From the voids of Gainesville Florida comes Liminal Erosion, the new project from Myk Colby who plays everything on this album, creating expansive, introspective and claustrophobic soundscapes. Colby has always been a fan of death doom but here takes it to its most astral and funereal, waves of synths shimmer and carry you into the stratosphere on Spectral Thrum (Echoing Endlessly).
Vocally it's all about the gutturals, marble gargling grunts that speaks of existentialism and watching the world from the outside. While the guitars are glacial and sludgy, shuffling slowly, very slowly towards the climax with down-tuned, cavernous riffs and moments of melodic clean guitar that brings more influences than just death/doom on Liminal Erosion (In The Atrophied Transition).
Be it the New World ambience and Pink Floyd lead guitars of Aeon Monolith (In The Shadow), or the dreamy shoegaze of Time Vulture (In The Talons), there's a lot more than just death doom on In The Time Vulture’s Talons, it's a record that sprawls through the extreme. 7/10
Miasmic Serum - Better Left Dead (Iron Fortress Records)
A new four tracker from Italian terror loving death metal troop Miasmic Serum, who are inspired by both H.P Lovecraft's 'Herbert West–Reanimator’ and the 1985 film ‘Re-Animator’ that is based on it. The EP tells the tale of the book/film, bringing the dead back to life and the dead extracting their revenge on this twisted creator.
Musically they are inspired by the blood soaked likes of Obituary and Morbid Angel, blast beats, growls and guitars that blast, shred and divebomb. It's OSDM done with flair, a subject matter that has been well visited but music that never really stops being fun to listen too.
The first trio of songs are all from the book/film but the fourth, Witches, a collaboration with Tenebro, is a tribute to Dario Argento and his Suspiria masterpiece and tears the flesh from bone with it's grindcore-like ferocity. This Italian mob embrace the sounds of the originators death metal and the legends of horror as well. 7/10
Aleister Cowboy - Neolithic Blood Rites (Iron Fortress Records)
15 minutes of brutality from Colorado death groove act Aleister Cowboy who unleash hell on their new EP Neolithic Blood Rites, it's a feral foursome that switches between punishing groove metal and occult death metal like Soulfly playing with Knocked Loose, there's a mix of modern and old school on this EP.
Driven by the intense, drumming that's full of biting snare hits and a guitar which hastily unleash tremolo riffs one minute then slam into stalking breakdowns the next. It a violent listen but the band claim it's an evolution of the 'caveman' style of death metal, perhaps making this Homo Erectus death metal? You can make your own decision if you give Aleister Cowboy a blast. 7/10
Życie - Eternal Hold (Frog Wizard Record)
Życie is the Polish word for life but there's a lot leaning towards death on this new EP from Bristol sludge/doom band of the same name.
Formed by members of a black metal/hardcore band, their debut EP Eternal Hold is a gurgling, bubbling, black oil coated release which reminds me of the ear bleeding heaviness of Electric Wizard. The fuzzing bass of Aaron Busby ignites Whitey and Unto Thunder, letting it rumble against the drums of Lawrence Bacon as they shift into the more classic doom tones of The Behemoth Sleeps.
With this tough bottom end, the guitar riffs shared between Alex Radzio and Lewis Temby, are free to be highly distorted on a massive sludge track such as Sacred Grounds while also turning into some melodic leads. Disquieting and ear bleeding, Eternal Hold is a loud debut for Życie. 7/10
Vocally it's all about the gutturals, marble gargling grunts that speaks of existentialism and watching the world from the outside. While the guitars are glacial and sludgy, shuffling slowly, very slowly towards the climax with down-tuned, cavernous riffs and moments of melodic clean guitar that brings more influences than just death/doom on Liminal Erosion (In The Atrophied Transition).
Be it the New World ambience and Pink Floyd lead guitars of Aeon Monolith (In The Shadow), or the dreamy shoegaze of Time Vulture (In The Talons), there's a lot more than just death doom on In The Time Vulture’s Talons, it's a record that sprawls through the extreme. 7/10
Miasmic Serum - Better Left Dead (Iron Fortress Records)
A new four tracker from Italian terror loving death metal troop Miasmic Serum, who are inspired by both H.P Lovecraft's 'Herbert West–Reanimator’ and the 1985 film ‘Re-Animator’ that is based on it. The EP tells the tale of the book/film, bringing the dead back to life and the dead extracting their revenge on this twisted creator.
Musically they are inspired by the blood soaked likes of Obituary and Morbid Angel, blast beats, growls and guitars that blast, shred and divebomb. It's OSDM done with flair, a subject matter that has been well visited but music that never really stops being fun to listen too.
The first trio of songs are all from the book/film but the fourth, Witches, a collaboration with Tenebro, is a tribute to Dario Argento and his Suspiria masterpiece and tears the flesh from bone with it's grindcore-like ferocity. This Italian mob embrace the sounds of the originators death metal and the legends of horror as well. 7/10
Aleister Cowboy - Neolithic Blood Rites (Iron Fortress Records)
15 minutes of brutality from Colorado death groove act Aleister Cowboy who unleash hell on their new EP Neolithic Blood Rites, it's a feral foursome that switches between punishing groove metal and occult death metal like Soulfly playing with Knocked Loose, there's a mix of modern and old school on this EP.
Driven by the intense, drumming that's full of biting snare hits and a guitar which hastily unleash tremolo riffs one minute then slam into stalking breakdowns the next. It a violent listen but the band claim it's an evolution of the 'caveman' style of death metal, perhaps making this Homo Erectus death metal? You can make your own decision if you give Aleister Cowboy a blast. 7/10
Życie - Eternal Hold (Frog Wizard Record)
Życie is the Polish word for life but there's a lot leaning towards death on this new EP from Bristol sludge/doom band of the same name.
Formed by members of a black metal/hardcore band, their debut EP Eternal Hold is a gurgling, bubbling, black oil coated release which reminds me of the ear bleeding heaviness of Electric Wizard. The fuzzing bass of Aaron Busby ignites Whitey and Unto Thunder, letting it rumble against the drums of Lawrence Bacon as they shift into the more classic doom tones of The Behemoth Sleeps.
With this tough bottom end, the guitar riffs shared between Alex Radzio and Lewis Temby, are free to be highly distorted on a massive sludge track such as Sacred Grounds while also turning into some melodic leads. Disquieting and ear bleeding, Eternal Hold is a loud debut for Życie. 7/10
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