Godiva is really good, enjoying it so far. Not sure why bands put their digital release so expensive on bandcamp, I know 12 euro isnt a huge amount of money but surely something like 5 euro would get them far more exposure.

On the fence with Calderum, its quite good but there is so many one man raw bm projects out at the moment that mix dungeon synth that its hard to tell them apart. Will relisten though

They may want to make a living.

Yeah this Turbid North album is definitely not limited to death/groove, I'm very much enjoying it

^ Yeah, really liking this Turbid North as well. The short burst of grind and groove are fun.



Aye, but the CD is the same price, usually bands offer the digital for cheaper. i would imagine having 1000 people buying something at 5 euro generates far better exposure than 200 people at 12 euro. Whatever, I like what I hear and it would be a shame for some of this stuff not to get exposure.

Klone - Meanwhile



French progressive band Klone is back with their 7:th album. I just ... like it. Great, fitting production, well written songs and good musicianship.

Happy In Flames day I guess

Another week, another list of my "worthwhile" picks
- from Feb 10th:

Atomwinter - Sakrileg
- straight forward death metal with slightly over-the-top demon vocals that got my attention, solid stuff

Cadaver Shrine - Benighted Desecration
- doom/death - muddy mid-tempo groove evoking visions of crypts and with an undead corpse on vocals

Carnosus - Visions of Infinihility
- great death metal, great riffs, cool vocal styles

Delain - Dark Waters
- Lighter Symphonic metal, great for contrast to heavy stuff this week

Deviser - Evil Summons Evil
- Vicious sounding Greek/melodic black metal

Oak - Disintegrate
- Nice death/doom - WARNING -1 long song, but good

Terrestial Hospice - Caviary to the General
- Raw-ish black metal with good drive

Veilcaste - Precipice
- Nice/interesting sludge/doom album

Villainous Temple - Fill Creation With Abuse
- brutal blackened death metal/avant-garde style riffs, like a black/death band with Blut Aus Nord influence

New Frozen Dawn album is solid 90s Swedish meloblack worship. If you're a fan of any of those bands, especially Necrophobic, check this one out.

Loving that Frozen Dawn (I'm a sucker for Necrophobic, so...). Also Häxanu is a major highlight for me so far, as are these two:

Nameless Mist 'Lifeless' (atmospheric but vicious black metal)

https://namelessmist.bandcamp.com/album/lifeless

Moonthoth 'Uroczysko' (Polish BM, you can't go wrong)

https://moonthoth.bandcamp.com/album/uroczysko

Ciemra sounds like a strong contender for best black metal album this year.

Be aware that this usually goes in a different thread. Not out for more than ten days.

The new Carnosus could be an AOTY contender.

The album is available for purchase and download on BC. I'd say it's fair game to post the album in this thread.

Dissonant/Avant-garde black/death metal from one of the ex-members of Serpent Column. Very hectic stuff, all over the place but not in a bad way.

Ex-members of Serpent Column? Say no more.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I've never heard of this band before but I really enjoy it.

Posted in the Band Queue Gems thread, but Freeroad is some cool NWOBHM-style early metal

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Fr ... 3540519390

https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcam ... t-you-feel

Listening to the new Ulthar, haven't gotten to Helionomicon yet but so far Anthronomicon absolutely rips. Kinda sits somewhere in between weird Demilichian groove and the blackened progressive stylings of StarGazer. Good shit indeed, probably the best death metal release of the year so far.

Yeah that Ulthar rules. Tomorrow is so stacked with Ulthar, Tithe, Siege of Power, Hellripper

The sister album Helionomicon is also very worthwhile as well.

Both Ulthar albums are great, what a combo.

Fucking HELLRIPPER!
I always thought this was a great Toxic Holocaust-styled project, but with this one he has totally outdone himself and made it entirely his own thing (mind you, he was already well on his way with 'The affair of the poisons'). Those leads! There are even blastbeats on this thing. AOTY coming up!


https://peaceville.bandcamp.com/album/w ... hered-hags

Haven't even got round to Ulthar or Siege of Power yet, what a great day

It's Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs day

Yeah crazy release day. Enjoying my first spin of the new Hellripper.

From the guy behind Serpent column, for me it's excellent, just twisty riffs non-stop and perfect lenght

On my first pass on the Hellripper album, and it's much better than the last one, to me. Seems way more technical and just sharper all around.

The new Hellripper is everything that the past couple of Midnights should have been. James is actually expanding the style and taking it new places while staying true to the core style, while Jamie just keeps rewriting the same few Venom and Bathory songs to diminishing returns.

Yeah, this Hellripper album sounds much closer to Kvaen than Midnight.

I really the new Hellripper too but man..... fucking $17 for a digital version on bandcamp? Yeah, I ain't doing that.

The two Ulthar albums are phenomenal. Listened to both of them back to back.

Usually not totally my cup of tea, but In Dornen's "Trauer" got me moving. Excellent black metal of the more depressive kind, with great spoken word/speech samples on top:



https://runningwildproductions.bandcamp.com/album/trauer

Glad to say I got to work with Austrian projects such as his this year.

yeah Ulthar and Hellripper are for sure standouts from last week. Not feeling the new Siege of Power that much, and I still need to get to Tithe.

Hard agree on the Ulthar album(s). They are just *chefs kiss*.

The new Tulus album came out last week, solid midpaced black'n'roll as usual from them.

Don't think anyone's mentioned the debut full length from Street Tombs yet, but this is some good, punkish death metal from New Mexico. It kind of reminds me of Superstition who are also from the same city, but with less of that bestial South American influence.

Fredlös – Fredlös



Fredlös play a mix of black/doom/folk and features Alex Hellid from Entombed. It really is a mixed bag. A lot of the songs are great ... until they aren't. This album could really benefit from a bit of editing. The songs keep dragging too much and more than once you get the feeling that you wish that the song would end. But, with that said it is a good album and well worth a listen.

Loving the bass on that new Tulus. Atomwinter, Terrestrial Hospice and Daeva also rule. Great year so far!

Hellripper was pretty fucking good - sort of Deceased-ish.

Playing Ulthar and it's also impressive... math-y and technical but really intense for that.

edit... Pigs is super fucking good. Surprised I never tried em. Massive.

Finally getting to the new Tithe, good stuff