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.

Manierisme

Super raw and completely fucking zonked (yet somehow still haunting and melodic) black metal from Japan. I remember being pretty stoked on this band back around 2010, but I honestly hadn't listened to them in almost a decade before I pulled this CD out on a whim the other day.

Musically "The Past And Sorrow" kinda feels like the album someone like Nagelfar or The Ruins of Beverast would have recorded after a Nic Blinko/ Syd Barrett style LSD-fueled break from reality, and that's something I'm pretty much always in the mood to hear.

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.

Begottened

Skeletal drum clatter ala This Heat or Finsternis era Aluk Todolo trudging its lonely way through a wasteland of carcinogenic industrial-ambience and scouring eruptions of cold grey noise.