Greetings, Decibel readers!
Anybody else excited for Maryland Deathfest subsequent week? Though I’m at all times stoked to see a few of my huge favorites like Evoken, Incantation, Hulder and Oxygen Destroyer, I’m particularly wanting ahead to seeing Nightfall carry out all of …Majestic Thou in Break. Actually, funeral-doom followers are completely spoiled this yr with Evoken, Nightfall, Mournful Congregation, Form of Despair AND Skepticism all enjoying. Going to actually want to listen to one thing quick in spite of everything that. Fortunately sufficient, Razor is enjoying too.
Hope to see a few of you there!
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AntropomorphiA – Devoid of Gentle
The newest from the long-running Dutch death-dealers. Antropomorphia’s work stands on the intersection of easy, grinding loss of life steel within the fashion of Grave and Asphyx, and the darkish, all enveloping sound of Belphegor and late-era Behemoth.
Stream: Apple Music
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Blood Monolith – The Calling of Fireplace
Grind-happy newcomers from Washington DC. Consists of members of Nails, Genocide Pact, Undeath and Deliriant Nerve. If that doesn’t promote it proper there, the sheer brutality of this launch ought to seal the deal.
Stream: Apple Music
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Desekryptor – Sarcophagal Corridors
Supremely darkish goodness. I first knew about Desekryptor from their 2023 EP, Curse of the Execrated, and immediately knew they had been an underground loss of life steel band to look at. The excellence on show right here solely additional cements this fact.
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Eleventh Ray – Reviving Tehom
Talking of darkness, Greece’s Eleventh Ray has arrived with their debut album, casting the world in a blackened hue all their very own. Whereas the band’s sound undoubtedly jogs my memory of Aura Noir and different practitioners of black-thrash alchemy, their execution undoubtedly units them aside. Touches of loss of life steel and doom maintain issues fascinating and add to the facility of the compositions, and the sound shows the right stability of readability and uncooked vitality.
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Filled with Hell – Damaged Sword, Rotten Defend
Not the primary band I’d anticipate to write down album “via a fantasy-tinged lens” wherein “the band crafts a world of canine knights and noble quests, solely to tear all of it down in a violent reckoning with mortality.” However Filled with Hell has by no means been a band to accept predictability, so in their very own distinctive, unhinged method, that is very a lot a continuation of their harmful sonic journey. Additionally, “Lament of All Issues” is catchy as hell.
Stream: Apple Music
