![]() Of the album as a whole, Throatruiner writes: “With a highly-twisted baseline that blends the most intricate tendencies of dissonant black metal and metallic hardcore, the band marks their difference by emphasizing their melodic side, not afraid to inject screamo-inspired chord progressions or powerful vocal hooks next to cascades of drums and bileful screams”. The finale is downright explosive… and wrenching. That feeling of hopelessness deepens, and becomes shattering, with long wails of intensely forlorn guitar melody over booming drums. The singing that comes in as the music soars and pounds is unexpected, and creates a duet with the deranged screams in a way that channels anguish verging on devastation. Together they build a mounting sense of tension and fear, which then boils over into a torrent of blasting drums, crazed riffing, and equally frantic bass-work. There’s a frightening quality to the dissonant guitars, the warping bass, the pulverizing drums, and the vicious howls. The song, “ Free At Least“, is the one that opens the album. This next selection is just one song from an album named 7-Year Epilogue that will get a physical release on August 14th by Throatruiner Records but is digitally available now. ![]() “ Mark of Death” appears on Skeleton’s self-titled debut album, which will be released by 20 Buck Spin on July 10. There’s so much feral energy in the music, and such a plethora of head-hooking riffs (some of which have an anthemic quality) and body-moving rhythms, that it quickly becomes addictive. This next song is a goddamned riot of blackened metalpunk from a Central Texas band who know how to put the spurs to your pulse rate. Now shifting gears, it’s time for Grade A mosh meat. Visit Bandcamp to catch two more previously released tracks. “ Rat King Lifecycle” is from Pyrrhon’s new album Abscess Time, which will be released by Willowtip on June 26th. Entrancing sequences of chiming melody that unfold over jaw-dropping drumwork, coupled with eruptions of berserker fretwork, add to the song’s atmosphere of eye-popping wonder, without detracting from its aura of mystery and menace. It does a fine job hammering the listener’s skull, but an equally fine job spinning the mind into perilous, otherworldly territory through blaring chords, maniacally screeching arpeggios, sorcerous bass lines, and unhinged serial-killer vocals. ![]() The third single from this inventive band’s new album is wild and wondrous. I’ve also included a Bandcamp stream of another song from the album. It’s due for release on June 26 via Aftermath Music. “ Lily” appears on this Swedish band’s third full-length album, entitled The Deviant. ![]() Rapidly scissoring fretwork and barbaric vocals further kick the adrenaline levels into the red zone as the drums methodically hammer our necks.īut it’s a long song with numerous progressive accents, and reveals other dimensions through the pairing of riveting kit-work and swirling guitars, spiraling and soulful solos, and a seductive acoustic interlude that includes singing - capped by an electrifying conflagration of sound. ![]() Without much warning (but now you’ve been warned), the song explodes in a storm of riotous drumming, blast-furnace guitars, and scalding screams. Like the first track above, this next one also begins in mystical and mesmerizing fashion, but its transition is more shocking. “ Sun Of War” is taken from the album Violent Portraits Of Doomed Escape, due out on August 7th on the Century Media label. A welcome return from these talented dudes…. Skittering, darting, and delirious fretwork and blaring chords propel the song to fiery heights, and the singing becomes spine-tingling. The kaleidoscopic opening track in this collection moves from mystical and mesmerizing sounds into the embrace of humming low tones and head-hooking beats (and singing), and from there into a grim, ravaging, bullet-spitting attack, augmented by doses of vocal ferocity (as well as flaring melody and soaring song). After a lot of singing in Part 2, we’re moving back into music that’s more in line with the site’s name. If you’re seeing this before seeing the first two Parts of the round-up, I hope you’ll check out Part 1 and Part 2. ![]()
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