Death Goals - Survival Is An Act Of Defiance (Self Released)
Queercore duo Death Goals are Harry Bailey (guitar/vocals) and George Milner (drums/vocals) and they are a band with message, their lyrics and their music in general is deeply rooted in the queer community, but on their new EP Survival Is An Act Of Defiance they have written their most vitriolic, visceral music yet, build on demos the band considered "to gnarly" for their previous records.
But with the increasing persecution of the queer community there is an increasing feeling of radicalism, to fight fire with fire, even if it feels like you're becoming what they are painting you to be. This is music for the outcasts, aimed squarely at anyone who has oppress those who express themselves differently, and it's also a collaborative effort Death Goals bringing guest vocalist from other bands who are all part of the queer community.
The angular mathcore of Kill With Kindness, features Harry Nott of Burner, while the raging Tchotchke has Jenna Pup of HIRS Collective believing venom. The tracks are short, striking hard and fast for maximum impact, Even An Empire Can Burn gurgles with industrial dissonance as Ewan Benwell of Cainhurst speaks over the top, segueing into the beatdown heavy Even A Worm Can Turn and the brutal finale of the title track which features Victim Unit's Lotta Ridgely.
A call for unity and defiance against an increasingly extreme world for queer people, Death Goals channel rage and resilience on Survival Is An Act Of Defiance. 8/10
Adur - We Fail To Love Ourselves (Self Released)
Fresh from the coastal town of Brighton, We Fail To Love Ourselves is the anticipated debut album from Adur and it's a record that if by some chance you've grown bored of the new Deftones album then you will definitely want to hear the woozy Silhouettes to get that Deftones fix. There's more to Adur though than that though which is good for them seeing as they are releasing their record so close to Private Music.
This UK crew bring vitriolic hardcore meets that explicitly British style of post metal on the title track, through claustrophobic doom/sludge The One Percent, they draw more inspiration from the likes of Botch, Converge and Deafheaven than Chino and co. Noted for their live show, Adur is a veteran band made from members of Grave Lines, Aerosol Jesus, Johnny Truant, and Sea Bastard, this experience bleeds through every moment of We Fail To Love Ourselves.
From songs inspired by self- loathing, addiction, society and disillusionment, the vocals bark and blegh unleashing full black metal fury on Nothing Loves In This Soil and it's follow on Permeance, both showcasing the full bore brilliance of Adur, those biting, concrete slabs of riffage are turned into a weapon for The End Of Us, but with every harsh element there's time for introspection, emotion reflection and resilience proving that no matter how tough things get the human spirit is a powerful force.
Produced/mastered for maximum impact by Wayne Adams/James Plotkin and featuring guest vocals from Abi (Underdark) and Dan (Helpless), We Fail To Love Ourselves is a deafening blast of extreme metal that delves into the darkest recesses of the human condition. 8/10
Malevich - Under A Gilded Sun (Church Road Records)
Blackened screamo, alright then if you say so. I can hear both of these things on the new album from Atlanta band Malevich, but the band themselves merge these two separate entities together across nine blisteringly visceral music that seamlessly shifts from blast beats and tremolo picking into emotive atmospherics.
This is extreme music with a message, their music is aggressive and hostile but never without a point to prove, not necessarily aimed at anything in particular but the world in general. They released this debut album in 2016 but since then the line up has changed to what it is now and Malvich have released a second album, an EP and a split, as well as touring all over the place and performing as part of Adult Swim's Bloodfeast Presents in 2019.
A bloodfeast is how you could describe the music of Malevich, atmospheric tonality floats in ambience in between furious raging and passionate moments of cathartic bile release, for instance Delirium And Confidence takes a slow pace, angular rhythms collide with clean guitar lines, it's post metal with plenty of angst. Malevich wanted this album to be their most experimental.
The conflict of the musical influences the most dynamic feature of this record with the trio of vocalists; guitarist Connor Ray, drummer Sasha Schilbrack and bassist Daniel DeSimone each contributing their own skills as singers and instrumentalists, the band rounded out by guitarist Josh McIntyre.
From the dreamy realms of Illusion Never Changed through the snarling mathcore of Into Bliss which features Lex Santiago of Sunrot or the industrial surge of A Sun That Only Sets closing with the dirge of Supine, Under A Gilded Sun, Malevich showcases a full spectrum of colour on this third album, extreme metal with heart let your rage burn through their music. 8/10
Crimson Butchery - Stalker (Iron Fortress Records)
Irish death metal inspired by Cannibal Corpse, Cattle Decapitation, Dying Fetus and featuring members of Gama Bomb, Necrotized and Anal Stabwound, Crimson Butchery were only formed by 2021 but have already cranked out three records of disgusting death metal in that time.
Stalker is their fourth and it brings brutal and technical death together in one eight track record. The guitar prowess of John Roche is as good as it gets, rough as a rusty chainsaw but buoyed by virtuosity, he's unleashed on tracks such as Trauma Masterbation or Lab Rat where the tracks blows up into leads/solos.
John not only rips up the fretboard on tracks like Stalker and Enter The Human Mincer also plays the bass on the record which snarls in the bottom end alongside the relentless percussion battery of guest drummer Nikhil Talwalkar.
With just these two dictating the pace of cuts like the the undulating Bludgeoned To The Grave, Crimson Butchery have a power behind the mic in Shane "Red" Corcoran, he barks and growls like he's a human embodiment of a demon, gargling with razor blades on the bloodsoaked march of Philosophy Of A Knife.
Stalker is death metal with the right amount of brutality and technicality to appeal to all fans of camo shorts and mosh pits. 8/10
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