Intonate

Ok, real quick blurb 'cos it's 3am and I'm really just waiting for this stupid lightning storm to be over so I can hop a shower and go the fuck to sleep, but in a lot of ways I feel like what Anata was to melodeath Intonate are to dissonant Immolation/ Incantation worshipping caveman DM, and that's saying a lot because I really, really, fucking loved Anata.

With Intonate you get the same swirling vortex of inter-dimensional terror that a lot of these dissonant bands fuck with, but laced with killer doomy riffs and enough soaring, spiraling, melody to make the whole thing really memorable (hell, even "catchy" if you're the sort of person who hums whacked out DM riffs to yourself while you do the dishes).

Powerful stuff.

Xythlia

Insane sci-fi album title, album cover that looks like it was painted by a death metal Bill Sienkiewicz, and music that sounds like a four way ladder-match between Gigan, Gorguts, Cryptopsy, and Premonitions of War... Christ, how the fuck did I miss this? Oh yeah, it came out in 2020, the world was ending.

Hath

Imagine a significantly faster, slightly more melodic take on Withered or Immolation garnished with a sprig of Slugdge and a few drops of the swirling dissonant terror that Ulcerate brought to the table on "Stare Into Death and Be Still" and you've got a pretty good general idea of what Hath are doing... This is hands down my favorite DM release of the past couple months.

Khthoniik Cerviiks

Ok. Back in the saddle after being sick with an absolutely hideous stomach thing… It was no fun whatsoever and neither is this album of totally fukked war-metal dissonance that comes roaring out the speakers like a cross between Voivod, Nuclear Death, and Sadistik Exekution.