Music for staring balefully at deserts is music for staring balefully at deserts, wherever you are. Yet those Middle Eastern accents are prominent, and so too is a certain stoner drone doom vibe. Wyatt E are wearing a lot of hats here. And it’s glorious.
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Uulliata Digir – Uulliata Digir Review
I checked out Uulliata Digir on a whim, one cold Monday evening while half asleep from work. Little of what I was hearing was taken in because of this, but the vocals pierced through the tired mist of my blue-collar existence. Suddenly, Croque woke up.
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Besna – Krásno
Besna are one of the bands that don’t need a pair of Slovakia-issued rose-tinted glasses to enjoy. Their latest album, Krásno, combines post-metal with a very interesting form of progressive metal. And it’s all interspersed with excellent lyrics that are an unobtrusive but very clear testimony to today’s rotting society. Together we rot!
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Stenched – Purulence Gushing from the Coffin Review
From groovy rhythms to never-ending joy in the darkest riffs, Purulence Gushing from the Coffin feels like a celebration of death metal’s rotten core. The pacing of the tracks ensures no moment overstays its welcome, a rare achievement in this style. Praise gushing from the death metal loving bear.
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Moss Upon the Skull – Quest for the Secret Fire Review
Psychedelic death metal, to put it bluntly, lacks a strong definition. Often the genre is aesthetically dependent or rooted in how many Gilmourisms the guitarist deploys per solo. No matter how wet the reverb, nor how boomer the bends, these two approaches miss the fundamental underpinning of psychedelic music. But what if the riffs were really, really dank?
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Opeth – The Last Will and Testament Review
Make Åkerfeldt growl again” (#MÅGA). This is the premise on which The Goat Review makes its firmest political stance.
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Gigan – Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus Review
Gigan have crafted one hell of a technical death metal album, with an extra emphasis on technical riff craft and song composition, rather than a flurry of notes flung the listener’s way in a masturbatory ode to self-excess. More brain, less bludgeon.
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Whores. – War. Review
Maybe you’re back at work with dredging feelings of longing for the weekend, yet again. Do not despair! Whores. latest album War. will make you feel like you’re stumbling out of a bar. Leave the Monday blues behind!
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Pyrrhon – Exhaust Review
“…Fuck man, I just wanna go home” vocalist Doug Moore lambasts on “The Greatest City on Earth.” Thematically, Exhaust channels the most pissed-off version of Pyrrhon into a thirty-eight minute record, a record made by people broken down by the ever-growing financial strains of living in their home of New York City. What’s the deal with inflation anyway?
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Crypts of the Unknown: Incubator – McGillroy the Housefly
