Sh*t That Comes Out Today: April 1, 2016
Hello MetalSucks reader! Welcome to Sh*t That Comes Out Today, your Satanic bible of this week’s heavy new releases. We list ‘em, we spotlight ‘em, we link you to their preview jams and full streams — and we usually stick ‘em in a fancy Spotify playlist too (below) — all for your jammage! Now crank this sh*t up.
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The Algorithm
Brute Force (Fixt)
On a playlist with: Perturbator, the tech-death Skrillex
Listen Brute Force full stream (here)
The beef with “heavy” electronic music is that usually it’s not for-real heavy. Or, even metal. The Algorithm writes metal, just with electronic beats ‘n’ sh*t, not the other way around. Anyone familiar with 2012’s Polymorphic Code will now have deduced that the formula is indeed a winner. For reasons esoteric, 2014’s Octopus4 wasn’t as electrifying. Brute Force finds this French producer properly encoding blood and sweat into electrons and memes.
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Entheos
The Infinite Nothing (Artery)
On a playlist with: The Faceless, Archspire, Soreption
Listen “The Infinite Nothing” (here)
Now, good ol’ (actually, new) tech-death without fancy e-beats and womp-womp. Great guitarists are a dime-a-dozen, unfortunately — drummers less so, ditto: vocalists. To do it right, everyone’s gotta be siiick but politely reserved and slightly pretentious. That’s where The Infinite Nothing fits in: it’s crush-this and smash-that, but definitely doesn’t hide the fact that it’s a swoon-y prog album at heart (daw).
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Hyperion
Seraphical Euphony (Black Lion)
On a playlist with: Batushka + The Black Dahlia Murder + Panopticon
Listen Seraphical Euphony full stream (here)
Super-fast classic black metal with true atmosphere — this sounds like it’s been done before! Perhaps it has, yet this fact does not detract from Seraphical Euphony, which is so all-encompassingly fantastic that you may actually experience separation anxiety. Especially for a debut release, it’s brilliant how effortlessly and fluently Hyperion have expressed what can only be described as a boner-inducing amalgam of approximately 4.8 million notes.
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Murdryck
Antologi MMXV (Black Lion)
On a playlist with: see above
Listen Antologi MMXV full stream (here)
Concurrent companion albums are a matter of chance, just like most other things in life. It’s uncanny how deliciously/effortlessly Antologi MMXV melds with Hyperion’s Seraphical Euphony (above). This album: more playful. That album: meaner. This album: more unyielding. That album: more variation. Both albums: f*cking undeniably fantastic, even if black metal isn’t your thing, because now it is.
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Piss Vortex
Future Cancer EP (Indisciplinarian)
On a playlist with: Dendritic Arbor, Yautja, turd tornado
Listen Future Cancer EP full stream (here)
True joy comes from engaging in a serious discussion about a band who’ve named themselves Piss Vortex. Facing your non-metal friends, jury style, you’re tasked with explaining all the intricacies and complexities of this dynamite-fueled sonic brain-flatus. You gotta get complicated ‘n’ sh*t: talking about sui generis meaning, sensationalized deconstructionism, and the subhuman politics of transdimensional warfare, etc. It’s real impressive.
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Godzilla Black
Press The Flesh (Quisling)
On a playlist with: other pointless holidays
Listen “First Class Flesh” (here)
To many: this can only be an April Fool’s Day gag. A simple jest. A fart. Horsefeathers at best. To some, though: glistening brilliance. Q for the latter group: why, and how much of that nondescript glowing fluid did you drink without asking? If there’s truly a “takeaway” here — a freaking life lesson or something — it must involve that royally doped-up kitten. It goes to show that cats can sell, especially when they’ve been forced into bullsh*t they don’t like (e.g. album cover shoots). Will it sell you?
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OTHER SH*T THAT COMES OUT TODAY
Abnormality Mechanisms Of Omniscience (Metal Blade) listen listen
Abstracter / Dark Circles split (Sick Man Getting Sick/Sentient Ruin) listen
Algoma / Chronobot split (Dead Beat) listen
The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand reissue (Roadburn) listen
Babymetal Metal Resistance (RAL/Sony) listen listen review
Barbarian Cult Of The Empty Grave (Hells Headbangers) listen
Bardus Stella Porta (Solar Flare) listen listen
The Bendal Interlude Reign Of The Unblinking Eye (Black Bow) listen
Bossk Audio Noir (Deathwish) listen
Child Bite Negative Noise (Housecore) listen listen listen
The Convalescence Poison Words (eOne) listen
Deathcult Demo ’12 EP (Invictus) listen
Detente Decline reissue (Xtreem) listen
Devour The Day S.O.A.R. (Razor & Tie) listen
Embalmer Emanations From The Crypt (Hells Headbangers) listen
Ensiferum Two Decades Of Greatest Sword Hits collection (Spinefarm) listen
Excruciation Lutheran Psalms EP (Wormholedeath) listen
Explosions In The Sky The Wilderness (Temporary Residence) listen listen
Goetic Equivalent Goetic Equivalent (Ordo MCM) listen
Graves At Sea The Curse That Is (Relapse) listen
Haxen Haxen (Eternal Death) listen
Hot Coffin Hot Coffin (Triple Eye) listen listen
Human Fortress Thieves In The Night (AFM) listen
Ill Omen Ae.Thy.Rift (Nuclear War Now!) listen
Inallsenses Checkmate EP (Club Inferno) listen
In Dying Arms Original Sin (Tragic Hero) listen
Interment Scent Of The Buried (Dark Descent) listen
Irkallian Oracle Apollyon (Nuclear War Now!) listen
Iron Mountain Unum (Prophecy) listen
It Lives, It Breathes Silver Knights (Stay Sick) listen
Khroma Stasis (Inverse) listen
Krigsgrav Waves Of Degradation (Bindrune) listen
Lake Of Violet The Startling Testimony Of Plumb Lines (Gilead Media) listen
Lizzies Good Luck (The Sign) listen
Mamiffer The World Unseen (Sige) listen
Moonsorrow Jumalten Aika (Century Media) listen
Novembre Ursa (Peaceville) listen
Oceans Of Slumber Winter (Century Media) listen listen listen
Oryx / Languish split (Battleground) listen listen
Smile Empty Soul Shapeshifter EP (Pavement) listen
Steel Jungle Soidinmenot (Inverse) listen
Tengger Cavalry Mountain Side EP listen
Three Trapped Tigers Silent Earthling (Superball) listen
Tombs All Empires Fall EP (Relapse) listen listen review
Tusmorke Fort Bak Lyset (Svart) listen
Unru Als Tier Ist Der Mensch Nichts (Sentient Ruin) listen
Victorian Whore Dogs Afternoonified (Hibernacula) listen
