This Week In Metal, 2024 Week 38

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!

Bobo's Brainless Bearing

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Vomitrot – Emetic Imprecations Personal Records ~ Death / Doom Metal

This 6 track primitive death metal is everything a death metal bear could wish for. Filled with prehistoric, down-tuned riffs, bass with a heavy presence and quick decisions from the drummer — Emetic Imprecations never holds back and will mercilessly beat you into submission until you vomit and excrete bodily fluids from every hole.

Scuttlegoat's Curmudgeonly Critique

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Emasculator – The Disfigured and the Divine New Standard Elite ~ Brutal Death Metal

Too often does an "all girl band" make that statement their main marketing gimmick. Labels too then are quick to jump on the train and defeat the emancipatory value that the tag can hold. But Emasculator? They've got a grip on this whole death metal thing. Rock out with your... um... head off?

Anti-Peat's Perplexing Position

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Wraithfyre - Of Fell Peaks and Haunted Chasms Naturmacht Productions ~ Black Metal

One look at the giant purple tower on the cover of Wraithfyre's Of Fell Peaks and Haunted Chasms was enough to let Peat know that this had to be frostbitten 90s melodic black metal and it had to be solid — an icy touch enough to peak your interest too, perhaps.

Cosmo's Chaotic Curveball

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Pyrrhon - Exhaust Willowtip Records ~ Technical Death Metal / Hardcore

"...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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