I moved to a new apartment yesterday and just now set up my laptop at my desk. New office, new vibe, new beginnings. It's a good feeling.
2) Trist / Korium - Split
3) Gelwaz - Gelwaz
4) Malacath - Eternal Roar of the Thunder and Rain
Here are some more albums I've been listening to.
-Jon
1) Adorior - Author of Incest
When the first lyric on the album's opening track is the opening track title. *chef's kiss*
But in all seriousness, Adorior are pure intensity; like hitting your grandma with a fucking haymaker. This sounds like how Twisted Sister sounds to Tipper Gore. Unadulterated evil and absolute malice for the entirety of fucking mankind.
But in all seriousness, Adorior are pure intensity; like hitting your grandma with a fucking haymaker. This sounds like how Twisted Sister sounds to Tipper Gore. Unadulterated evil and absolute malice for the entirety of fucking mankind.
2) Trist / Korium - Split
Okay, so actually only half of this split, namely Trist's longform song "Snění." It's absolutely gorgeous, droning, lush, and sad. Like losing your childhood pet - tragic and hits right in the heart. Trist had always been a favorite from the old-guard "depressive black metal" scene before surrendering to inevitability in 2011. I miss Trist.
3) Gelwaz - Gelwaz
Mystical, magical stuff, garnering well-earned comparisons to the mighty S.V.E.S.T. and The Ruins of Beverast, but with a more delicate touch than the aforementioned artists. With lots of auxiliary instrumentation (including hands slapping a table) and deranged, deformed violin melodies, Gelwaz quietly dropped this last November and proceeded to do what most artists don't: keep his mouth shut. No statements, no artist photos, no interviews, no blog pandering. My kind of guy, let me tell you. The Rotting Reign art is pretty sweet, too.
4) Malacath - Eternal Roar of the Thunder and Rain
Big, big, big black metal. Lots of long, droning chord progressions with almost familiar melodies that has these cataclysmic changes that never really give up throughout the album's hour length. This album does so much with these minimal, powerful riffs that it really is awe-inspiring. Also, guitar solos: very important. Eternal Roar of the Thunder and Rain has many - a rarity for black metal.
5) Imynvokad - Ad Ordines Descendens
Simply put, this is the best USBM EP. Yes, ever. Such dense, thoughtful, sinister songwriting from Texas weirdo black metal adjacent artist Beleseth. Released on the sorely missed Pale Horse Recordings, Ad Ordinest Descendens is the predecessor to an album I've heard whispers of for over a decade. Here's hoping Beleseth decides to finally release it.
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