Shit That Comes Out Today: August 19, 2016
Hello MetalSucks reader! Welcome to Shit 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!
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Blood Incantation
Starspawn (Dark Descent)
On a playlist with: Horrendous, Gorguts, Vanhelgd
Listen Starspawn full stream (here)
Death metal grown in raw soil: Blood Incantation’s echoes charge through thick mixtures of double-bass and death growls, and the songwriting fails to recede. Starspawn is a return to the principals of death metal, re-modernized. It’s a field of depth charges versus an all-out rocket assault, though just at the right moment, all guns go forward. Slight blackened influences make sure everyone finds their favorite part!
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Spire
Entropy (Iron Bonehead)
On a playlist with: Yodh, Passage d’Hiver, Midnight Odyssey
Listen “Ends” (here)
A towering-above feeling powers Entropy, and synth never goddamn hurt anyone. Cosmic themes underlie quickened swatches of blastbeats; hell and such overtake on the doom interludes. Spire succeeds in tone-setting, and generating the out-of-body feeling some of us seek after a long day of bullshit at the office/whatever. Entropy may be a passé name for an album, but in great form the music speaks otherwise.
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Bewitcher
Bewitcher (Divebomb)
On a playlist with: Hellripper, Terrorhammer
Listen “Sin Is In Her Blood” (here)
Fuck yes. Give yourself to be carried away by Bewitcher. Speed, speed, speed! Blackened speed, that is. If you want evil + lighter-waving goodness, Bewitcher delivers. No doomy undertones here; shredding reigns forever. It’s racing angrily at 165 m.p.h. in a Lamborghini versus, say, pummeling walls with a Panzer. Impressive for a debut album, which offers much promise for bombastic follow-ups.
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Marsh Dweller
The Weight Of Sunlight (Eihwaz)
On a playlist with: Panopticon, Sojourner, Waldgeflüster
Listen The Weight Of Sunlight full stream (here)
One-man band Marsh Dweller writes classic, rounded-edge black metal. The Weight Of Sunlight (any scientists want to weigh in on how much sunlight actually weighs?) is occluded and soft, but brought to light thru heavy melody and up-tick riffing. It also sounds dynamic, as if many creative inputs were at work — something difficult to achieve for just one person. All hail!
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Hellbringer
Awakened From The Abyss (High Roller)
On a playlist with: Slayer, Sodom, Blaakyum
Listen “Awakened From The Abyss” (here)
Fans of old Slayer, not new Slayer of course, will discover great things in Awakened From The Abyss, namely: kill-you riffs, burst vocals, and punk-influenced drumming. There are even mad-as-fuck guitar solos! Hellbringer is not a rip, though. There’s bespoke content and context within the speed, not just speed for the sake of speed; that is to say, just playing fast won’t win you awards, nor will recycling ideas, but raw playing w/ guts will.
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J.B.O.
11 (AFM)
On a playlist with: technical interviews, confinement, Stockholm syndrome
Listen “Panzer Dance” (here)
If you woke up today craving sing-songy German pseudo-metal, then you’re in luck. You also get a puppet show. There’s no rhyme or reason or sanity, it’s absurdity; the absurd becomes (sur)reality, and soon you’re singing along in a language you can’t speak to a song that makes you consider suicide.
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OTHER SHIT THAT COMES OUT TODAY
Abigail The Final Damnation (Nuclear War Now!) listen
The Apex Underbelly EP listen
Asenblut Berserker (AFM) listen
Bad Omens Bad Omens (Sumerian) listen listen listen
Beelzefuzz The Righteous Bloom (Restricted Release) listen
Coheed And Cambria The Color Before The Sun (Deconstructed) deluxe (300 Entertainment) listen
The Color Morale Desolate Divine (Fearless) listen
Crematory Stench Crematory Stench EP (FDA Rekotz) listen
Daniel Lioneye Vol III (The End) listen
Darkher Realms (Prophecy) listen
A Day To Remember Bad Vibrations (ADTR/Epitaph) listen Sept 2
Death Courier Demise reissue (Nuclear War Now!) listen
Death Courier EP and Demo collection reissue (Nuclear War Now!) listen
Demoncy Faustian Dawn reissue CD (Nuclear War Now!) listen
Demonomancy/Witchcraft Archaic Remnants Of The Numinous/At The Diabolus Hour split EP (Nuclear War Now) listen
Destroying The Devoid Paramnesia (Unique Leader) listen
Dreamwaves Elements EP (Infectious Sounds) listen
Faith No More We Care A Lot reissue (Koolarrow) listen
Feral Light A Sound Of Moving Shields EP (Sentient Ruin) listen
Flaw Divided We Fall (Pavement) listen
Gemini Syndrome Memento Mori (Another Century) listen
Aaron Gillespie (Underoath) Out Of The Badlands (Tooth and Nail) listen
The Great Sabatini / Godstopper split EP (No List) listen
Killatrix KLTRX listen
Letzte Instanz Liebe im Krieg (AFM) listen
Meshiaak Alliance Of Thieves (Mascot)listen listen listen
Mindscar What’s Beyond The Light listen
Myrkur Mausoleum EP (Relapse) listen listen listen
On Broken Wings Disintegrator (Artery) listen
One Less Reason The Memories Uninvited (Tattooed Millionaire) listen
Powerwolf The Metal Mass: Live DVD (Napalm) trailer
Sabaton The Last Stand (Nuclear Blast) listen listen
Servers Everything Is OK (Undergroove) listen
Shadow Witch Sun Killer (Snake Charmer) listen
Skeletonwitch Apothic Gloom EP (Prosthetic) listen
Smash Your Enemies Life Sentence (Eulogy) listen
Soilwork Death Resonance collection (Nuclear Blast) listen listen
Stilla Skuggflock (Bindrune) listen
TMHM Stage Names listen
Twilight Fauna Fire Of The Spirit (Ravenwood/Fragile Branch) listen
Warpvomit Barbaric Triumph Of Evil (Iron Bonehead) listen
