(((O))) Category: Reviews
Without a doubt you’ll struggle to find an album this year as ferociously energetic as this one.
The brevity of the music on ‘Neu’ might lie in the fact that it was first conceived for the stage. Escamilla then revisited and reshaped these four compositions as an independent body of work.
Total allows its stunning musical beauty and breadth to creep into your soul very quickly.
Riverside’s new album brings everything to the forefront. It’s a roller-coaster ride that is all down to the bone, and adding that extra spice by making it delicious and having your bellies full for a wonderful home-cooked meal that the band have unleashed with ID.Entity.
Void of Light has built on its debut release with two excellent post-metal tracks featuring some of their best work yet.
This record is the ward confined, bed bound, astral projecting, clinically and criminally deranged relation to ‘Anthronomicon’.
It’s no exaggeration to make the case that Ulthar are one of the bands at the very forefront of the ongoing glorious reawakening of death metal.
It all actually sounds quite minimalistic and complex at the same time resulting in a quite immersive musical experience.
Wallsend Weekend Television is like a breath of fresh air, proving that McConnell can bring in more amazing ideas with mind-blowing results. And we get to tag along to be a part of that journey that awaits us.
If you’re after some supreme underground extreme metal, unrelenting in focus and pace, then you need to get Tithe on your radar and Inverse Rapture assaulting your ears.
This is one of the most staggering releases for Bainbridge by unleashing his true powers that is out of this world!
Death Pill are a hardcore punk trio that have likely never acknowledge, maybe not even have heard of the term ‘frills’ when it comes to heavy music.
At its best, Sincere Insanity sews disparate sounds into a circle, bringing the listener back to themselves, as if to say — either about Often the Thinker or about any of us — “I contain multitudes”.
A record that leaves the listener exhausted, scared, but most of all enthralled by the sheer malevolence displayed.
They now come thundering out of the speakers, brutal and precise in landing every blow.
Stewart creates the resonance he speaks about through a very delicate balance between acoustic and electronic instruments and the varying tempos he uses throughout.
Privation marks another bold step forward as Fange continues to fearlessly experiment.
This is a great record if you like your death metal progressive, cosmic and idiosyncratic but also, belligerent and pulverising.
You can give this album’s ambient concept any other tag you want, post-jazz or post-anything, Lionmilk does it all justice here.
To fly through post-hardcore, screamo, mathy sections, even near d-beat in 11 tracks and 29 minutes whilst still encouraging multiple listens without being overwhelming is a great achievement.