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!
Anti-Peat's Perplexing Position
One of the best trends in metal right now is the recent spate of black-trad hybrids. It's a welcome revival of a combination with a long history that makes a ton of sense as their shared love of drama goes together like blood and ice. Ereb Altor know what I'm talking about — they take their sanguine cocktails on the rocks just like Anti-Peat.
Bobo's Brainless Bearing
Metal bands often aim to be mysterious and ambivalent. They feature cover art that is truly great, with hidden meanings, and band names that make you wonder how they came up with such clever names and what they really mean. Today, however, I am going to write about Pissgrave — the exact opposite of what I just described. Their band name and album art advertise exactly what you're going to get: death.
Metalligator's Chomping Commentary
If that amazing album cover doesn't freak you out then I don't know what to tell you. I always find it amazing when visual art and the theme of an album gel together well, and so I was hoping that Sleep Paralysis would be a powerful statement on its theme, matching that image. A bird in the hand is better than two in the forest. Spiders tho...?
