Weekly Digest 5-11 March
Norwegian Gothic, power pop with female vocals, mosh hardcore, metal with synths, "rusty metal" about an abandoned industrial city, metalcore with post-metal, epic doom and even more in our Weekly Digest!
Årabrot – Norwegian Gothic
Årabrot is a Norwegian band, which has been on the scene for 20 years already and plays quite interesting post-punk / noise rock, naming Death in June, Melvins, Lee Hazlewood, The Birthday Party, and Swans as their main sources of inspiration. Norwegian Gothic is different.
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Devil Sold His Soul – Loss
I don't really like 00s post-hardcore and the name of this band feels so pretentious to me, ouch! But that's exactly why I decided to check this one out. After reading about the band, I got to know that this is the first album in 7 years, which also marked the return of the original vocalist and now the band has two vocalists. Okay. The band also calls their style "ambient-inspired metalcore". Okay. Turning on the album, I was surprised that this is a new album, the band sounds so 00s, even the emo bangs are still there. In short, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get aboard, but I can imagine that fans of the genre might like it.
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Horndal – Lake Drinker
The band is named after a Horndal, the small industrial city in Sweden, the metallurgical plant of which was closed 40 years ago and now is simply left to its own devices. The band sings out its story, calling their genre "rusty metal", alluding to the abandoned infrastructure, and "rusty metal" sounds like death metal, hardcore, sludge and punk in a heap, angry and dissatisfied.
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Kauan – Ice Fleet
Have you ever seen a band releasing a Tabletop Role Playing Book together with its album? Me neither, so I couldn't just skip on this Estonian band. "1930. Northern coast of the USSR. A geological survey team discovered a trapped in ice flotilla and dared to step aboard. It was a terrible mistake". The cold post-rock and post-black metal sound of Kauan has that necessary atmosphere for a great RPG, but even without the game there is something to enjoy. Mad respect for the creativity though.
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The Lion’s Daughter – Skin Show
The trio from St. Louis, Missouri, The Lion’s Daughter released a remarkable album "Future Cult" in 2018, full of cool synths in the spirit of John Carpenter mixed with black and death metal. This time the album turned out to be a bit lighter, even more focused on synths and sometimes a kind of danceable (?). I enjoyed the previous album more but recommend listening to this one anyway.
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Pony – TV Baby
Cool power pop with female vocals from Toronto. Pony sings for all introverts who sit at home reflecting on life, relationships and hypochondria from a couch. A spring album for everyone who is locked up at home, of their own free will or or due to the order of the Ministry of Health.
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Purgatory – Lawless To Grave
Metallic mosh hardcore from Nebraska invites you to practice capoeira while the vocalist shouts about the system of oppression, personal relationships, mistrust, abuse, and religion.
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Sahara – The Curse
There is something special in recorded live albums with the minimal production, alive raw energy. Argentinian proto-metal / stoner band Sahara sounds completely not like a band from 2021, and will release its music physically on cassettes only, so get your best vintage flared pants, comb the hair and mustache, "The Curse" will send you on a time journey.
Wheel – Perserved In Time
Candlemass-style Epic Doom with an album more interesting than the last one of Candlemass (and it wasn't bad at all). Wheel released a great contender for the ‘trad doom album of the year’. Riffs, vocals, and storytelling – everything works out. If you love epic melancholy, here’s the album for you.
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Zao – The Crimson Corridor
Zao shows that you can do interesting things with metalcore. Taking metallic hardcore as a base, adding doom and post-metal in the spirit of Cult Of Luna, the band from Pittsburgh created a very intense and dark album.
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