Weekly Digest 1-7 February
A new EP from Cult Of Luna, Spanish thrashers Angelus Apatrida, the Japanese madness from Sete Star Sept, Type O Negative and black metal from The Ruins Of Beverast, as well as death metal, post-metal, and a charity release to save the frogs and more black metal in our Weekly Digest! Also, Bandcamp gives all money from sales to the artists today, so support the musicians with a coin!
Alkerdeel – Slonk
I am a sucker for this kind of raw sound. Angry, dirty and deep cutting, the album "Slonk" by the Belgians Alkerdeel sounds like a spit in the face. Great black metal with the good flirtation with the slower extreme genres.
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Angelus Apatrida – s/t
The main force of Spanish thrash metal Angelus Apatrida with its seventh full-length, released by Century Media. The album was mastered by Zeuss (responsible for the sound on the albums by Hatebreed, Terror, Madball, Municipal Waste, Agnostic Front, Rise Of The Northstar and many others) and the album sounds just great. Good old thrash to dilute black and death metal in your playlists.
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Cara Neir – Phase Out
Black metal, chiptune, 8bit game soundtrack-ish music and so many more of cool tricks and features which I do not want to spoil, so I will just quote the band "This album, this entity is now highlighted as the grand antagonist phasing us out into fantastical RPG-like depictions of ourselves traversing different songs as game levels for his morbid amusement and us trying to beat them to escape. The listener will experience a range of bits, bleeps, beats, and buzzing sounds you might hear from 90's dungeon crawlers and JRPG's, all sprinkled within our shape-shifting genre-bending hysteria. Enjoy the ride.". Yeah. Enjoy the ride.
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Cult Of Luna – The Raging Rive
A "cult" band with the new EP that makes you feel powerless. But this is what expected from Cult Of Luna.
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Froglord – Save The Frogs
I already told about these frogs and stoner doom enthusiasts last year, and I dig out the concept. This time, the EP will be helpful practically – all proceeds from the release sales will go to the charity organization "Save The Frogs". "The mission of SAVE THE FROGS! is to protect amphibian populations and to promote a society that respects and appreciates nature and wildlife. We work in California, across the USA and around the world to create a better planet for humans and wildlife."
Revulsion – s/t
Finnish death metal as we like. Revulsion band does not just sound oldschool but tries to give a fresh breath to the classic sound with its aggressive, sharp, and vicious form of death metal.
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The Ruins Of Beverast – The Thule Grimories
The German Alexander von Meilenwald has been creating blackened doom or doomed black metal for almost two decades already, perfectly balanced and meditative at the same time, dark, and fascinating. Although the timing of the album is not for the faint of heart (more than an hour in length!), "The Thule Grimories" gains attention so quickly that the time simply disappears. And sometimes there are huge Peter Steele vibes break through!
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Sarin – You Can’t Go Back
Sarin´s music is full of clinging riffs and post-metal / doom psychedelic experiments. But if you compare them with the above-mentioned Cult Of Luna, then Sarin sounds less crushing and full of suffering. Though "You Can't Go Back" is an album to which you want to engage in constructive activities, not just lie down and die. Nice melodies and good sound.
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Sete Star Sept – Bird
If you visited the Ukrainian concerts of this nutscore / noisecore / grindcore duo from Japan in summer of 2018 or elsewhere in the world, then you know how crazy their music is. The new release does not disappoint, too. No nonsense, only madness.
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