Weekly Digest 17-23 травня
This week the Dutch An Autumn for Crippled Children and the French project Esoctrilihum return with new releases to our digest after a year break! NADJA, whose shows we are still waiting for, add post-punk and coldwave to their drone on a new record. Fiddlehead (members of Have Heart and Basement) will make you emotional. And more! Epic doom metal, gothic heavy metal, industrial black metal, violent sludge, and noise rock + punk + metal in our Weekly Digest.
An Autumn for Crippled Children — As The Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes
Hello to everyone who thinks "blackgaze" word floods our Digests. The trio from Netherlands, which already was on the digest a year ago, continues to experiment with the sound. Once again, we get less and less black in here and more of melodic alternative rock with the blackened vocals. Atmospheric rock, post-black, shoegaze, blackgaze – all these labels, of course, help in navigation and partially describe the music of An Autumn for Crippled Children, but the emotions that arise when listening to this record are too hard to put in a genre box.
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Borgne — Temps Morts
Industrial black metal with a punishing drum machine, which not only does not spoil the impression of the album, but, on the contrary, helps to create a terrible inhuman atmosphere. Pure evil.
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Burial Pit — Subhuman Scum
The Australians Burial Pit play, in their own words, violent sludge. In their music, sludge and brutal death metal crossed over to create a monster that shatters and destroys. Surprisingly, their funny DIY lyrics video for one of the singles, which was shot during the lockdown, has less than a hundred views on YouTube – let's fix it!
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End You — Aimless Dread
The frontman of the now inactive punk band The Catalyst presents his new band End You. The album "Aimless Dread" is advertised as "something between noisy, sludge, smart-ass post-hardcore in the spirit of Born Against and metal hardcore a la Deadguy". Pretty good!
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Esoctrilihum — Dy'th Requiem for the Serpent Telepath
The sixth album from the Frenchman Asthâghul and his project Esoctrilihum! His latest album "Eternity Of Shaog" became a discovery for me and one of my favorite albums of 2020! This time Asthâghul serves the listeners mystic black metal that sounds incredible, and it is so expectable. Symphonic elements in the music of Esoctrilihum are captivating. According to the press release, the album winds its way through four sections and 12 tracks, telling the story of the death, transfiguration and rebirth of the Serpent Telepath – one of the many entities that populate ESOCTRILIHUM's mental dimensions of horror (and clearly an astral projection of Asthâghul himself) – in a blistering crescendo of tortured visions and psychic delirium. Again, the album is more than an hour in length, but in this case it's for the best.
Fiddlehead — Between The Richness
Fiddlehead – a punk supergroup, formed by members of Have Heart, Basement, and others, are back with their second full-length album. The band appeared in what the singer Pat Flynn describes as "a deeply, deeply, laughably depressing part of my life”. Their first album was very warmly accepted by fans, the second full-length album was eagerly awaited, and it does not disappoint. Emotional, powerful, and real. Everything as we expected it to be.
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Ice War — Sacred Land
Canadian slow heavy metal / epic doom featuring Jo Steel, whom we also mentioned not so long ago in the context of his band Aphrodite. For fans of metal, which may be listened to while sharing a bottle of ice-cold beer with your dad, and for those who want to dilute their more extreme playlist with something epic and inspiring.
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NADJA — Luminous Rot
NADJA is an active duo, which plays music that is described as drone, ambient doom, dreamsludge or metalgaze since 2005. NADJA's signature sound combines the atmosphere of shoegaze and atmospheric electronic music with the weight, density and volume of metal, noise and industrial. On "Luminous Rot", however, the duo stretches more to post-punk and coldwave than to metal. We are still looking forward to their announced performances in the cities of Ukraine!
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Night Resident — Darkness Is My Home
When you are sad, but still want to rock. Gloomy gothic heavy metal / hard rock from Athens. If you want to listen to something in between the early Ghost and Rope Sect, with catchy and hard-rocking guitar solos – Night Resident are here for you.
Yautja — The Lurch
The Nashville trio Yautja debuts on Relapse Records with the new album "The Lurch", which combines metal, punk and noise rock into a fierce hybrid. It conveys the personal frustrations and socio-political observations of musicians who are also the members of several other well-known and successful music projects including Thou, Coliseum, Mutilation Rites.
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