Forest Dweller is creepy and rotten noise which has a black metal feel to it. Well, take a look at that pic and you have to say that the guy at least digs his black metal. I guess you could call it black noise, but to me its more like noise with a black metal aesthetic apart from the last two tracks where some vocals and an actual riff are introduced. Real evil.
Raw anti-cosmic black metal from France. What the shit is anti-cosmic?! I'm not too sure, I think it is some form of satanism, but anyway this sounds pretty awesome so fuck the cosmos.
New Clair Cassis EP, featuring members of Velvet Cacoon. I thought they had broken up but apparently not.
One of my most anticipated releases of the year. Here is some Death in June influenced neo-folk from New York City (of all places). I've loved everything they have released up until now but this is even better and a very early contenteder for album of the year for me, even after just one listen. An amazing masterpiece and I can't recommend it highly enough.
Thirteen Bats (now known as Bat Nouveau which is a better name imo) are a deathrock/gothic rock band from Brisbane, Australia. Everything that is great about gothic music can be heard here - the melodrama as well as the dark and brooding sound. The band takes influence from (obviously) Christian Death and post-punk like Joy Division.
When the band's name is Goatfago, do I really need to write a description?! Anyway, its members of Sadomator/Sadogoat. This demo is sold out but you can grab their second demo which is a split tape with Baphomation over at Siver Key Records.
Black Vomit are a truly bizarre beast, mixing a buckletload of completely different styles to form a fucked up and weird listening experience. I can't really describe whats going on with them, they are a total clusterfuck of noise and insanity - theres blastbeats, fuzzy black metal, electronics, sound effects...you just have to hear this one for yourself. Really one of the strangest sounds I've ever heard.
One-man complete noisy Japanese punk rip-off from the US. There is constant fuzz on every song on and they even cover GAI and Confuse.
Man, I fucking love Codeine (the band) and I instantly loved Bluetile Lounge for the same reasons that I love Codeine. This is music for sitting in your room and crying because all you have in your pathetic life is listening to music, watching porn, masturbating and writing on a stupid fucking blog about how Codeine is the greatest band ever. Ummmm. Anyway, Bluetile Lounge were a 90s slowcore band (how'd you guess?) from Perth, Australia. I never thought a good slowcore band would have come from my home country but this excellent, obscure little gem has thankfully proven me wrong.
I don't care what you say, Moonsorrow own and are one of the few bands I like within the generally shitty and cheesy folk metal/viking metal genre. Here you've got more of the same 10+ minute epics, full of fist (or sword if you've got one) raising power. Nowhere near as good as their masterpiece Verisäkeet, but still great. Onwards to Vahalla brothers.
Heavy as fuck riffs - check. Evil, piercing and raspy vocals - check. Lovecraft inspired lyrics - check. Incredible sludgy goodness from Canada. This is such wonderfully crafted album, you can hear acoustic interludes that are interspersed beautifully with desperate, gut-wrenching screams that then flow into heavy, riff-oriented sludge with hints of black metal (both in asethetic and sound). The last track in particular is a stand-out, fucking epic. For fans of Cough's first album and Thou.
Aggressive, scathing black metal from France. Nice old school sound somewhat similar to (black metal) Darkthrone and early Satyricon. One for the fans of the glory days of black metal!
Heres another underrated gem of a demo released on Wild Rags in 1991. Excellent dirty death metal in a similar style to Repulsion!
Lovac is a Swedish band playing industrial tinged neo-folk. That description probably doesn't do them justice though, as there are so many different sounds and influences going on to make it nice and interesting. Apes of a Cold God is Lovac's debut release, although they have released music under the Down in June label, where they played Death in June covers. Highly recommended!
4 untitled tracks from an untitled and unknown band. I believe the people behind it want to remain anonymous because they want the music to speak above mentions of who/ex-members of whatever band is in them and all that kind of shit, which I really like. As it says on their last.fm page regarding the Rhinocervs label: 'The label prioritizes art over artist - not the cult of personality attached". This is the first Untitled tape released, there is also another which is also quite good.
Absolutely deranged & heavy as shit japanese sludge in the vein of the masters Corrupted (with some black metal thrown in for good measure). Turn it up loud.
Seems as though most of the music I post on here is Japanese - well there is a reason for that and thats because its all good. This is no exception of course, very well executed crust punk which reminds me a lot of Pisschrist.
Katy Goodman from Vivian Girls solo project. Fuzzy, 50s/60s sounding summery tunes. Full-length coming sometime this year on Hardly Art records. It sounds pretty nice so if you are interested I'm sure you will enjoy.
Whats this? Well, its a very cool little thrashy Japanese hardcore demo just released a couple of months back. Band name and music is totally awesome. Fun and energetic enough to get a mosh/circle pit started in your bedroom or living room, so do it.
Not an album this time, just a single track but its a good one. Some dark death metal for ya right here, this track slays and the EP is one of my most anticipated releases at the moment. Featuring a member from the ungodly Wormphlegm, who create a similar cavernous atmosphere through crushingly heavy funeral doom, Corpsessed definitely take their cues from the Incantation, Immolation and early Swedish cult school of death metal. There are some different tracks on their myspace which are also very impressive. One to look out for.
Arrgh alright!! This is still one of the best metal demos ever recorded! Sickening raw death metal that is still unctouchable to this day. To me, Morbid were and always will be better than Mayhem, and its sad that a lot of people just see this as a pre-Mayhem kind of band because tbh they fucking own Mayhem. Hopefully you all got the recent 12" together with the Slayer #20 (yes the infamous Slayer magazine of the 90s underground extreme metal scene!) put out by NWN - brilliant stuff.
Hospital Productions compilation featuring Alberich, Bus De La Lum, Contrepoison, FFH, Kama Rupa, Lussuria, Prurient and Vatican Shadow.
Listening to Devil Doll is like watching an old silent horror movie. It evokes the exact same feeling and is some of the most cinematic music I've ever heard. Devil Doll could be loosely labelled as prog rock, but in my opinion Mr. Doctor (the brilliant mind behind this project) is an artist that defies genres and labels. The Girl Who Was...Death is a masterpiece, as is his other works. This rip is split up into 8 tracks, which I like better. Most that you find around will just have the 1 long track.
The new Chaos Destroy EP. Really amateur and sloppy, and I wonder if the band were all blind drunk when they recorded it. Also, Music not Music as posted last year.
80s hardcore punk from Michigan. Damn. This is a real forgotten classic. If you're into 80s hc punk then grab this right now!
Amazing norwegian old school death metal which has the spirit of all of the great bands from the 90s. I can hear influences from several different bands within the genre too - there are doomy sections, gruesome vocals and some really badass shredding. No doubt one of the best death metal albums of the past few years! Awesome live band too!
