Weekly Digest August 16-22
Today our treasures are 3 bangers from Sodom, a new, ambiguous as always, Deafheaven LP, atmospheric Wolves In The Throne Room, a sequel to the album "Colors" by prog-metallers Between The Buried And Me, as well as garage punk, blackened metal punk, sXe hardcore, stoned death metal and trad doom in our Weekly Digest.
Bambies — Summer Soon
Bambies is a trio hailing from Montreal, Quebec in Canada. They are a trilingual, tri-national (Canada, France, Costa Rica) band of miscreants that has been crafting a flavored punk rock with a straight out of the garage rawness. Their music is gritty yet poppy, mischievous but charming, infectious, danceable, and above all, fun. The alchemy behind Bambies’ sound starts with a basic inspiration by 70s punk and ramones-core, thrown in a good dose of power-pop, liberally seasoned with handfuls of garage rock, sprinkled with rock’n’roll guitar licks and finally top off with a swirl of surf music.
Between The Buried And Me — Colors II
In 2007, the prog-metal band Between The Buried And Me released a 65-minute opus "Colors", which, although consisting of 8 songs, sounded like one very elaborated story. The album received a lot of positive reviews and became the important album for the whole genre. 14 years and 5 full-lengths later, Between The Buried And Me release the sequel. The frontman Tommy Giles Rogers Jr. commented: "Musically, it flows like a sequel to Colors, but it wasn’t just another version of that album. On the original, I was analyzing myself and analyzing humanity. With last year, I was in a perfect position to do that. I wrote lyrics in the same way, but they felt new. It was more of a real-world concept by virtue of making a continuation. Music’s purpose is to help. That’s a big theme of this album. Once our songs are done, they belong to our listeners. Maybe this will help them move forward creatively or in life."
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Bonehunter — Dark Blood Reincarnation System
Blackened metal punk from Finland, Bonehunter — a power-trio, which began with a straightforward Bathory worship, but was able to find its own sound and, oh boy, they are good! What a high-quality guitar leads they have now. Their album was released on the iconic label Hell’s Headbangers, a perfect label for this kind of music.
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DARE — Against All Ods
I am not sure why, but bands that release their debut album in-your-face straight edge hardcore in 2021 just warm my soul. I had an idea that such subculture was almost completely extinct or reclaimed by radical apolitical-but-not-really "purity fighters," if you know what I mean. But no, these guys from Orange County, that gave us the Uniform Choice, are ready to tour, sporting a skate and a can of paint, leaving the message on the walls that the edge is still straight. And "Different Method" is definitely an anthem!
I refuse to bend
Unlike you suckers that are playing pretend
And those who take offense
Are the same motherfuckers
Thought that this was a trend
Proud to be straight edge
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Dazy — MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD: The First 24 Songs
Dazy (the one-man band of James Goodson, also of Teen Death) has been putting out singles and EPs since 2020, all of which fuse '80s/'90s punk/indie with '60s psych-pop in a way that should appeal to fans of Superdrag, Weezer, Husker Du, and Redd Kross. Now, Dazy is putting out MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD: The First 24 Songs, which compiles all of the music he's released thus far, plus five new songs.
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Deafheaven — Infinite Granite
Deafheaven's new album sounds like The Cure playing shoegaze. Oh, there will be a lot of controversy about whether it is good or bad.
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Sarcoughagus — Delusions of the Sick
Stoned death metal with a perfect pun in the title. Cannabis Corpse has a competitor. And again I want to note the sound of the snare drum.
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Sodom — Bombenhagel
The new EP from the legends of Teutonic thrash metal Sodom means a lot to all fans of metal. With their latest full-length "Genesis XIX", Tom Angelripper and company have proven that it's too early to write them off, and 3 absolute bangers on "Bombenhagel" is another confirmation of that.
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Witchcryer — When Their Gods Come For You
"Their Gods Will Come For You" — is a new conceptual album from Texas, by a classic doom band Witchcryer, featuring songs about gods across various ages of civilization throughout time.
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Wolves In The Throne Room — Primordial Arcana
Wolves In The Throne Room, like Panopticon, is a black metal band that is best to be listened to in nature, when you can dissolve and combine in harmony with the world, feel the greatness of our planet and its priceless treasures. Musically, the album "Primordial Arcana" continues the course that Wolves took on the album "Celestial Lineage", adding a little magic of dungeon synth this time. "Primordial Arcana" is the band's first fully autonomous work: brothers Aaron and Nathan Weaver, along with guitarist Cody Cayworth, worked on all aspects of recording, production and mixing at their own Owl Lodge studio in the woods of Washington. It turned out very well, although the Panopticon album seemed a bit stronger to me… should I listen to this one in nature?
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