![]() ![]() German duo Blyh have smashed out their debut album ‘Transparent to the World’, and it’s a solid listen. The project has been total DIY for fifteen years and I really can’t say a bad word about it, so grab a name-your-price download from their Bandcamp and help spread the scriptures of Devourer ever further.įresh meat. From the atmosphere of the title track ‘Across the Empty Plains’ to the glorious attack of personal highlight ‘Deeds of Rancour’ that follows hot on its heels, Devourer take you through everything great about Swedish black metal. Nothing that reinvents the wheel so to speak, but hey, innovation is not the only way to make a great album.ĭon’t get me wrong, it’s a dynamic and exciting ride within the realm it plays in. It’s furious and melodic with frequent forays into atmospheric or flat-out heavy deathlike territory. Two man project Devourer has been at it for fifteen years and it shows. When I say Swedish black metal, what do you think of? Well, that’s pretty much what you get here, which is in no way a bad thing. If you’re lucky there might be a few tapes left on their Bandcamp but either way, do not miss this. Four tracks long with the third a monumental 17 minute trip through the spectrum of human despair and depravity this is outstanding in every way. Underlying it all is a black core of cruelty, too: this EP will tie you to a chair and beat the shit out of you until you can’t breathe, see or control your own bladder. They descibe themselves as a “sepulchural din” and that overall nails it there’s plenty of raw crypt-creeping bleak dissonance here but it’s balanced out with a savage, unhinged cacophony. Hails.Īustralian black/death/doom trio Ploughshare released their debut EP ‘Literature of Piss’ a few months back now and holy fucking shit is it good. Head to his Bandcamp and support, the EP is at name-your-price but he’s doing it all independently so any donations go towards getting physical copies and merchandise printed. Dynamic, violent and refreshing I haven’t heard so much done with two songs in a while. I’ll just leave you with this: this EP is great. The heavens open, transcendence takes hold you can almost feel yourself rising up into the void as the music swirls around you, lifting you up on morbid cadence.Īs it’s a rather short EP and consists of just another quick interlude and a final track ‘A Dead Life Into A Living Death’, I won’t kill all the mystery by going into a blow-by-blow about it. The first track ‘I Belong to Chaos’ is the perfect mood-setter, an ominous cloud of negative energy slowly latching its tendrils into you before the universe caves in with the onset of ‘Stargazer’. This is the stuff I like, blackened death that doesn’t just claim the title from some rasps and blasts but actually goes for a grim black metal atmosphere. ![]() ![]() Now to the music: Anhedonic is the blackened death brainchild of US artist Chase Funk and he’s just unleashed his debut EP ‘Metanoia’ to terrorise your eardrums. Credit to Mitchell Nolte Art, truly astonishing. Enjoy.įirst up, that cover image is immaculate. Here’s the eighth installment for your vulgar delectation. This series aims to shine light on the freshest emanations and foulest incantations from its darkest corners, a few artists at a time. The bottomless wellspring of Bandcamp is overflowing with great shit just waiting to be discovered. ![]()
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