Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race (2019)

Like with Blood Incantation first album, it took me some time to get how good is Hidden History of the Human Race. You don't catch all the subtleties at first listen. It's rooted in old school death metal, reminding Morbid Angel at its most cosmic, but also it's different, more technical but even more more progressive. And whether they do the brutal stuff or the more "weird spacey" parts, they excel. Highly recommended, this one will naturally sit in good place among my soon to come "best death metal of 2019" list.

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Guitar Wolf - Love & Jett (2019)

To make it quick, if you like garage rock played with frenzy and everything in the red (vocals in japanese included), then Guitar Wolf is just the band you need, they do that, only that, and they do it well. That's what they do again on their twelth album Love & Jett, and that's cool.

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Hide - Hell is Here (2019)

Hell is Here, Hide's second album is an excellent industrial / power electronics piece that will fit perfectly in my list of best industrial music released in 2019. The duo went more abrasive and angry than on the first album and the vocals are also very good and emotional, with a very "real" feel of anger.

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Incinerated / Landfill - Split 7'' EP (2019)

Let's start 2020 like we ended 2019 : with some blastbeats! On the menu this nice split (released by Psychocontrol records) between Incinerated and Landfill. Ten minutes of really good grind/death. Both bands, each in its own way, sounds a bit like Repulsion but pushed to more extreme. I really enjoy it and recommended it.

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Hideous Divinity - Simulacrum (2019)

Their previous album of Hideous Divinity (from Italy) Adveniens was hard to beat, but the new one Simulacrum, their fourth one, is a very convincing following, another masterpiece in brutal and technical death metal. The monstrous epicness and the relentless intensity could remind Nile (a Nile without the Egyptian melodies). This is impressive, breath-taking but also catchy, not easy to do, but they really master their thing and found a good balance. Highly recommended stuff! One of the best death metal album of the year.

Bror Gunnar Jansson - They Found My Body In A Bag (2019)

On They Found My Body In A Bag, Bror Gunnar Jansson is no more a one-man band but a trio, but it still really sound like a one man band actually. We could say it's blues/rock/garage somewhere between RL Burnside and The Black Keys but with also elements reminding Tom Waits and Earth that make it sounding different from the others garage blues-rock stuff, some rock/blues/boogie songs but also some more psychedelic drone/rock instrumentals. It's a good try and an enjoyable album.

The Bandcamp page.

Best Grindcore In 2019

Here we go, here's my list of favourite grind releases in 2019. Follow the link to read the review (and there you'll find a Bandcamp link nearly every time). I give it in alphabetical order. It happens that nearly half of the list is composed of releases from Nerve Altar, what a year they had! To me they're now the best place to go for quality grind. Keep going!

Beasters - Alienated By Solidarity

Bifid Corpse - Consuming Death

Birdflesh - Extreme Graveyard Tornado

Blame God - Power and Control

Die Choking - IV

Fluoride - Disentanglement

Gall/ Tooth Decay - Collaboration EP

Intensive Care / Incinerated - Split EP

Jardim de flores - Défloraison

No One Knows What The Dead Think - ST

Shock Narcotic - I've Seen The Future And It Doesn't Work

Skullshitter/ Bleeding Out - Split

 

Takafumi Matsubara - Strange Beautiful and Fast