most rudimentary caveman shit imaginable and it never leaves mom’s basement despite melodic soloing that stands out like a turd in a Cannibal Corpse. The low point comes with “Autopsied Alive” which is just painfully listless and dull as fook. Things wind out with back-to-back lackluster nuggets, making the bulk of Graveworms underwhelming. The 35-minute runtime helps the entire concoction go down relatively easy though, aided by song lengths that generally run 2-3 minutes. The production is fine for the style with a mastering job by Dan “the Fucking MAN” Swanö that accentuates that harsh, raw guitar tone to the nth degree.Mikael Lindgren handles guitars, bass and drums here and his riffing is the most appealing aspect of the Carnal Savagery experience. He has the classic Dismember sound and style down cold, but he also borrows from the likes of Bolt Thrower and every so often, Cannibal Corpse and Autopsy. He really breaks out of the mold when it comes to soloing, at times reminding of prime James Murphy. He even goes neo-classical here and there, creating an interesting counterpoint to the Neaderthal thuggery the album marinates in. His bass work is also tasty and often quite present. Mattias Lilja is a solid death croaker with a sound somewhere between L.G. Petrov and Marduk’s Mortuus. He fits the material just fine. It’s the inconsistent writing that submarines things, with less than half of the songs delivering a nasty wallop.I’m not in the business of giving free advice, but it might be in Carnal Savagery’s best interest to release one album a year. If you take the best moments from Graveworm and add them to the top bits on Into the Abysmal Void, you’d be cooking with cadaver gas. Sometimes less is Moar when it helps the less BE MOAR. You can count on a few ace moments, but this trip to the chopping mall gets boring. Rating: 2.5/5.0 DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3 Label: <a href="https://www.moribundcult.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Moribund</a> Websites: <a href="https://carnalsavagery.bandcamp.com/album/graveworms-cadavers-coffins-and-bones" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">carnalsavagery.bandcamp.com</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CarnalSavagery/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">facebook.com/carnalsavagery</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/carnalsavagery/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">instagram.com/carnalsavagery</a> Releases Worldwide: November 22nd, 2024<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/2-5/" target="_blank">#25</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/2024/" target="_blank">#2024</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/cadavers/" target="_blank">#Cadavers</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/carnal-savagery/" target="_blank">#CarnalSavagery</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/coffins-and-bones/" target="_blank">#CoffinsAndBones</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/death-metal/" target="_blank">#DeathMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/dismember/" target="_blank">#Dismember</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/entombed/" target="_blank">#Entombed</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/graveworms/" target="_blank">#Graveworms</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/into-the-abysmal-void/" target="_blank">#IntoTheAbysmalVoid</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/moribund-records/" target="_blank">#MoribundRecords</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/nov24/" target="_blank">#Nov24</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/review/" target="_blank">#Review</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/reviews/" target="_blank">#Reviews</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/swedish-metal/" target="_blank">#SwedishMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/worm-eaten/" target="_blank">#WormEaten</a>

Angry Metal GuyIn Dakhma – He Who Sows the Ground ReviewWritten By: Nameless_N00b_89The band In Dakhma, formed in 2022, hails from Croatia and comprises two “seasoned metal fans” who purportedly play death metal. What a dakhma is, on the other hand, is slightly more interesting. Known in Persian as a tower of silence, the dakhma is a circular Zoroastrian structure used for excarnation, which is accomplished by exposing dead bodies to the elements and various carrion critters, primarily vultures. This small fact adds gravity to the album’s cover, which intrigues me. And so these were the answers to my questions after Steel shoved this fifth, and possibly last, promo through the slop slot of my skull pit cell. The first was who is In Dakhma? The second was, what the hell is a dakhma? With my curiosity sated then, I settled in to see what kind of death metal In Dakhma had to offer on its debut album, He Who Sows the Ground.In Dakhma moves in so many different musical directions that it makes nailing down the sound of He Who Sows the Ground difficult. From death, black and doom to sludge, hardcore and grind, a lot is happening here. Yet, despite having no resume beyond that of seasoned fandom, guitarist, bassist, and vocalist Vedran Nor has an unexpectedly firm grasp on instrumentation. He capably grinds, chugs, sludges and shreds through the songs, his low-tuned guitar imbuing the album with an almost Roots-like quality.<a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/in-dakhma-he-who-sows-the-ground-review/#fn-205718-1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">1</a> His bass work shines brightly, whether slapping, rumbling, leading, or snaking through mid-song interludes. Nor’s vocals, primarily a discernible mix of Tom Warrior and Max Cavelera, possess an impressive black metal scream, while his deathliest growls have a Deicidedly Glen Benton-ish timbre. Drummer and lyricist Matko Podobnik has more than a passing mastery of the kit and provides a substantial foundation for Nor’s work to build on. Dispelling lack of talent as an issue, and with influences ranging from Entombed and Cannibal Corpse to Gojira and Opeth, He Who Sows the Ground presents a young band battling identity versus diversity.When In Dakhma decides who they are, a more focused approach should yield positive results, for seeds of a successful harvest are planted throughout He Who Sows’ eleven tracks. Opener “Ona kraljuje sama,” minus its irrelevant sixty-second intro, gives off Cavalera Conspiracy energy, featuring punchy, punk-fueled guitar riffs and some of Nor’s better lead work. The chunky, juicily moist riffs of “Nothing but Filth” satisfy like a hot sludge sundae, while the chug-a-lug hooks and galloping pace of “Aeshma” lash out like a truncheon to the temple. Further success is found when In Dakhma bask in deathlier climes. The tremolodically picked riffing, ploddingly pummeling chugs and Bentonistic vocals of “Sacrum” wrap deathly tendencies in a cozy black metal blanket. Meanwhile, the Morbidly Angelic “Siblicide” scratches the death itch nicely, with a near Alkaloidal bass interlude thrown in for good measure.In Dakhma’s diversity on He Who Sows the Ground spells the death of their identity. Be it the erroneously ominous grind of “Black Mat” or the mandolin-plucked, unoriginally titled instrumental “…,”<a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/in-dakhma-he-who-sows-the-ground-review/#fn-205718-2" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">2</a> these tracks drag the album back more than propel it forward. Even the doomy goodness of “Sentinel Hill,” reliant on guest vocals and lead guitars for intrigue, belies In Dakhma’s true strengths. This leaves tracks “In Dogma” and “Tower of Silence” to try and clean up the album’s identity crisis. The former’s hardcore-tinged riffs, gang-chanted chorus’, sludge-ridden midpoints and slam-inspired bass drops fall flat, while the latter’s Monotheistic sludge and bongo-infused Celtic Frostian-weirdness offer nothing redemptive.He Who Sows the Ground is In Dakhma’s love letter to death metal. Nor and Podobnik were so committed to this ode that they started Tower of Silence Records to release this debut effort. With a modicum of focus, this duo has the chops to release a decent slab of metal. Here, they let their fandom get the best of them, sowing the seeds of an overly diverse album that reaps mixed rewards. While I can’t recommend He Who Sows the Ground wholly, there’s playlist-worthy music here. Hopefully, with a more focused approach, In Dakhma will return to laugh over my vulture-picked bones. Rating: 2.5/5.0 DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3 Label: Tower of Silence Records Websites: <a href="http://indakhma.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">indakhma.com</a> | <a href="http://facebook.com/in.dakhma" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">facebook.com/in.dakhma</a> Releases Worldwide: November 8th, 2024<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/2-5/" target="_blank">#25</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/2024/" target="_blank">#2024</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/alkaloid/" target="_blank">#Alkaloid</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/cannibal-corpse/" target="_blank">#CannibalCorpse</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/cavalera-conspiracy/" target="_blank">#CavaleraConspiracy</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/celtic-frost/" target="_blank">#CelticFrost</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/croatian-metal/" target="_blank">#CroatianMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/death-metal/" target="_blank">#DeathMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/entombed/" target="_blank">#Entombed</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/gojira/" target="_blank">#Gojira</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/he-who-sows-the-ground/" target="_blank">#HeWhoSowsTheGround</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/in-dakhma/" target="_blank">#InDakhma</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/monotheist/" target="_blank">#Monotheist</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/morbid-angel/" target="_blank">#MorbidAngel</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/nov24/" target="_blank">#Nov24</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/opeth/" target="_blank">#Opeth</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/progressive-death-metal/" target="_blank">#ProgressiveDeathMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/review/" target="_blank">#Review</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/reviews/" target="_blank">#Reviews</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/sepultura/" target="_blank">#Sepultura</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/sludge/" target="_blank">#Sludge</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/tower-of-silence-records/" target="_blank">#TowerOfSilenceRecords</a>

Angry Metal Guy<a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/stuck-in-the-filter-july-2024s-angry-misses/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Stuck in the Filter: July 2024’s Angry Misses</a>By KenstrosityAfter the tight lineup we cobbled together for June, July provided a similarly lean yield for our team to offer the masses. It appears that my minions responsible for scraping the channels clean have become far too efficient! That said, what we did find might be our most valuable haul yet this year.And so, we persist. Always dedicated to bringing you the not-quite-best-but-also-still-good two months ago or so had to offer, we scour for little nuggets worth inspecting. What more could an Angry Metal Fan ask for? Kenstrosity’s Cataclysmic Critters <a href="https://awakeinprovidence.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A Wake in Providence</a> // I Write to You, My Darling Decay [July 26th, 2024 – <a href="https://www.uniqueleader.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Unique Leader Records</a>]Staten Island symphonic deathcore collective A Wake in Providence dropped a considerable payload back in 2022 entitled Eternity. Opulent and catastrophically heavy, Eternity bathed me in rich orchestration and legitimate riffs instead of stereotypical breakdowns and unending single-chord chugfests. Needless to say, I was enamored. Follow-up I Write to You, Darling Decay represents a deathcore equivalent to Fleshgod Apocalypse’s <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/fleshgod-apocalypse-opera-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Opera</a>, focusing more on lyrical storytelling and implementing vocal diversification as a vehicle for character development. Perhaps not quite as sophisticated— since those meatheaded, muscular chugs of the deathcore world still crop up here and there—I Write to You still offers major hooks and delectable detailing to keep my interest piqued through a full hour of new material (“Mournful Benediction,” “Agonofinis,” title track, “The Unbound,” and “Pareidolia”). Aside from those superficial qualities, I Write to You’s real selling point is album cohesion and overall fit and finish. Like a babbling brook across the smoothest bed of sand and soil, this record flows with a fluidity rarified in the genre (check out the awesome three-song transition between “Agonofris” and “In Whispers”). Combine that with a textured and multifaceted musical progression through a grief-stricken storyline, and you have a winning formula for an engaging record that earns its epic sound.<a href="https://cellandvoid.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Cell</a> // Shattering the Rapture of the Primordial Abyss [July 12th, 2024 – Self Release]I first encountered Canadian black metallers Cell on a little Bandcamp stroll years ago, followed shortly by a breezy and brutal beach set just before 2020’s 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise. Nobody I knew had heard of them then, but I knew they had chops. With third album Shattering the Rapture of the Primordial Abyss, they’ve proven me right and then some. Combining icy Immortalisms with the chunky buzz of old school death, major bangers “Waking of the Blazing Night,” “The Plight of Council Skaljdrum,” “Drink the Sun,” “Unification of the Last Alliance,” and “Return of Tranquility through the Desolation of Truth” represent the sharpest, hookiest, and heaviest material Cell’s put down to date. Fury and fire characterize every riff, lead, and blast on Shattering the Rapture, but it’s the uncanny sense of groove that suddenly springs from Cell’s cells that takes this record within a stone’s throw of greatness. Tightening up the overlong fragments that bloat otherwise solid tracks like “Serenity in Darkness… Evermore” and closer “Carnage from the Sky” would go along way to throwing that stone past that threshold. Until then, rest assured that Rapture of the Primordial Abyss is a ripper, worthy of your time and your spine.<a href="https://dehumanaut.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Dehumanaut</a> // Of Nightmares and Vice [July 17th, 2024 – Self Release]Just like Cell, Dehumanaut entered my rotation thanks to a serendipitous stroll through the Bandcamp ticker. Boasting a unique blend of death metal, thrash, and bluesy bar-crawl hard rock, these Brits offer something novel to the extreme metal catalog. With sophomore effort, Of Nightmares and Vice, Dehumanaut double down on the death and blues, evoking <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/yer-metal-olde-entombed-left-hand-path/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Entombed</a>‘s Wolverine Blues in spirit as much as in execution. With swinging tracks like “Shred this Reality,” “A Perilous Path,” “Battle Weary,” “Epiphanies,” and “Black City” deftly stepping between deathly riffs and danceable grooves, thrashier cuts such as “Reject the Knife,” “Nexus of Decline” and “A Truth Most Foul,” and “It Has a Name” feel even speedier and more rabid than usual. Aside from affording Of Nightmares and Vice oodles of dynamics in songwriting, this multifaceted and structured approach to genre-bending showcases Dehumanaut’s versatility as musicians. Everything they attempt here feels effortless and reflexive, making every transition between measure and phrase not just purposeful but also buttery-smooth (“Battle Weary”). If it weren’t for a bit of bloat across the board, oddly muffled mixing, and somewhat flat death metal growls, Of Nightmares and Vice would be in play among my top records of July. Even still, it comes close! Saunders’ Salacious Slams<a href="https://www.facebook.com/CephalotripsyOfficial/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Cephalotripsy </a> // <a href="https://cephalotripsy.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Epigenetic Neurogenesis</a> [July 13th, 2024 – <a href="https://cephalotripsy.bandcamp.com/album/epigenetic-neurogenesis" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Self-Release</a> ]Looking for something so stupidly heavy and obnoxiously brutal that listening could kill brain cells and incite a rampage? California’s underground warriors Cephalotripsy have you covered on long-awaited sophomore album, and follow-up to 2007’s cult and apparently well received debut, Uterovaginal Insertion of Extirpated Anomalies. Unfamiliar with their previous output, I stumbled across this latest endeavor through a trusted recommendation, fulfilling my fix for devastatingly brutal slam death. Epigenetic Neurogenesis takes no prisoners and delivers blow after blow of steamrolling, pugnacious brutal death. Brimming with inhuman, sewer dwelling vocal eruptions of Angel Ochoa (Abominable Putridity), hammering percussion, and an onslaught of ridiculously thick, heavy riffs, exhibiting the sharp, technical skills of veteran brutal death axe wielder and long-term member Andrés Guzman. The newer members form a pummeling rhythm section driving the guttural swarm. Weighing in at a tight and efficient 32 minutes, the beatdown is relentless, though concise enough to avoid an early burn out. The songwriting doesn’t reinvent the brutal slam death wheel. However, the tight execution, dynamic tempo shifts, and memorable riffcraft elevates the material. Viscous, cranium crushing riffs and utterly devastating slams frequently deployed adds further grunt, immense weight and memorability on a set of killer tunes, including extra chunky gems “Alpha Terrestrial Polymorph,” ” Lo Tech Non Entity,” and “Excision of Self.” Nasty, crushing stuff. Dear Hollow’s Disturbing Dump Silvaplana // <a href="https://silvaplana.bandcamp.com/album/sils-maria" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Sils Maria </a>| <a href="https://silvaplana.bandcamp.com/album/limbs-of-dionysus" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Limbs of Dionysus</a> [July 17th, 2024 – Self-Release]Although shrouded in mystery, Silvaplana is a solo project of Alex DeMaria of <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/yellow-eyes-rare-field-ceiling-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Yellow Eyes</a> and <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/anicon-entropy-mantra-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Anicon</a>. Blackened punishment paired with atmosphere have long been the aim, but Silvaplana’s duel release finds duality: both take influence from parent releases separately. Sils Maria takes on a hyper-atmospheric, classically influenced, and dark ambient approach across six tracks and forty-one minutes, blackened blastbeats and distant shrieks hidden behind thick swaths of ambiance, organ, and piano, a relatively gentle affair that recalls the wild yet placid sounds of Yellow Eyes’ latest. Meanwhile, the two-track and also forty-one minutes of Limbs of Dionysus feeds a ritualistic fire with a scathingly raw black attack, reverb-laden growls, moans, and shrieks colliding with relentless tremolo that continuously scale minor and diminished frostbitten mountaintops with reckless abandon. Both seem entirely disparate in context to one another, but smartly they are held together by the thin thread of melodic motifs. The organ that populates Sils Maria’s tracks “II,” “IV” and “VI” are recalled in the closing remarks of “I” in Limbs of Dionysus; the ominous organ trills of the former’s “III” are warped into a blackened beast in the latter’s “II.” As Limbs of Dionysus concludes, the feedback-laden plucking feeds right into the morphing plucking populating the beginning of Sils Maria – an ouroboros of the blackened arts. Silvaplana exists on both self-indulgent and decadent ends of the blackened spectrum with Sils Maria and Limbs of Dionysus, both baffling and tantalizing in their rawness and ambiance, and otherworldly in their collaboration. Dolphin Whisperer’s Inconspicuous Import<a href="https://www.facebook.com/p/Quasidiploid-100069571441927/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Quasidiploid</a> // Deconstruction [July 1st, 2024 – <a href="https://www.amputatedvein.com/shop/cart.cgi?avr01=016044" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Amputated Vein Records</a>]Do you see that cover art? Yes, it’s some sort of countess of the undead summoning the skull-kind with a horn. Would you believe then that one of the features throughout Deconstruction is its inclusion of a female trumpet player to break up the tension of a relentless, brutal technical death metal? Oh yeah, she’s also the vocalist and possesses a vicious guttural bark, shrill and penetrating squeals and hisses (the vocal intro on “Disasters and Infection Routes” is a straight Dir en grey moment), and a higher register manic collapse that features at key moments. That’s all to say that the cover lands a bit on the nose, but, in turn, the carnival crazed whiplash of Quasidiploid swings between brutal <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/cryptopsy-as-gomorrah-burns-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Cryptopsy</a> riff smashing, Pat Martino jazz guitar pleasantries, Necrophagist sweep punishing, and Chuck Mangione brass crooning (“Overture”)—unhinged, unbothered, and anything but accessible. I would call it too unpolished, as Deconstruction strikes with a bit of a demo quality. But sometimes we have to ask ourselves whether what we hear is a questionably processed demo or an intentionally shredded Japanese master? In any case virtuosity reigns as provably human skin slammer Vomiken pushes a bass-loaded kick and a high-crunch kit to abusive and enthralling accelerations only to crash in on the spurt of a forlorn trumpet or flourish of a prancing guitar line (“Brutal Strafing,” “Massacre Fantasy”). Guitar lines weave about traditionally nimble sweeps to tricky meter riff crushes on a dime (“Melodies of Distorted Time and Space,” “Disasters…”). Tonal identities flip between <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/nile-the-underworld-awaits-us-all-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Nile</a>-istic, snaking melodies, flippant yet tasteful guitar heroics, and propulsive rhythm blasts whose only break is the close of a song. The definition of something olde, new, borrowed, and blue, Quasidiploid has come from far left field to provide a classics-inspired but funky fresh version of an extreme genre that thrives exactly on this kind of weird—a curiosity now, but with all the makings of something truly explosive to come. Mark Z.’s Musings<a href="https://www.facebook.com/200StabWounds/?eid=ARBzEfZwmKJ_MAFrLvTQdr10_TXxRAnHrddQRVrqDHMl8QhP3g6RtNZGqAwezHu04lLHarCWUER0q_m3&fref=tag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">200 Stab Wounds</a> // Manual Manic Procedures [June 28th, 2024 – <a href="https://www.metalblade.com/us/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Metal Blade Records</a>]Following a rapid rise to fame during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ohio death metal troupe 200 Stab Wounds thrust their <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/200-stab-wounds-slave-to-the-scalpel-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Slave to the Scalpel</a> debut onto the masses in 2021. While I was about as mixed on that one as Felagund was, their second album Manual Manic Procedures has proven these wounds cut far deeper than originally thought. The massive beefy chugs that the band have become known for are still here in full force, but now they’re paired with sharper hooks and a heightened sense of maturity. On Procedures, you’ll hear acoustic plucking, immense Bolt Thower riffing, grooves that will blow your guts out, and even some melodic death metal influence—and that’s just on the first song. The band also know when to give you a breather, be it a well-placed atmospheric instrumental (“Led to the Chamber / Liquefied”) or an extended ride on a great groovy riff (“Defiled Gestation”). 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Angry Metal Guy<a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/sentient-horror-in-service-of-the-dead-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Sentient Horror – In Service of the Dead Review</a>By Steel DruhmFrom the lush, verdant meadowlands of New Jersey seeps the toxic terrors of caveman death dealers Sentient Horror. Featuring members of Heads for the Dead, Reeking Aura, and Dead and Dripping, these thuggish cretins have been hurling their vulgar takes on vintage HM-2 Entombed-core at the morgue wall since 2016 and a lot of it stuck. 2016s Ungodly Forms channeled the early days of Edge of Sanity on an enjoyably crushing opus, and 2022s Rites of Gore saw them pollute the Swedeath with American influences of the least evolved variety. Fourth album In Service of the Dead sees Sentient Horror experimenting with thrash and NWoBHM elements to further diversify their user-unfriendy sound. Rest assured that the end product is still vein-bursting, bone-breaking death metal with nary a trace of grace or decorum. But can it be of service to the living?Opener “The Way of Decay” is one of the best death chestnuts I’ve heard in 2024, coming at you like a honey badger with double rabies and an empty belly. It’s savage and unstoppable noise with buzzing guitars slashing and slicing in all directions as nasty death roars and thundering drums pound you into the mafia-filled mud bog outside Jets/Giants Stadium. It’s a Swedeath spectacle paying tribute to the early days of the Stockholm sound and it will murderize your sensibilities. “Undead Mutation” keeps things hurtful with a bit of American groove and power chug arriving for support. The chorus hits hard and Sentient Horror are in top form. Across the album, songs are kept nasty, bruising, and short, hitting and running like a fleet of unregistered deathmobiles. “Cadaverous Hordes” is a high point, with gloriously thrashed-out death antics that approach grind levels of intensity. It’s pounding, ravenous death with frantically escalating riffwork and zero fucks given and it can trigger a severe panic attack. I also appreciate the vague similarities to prime Sepultura that crop up on the back end.The commitment to thrashing death keeps things sticking and moving and the glory days of Swedeath still live large in the writing. “Born in the Morgue” is like 1990s Entombed trying to channel the sleaze-scuzz of Autopsy, and the title track could have appeared on Left Hand Path and fit in as snug as a slug in a bed sore. The album’s tight 37 minutes with songs all in the 3-4 minute window mean things move fast. While not every song is a title contender, none are bad or skippable and there’s no trace of fat or bloat to be found. All that said, the front half is more stacked with killers, and by the halfway point you start to get the feeling the material is a tad one-note, though that note is quite entertaining. Despite claims of an infusion of NWoBHM influences, I don’t hear much of that in the material. The thrash is there in spades, however. The production is a bit muddy and not in that cool murky way. Rather, it hits more like a thick wall of sound. I much prefer the mastering on Rites of Gore and their prior works.Matthew Molite (Heads for the Dead) and Jon Lopez demonstrate a keen understanding of the Swedeath sound and clearly love the classic Sunlight Studio releases by Entombed and Dismember. They bring the HM-2 buzz thunder to all the nooks and crannies of the album and do it violent justice. The burly riffage is always good and sometimes great, while the solo work is often impressive. Molite’s death croaks are industry standard but completely effective. He’s more Corpsegrinder than L.G. Petrov this time, but you won’t hear me complaining. I will gripe about the bass work of TJ Coon (Reeking Aura) being all but completely washed away by the overly loud mix, submerged under the drums and vocals. Production missteps aside, these gents know what they’re all about and how to deliver the body bags and bloody rags.Sentient Horror are the picture of a competent hard-working death metal act with all the requisite cargo shorts and beards. On every album, you get a few extra intense blasts from the lungs of Hell and a bunch of enjoyable grave nuggets that fall just shy of playlist-worthy. The same holds true on In Service of the Dead. You’ll never go wrong blasting an album by these New Jersey vandals, that’s for sure. Buy In Service of the Dead with confidence and get laid to waste in the fetid swamps of the Garden State. Rating: 3.0/5.0 DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3 Label: <a href="https://www.redefiningdarkness.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Redefining Darkness</a> Websites: <a href="https://sentienthorror.bandcamp.com/album/in-service-of-the-dead" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">sentienthorror.bandcamp.com</a> |<a href="https://www.facebook.com/sentienthorrorofficial/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">facebook.com/sentienthorrorofficial</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sentienthorrorofficial/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">instagram.com/sentienthorrorofficial</a> Releases Worldwide: October 25th, 2024<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/2024/" target="_blank">#2024</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/30/" target="_blank">#30</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/american-metal/" target="_blank">#AmericanMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/death-metal/" target="_blank">#DeathMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/dismember/" target="_blank">#Dismember</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/entombed/" target="_blank">#Entombed</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/in-service-of-the-dead/" target="_blank">#InServiceOfTheDead</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/oct24/" target="_blank">#Oct24</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/redefining-darkness-records/" target="_blank">#RedefiningDarknessRecords</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/review/" target="_blank">#Review</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/reviews/" target="_blank">#Reviews</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/rites-of-gore/" target="_blank">#RitesOfGore</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/sentient-horror/" target="_blank">#SentientHorror</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/ungodly-forms/" target="_blank">#UngodlyForms</a>

Angry Metal Guy<a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/nails-every-bridge-burning-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Nails – Every Bridge Burning Review</a>By Dolphin WhispererBorn of collusion between the thuggish intensity of powerviolence and sawing groove of Wolverine Blues, Nails has evolved in sprints from wrecking ball riffmongers to a band whose chops aim to prove heavier than their breakdowns. After all, Nails doesn’t have to prove they are your favorite grindcore band—they wouldn’t even claim themselves as such. Always entrenched in the brutish slow slam of hardcore, Nails doesn’t care to always keep it fast or keep it anything “pure” for that matter. Nails does Nails. Every Bridge Burning is not trying to be powerviolence crown jewel. It seeks to prove only that in less than twenty minutes, Nails can destroy you in whatever way Todd Jones and co. see fit.On roster, Nails has changed a good deal in the eight-year bridge between now and <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/nails-will-never-one-us-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">You Will Never Be One of Us</a>. Carlos Cruz (Warbringer, ex-Hexen) now pummels the skins, adding a thrash-laden groove to lengthier breaks (“Bring Me the Painkiller,” “I Can’t Turn It Off”) while still maintaining the blast and d-beat that fuels the fervent punk two-step character of Burning’s tangible angst. Jones himself, while not entirely foreign to the concept of quick solos or leads, finds a comfort in stretching the bounds of that character, lowering the breakdown to screaming string disparity with class. Bringing on Ulthar/Thanatotherion guitarist Shelby Lermo and multi-instrumentalist/<a href="https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Andrew_Solis/510672" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">engineer</a> Andrew Solis (Apparition) on bass too may have helped thicken the filth of HM-2 gain stains and the metal musicality that scatters wild life into the hardcore thread that threatens to unravel in the face of Nails’ boiling-over rage.Though 2010’s Unsilent Death set a modern touchpoint for full-fury powerviolence, Nails never had a strong desire to replicate that album over and over to succeed, which shows in Burning’s continued iterations about the tones that define their sound. Ever increasing the focus on guitar tone and pick attack, the very crackle of each riff that cuts—through double-kick run, over a Bannon (Converge) approximating throat lashing, against a snare tumble that just won’t let up—feels more urgent and defined than any in prior Nails outings. Every Bridge Burning won’t likely win any contest for its dynamic range, but its tonal arrangement allows for the intensity of loudness to carry through, with longer cuts like “Give Me the Painkiller” and “I Can’t Turn It Off” finding breathing room in breaks for screeching solo work and classic metal riffwork. Occasionally, this even means that a dry bass rumble pops through—once a growling feature of the weight of their hardcore shuffle now reduced to a standard supporting partner. But as tracks like “Lacking the Ability to Process Empathy” and “No More Rivers to Cross,” a saw and rabid bark work together plenty fine to crush skulls.Is there a such thing as crushing too much though? Such is the question that every powerviolence-informed assault asks, to which Every Bridge Burning responds by continuing to be the Nails pit thug that Nails always is. It’s crazy to say that an album of this level of snappiness is too long—and really it’s still not—but with the mid-album duo of “Give Me…” and “Lacking..” and the closing pair of “I Can’t…” and “No River…,” many of the supporting floor-churning other pieces don’t measure up in intensity. Opening salvo “Imposing Will” does a good job slathering your ears in its fresh tonal onslaught, hissing away in pressurized feedback. But then, so does “Punishment Map.” And so does “Every Bridge Burning”—albeit with a little more setup. Either way, the penchant to pummel, breakdown, and skreeeee remains ever-present. And though Nails does it well, their success in more diverse channels on this very record has me wondering what more could have been with a few less breakdowns and few more songs highlights.Regardless of whatever familiarity sets in at short moments throughout Every Bridge Burning, Nails consistently delivers the energy to spin kick, throw arms, and mosh about its flaws. With all the finesse of a bulldozer, Nails wears each of their scuttles with a leaking, manic frown and a cab that groans with power. While previous Nails outings may have succeeded through a manic vibe and unstoppable intensity, Every Bridge Burning succeeds by being classically memorable at its best moments. And when it’s not? Well, at least it rips. Rating: 3.5/5.0 DR: 5 | Format Reviewed: 192 kbps mp3 Label: <a href="http://www.nuclearblast.de/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Nuclear Blast Records</a> | <a href="https://nuclearblast.bandcamp.com/music" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a> Websites: <a href="http://nailsmerch.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">nailsmerch.com</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NAILSoxnard/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">facebook.com/nailsoxnard</a> Releases Worldwide: August 30th, 2024<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/2024/" target="_blank">#2024</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/35/" target="_blank">#35</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/american-metal/" target="_blank">#AmericanMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/aug24/" target="_blank">#Aug24</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/crossover-thrash/" target="_blank">#CrossoverThrash</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/entombed/" target="_blank">#Entombed</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/every-bridge-burning/" target="_blank">#EveryBridgeBurning</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/hardcore/" target="_blank">#Hardcore</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/nails/" target="_blank">#Nails</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/nuclear-blast-records/" target="_blank">#NuclearBlastRecords</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/powerviolence/" target="_blank">#Powerviolence</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/review/" target="_blank">#Review</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/reviews/" target="_blank">#Reviews</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/thrash-metal/" target="_blank">#ThrashMetal</a>

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Angry Metal Guy<a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/abysmal-winds-magna-pestilencia-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Abysmal Winds – Magna Pestilencia Review</a>By Mark Z.In the last few years, one of my favorite strains of death metal has been the “dark” variety. It’s not really a subgenre or even a wave, but more of a feeling that certain bands exude. I’m thinking specifically of groups like Cruciamentum, Mortem, Sadistic Intent, Grave Miasma, and other bands of their ilk. These are groups that offer a musty and ominous approach to death metal, groups whose atmosphere makes it feel like no matter how many times you listen to them, there is always something black and slimy lurking undiscovered in some hidden corner of the world they create. Thus, when I saw that Abysmal Winds describe themselves as “dark death metal” and count both Sadistic Intent and Grave Miasma among their influences, I couldn’t wait to check them out. Formed in 2020, this Swedish group brings experience from a whole host of obscure metal bands, with Avsky, Corpsehammer, and Omnizide probably being some of the bigger names. Following their 2022 demo Doom Prayer, the group are now releasing their debut album, Magna Pestilencia.Listening to Magna Pestilencia, it’s obvious that Abysmal Winds have a particular affinity for Grave Miasma. Like that British group, these Swedes use a lot of groaning tremolos that writhe and hum beneath gruff growling vocals and steady driving rhythms. Things never get too aggressive, with the band instead focused on creating malevolent and cavernous compositions that still manage to have discernible riffs. In keeping with their origins, the group also have a distinct Swedish death metal flair, though that influence surprisingly comes from the drums rather than the guitars. Often, these songs are propelled by the same punky Swedeath beats used by Dismember, Entombed, and the millions of Swedeath bands that came after those two. They also throw in the occasional blast beat or slower moment, though things never get particularly fast or doomy.The biggest problem with Magna Pestilencia is that it sticks very rigidly to its formula. Most of these songs simply cruise forward on mid-paced Swedeath beats, and the occasional blast beat or slower moment simply does not offer enough variety to make for a wholly engaging listen. By the album’s second half, I’m practically begging for some sort of crawling doom break, sinister melody, or big crunchy riff that will get my noggin moving. Interestingly, the intro song “Incantation” is actually the most distinct track here, with its basic cavernous melody at least offering something different. Perhaps because of the album’s rigid adherence to its formula, the record also never seems to feel as atmospheric or threatening as the band’s influences.Fortunately, Magna Pestilencia does some things right. The 31-minute runtime keeps the record from overstaying its welcome, and many of these songs still manage to work in some pretty distinct riffs. Early highlight “Obliteration” shows just how effective the band’s formula can be, with its slow and strained chords sure to earn the appreciation of Grave Miasma fans. “Blood Prison” and “A Slumbering God” feature a faster pace, with “Blood Prison” especially standing out due to its winding main tremolo riff. The closing title track also ends the record well with its particularly harrowing riffs, as if you’ve finally reached the lowest point of some deadly cavern. Finally, the production works well, with splashy cymbals and a smooth sound that still manages to have a raw edge.When I submitted my application to write here over a decade ago (!!!), the review I included as part of my application package was for Nunslaughter’s Angelic Dread, which I gave a 2.5/5.0. Today, I love that fucking record and would easily score it a point higher. I hope Magna Pestilencia enjoys the same fate. Even though I can’t heartily recommend this album to anyone who isn’t already a huge fan of the style, there’s something genuine about it that keeps me wanting to come back. While the score below reflects how I feel about it today, I have a nagging feeling that this could be the type of album that insidiously grows on you for years to come. If nothing else, it still leaves me very curious to hear what Abysmal Winds will give us next. 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