This is where I share my passion for music and support the bands I like. Expect intense, passionate, and radical stuff from this blog.
vendredi 26 avril 2024
UNDERGANG - De Syv stadier af fordærv (EP 2023)
mardi 23 avril 2024
Pissed Jeans - Half Divorced (2024)
samedi 20 avril 2024
Terror System - Demo 2 (2019)
jeudi 18 avril 2024
The Obsessed - Gilded Sorrow (2024)
dimanche 14 avril 2024
Alkaloid - Numen (2023)
Numen, released last September, is the third album from Alkaloid, five years after the previous one. I feel they focused a bit more on the melodic and progressive side this time, but they stay firmly within the tech death scope, and still at it's very top. Awesome album once again, totally recommended.
vendredi 12 avril 2024
STATIQBLOOM - Kain (2024)
lundi 8 avril 2024
Smallpox Aroma - Festering Embryos of Logical Corruption (2023)
Smallpox Aroma is a trio from Bangkok, they are active since 2006 and released many splits, EP's and the like, but Festering Embryos of Logical Corruption is their first album. It's a fine piece of grindcore, with some goregrind, but also mincecore elements and can be enjoyed by people into any of the grind different varieties.
vendredi 5 avril 2024
REPLICANT - Infinite Mortality (2024)
samedi 30 mars 2024
3TEETH - EndEx (2023)
EndEx is the Fourth 3TEETH album, still quite easy listening industrial metal, often closer to Marilyn Manson or even Static-X than to NIN (with some nu-metal elements) but this time it's better than what they did on Metawar. Is it less a guilty pleasure if we say 90' metal is now "old-school"? I don't know, and don't really care, I just enjoy listening to it...
vendredi 29 mars 2024
Sister Fucker - God's Work (2010)
Sister Fucker were active in Oakland, CA, in the beginning of the 2010'. It's a duo with Vanessa Harris playing guitar and singing/screaming and Erin Allen playing drums. On their 2010 cassette God's Work they delivered some savage, raw and primitive punkish noise rock. I love it!
mercredi 27 mars 2024
Skeletal Remains - Fragments Of The Ageless (2024)
Fragments Of The Ageless is the Fifth album from Skeletal Remains. Their old school death metal (old school but with a technical twist) has always sounded Floridian, but this time it sounds more precisely very MorbidAngelic (B, C and D albums). And since it's done so well, in great songs with excellent guitarworks, who will complain? No me!
vendredi 22 mars 2024
'68 - Yes, and... (2023)
dimanche 17 mars 2024
FANGE - Perdition (2024)
jeudi 14 mars 2024
Zopp - Dominion (2023)
Dominion has been released last year, but if you and/or your dad listened to prog rock classics like Yes or King Crimson, you will definitely feel at home listening to it. But it's not just 70' prog worship with vintage synth and a bit of sax, there are also more modern influences, and it also often reminds me of Porcupine Tree. It's the second album from Zopp (which is Ryan W Stevenson doing nearly everything, plus Andrea Moneta playing the drums and a few guest doing some vocals, sax, flute, etc.) and its main evolution from the first one is that it's not only instrumental any more. Recommended for anyone into prog rock, but also as a good way to discover it.
mardi 12 mars 2024
Sonic Poison - Grinded Leftovers (EP 2024)
mercredi 6 mars 2024
Hyperdontia - Deranged (EP 2023)
Deranged is the latest release from Hyperdontia, four tracks of excellent and nicely old-school death metal, with a primitive feel reminding a bit the early works of Cannibal Corpse. Good stuff.
dimanche 3 mars 2024
HORSKH - BODY (2024)
BODY, the third album of HORSKH (from Besançon, East of France) confirms they are among the new industrial bands that matters. They build on old school industrial music from the nineties, with a touch of EBM, but also incorporates newer sounds like dubstep, nu metal, trap metal, resulting in a music somewhere between NIN, 3Teeth and Ghostmane. But I'd say they mostly distinguish from other bands with their strong songwriting skills, their ability to write songs at the same time catchy but also avoiding sounding as standardized as a big part of industrial metal often is.
jeudi 29 février 2024
Shannon Rowley - The King Departs (2022)
mardi 27 février 2024
Eye Flys - Eye Flys (2024)
samedi 24 février 2024
Serpent Corpse - Blood Sabbath (2023)
Blood Sabbath, released last summer, is the excellent first album by Serpent Corpse, from Montréal. Death metal that is firmly old school, and on its more slow and heavy side, somewhere between Bolt Thrower and death-doom. Good enough to be also enjoyed outside the old-school aficionados circles. Recommended!
mercredi 21 février 2024
Endless Swarm - Manifested Forms (2023)
Manifested Forms, released last year by To Live a Lie, is another fine piece of powerviolence/fastcore/grind from the Scottish Endless Swarm. It's All killer, no filler, and maybe their best album yet. Recommended!
lundi 19 février 2024
Kill The Thrill - Autophagie (2024)
samedi 17 février 2024
Cruciamentum - Obsidian Refractions (2023)
lundi 12 février 2024
All Them Witches - Baker's Dozen (2023)
vendredi 9 février 2024
Parasitic - Disfiguring Symmetry (2023)
Parasitic, from San Diego, isn't a new band, but their EP Disfiguring Symmetry is their longer release so far, which is a pity because their brutal US death metal is good, technical, but in an old school vein reminding Cannibal Corpse and Suffocation. Good stuff, time to do an album, guys!
lundi 5 février 2024
frett - notwo (2023)
notwo is the second album from frett, still released by ant-zen records, still with a synth-wave and death industrial basis, but this time with more EBM, more melodies and tracks more structured like songs, giving it an industrial rock feel. Quality stuff in any case.
jeudi 1 février 2024
GAG REFLEX - Psychosis (2019)
lundi 29 janvier 2024
Wormhole - Almost Human (2023)
jeudi 25 janvier 2024
My favourite grindcore from 2023
Well, the title says it all... find below the list, in alphabetical order, of my favourite grindcore albums from last year. Click on it to go to my review.
FesterDecay - Reality Rotten To The Core
OrganDealer - The Weight of Being
lundi 22 janvier 2024
Boris & Uniform - Bright New Disease (2023)
Bright New Disease is a collaborative album from Uniform (industrial metal) and Boris (from metal to drone/doom to psych rock and many things in between). It's more abrasive than Boris and more melodic than Uniform, no big surprise so far, but overall the pace is faster than what I expected. And it works fine. I really enjoy the album, and it turns out it's more than just an average mix of both bands. One of the good musical surprises of last year. Recommended!
mardi 16 janvier 2024
Realize - Two Human Minutes (2023)
jeudi 11 janvier 2024
Deathgrave - It's Only Midnight (2023)
dimanche 7 janvier 2024
Goat - Oh Death (2022)