Sh*t That Comes Out Today – October 13, 2023
What’s on your to do list this weekend? Well, aside from listening to this week’s new releases? I’m going to spend the next couple days trying to figure out how I can monetize millennial nostalgia like the Sick New World organizers. There’s gold in them hills!
Årabrot
Of Darkness And Light (Pelagic Records)
This Norwegian band’s sound may have evolved from the noise rock they were known for in the past, but Årabrot’s 10th studio album Of Darkness And Light offers something more melodic and riff driven. With singles like the oddly infectious “We Want Blood” to the Sebastian Bach rejected “You Cast Long Shadows” (yeah, apparently Kjetil Nernes was asked to write a song for the ex-Skid Row frontman), Of Darkness And Light could be one of the more sonically different releases out this week.
Body Void
Atrocity Machine (Prosthetic Records)
Feel like you’re suffocating under the weight of a late stage capitalistic hellhole and you’re looking for some equally dark, heavy, and languid music to match your blackened soul? Then Body Void’s fourth studio album Atrocity Machine is just right for you. As the follow up to their 2021 release Bury Me Beneath This Rotting Earth, this one’s just as aurally grotesque as some of the deepest and darkest doom bands out there. Come for the industrial sludge/doom tunes and stay for the oppression-borne existential dread.
Crosses (†††)
Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete. (Warner Music)
It’s been almost a decade since Crosses (†††) put out their debut self-titled album, so to call today’s release of the band’s sophomore effort Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete. highly anticipated by fans could be an understatement, to say the least. As with anything involving Deftones’ Chino Moreno and musician/producer Shaun Lopez in the same room, the album’s an ambitious effort that might need multiple listens to really get everything that’s so densely packed within it.
Krieg
Ruiner (Profound Lore)
Philly-based black metal outfit Krieg haven’t released a new album in nearly a decade, but Ruiner is just as unrepentant and uncompromising as their previous works. Mandy Scythe reviewed this one for us and gave it a solid score, stating that it “lives up to the hype.” If you’re looking for some good ass American black metal, you can’t do better than this one.
Mondo Generator
We Stand Against You (Heavy Psych Sounds)
By the seventh album, many bands have fallen in the trap of slowing things down and easing up on the gas, releasing music that finally capitulates to time and changing values. That’s absolutely not the case with Mondo Generator, which is comprised of Nick Oliveri (ex-Kyuss and Queens Of The Stone Age), Mike Pygmie (John Garcia, You Know Who) and Mike Amster (Nebula). From start to finish, We Stand Against You is a punk-charged middle finger that’s happiest when it’s setting fire to your car and smashing your belongings.
Other Shit That Comes Out Today:
A Mourning Star, A Reminder Of The Wound Unhealed (DAZE) Listen
Beartooth, The Surface (Red Bull Records) Listen
Creeper, Sanguivore (Spinefarm) Listen
False Fed, Let Them Eat Fake (Neurot Recordings) Listen
Laster, Andermans Mijne (Prophecy Productions) Listen
On Thorns I Lay, On Thorns I Lay (Season Of Mist) Listen
Oni, The Silver Line (Ironshore Records) Listen
State of Deceit, Stalked By Daemons (Eclipse Records) Listen
Ronnie Atkins, Trinity (Frontiers) Listen
Suicide Puppets, Beyond the Veil (Independent) Listen
Varg, Ewige Wacht (Napalm) Listen
Venera, Venera (Ipecac Recordings) Listen
The Vintage Caravan, The Monuments Tour (Napalm) Listen
