Greetings, Decibel readers!
Lots of cool stuff out this week. You’ve got one big name, one big-sounding band, one blackened beast, one blasted noise nightmare, and one bulldozer death metal album. You laugh, but you were along for the ride through all of that alliteration.
Be well!
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Cryptosis – Celestial Death
If you’re looking for a BIG sound, you’ve come to the right place with the Dutch death dealers in Cryptosis. If you wish Revocation took notes from Fleshgod Apocalypse and Ne Oblivscaris, you’d get something resembling the fascinating fury of Celestial Death.
Stream: Apple Music
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Destruction – Birth of Malice
One of the pillars of Teutonic thrash returns with their 18th album! Birth of Malice delivers the muscular, well-produced goods common in the latter-day work of their 1980s peers. Good stuff for pounding your fist in the air after pounding a few cheap beers.
Stream: Apple Music
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Mortuaire – Monde Vide
Some damn good, doom-laden death metal. Mortuaire don’t just recycle the same riffs and hope no one notices. No, they consciously craft ominous and eerie passages that grip you like a horror movie and drag you through every moment of glorious sonic terror. If you dig Runemagick, Derkéta and early-Bolt Thrower, you’ll want to dive right into this.
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Shrine of Denial – I, Moloch
I mean, I’m never going to complain about a band sounding like this. Think of I, Moloch as a punchier version of Necrophobic and Naglfar. It’s a lot like what Witch Vomit did with their latest album, take blue-cover blackened death metal and put your own spin on it. Again, more of this is always welcome for me.
Stream: Apple Music
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Sutekh Hexen – Constellation Ritualistic Altars: Demo(n)s
The sound of the world after it ends. Or perhaps the general vibe of life among the survivors. Don’t fall asleep to this one.
Stream: Apple Music
