Sanity's Dawn

Super heavy, if somewhat less than completely "serious" goregrind/ death metal from Germany circa 2001... If you dig shit like Regurgitate, Gronibard, early Exhumed, and Utopie you probably already know of Sanity's Dawn, but if not, they should be right up your alley.

Abuse

Obscure-ish down-south grind/ sludge/ hardcore/ death circa 1997. Equal parts Starkweather, Soilent Green, and Acid Bath. Definitely worth a spin if you're unfamiliar.

Samus

Oddball sludge/ doom shot through with weird samples, cartoon SFX, and pulsating glorps of demented electronic noise... Imagine Fantômas "Suspended Animation" as reinterpreted by "Blotter" era Nightstick and you might have a vague approximation of just how terminally fucking weird this album is.

This Is Oblivion

If I’m being honest this track kind of loses me when the vocal falls into that weird almost hip hop cadence at the end (it’s not even poorly done, it just feels super out of whack with the rest of the track), but up to that point this is pretty fucking phenomenal. Almost sounds like Chelsea Wolfe or the chick from Made out of Babies fronting a dubbed out SWANS. Looking forward to hearing how the full album plays out when it comes out tomorrow.

Eternal Suffering

Grinding crushing DM brutality from south-suburban MA with what have to be some of the lowest tuned guitars I've ever fucking heard. YMMV but I absolutely love this album and I've always felt like Eternal Suffering were kinda MA's answer to bands like (early) Afterbirth, Pyrexia, and Dehumanized.

Monnier

Super burly grind equal parts Nasum, Wormrot, and Pig Destroyer with the chick from Flagitious Idiosyncrasy In The Dilapidation on vox? Can't fucking beat that.

Avulsion

Hyper fucking aggro powerviolence/ grindcore/ death metal from upstate NY circa 1998.

If you dig Assuck, Watchmaker, Crossed Out, Infest, Monster X, Disassociate, Morser, Soilent Green, and the first Circle of Dead Children album: Say hello to your new favorite band.

Side note: This album holds a pretty special place in my heart because it took a full 20 goddamn years from when I first read a review in some zine and decided I might like to grab a copy to when I finally managed to track one down.

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.

Shikabane

Terrifying metallic crust from Japan. Real dark. Killer vocals. Cool album cover. Don't have a whole lot else to say about this one, but if you like your crust apocalyptic you should really fucking dig this.

Must the World Live in the Shadow of Atomic Fear?

Fistula

"Surprise.... I feel like shit again today."

No really, I woke up feeling like crap today. Back in a day or two hopefully.