#82 TIEAngel Morgue – In the Morgue of Angels109 points, 3 votes
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2844519188_10.jpg
https://angelmorgue-us.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-morgue-of-angels
Blasphemy and rotten, cavernous death metal are Angel Morgue‘s specialties on debut album In the Morgue of Angels. The death metal on display is primitive and effective—everything from the riffs to the vocals to the impressive drumming to the production to the song titles sounds like it was dug out of a crypt.Fortunately, that crypt contained an impressive death metal album. From the Immolation-esque “Raped in Church (Touched by God)” to the neck-snapping “Cosmic Torment” and titular closer, Angel Morgue juggle fast and slow tempos, never giving too much of one or the other. There are plenty of sonic similarities to Immolation, Autopsy and early Outer Heaven, and the song titles would bring a smile to Glen Benton’s face.At a lean eight songs, everything about In the Morgue of Angels feels inspired by a time gone by, adapted for 2020.
Fortunately, that crypt contained an impressive death metal album. From the Immolation-esque “Raped in Church (Touched by God)” to the neck-snapping “Cosmic Torment” and titular closer, Angel Morgue juggle fast and slow tempos, never giving too much of one or the other. There are plenty of sonic similarities to Immolation, Autopsy and early Outer Heaven, and the song titles would bring a smile to Glen Benton’s face.
At a lean eight songs, everything about In the Morgue of Angels feels inspired by a time gone by, adapted for 2020.
https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2020/08/03/full-album-stream-angel-morgue-in-the-morgue-of-angels/
― pomenitul, Monday, 8 March 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
I really enjoyed the Regarde les hommes tomber, I just found it a bit less than consistent than I would have liked. I need to check out their first couple of LPs.
― pomenitul, Monday, 8 March 2021 21:14 (three years ago) link
Regarde les hommes tomber – Ascension is one of my votes and I say
TOO LOW
― Oor Neechy, Monday, 8 March 2021 21:15 (three years ago) link
And I'm very happy to see some of you liked the Angel Morgue enough to vote for it. No frills DM with an onslaught of riffs.
― pomenitul, Monday, 8 March 2021 21:15 (three years ago) link
Angel Morgue ended up quite high on my ballot. Campaigning works! Every year there's at least one great Name Your Price steal that makes the poll and this year it's this.
― o. nate, Monday, 8 March 2021 21:20 (three years ago) link
Last one for today coming up in a bit.
― pomenitul, Monday, 8 March 2021 21:41 (three years ago) link
#81Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Viscerals110 points, 4 votes
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2969374032_10.jpg
https://pigspigspigspigspigspigspigs.bandcamp.com/album/viscerals
If ever an album title summed up its contents—not to mention the intentions of its creators—look no further than here. Viscerals documents the next stage in Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs’ unrelenting story. The album is a statement of intent that continues their sense bludgeoning amalgamation of metal, punk, and experimental noise at its most brutal. Since their debut Feed the Rats appeared three years ago, the band have steadily amassed a loyal following that’s seen them welcomed with open arms by the metal and psych rock communities. Which probably explains why parts of this record owe as much to riff behemoths Sleep and The Melvins while the rest could easily be mistaken for Hawkwind, Sonic Youth, or Edgar Broughton Band. While lead single “Reducer” and album midpoint “World Crust” represent arguably their most accessible pieces of music to date—from the perspective of radio friendliness at any rate—gargantuan riffathon “Halloween Bolson” and its heavy-duty cousin “New Body” find Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs at their ferocious best.
Since their debut Feed the Rats appeared three years ago, the band have steadily amassed a loyal following that’s seen them welcomed with open arms by the metal and psych rock communities. Which probably explains why parts of this record owe as much to riff behemoths Sleep and The Melvins while the rest could easily be mistaken for Hawkwind, Sonic Youth, or Edgar Broughton Band.
While lead single “Reducer” and album midpoint “World Crust” represent arguably their most accessible pieces of music to date—from the perspective of radio friendliness at any rate—gargantuan riffathon “Halloween Bolson” and its heavy-duty cousin “New Body” find Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs at their ferocious best.
http://www.undertheradarmag.com/reviews/pigs_pigs_pigs_pigs_pigs_pigs_pigs_viscerals/
― pomenitul, Monday, 8 March 2021 21:45 (three years ago) link
Not familiar with these guys but that description is intriguing.
― pomenitul, Monday, 8 March 2021 21:46 (three years ago) link
New rule: any weirdo black metal album with bright primary colors on the cover, somebody has to tell me. This is really good. (the Biesy)
― Iannis Xenakis double fisting Cutty Sark (Tom Violence), Monday, 8 March 2021 21:47 (three years ago) link
good album
― Oor Neechy, Monday, 8 March 2021 21:49 (three years ago) link
:D
Pigs x7 are the backing band on one of the greatest albums of the past 20 years but their own stuff has never quite grabbed me. Maybe this one might?
― imago, Monday, 8 March 2021 21:49 (three years ago) link
Spotify Results playlist
― Oor Neechy, Monday, 8 March 2021 21:50 (three years ago) link
So far, so good:
101. Primitive Man – Immersion100. Atramentus – Stygian99. Undergang – Aldrig i livet98. Dan Weiss/Starebaby – Natural Selection95 TIE. Worm – Gloomlord95 TIE. Ulthar – Providence95 TIE. Vile Creature – Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!93 TIE. VoidCeremony – Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel93 TIE. Bell Witch & Aerial Ruin – Stygian Bough Volume I92. Lamp of Murmuur – Heir of Ecliptical Romanticism91. Okkultokrati – La ilden lyse90. Horisont – Sudden Death89. Skeletal Remains – The Entombment of Chaos87 TIE. Spirit Adrift – Enlightened in Eternity87 TIE. Biesy – Transsatanizm86. Ripped to Shreds – Luan85. Cirith Ungol – Forever Black84. Turia – Degen van licht82 TIE. Regarde les hommes tomber – Ascension82 TIE. Angel Morgue – In the Morgue of Angels81. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Viscerals
― pomenitul, Monday, 8 March 2021 21:50 (three years ago) link
'backing band' is a bit much actually. A couple of them were heavily involved in the making of Peasant by Richard Dawson :)
― imago, Monday, 8 March 2021 21:51 (three years ago) link
Vile Creature have the best website in metal btw: http://www.vilecreature.net/
Wow, you were not joking. <3
― tangent x (tangenttangent), Monday, 8 March 2021 22:14 (three years ago) link
Seriously.
*doot doot*
― pomenitul, Monday, 8 March 2021 22:15 (three years ago) link
damn, that website does rule, now I will check that album out even though the worm mouth cover always put me off before.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Monday, 8 March 2021 22:19 (three years ago) link
I avoided Pigsx7 for a long time because of the name, this was the first record of theirs I'd heard and I loved it. Right up my alley.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 8 March 2021 22:20 (three years ago) link
Thanks for all the work, pom. This is really fun so far.
― jmm, Monday, 8 March 2021 22:26 (three years ago) link
My pleasure!
― pomenitul, Monday, 8 March 2021 22:29 (three years ago) link
drat, forgot to vote for the ripped to shreds!
gotta get around to that undergang already!
skeletal remains was the only one I've voted for so far, def a workmanlike take on the genre
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Monday, 8 March 2021 22:30 (three years ago) link
Slim pickings for me today, though that might mean that a lot of my ballot's to come. Biesy is the one I'm most likely to return to see if I've missed something.
― your passion oozzes from the (ultros ultros-ghali), Monday, 8 March 2021 22:31 (three years ago) link
Hopefully we've gotten awful cover day out the way, but this is metal after all
― your passion oozzes from the (ultros ultros-ghali), Monday, 8 March 2021 22:32 (three years ago) link
Have you sampled the Dan Weiss/Starebaby, uug?
― pomenitul, Monday, 8 March 2021 22:32 (three years ago) link
No, I admit that instrumental metal played by jazz dudes isn't really what I'm looking for these days, but I guess I'll give it a shot
― your passion oozzes from the (ultros ultros-ghali), Monday, 8 March 2021 22:38 (three years ago) link
VoidCeremony pleasantly surprising me
― imago, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 00:14 (three years ago) link
The Angel Morgue record both ripped and slammed. I didn't realize it was a free download.
― Iannis Xenakis double fisting Cutty Sark (Tom Violence), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 00:22 (three years ago) link
I'm a bit surprised Atramentus was so low. I didn't vote for it but ILM usually surprises me every year with one or 2 high placing doom albums. guess it wasn't their time
― gman59, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 00:37 (three years ago) link
;(
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 00:53 (three years ago) link
The Vile Creature website is great!
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 02:05 (three years ago) link
I'm guilty of ignoring a lot of good 'inside' black and death metal albums, if only bc there are only so many things one can keep up with. The Turia album has a really effective atmosphere, a pleasantly bracing feel, and some nice melodies. The last song is almost incredible.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 03:10 (three years ago) link
Metal needs more female vocalists and T is up there with my favourites.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 03:26 (three years ago) link
i really like Kayla Dixon of Witch Mountain
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 03:26 (three years ago) link
Had to go somewhere most of today. Glad to see the Horisont placed! Campaigning does work.
― Frobisher, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 03:29 (three years ago) link
I did think the vocals were especially strong and powerful but somehow didn't clock that they were female. I don't even hear gender obv.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 03:34 (three years ago) link
The Gypsies had no home, Turia has no bass.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 03:35 (three years ago) link
(Tbc, that's a reference to this, not any sort of comment on the Roma): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xillqqt0Y0
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 03:38 (three years ago) link
all the new stuff sucks!
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 03:41 (three years ago) link
Really? Never had you figured for a Doors fan.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 03:43 (three years ago) link
Doors fans aren't made. they are BORN.
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 03:50 (three years ago) link
― imago, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 00:14 (twelve hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Ha, I came here to say exactly this. I love those weird low in the mix licks that run contrary to the rhythm. Also, a couple of the basslines remind me of Duran Duran.
― tangent x (tangenttangent), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 12:31 (three years ago) link
Going live in a few mins.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 13:38 (three years ago) link
Ripped to Shreds on in the background now while I take calls. I managed to listen to everything that placed so far except the Regarde les Hommes Tomber and most of the Dan Weiss album that isn't available free anywhere.
― Iannis Xenakis double fisting Cutty Sark (Tom Violence), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 13:43 (three years ago) link
Really enjoying this Biesy this morning - the industrial flourishes are giving me early 90s flashbacks.
― enochroot, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 13:46 (three years ago) link
#80Khthoniik Cerviiks – Æequiizoiikum112 points, 3 votes
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0281983332_10.jpg
https://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/khthoniik-cerviiks-equiizoiikum
Let me start by going straight to the point – Khthoniik Cerviiks (KC) sounds like an alien trying to play human music. Or an alien trying to play human music, failing, and just going back to his own music. Or trying to weave human influences into alien music, or vice versa. You get the picture. They’re certainly not the first metal band to try something similar. We can refer to some of KC’s influences, like Voivod or Vektor who, the latter playing off the former, tried to take thrash metal to the next level by making it sound veritably otherworldly. You could also refer to Howls of Ebb, a band who KC did a split with, who made death metal of nether-dimensional alien creatures and their humanly incomprehensible culture.Khthoniik Cerviiks does all that while putting their own spin on the concept. This is an especially respectable achievement since they wear their influences on their sleeve. I’d even say a good way to describe KC is as Voivod’s parallel-dimension evil twin. KC’s thrash influences are obvious, but they operate more in the realm of death/black metal. These aren’t your flying-saucer-driving little-green-men aliens. These are nefarious creatures dwelling in darkness.“Æequiizoiikum” is a continuation of what KC did on their first record, 2015’s “SeroLogiikal Scars”. A record that frequently delivered straight banging riffs and grooves, even occasional hard rock bits, before pulling a fast one on you and going full “what is even going on”, but not just driving straight into suffocating dissonance as some bands are wont to, but twisting and turning metal techniques into unexpected shapes that still sound vaguely familiar (just like Voivod does!). Successfully employing this method is what makes KC so good – interweaving the familiar with the strange, constantly morphing the sound between the mundane and the abnormal.
Khthoniik Cerviiks does all that while putting their own spin on the concept. This is an especially respectable achievement since they wear their influences on their sleeve. I’d even say a good way to describe KC is as Voivod’s parallel-dimension evil twin. KC’s thrash influences are obvious, but they operate more in the realm of death/black metal. These aren’t your flying-saucer-driving little-green-men aliens. These are nefarious creatures dwelling in darkness.
“Æequiizoiikum” is a continuation of what KC did on their first record, 2015’s “SeroLogiikal Scars”. A record that frequently delivered straight banging riffs and grooves, even occasional hard rock bits, before pulling a fast one on you and going full “what is even going on”, but not just driving straight into suffocating dissonance as some bands are wont to, but twisting and turning metal techniques into unexpected shapes that still sound vaguely familiar (just like Voivod does!). Successfully employing this method is what makes KC so good – interweaving the familiar with the strange, constantly morphing the sound between the mundane and the abnormal.
https://www.metalutopia.com/khthoniik-cerviiks-aeequiizoiikum-review/
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 13:49 (three years ago) link
I didn't vote for it because there was just too much stuff to account for yet I still feel like it's too low?
Either way, anyone who enjoyed the VoidCeremony and hasn't heard this one is missing out.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 13:50 (three years ago) link
I bought this ages ago and haven't listened to it in full yet! Now's the time I guess...
― imago, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 13:51 (three years ago) link
I actually at some point bought Khthoniik Cerviiks' entire discography on Bandcamp, I like them quite a bit. They're really weird, yet they don't take themselves too seriously.
― Iannis Xenakis double fisting Cutty Sark (Tom Violence), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 13:54 (three years ago) link
Yeah this is sounding great
― imago, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 13:55 (three years ago) link
My #15, fwiw.
― Iannis Xenakis double fisting Cutty Sark (Tom Violence), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 13:57 (three years ago) link