This Week In Metal, 2024 Week 33

Our This Week in Metal post collects our thoughts on music released in or around this week in the music world. We cover mostly metal, but we consider other genres to allow our writers poseur flexibility. Follow us on Instagram too!

Cosmo's Chaotic Curveball

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Mayhemic - Toba Sepulchral Voice Records ~ Blackened Thrash Metal

In yet another tale of a metal subgenre rapidly stagnating, blackened thrash finds itself needing revitalizing. But where there's a riff, there's a way.

Anti-Peat's Perplexing Position

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Vanessa Funke - Void Independent ~ Atmoblack

Funke writes and writes. It almost makes the album name Void quite ironic as that's the opposite of her discography. However, it is an apt fit for the melancholic tone she often adopts for her work. Last time around I wanted more of that bleak, sad goodness in Funke's work. Will she fill that Void?

Scuttlegoat's Curmudgeonly Critique

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Monument of Misanthropy - Vile Postmortem Irrumatio Transcending Obscurity Records ~ Brutal Death Metal

I don't know where my fascination with serial killer themed metal comes from. Sure, I had a phase where I was reading up on them obsessively as a teen, before serial killers became an interest of primarily middle aged moms and I became ashamed admitting it. Join Scuttlegoat as he reignites his titillation for Monument of Middle Aged Mom's!

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