Sh*t That Comes Out Today: May 19, 2015
Hi MetalSucks reader! Welcome to another really special 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 now, we stick ‘em in a fancy Spotify playlist too (below) — all for your jammage! Now crank this shit up!
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George Kollias
Invictus (Season Of Mist)
On a playlist with: Nile, Behemoth, Septicflesh
Listen “Shall Rise/Shall Be Dead” (here) Invictus full stream (here)
Normally, the solo albums from already-famed musicians suffer from wankery and pretense. We know Jeff Loomis is an exception — now we can add George Kollias to that reigning class of individuals! He’s the drum-beast from Nile, and he goddamn knows how to write death metal. Bonus feature: the excellent drum track is volumed just above normal in the production (no surprise).
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Eschaton
Sentinel Apocalypse (Unique Leader)
On a playlist with: Archspire, Rings Of Saturn, Divine Heresy
Listen “Falsified Existence” (here) “Immortal Mutilation” (here)
Guitar lubbers out there could love Sentinel Apocalypse. It’s razor sharp technical death metal with tons of howling riffs, drum blasts, wicked complicated bass lines and etc. Despite this, it does lack the togetherness and tenacity of its playlist buddies. Cheap thrills!
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Valve
Apnee (Wooaaargh)
On a playlist with: Plebeian Grandstand, As We Draw
Listen Apnee full stream (here)
An album can be “thrown together” but still wonderful, kind of like a still kinda-good stew which has your whole cupboard + half your fridge tossed into it (guilty). Anyway, Apnee is messy, but in the French sorta way — it all coalesces, but only near the end after you’ve been seated nicely into the chaos and discordance!
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Venomous Maximus
Firewalker (Shadow Kingdom)
On a playlist with: Quentin Tarantino, David Bowie, Zakk Wylde, Jesu
Listen “Through The Black” (here)
It’ll be surprise if Tarantino doesn’t use Firewalker to build the soundtrack for his next film! Okay, he probably won’t — but songs like “Through The Black” are that special odd combination of serious and silly (read: camp). As a result, they rock almost like a super-metal David Bowie, just less self-aware.
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King Parrot
Dead Set (Housecore)
On a playlist with: Pig Destroyer, Weedeater, Ne Obliviscaris
Listen Dead Set full stream (here)
Read Emperor Rhombus MetalSucks review (here)
The death metal album of the week — and one of the best this year. If you find the framework and musicianship too stilted, you should be saved by the all-star vocal performance. Or the fact that each song has its own special hook, no bled-together feel some other albums suffer from.
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Secrets Of The Sky
Pathway (Metal Blade)
On a playlist with: Lycus, Kauan + Tombs
Listen Pathway full stream (here)
Pathway is a ferociously progressive doom album, and I expect it to draw some flak for its spacey atmosphere and big, dramatic sweeps. But only those with the most shrewd and shriveled faces can resist it’s bewildering size and brilliant density. Pathway is a big, big leap into dangerous territory, but it lands like a perfectly fuckin’ toned gymnast, or Neil Armstrong!
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OTHER SHIT THAT COMES OUT TODAY
» Alcoholator Escape From Reality (High Roller) listen
All Tomorrows Sol Agnate (self-released) listen
Ars Irae Dunkle Klange (Quality Steel) listen listen
Artaius Torn Banners (Bakerteam) listen
Cain’s Offering Stormcrow (Frontiers) listen
Ceremony The L-Shaped Man (Matador) listen
Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! Get Lost, Find Yourself (Fearless) listen
Coal Chamber Rivals (Napalm) listen
Corpse Garden Entheogen (Satanath/RTM) listen listen
Corpse Light Without Form (Grimoire) listen
Death Alley Black Magick Boogieland (Tee Pee) listen
Doomed Wrath Monolith (Solitude) listen
» Doom Snake Cult Love Sorrow Doom (Nuclear War Now!) listen
» Drudkh A Furrow Cut Short (Season Of Mist) listen
Dysteria Fuck The Future (Vetala) listen
Earth Crises The Discipline (Bullet Tooth) listen
Entrails Obliteration (Metal Blade) listen listen
Eversin Trinity: The Annihilation (My Kingdom) listen
Faith No More Sol Invictus (Reclamation/Ipecac) listen read
» Galley Beggar Silence & Tears (Rise Above) listen
Goatlord Demo ’87/Rehearsal ’88 (Nuclear War Now!) listen
Goatlord Sodomize The Goat reissue (Nuclear War Now!) listen
Groteskh Code: End (Cursed) listen
Gutter Instinct The Insurrection EP (Prosthetic) listen
Haste The Day Coward (Solid State) listen
Hypothermia Svartkonst (Agonia) listen
Ironsword None But The Brave (Shadow Kingdom) listen listen
Mantar Death By Burning reissue (Brutal Panda) listen listen
Mystifier Goetia reissue (Greyhaze) listen
O Null & Void (Pest Productions) listen
» Profanator Mvtter Vicivm (Chaos) listen
Sammal Myrskyvaroitus (Svart) listen
Schammasch Sic Lvceat Lvx reissue (Prosthetic) listen read
Silenmara Methods (self-released) listen
Silverstein I Am Alive In Everything I Touch (Rise) listen
Sirens Over Sumeria Sirens Over Sumeria (Imminence) listen
The Story So Far The Story So Far (Pure Noise) listen
Tau Cross Tau Cross (Relapse) listen
Tengger Cavalry Blood Sacrifice Shaman (Metal Hell) listen listen
Tesseract Odyssey/Scala DVD/CD (Century Media) watch watch
Valborg Romantik (Temple Of Tortuous) listen
Valkyrie Shadows (Relapse) listen listen read
» Vorum Current Mouth EP (Sepulchral Voice) listen
Vulcano Bloody Vengeance reissue (Greyhaze) listen
Weedeater Goliathan (Season Of Mist) listen read
Whitesnake The Purple Album (Frontiers) listen listen
Winterfylleth The Fathers of Albion: An Anthology 2007-2012 (Candlelight) listen
Will Haven Open The Mind To Discomfort (Artery) listen
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