Unsigned and Unholy: The Joseph Parry Project, Night Bitch, Winterblind

Joseph Parry of The Joseph Parry Project was first featured in Unsigned and Unholy back in 2011 with his band Karhu. TJPP finds him playing every single instrument (including vocals), and while I’m not exactly sure how to describe the music — it’s a melange of different styles from across the metal spectrum — I can tell you that it’s really fucking good. New album Genericist is anything but generic, so check it out below via Bandcamp.

Tons of bands walk the traditional stoner metal line, so what is it about Night Bitch that attracts me? Simply put, they just do it really, really well. The riffs are meaty, the vocals are gruff, the keyboards lend an occult feel to it all and the imagery… the band name, and that album cover! It’s perfect. But first and foremost: the songs. They’re memorable, a quality that’s so hard to come by these days. Here’s their self-titled 10″, out earlier this year:

Winterblind mish-mash myriad metal genres and a decidedly experimental — even jazzy — bent into something truly unique and bizarre on their latest effort Ya Mashina. Progressive black metal? Something like that, perhaps, except that Winterblind are a far cry from other bands with that label such as Keep of Kalessin; they’re far more outside the box. So just press play and let your ears decide.